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For the discerning homebuyer/vampire who hates the idea of natural sunlight!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1119-E-Puma-Ln-Lincoln-KS-67455/128506191_zpid/
i kno it’s evil to say, but when people genuinely have an american flag on their property i immediately assume it’s a shidpost or at the very least ironic. but it’s not, which makes it fun.
Nope. These days it’s an indicator that you’re almost certainly dealing with a magat. Occasionally you’ll see an American flag with a pride flag or something similar below it and know that it’s ironic.
Used to be that mostly only ex military or similar would fly a flag. Some folks would fly a flag from their porch for happy fireworks day or memorial day if they had family that died in a war. You almost never saw anyone with an actual flagpole in their yard. Flagpoles were for schools, government offices and such.
That’s quite interesting, here in sweden at least (but i’m pretty sure the same applies to all the nordics at least) flagpoles are and have been very normal (though not super common), but they basically only ever fly the little triangular version of the flag. Basically a very very big and expensive decoration.
My family had a flag in our front yard for the first 10 years of my life, because my dad’s brother was in Afghanistan for the majority of that time. That said, we certainly wouldn’t put one up now :/ it’s been tarnished without question.
I used to see American flags come out on or during the week of Independence Day or Veteran’s Day or something similar where it was not unusual for people to put their national pride on display. That stopped happening when some people took it too far after 9/11 and started making patriotism into their whole identity and used it as a smokescreen for their overt bigotry. Now it’s almost seen as a tacky or gaudy thing to do and I get why.
But yeah, if someone has a full-blown flagpole installed on their front lawn, they are 100% virtue signaling. Big MAGA-weirdo vibes.
Yeah, 9-11 was the beginning when I think about it.
Used to be you had a few, mostly paranoid conspiracy theory types, that even conservatives kind of looked down on and felt sympathy for them being mentally unwell.
It has morphed into this crazy fascist religious cultural identity shit that we have now. Fucking pod people. Sucks.
This shit is normal now and crazy conspiracy theory mentally unwell people are a big chunk of the population.
The really crazy thing is that Osama basically won. Him, 9-11, and the far right like Limbaugh infected the national psyche with something that may be terminal.