Yes, sadly. The same people still have it at half mast, and it’s 9/12.
People around here have also never put their flags at half mast for 9/11, they actually don’t put their flags at half mast for literally anything at their houses. Post offices, schools, government buildings, and some businesses, yeah. Houses, no.
So this is extremely performative for certain conservatives.
I appreciate this, it seems like no one is making this explicit.
His last words were exactly who he was as a person. No one should ever forget.
This is correct, and it’s legitimately insane to me that the Nazis themselves never see it.
In fact, they will completely deny it afterwards.
I recommend reading They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer. This is my favorite quote but the whole book was eye-opening:
When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, “Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did.”
I thought I had struck pay dirt, and I said, “What do you mean, ‘what it would lead to,’ Herr Wedekind?” “War,” he said. “Nobody ever imagined it would lead to war.”
It’s because conservatives legitimately don’t actually know the difference any more. There are several people in my town who have their flags at half mast.
They think Donald Trump is a great leader, and they probably see him as a great “military officer” too.
The rules have changed.
The New York Times showed in 2020 that he’s also been using his hundreds of millions of dollars in “debts” to avoid paying taxes for literally decades now as well.
He’s provably a sham from top to bottom and his fans love it.
Their lack of intelligence, tact, and humanity are all genuinely breathtaking at times.
Literally every culture.
That’s what a lot of people don’t want to admit. This brand of shitty populism isn’t just an American thing. It’s everywhere.
Alberta was just threatening to secede from Canada because of the same stuff. No one’s immune.
That’s ideal. I’ve seen trucks with “kill your local pedophile” on them.
Some people are looking for a reason to identify people they don’t like as someone worthy of death.
It’s literally their whole thing. I’ve even tried to explain it to them but they just say “I ain’t scared.” Oh so that’s why you cling desperately to your guns and your stereotypes? Total lack of fear.
How come cops are so incompetent nowadays? I thought they were only hiring the best, and now they can barely catch, what, four shooters now?
They stood around for Uvalde, took them a short time to catch the Highland Park guy, Luigi went on the run for days…
It’s fun when they can’t even hide their incompetence.
Corporate media has always been complicit.
Things shifted when guns became less of a tool and more of a cool thing.
It took one generation for my family to only have hunting rifles they used in the house… to collecting various guns just because they can.
I also like “what the shit?!” which I first heard in the movie Mallrats.
Whoa, that’s very cool! I had The Final Fantasy Legend for the original Game Boy.
It’s cool to see some color added to the original graphics!
Oh definitely! Plus, tons of people who don’t have a full-on flagpole still hang a flag outside their house at all times.
The people who live across from me put up a comically-tall flagpole after Trump won last year… the first flag on it was a Trump flag. They now have an American flag up all the time (and it’s currently at half mast).
They’re all totally bizarre. Rarely have bad Americans announced themselves so clearly, right in front of their houses.