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Dashiell HammletSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:27pm
I don’t have a lot to say here, just noting that Walmart and Amazon have both decided not to sell Confederate Flags any longer.

I have a bit of a problem with that.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Sweden, and in Sweden, it’s illegal (or it used to be) to display the Swastika.

Which is great, except they still have a lot of Neo-Nazis.(I know, I used to see them at the gym. Though they weren’t great at being neo-Nazis since I wore my girlfriend’s Bat-Mitzvah T-shirt and none of them noticed.)

I guess what I’m saying is, if assholes want to rep the Confederate Flag, we should let them so we all know they’re assholes.
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  Quint the GreyerDashiell Hammlet
  6/23/15 3:31pm
  Shops also have the right to choose what mercandise they carry.
  
  Those racist arseholes still have the right to display whatever they like. They’ll just have to shop elsewhere.
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  CedarbratDashiell Hammlet
  6/23/15 3:32pm
  I agree but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that just because Walmart and Amazon won’t supply them, no one will be able to get their hands on a confederate flag. I wouldn’t be surprised if the KKK is hastily trying to figure out how they can corner sales on this shit as I type this.
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SqarrSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:26pm
That gun is completely out of proportion.

Also, the entire thing.

It’s perfect.

Fuck the Confederacy’s fans.
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  gramercypoliceSqarr
  6/23/15 3:35pm
  The gun? It looks like a five year old child on a Clydesdale.
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  Sqarrgramercypolice
  6/23/15 3:38pm
  Also, the entire thing.
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TwoPermitsDoNotEqualALicenseSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:26pm
I’m getting a very Bob’s Burgers feel here
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  prestocrazymwahahahahaTwoPermitsDoNotEqualALicense
  6/23/15 3:28pm
  YES. The lost fischoeder.
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  motherawesomeTwoPermitsDoNotEqualALicense
  6/23/15 3:30pm
  YASSSSSS
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Jerry-NetherlandSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:34pm
I don’t know if she just does frescos or would consider a touch-up on statuary, but there’s a woman in Spain...
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  heyboowhythefaceJerry-Netherland
  6/23/15 3:40pm
  and now i can’t stop laughing...
  
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  Jon Schmidtheyboowhytheface
  6/23/15 3:52pm
  made me cry tears of laughter
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1PompadourSam Biddle
6/23/15 4:11pm
This following is, to me, the crux of the problem: Southerners look back and see hundreds of thousands of their mostly young men shot to pieces in a lost cause. These guys were not psychopaths any more than the Union soldiers were. I think many white Southerners are so defiant and feel so misunderstood about the flag for that reason. It seems to be all the Confederate soldiers have to represent them as anything but deluded pawns. Let’s just say that barring some disparity in education and income, perhaps, the average Confederate soldier was fairly comparable to a Yankee soldier. I don’t think there was much of a livable alternative for many of the Rebs than to go to war. Family pressure, religion, ignorance, youth, whatever. They were under tremendous pressure to enlist and then go die. They were people too, robbed of their futures by a bunch of unspeakables (assume my opinion of the Confederate leadership and cause). I think the popularity and ubiquity of the flag is a function of somehow wanting all those lost young lives not to be just brushed aside as worthless fools on a malignant crusade. There was incredible courage and valor shown on both sides, I can’t even comprehend how much; we’ll never know. So how can these young men as people be symbolically recognized without somehow giving credence or validation to their foul cause? Is there another way that doesn’t incorporate the flag? You can’t take away something and leave a vacuum without giving something in return. If that can't be done, then this flag conflict will continue to bleed.
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  iElvis Found Trump's Tax Returns Too Late to Save Gawker1Pompadour
  6/23/15 4:35pm
  Plenty of Germans have found ways to remember their fathers and grandfathers who fought for the Nazis without needing the swastika or other Nazi memorabilia to do it. So yeah, there are surely lots of ways. Find them.
  
  —Someone whose ancestors also fought for the Confederacy but also went on lynch and terrorize the black population for several generations afterward.
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  LongPigHelper1Pompadour
  6/23/15 4:39pm
  “I think the popularity and ubiquity of the flag is a function of somehow wanting all those lost young lives not to be just brushed aside as worthless fools on a malignant crusade.”
  
  I wish you were right, but I don’t give the majority of the people who fly this flag that much credit. I think that, like many historical symbols, the Confederate flag has been co-opted. Most of the yahoos who fly the flag have no clue as to it’s true historical significance, nor do they give a crap about a bunch of soldiers who died over 150 years ago.
  
  On one level, it’s more like “The Dukes of Hazzard” and Lynrd Skynyrd, a brand and lifestyle choice.
  
  If it symbolizes anything deeper than that, it may be the symbol around which white men come together in the belief that they are being oppressed by a bunch of lazy black welfare mothers and rioting black hoodlums. This is the narrative that they hear all day long broadcast from their news station of choice. They long for the days when white men were king.
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raincoasterSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:44pm
Does no full shot exist? Would that just be too much derp to fit in one photograph?
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  Montauk Monsterraincoaster
  6/23/15 3:59pm
  Here you go, for a sense of scale.
  
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  raincoasterMontauk Monster
  6/23/15 4:25pm
  Thank you. That’s a lotta potato in one photo. Also, that horse musta been hella lame, with those hocks.
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10BannersSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:36pm
The South has a lot of things to be proud of: hot jazz, warm weather, beautiful native flora. Its population’s failed attempt to form The Confederate States of America is not one of them, and so does not deserve to be memorialized in our nation’s parks and pedestrian walkways.

What exactly are you suggesting we do with our national parks and battlefield monuments again?????

Are you suggesting we tear them down? Are you shitting us??
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  Kenny and the Llamas10Banners
  6/23/15 3:49pm
  Confederate monuments? Absolutely. Treason in the name of slavery should not be honored. Southerners should be ashamed of that war, not proud.
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  10BannersKenny and the Llamas
  6/24/15 12:16am
  I have distant relatives who died in that war. I’m offended. People are so stupid.
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burlivesleftnutSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:30pm
I like that he has lazer beam eyes.
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  jeffvanhungryburlivesleftnut
  6/23/15 3:36pm
  one of them appears to be lazy, too. watch out for wayward lasers.
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  burlivesleftnutjeffvanhungry
  6/23/15 3:44pm
  laZers.
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Quint the GreyerSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:53pm
Dude...

You have been raised up from Brutality, to kill the Brutals who multiply, and are legion. To this end, Zardoz your God gave you the gift of the Gun. The Gun is good!
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KyuzoSam Biddle
6/23/15 3:38pm
Thank you. A very small minority of assholes is trying to convince the rest of the world that the entirety of Deep South history took place between 1861 and 1865.

The confederacy tried to destroy the United States to preserve an economy based on human bondage. Why we don’t regard them as traitors and terrorists is beyond me.
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