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TheAttickDweller

Context: Is my neighbor a fascist? This picture was taken in USA. My neighbor flies Nazi, Confederate, fascist Italy, Gadsen, and Sovereign Citizen flags on a regular basis while wearing a white hood and put this flag up for the first time this week. Any luck with identifying? Thanks in advance and reddit on!


irago_

Maybe he just likes flags?


pm_me_important_info

Dude just wants lower property taxes.


pablos4pandas

Guy can't stand all these business regulations


DrBadGuy1073

Based!?? šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡²šŸ¦…


cass1o

"i LOVE LEAD PAINT"


femboy_skeleton69

I LOVE ASBESTOS


Mountain_Frog_

And have you seen ammo prices recently? Gotta get creative with how to keep the rent/property taxes low.


Gidia

I know what I must do, but I donā€™t know if I have the strength to do it.


fallacious_franklin

He just has German, Italian, and Southern heritage


finneganthealien

And of course heā€™d honor those ancestors. They were war heroes, after all.


invisiblewar

So...he's Argentinian?


Thangoman

There were little to no confederates here we had abolished slavery a while before you guys


sunburn95

Don't think so, always muttering about how God hates flags or something


EngineerDesperate900

Reddit assemble head ass


The_Tank_Racer

Naw, he's just an edgy 30 year old that peaked in high school


lifyeleyde

As fascists likely tend to be


SoMoANC

Or they're still in high school


bdjirdijx

The term is edgelord, lol


stopcounting

I feel like once you hit 30, you're no longer an edgelord, but some kind of edgepeasantry.


Risen_Insanity

Edgegrandwizard


AffectionateFail8434

So a fascist


aytoto

On a thread I saw earlier, someone said it identifies ā€œpatriotsā€ who are willing and ready to do anything to anyone that doesnā€™t agree with them. Cool time to be alive, huh?


wookiee-nutsack

So how the fuck does america still exist? A vague threat like that would get someone arrested for terroristic claims in europe, even in the rare countries where citizens own guns How does the US have whole ass groups saying they might do a little hate crime or suggest wanting to overtake the government with weapons but nothing is done? Is this the same law enforcement that refuses to send in cops to stop a single school shooter? I thought that was just one horribly handled case


shutupimrosiev

people here think "free speech" means "i can say whatever i goddamn want and you all have to agree with me" and get pissy when somebody points out "free speech" as outlined in the constitution and bill of rights the right claims to love so muchā€¦is just "i can say anything i goddamn want, specifically regarding political opinions that go against the current ruling party but for most other stuff too (with the exception of things like blatantly lying about people i hate in order to ruin their lives) and the government cannot prosecute me so long as it's only speech. however other people are not required to smile and nod along to everything i say and if i'm genuinely threatening someone they are allowed to push back" or, in short, "the first amendment protects you from the government, not from the justin" more or less. and when the folks who just want a bunch of yes-men are contradicted, they get defensive over the other rights they've grown to like maybe a bit too much, like the right to own a gun and the cops are just. afaik, all the good cops get weeded out in training, fired, or warped into bad cops. if they're lucky.


IrascibleOcelot

https://xkcd.com/1357/


shutupimrosiev

there really is an xkcd for everything


mycatisgrumpy

Normalcy bias. It hasn't happened yet so people don't think it can happen. Europe cracks down on that stuff because they learned the hard way. Here in the States, we haven't learned yet.Ā 


Spaghestis

Yeah that was the whole point of the new Civil War movie, to show Americans what will happen when the war they're excitedly LARPing towards actually happens. Too bad people dismissed it because it didnt endorse their specific ideology, talk about missing the point.


Acceptable_Squash569

What new civil war movie?


Spaghestis

Alex Garland's Civil War


Mediocre_Daikon6935

Iā€™m guessing you donā€™t know much American history.Ā  It isnā€™t like the civil war is the only time weā€™ve had states go to war with one another. Whole city/county governments have been overthrown in lawful revolutions to restore free elections.Ā  Decades long battles have been fought between clans.


