#don't tread on me flag

[nocternalrandomness]

Flag History

[ladykailolu]

I gotta hang both a pride flag and a don't tread on me flag on my porch someday.

[mckitterick]

For the "Childless Cat Ladies"

image by The Liberal Atheist Nurse

about the centuries-old trope with a long tail: X

[crippledgiraff]

[idiopathicsmile]

anecdotes are powerful because i can tell you that i was a weird and offputting child

or i can recount the time in fifth grade when for Halloween i dressed up as vaudeville/1930s film comedy legend Groucho Marx, complete with a large greasepaint mustache and fake cigar, and when the teacher put on music, a boy asked me, "care to dance, milady?" and even though this kind of thing never happened to me, and even though i actually did have a crush on this kid, my response was to look him dead in the eyes and say, "i'm a man."

like, milady, really? can you not see the huge black rectangle on my upper lip?

to be clear, this was zero percent a gender expression thing. it was entirely ten-year-old me being VERY intense about staying in character.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Oooh can I rant/spill some family drama into the echochamber of people who don't know my family and will agree with me because they've been carefully selected to?

Like you're gonna stop me.

So my grandmother died about a year ago. The night before the funeral, my aunt (let's call her Karen, all names gonna be fake duh) pulls my mom aside and says, "you should make sure my son, Kyle, isn't in the same limo to the cemetery as your nonbinary kid, Ash, because he might say something transphobic to them." (to be clear, Kyle, ash and I are all in our 30s.) obviously, my mom has a breakdown about this because it's a horrible thing to dump on her the night before her mother's funeral and there's nothing more classic Karen than thinking it's my mom's responsibility to police her children's behavior.

Now, to be clear, Kyle is a libertarian gun nut and nobody likes him, but neither I nor Ash nor my parents have ever witnessed him saying or doing anything homophobic or transphobic. Mostly because we never see or talk to him, but still. Besides wearing his crypto-MAGA hat while he was pall-bearing, he was on his best behavior at Nana's funeral and a Poppy's two months later.

Fasr forward to now and @slugdge-boy, who is trans, and I are planning our wedding. So i tell my parents, "I'm not inviting Kyle, because he is transphobic and my partner, sibling, and best friend are all trans as are a number of other people being invited."

But my parents think it would "create unnecessary drama" if I don't invite him but "don't worry, he won't come anyway." which is probably true, he never comes to family things. No one was even sure he would come to the funeral.

But I don't want him to think he's welcome. I don't want even a 5% chance he might come. I don't want to even worry about the possibility of it. Even if he comes and is on his very best behavior, I don't want to wonder if he's making fun of his to his friends later.

So right now, I think I'm just going to "accidentally" leave his name off the list. I doubt anyone will even notice. I mean, it's an email invite ffs.

[leyyvi]

Ain't no way I'm seeing a guns rights mf booth in the middle of campus rn

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[nocternalrandomness]

Flag Art

[geezerwench]

I'll tread wherever I want.

[sgreffenius]

This article discusses a little history around the Gadsden flag, its origins and development as a symbol of freedom, and reasons it has endured as a symbol of freedom for so long. It does, however, miss a key point in this Colorado controversy.

The problem with a balanced analysis in this case is that it overlooks how public officials just make stuff up. The school administrator who insisted student Jaiden leave school property - now - states his reason:

"The reason that we do not want the flag displayed is due to its origins with slavery and the slave trade."

People in authority who want to prevail like fantasy arguments, because their victims have no way to refute their nonsense. Do you suppose that when Jaiden's mother tried to explain the flag's origins in the American Revolution, her arguments had any persuasive effect? Of course not. When Colorado Governor Jared Polis supported Jaiden's free speech rights in a public letter, it had no effect. The school administrator had already removed Jaiden and his backpack from school property, with justification that amounted to a joke.

I would say that to counter self-important administrators who use dishonest, false arguments, we must treat them as a joke. The problem is, they get the first move, they have tenure in their positions, some parents will believe their nonsense, and parents who hold up ignorant slobs for ridicule often find themselves regarded as troublemakers.

So what do you do when your child is effectively ostracized from school because some administrator does not know what an historical symbol means, or care about fair enforcement of school district policy? If you really think a Gadsden flag patch on a twelve-year-old's backpack disrupts the school environment because it symbolizes white supremacy, how disruptive is it when you show yourself a fool, and students under your authority no longer respect you?

[djpain619]

WIP THURSDAY

Again... cause I'm scum, I'm fukkin scum

619th Aquillacan Carabineers Regiment is Ready To Ride. RIDE FOR RUIN, AND THE WORLD'S ENDING!

(Hower, Their mounts are much less so... Clever Girls... and boys)

Here we have 1st Squadron, A Troop. The Jaguar Knights. Sargent gets Purple feathers, Grunts get Red. 5th Trooper is a Lobo, recently promoted to "A Troop."

1st Squadrons, B Troop. Absolute Mad Lads, lead by a Lobo Lance Corporal.

2nd Squadron, C Troop. Grizzled Sargent with a Lobo as his Second in command.

2nd Squadron, D Troop. Lead by Lobo Lance Corporal that's also a Fanatical Zealot Imperial Cult Chaplin. (His qualifications are that he's memorized the Lecticio Divinitatus, cover to cover) His job is to Shout verses and litanies as they charge the enemy. The pointy preacher hat is a gift from his mates. His fellow troopers are wearing Sombreros.

The banners are done

1st Squadron bears the 619th Aquillacan Carabineers Regimental Colors. I'm excusing my crapy Aquilla as being a stylised Kanak Tribal Variant. Same with the Astra Militarum Winged Skull.

2nd Squadron's Colors bear the FREEDOM SNEK🐍! Banner also has litanies enscribed on Wraithbone cloth strips.

With that, they're Done... for now... till I get the lazcarbines to finish the mounts. Then i can paint the mounts.

[aufish]

[lonelycoast]

This is the funniest tattoo I have ever seen.

[octofurvus]

can somebody run an etsy shop that sells cool hook and loop patches and isn't conservative/ also selling harry potter shit

[liesmyteachertoldme]

Gadsen Flag

Gadsden flag, also called Hopkins flag or Don't Tread on Me flag, historical flag used by Commodore Esek Hopkins, the United States' first naval commander in chief, as his personal ensign during the American Revolution (1775-83). The flag features a coiled rattlesnake above the words "Don't Tread on Me" on a yellow background. "Join, or Die"

It had its origins in the Revolutionary War. The image came out of South Carolina, and symbolized the unity of the 13 colonies. Benjamin Franklin would later use it in his famous "Join or Die" image.