Because they didn’t have razor wire and chain link fence in 1776.

  • Horsey@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You swap the blue in that flag for red and it’s “pro firefighters”. Green is “first responders/EMT”. Pretty sure I’ve seen a thin grey line as well, but I’m not sure of the origins.

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      3 days ago

      Oh ok, I think I’ve seen those too.

      Fwiw I don’t really see these widespread where I am, in Ohio. Except for the many bootlickers that fly the thin blue line one, the others are relatively rare in my experience.

      So they aren’t that trendy at least. Not nearly as much as slapping the American flag on some other symbol like the punisher skull.

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      The origins of the thin blue line was when black lives matter started it with the black and white flag. This is what I mean by trendy flags. The intent it to show symbolism but the symbolism is lost when all you had to do was put a blue line over one of grey lines and say “blue lives matter” then paint a red line and say “Fire fighter lives matter” or even a yellow line for just first response dispatch (911) in general. Then whoever makes them make a ton of money because they end up on the same trucks running a punisher skull which makes no sense. I mean I knew I was going to get down voted but my intent was to see what other country actually does this.

      • asg101@lemmy.caOP
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        3 days ago

        No other country that I know of has as great a flag fetish as the USA, except maybe their illegitimate hellspawn the Zionist entity.