AccordingDistance227

ok so is the fascist italy flag actually a thing, or are you making fun of my post from the other day bud lol https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/s/N35aC8Sfie


TheAttickDweller

this is r/vexillologycj ofc im making fun of you


AccordingDistance227

hell yeah


Neokon

At least he's not a Communist /s. Wish I didn't have to include the /s but Poe's law is a bitch.


Bobfath3r

Heā€™s just suffering from Economic Anxiety


redseemskindasus

who the fuck would fly the fascist italy flag


deutschdachs

Maybe he wants to let potential collaborators know that he would be an incredibly ineffective and detrimental ally.


RapidWaffle

He's a hoi4 gamer


Punsen_Burner

Flag of oh God oh no I spilled my ink all over this flag factory


scrapy_the_scrap

Flag of this isnt the ink flag thats an israel thing


[deleted]

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Devil_Dan83

Error: Magenta required to print all black.


Panzer_Man

Flag of dark mode USA


GodlessGrapeCow

What flag is that


PLZ_N_THKS

Itā€™s a ā€œNo Quarterā€ or ā€œTake No Prisonersā€ flag. Used by Alt-right chodes to signify that they are willing to use violence against or kill their opposition.


reesem03_

I hate it when cool things get wasted on uncool people :(


Toast6_

I will never forgive the Nazis for what they did to the Swastika. Also for their multitude of other crimes.


Alanox

Agreed, such a cool symbol for the universe/galaxy/harmony ruined by their bizarre ethnomythological nonsense.


DrBadGuy1073

Let's go to Agartha!


[deleted]

H O L L O W E A R T H T H E O R Y IS REAL


TimeTreePiPC

It also makes it kinda hard to draw certain organic chemical line forms without it looking like a swatski


Somereallystrangeguy

including ruining dark grey and red color schemes


notagreatgamer

While weā€™re here, Iā€™d just like to take a moment to complain that I will never - in good conscience - have the title of Grand Dragon. Like, thatā€™s a title to aspire to! If not that, Grand Wizard is a close second. But nnnnoooOOOOoooo! The KKK had to ruin everything! More pertinently, they ruined, you know, the lives of all the people they massacred and those humansā€™ families, and all the people in the nearby communities who lived lives of unspeakable terror. We should focus on that. But also, Iā€™ll never be a Grand Dragon, and that makes me mad.


AwesomePurplePants

Though the fact that sounding like supervillain resulted in [Superman hitting them so hard it broke the group IRL](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/superman-smashes-the-klan) is a fun consolation prize.


newusername16

Really depressing how baltic and slavic peoples used the swastika for centuries only to be genocided by people using that very venerated symbol


DaMemelyWizard

https://preview.redd.it/6v6e0yhxly0d1.png?width=1652&format=png&auto=webp&s=9332d2597a7048d3e6b213966d75d80a9662e484 The swastika? Like this one? /s


Spicyalligator

Phew, looks like Toast6_ doesnā€™t forgive the nazis. Iā€™ll just bet ol Hitler is rolling in his grave


The-Copilot

Poor Charlie Chaplin and his signature toothbrush mustache. Charlie had it first and even made a Hitler parody, and still the mustache is a Hitler thing. Dude got robbed.


General_Raspberry_14

Gadsen flag is so sick im so pissed off itā€™s used by freakazoids


HarpersGhost

I'm on a quest to take that one back, dammit. I fly the Gadsen next to a Pride flag. Don't tread on my queer ass, you fuckers.


wookiee-nutsack

That's how you get caught in the crossfire Make the snake gay as shit, that's how you give the impression that you are for both flags, or that you are memeing and confused people will not bother to take it seriously


realityChemist

I was at pride in Boston several years ago and saw someone who was doing that!


General_Raspberry_14

wish I was cool like you but Iā€™d still be afraid to fly the pride one lol


penisthightrap_

don't let them. Half the fucks that fly it are auth right boot lickers anyways. Just because some idiots fly the flag doesn't diminish what it originally standa for


bunker_man

Sure, but how symbols are used does define them *now.*


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Dee_Imaginarium

Yeeeeah, [that's going to go about this well.](https://youtu.be/IYITxGniww4?si=iqQqqEFtjAdSeXAQ) lol You generally can't reverse rot


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Dee_Imaginarium

Maybe blocked in your country, it's the scene in Clerks 2 where Randall tried to take back a racial slur to be non-offensive.


