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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I see two new thin-skinned executive orders coming:

  1. United States flags can't be manufactured in a way that makes it possible for them to be flown upside-down.
  2. Flying the United States flag upside-down is a criminal offense.
[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to see that first one written up just to have flag manufacturers go, "Wait, what?"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Im just imagining them creating some mind bending 5D object created by one dude who has been demanding funds for decades. Downside is anyone who looks at it for more than 5 seconds has an aneurysm, the sole exception are Autists who start hearing the whispers of dead gods and folks with ADHD because they zoned out and werent actually looking at the flag.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"ugh, how can you stare at that flag?" "What flag?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

AuADHD?

That explains why my son says that all the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I can't tell what the flag is saying... It's either "kill your family" or "bill loves emily."

[–] NotSteve_ 2 points 3 days ago

Also Trump and Musk bought stocks in the mind bending object manufacturing companies right before requiring all flags to be made with them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

This sounds like a Call of Cthulhu adventure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Did you know? The US Flag Code does not specify exact colors, where the rectangle should be, that all stripes and stars have the same size, or really much of anything besides the existence of the features.

(If you ignore the diagram that was added later but that does not stop the field day vexillology circlejerkers sre having)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ah yes, a vector to overturn Texas v. Johnson and eventually other first amendment precedents.