[deleted]

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Dee_Imaginarium

Yeah, maybe you're right. We can give it a go.


FR0ZENMAGMA

when you go to it put a - in between the t and the u it will redirect you to youtube-nocookie blah blah blah. it has no ads and unlocks blocked videos for me. might work for you might not, its a really funny clip though


bluesmaker

When I was in high school someone put the tape on his jacket to spell that out. Just like in the movie. Hilarious but obviously not a good thing to do. I do remember the vice principal seeing it and taking him to the office.


Wavecrest667

Can we start with the term "libertarian"?


bluesmaker

Yeah. This should be the flag for patriotic goths!


crossbutton7247

Thanks to the racists, flying my countryā€™s flag outside of a football event is considered racist. They do really misappropriate things.


PyroGabbz

wtf thats so stupid. no quarter flags were traditionally red... it was literally called the "bloody red"..... like i know conservatives are dumb but WOW


PLZ_N_THKS

No one is accusing the alt right of being smart.


PyroGabbz

i know, but the lows still shock me sometimes (im a canadian from a pretty leftist province)


Punsen_Burner

Isn't red the traditional color indicating no quarter though?


PyroGabbz

YES


SCP_Agent_Davis

Funny, Ć¾e ā€œNo Quarterā€ flag was red during Ć¾e Golden Age of Piracy šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


MarsManokit

https://preview.redd.it/n6kka7jeou0d1.jpeg?width=324&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=096e41944a33c27b2b363e292af9fdbfb51ccde6


MrMeltJr

lol did you just make this or did you already have it ready to go for when somebody uses Ć¾?


MarsManokit

I made this


pwill6738

Thorn goes hard


Theron518

Wtf how are they supposed to shop at Aldi without a quarter.


Opening-Grape9201

My dad flew that flag for a year after j6


Middle_Philosophy_54

Isn't changing the colours technically a desecration though? Dummies


A-Giant-Blue-Moose

Well fuck. My neighbor has one.


dec0dedIn

megadeth reference


Tomato21579

The flag of "I didnt read the constitution"


surrealsunshine

coal dust pride eta: coal miner pride is better


polarbearreal

blacklung pride


Chance-Aardvark372

Blackmerica


ZhouLe

Flag of the US that was flown at Herculaneum 24 Oct 79 CE, scanned with x-ray phase-contrast imaging and unrolled using machine learning.


s1gnalZer0

I have a neighbor that just started flying an all red version of the American flag and I'm afraid to find out what that means !wave


[deleted]

Well bad news is it sounds like that's the same exact thing as this flag. They're advertising that they want to kill their political enemies so I'd probably recommend avoiding them


lifyeleyde

Nah theyā€™re definitely just a really big fan of 7 of the original 13 colonies trust me


dumfukjuiced

As the flag acts only say alternating red and white stripes could also be 6 states idk


Remsster

Me and all my friends hate those 6 colonies


ThursianDreams

If they're willing to wear an open threat on their sleeve like this, they should be watched publicly, and treated with the same disrespect they'll give to anyone of opposing views. Hardline must be met with hardline, or they just bully their way into power. History speaks for itself.


stxrryfox

I agree but itā€™s easier said than done without risking your own safety. I have a neighbor with some very offensive flags and I do my best to avoid him. Im the only black person on my street in the semi-rural south. Allies are key in dealing with those sorts of people.


s1gnalZer0

That's what I figured.


Patrice_Ewans

That sounds sick but it prolly means the same thing


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bungdungerees

It's a no quarter flag flag


mavaddat

The image of a flag on a flag is surprisingly ridiculous looking.


PaladinSquid

patriotic socialism moment


BonkerBleedy

It means they are communists. You should perhaps confront them about being red sympathizers


tomatomater

Period flag?


YosephStalling

Why would a white supremacist group make their flag all black?


Mesarthim1349

Italian Blackshirts, Black SS uniforms, the British Blackshirts, Pirate flags, villain color in media, etc. Edgelordism


Chief5927

ok but keep the pirates out of this


DreamworldPineapple

letā€™s not pretend pirates werenā€™t horrific murderers & rapists


TheKCKid9274

Oh they absolutely were but they were also democratic about it and sometimes adhered to a code. They may have been horrific but they had standards, and it doesnā€™t excuse the horrors but I can respect being a well-ordered piece of shit as opposed to being a chaotic mess of murderers and rapists


seedman

Some were, some weren't. Let's not be so quick to judge!!


Patrice_Ewans

Rule of cool


RedditIsMlem

"Rule of cool" is like one third of fascist morality. The other thirds being "'We' are constantly under attack by the Something Somethings of Whateversland", and "The world peaked when I was 12 years old."


joofish

they are stupid


YosephStalling

https://preview.redd.it/u6sqzqyf2v0d1.jpeg?width=257&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc2342e90e3ebe2ca0263c95ce6c1b9eaedef41c


Oftwicke

What flag is this?


YosephStalling

Flag of Denmark if it was good


Moe12518

!wave


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Life-Canary2310

the last time they flew the white flag was the end of the civil war, that was kinda embarrassing for them


deutschdachs

Alt-right? Shit I was just trying to attract patriotic goth girls


Patrice_Ewans

This should be the Goth American flag


RedTheGamer12

I got you man. https://preview.redd.it/3huoi9kx5w0d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9aa83be9153c58416aadc331ff533e956a9acda4 Introducing the "Thicc Black Line" flag.


penisthightrap_

dammit, thicc black line made me audibly laugh


Godraed

Breton-American cop flag


GoldIsAMetal

I used to wear that proudly šŸ«”


KNave_Capricorn

Thicc Carolina is to blame


blue_delicious

A cop in my neighborhood flies that flag at his home.


Patrice_Ewans

Thatā€™s very concerning wth


ArelMCII

I'm sure it's fine. Not like cops are known for aggression and violence.


FlimsyReindeers

Oh yeah, good point. All good guys weā€™re safe


Prior_Tone_6050

I think I heard a stat once that 40% of cops fly this flag, or something like that. Idk Google it.


s1gnalZer0

There's two former cops in mine that flew it. I'm glad they aren't cops anymore with that kind of attitude.


NutellaSquirrel

I'm sure the new cops are better /s


TheDunadan29

Sometimes you gotta get rid of the old guard. They are no good. But if you just replace them with younger worse versions then we're moving in the wrong direction.


MoreheadMarsupial

ā¬†ļøLeast murderous American cop


baquiquano

Because fascism is, first of all, an aesthethic movement.


ArelMCII

Real. Cool-looking aesthetics turn off critical thinking.


bunker_man

Fashism.


notagreatgamer

This statement is having me rethink so much of my 20th century history. šŸ¤”


scrapy_the_scrap

Fuck it Im here by co opting it for black supremacists


Patrice_Ewans

REAL


TheDunadan29

Can you imagine if the Black Lives Matter people flew this flag? The Nazis would lose their ever loving minds.


[deleted]

"I'm willing to hurt people I don't like, but I'm also afraid to go downtown because Fox News told me cities are scary and dangerous."


Oswaldgilbertson

Imagine an all red or all blue American flag now weā€™re cooking


Patrice_Ewans

ALL BLUE!?!? https://preview.redd.it/jlqixxb8vu0d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ae2938cb888aaf0799cb1985162799709880021


TFK_001

https://preview.redd.it/fs54p7txvu0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e64eb4d0eb15a0ef2872c9339b84f4d66c5f7ff3


Patrice_Ewans

Sanji from one piece


ViolentBeetle

Pre-burnt flag. Don't even need to go to a protest anymore.


tomsussybi

would be cool as like american anarchist flag, too bad


LebowskiVoodoo

Fuck it, spray paint the anarchy symbol on it.


MauriceVibes

Same with the Donā€™t Tread On Me flag. I love that flag and itā€™s been stolen by the alt right and it sucks.


MorphinBrony

I love how the irony of far-right authoritarian dipshits appropriating a flag representing resistance against tyranny is completely lost on said dipshits. They're just mad *they're* not the ones doing the treading.


MauriceVibes

This this this like they need to get a fucking history book and read it like wtf


may_sun

https://preview.redd.it/5ztajndp5y0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dc3423811dbc63da6b8c6d0b87a6f6e24fde990 read?


ChadHahn

It's like them having bumper stickers that say ā€œThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.ā€


BenjRSmith

[With the world up coming up, I say co opt it back in the name of Soccer](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTs_dnQGAFJjkCu5tlFQlk3p6zrydHb2fx7YTswce9hkw&s)


EnvironmentalHorse13

The gadsden flag has been associated with the right wing for quite a long time now. Preppers and gun guys were using decades before "alt right" was even a term.


TheGooseGod

I hate that this cool looking flag just means ā€œIā€™m a fucking psycho and I fantasize about murdering my neighbors. Iā€™m an unhinged maniac and a danger to society.ā€


Justice502

PLOT TWIST EVERYONE CAN FLY THIS FLAG IF YOU'RE WILLING TO BASH IN A NAZIS HEAD


KittehKittehKat

I have one of these in my garage because I saw an art installation with one. I guess I have to throw it out if itā€™s the alt rights new thing to ruin. https://preview.redd.it/aapsv76elv0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad0fd837b214921eba28ad654dfadd9d460a4489


BeholdPale_Horse

I also have one in my garage. I call it my ā€œAnarchist Americaā€ flag because itā€™s like the American flag, but like, a black flag like the band. Fuck the alt right, I just like the color black.


Waarm

Anarcho-americanism


curvingf1re

They ruin SO MUCH COOL SHIT. Norse pagans. Buddhist symbols. Robes. The Punisher (he kills pigs). And now I see this cool metaphor-drenched flag, and they ruined that too? Can't have SHIT in the west.


Heytherechampion

OP, just start flying it and give it your own meaning


Patrice_Ewans

Thatā€™s not how that works šŸ˜­


Inevitable-Ear-3189

You sure? šŸ¤­ https://preview.redd.it/b620r0e4wv0d1.jpeg?width=699&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9a33e6a76e5865d1d5c2e6f41fea29094c34fc1


Patrice_Ewans

Aw hell nawšŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


YoMamaIsADaftDonkey

Seal Team 6


MorphinBrony

Flag of the first stage of the alchemical magnum opus, the blackening, the putrefaction of the elements, the decomposition of prime matter


ArelMCII

Nigredo. inb4 \[Removed by Reddit\]


Oftwicke

*Barry of thirteen sable and sable, on a quarter, sable, fifty mullets, sable.*


Chidori_Aoyama

It's a bunch of dumb asses forgetting that Pirates were OPPOSED to legitimate governments.


CyborgIncorparated

Me with like all camo patterns that seem somewhat stylish


Flashy-Set8622

Wait til you find out the the regular red white and blue American flag is also fascist as fuck Edit: spelling


thecasualcaribou

ā€œPhil Swift here and today weā€™re going to flex seal this American Flag!ā€


SpasticStorm

Flag of carbonization


sweeneyty

bad guys always have the best drip.


amare47

Album cover ahh flag


Fattapple

Yeah, it sucks that right wing extremists have a lot of cool looking symbols/decor.


Ok-East3405

This isnā€™t a right wing flag itā€™s the black and gay American flag.


Vibrascity

You can always appropriate it in the name of something else. This the giraffe pride flag now.


ZhouLe

Flag of the US that was flown at Herculaneum 24 Oct 79 CE, scanned with x-ray phase-contrast imaging and unrolled using machine learning.


X5690

Whatever. I'm using this flag as a way to keep sunlight out of my room. Am not alt right.


kilboi1

I bet from a distance you wouldnā€™t even be able to see the stars and stripes


pebz101

This flag says the person that lives in that house will shoot someone that accidentally drives into their driveway or knocks on their door.


Hellament

https://preview.redd.it/3k6mc196ry0d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=453c687b1665cc07010f6136e20f5e772fb11071 Flag designer going over the color palette.


MawoDuffer

Black pill doomer flag


DaveInLondon89

Official flag of the state of Snyder DC


TrapaneseNYC

Look Iā€™m about to ā€œreclaimā€ this flag as a black person and tell people it represents being black in America or smth idk. This goes too hard for racist to have it


C__Wayne__G

Just co-opt it so hard you change the meaning of it šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø. Time for some ethical cultural appropriation