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It’s really crazy how he is being treated as if he was a high ranking military officer or an elected politician. He was just a hateful guy with a podcast.
It’s because conservatives legitimately don’t actually know the difference any more. There are several people in my town who have their flags at half mast.
They think Donald Trump is a great leader, and they probably see him as a great “military officer” too.
The rules have changed.
You sure that wasn’t for 9/11?
Yes, sadly. The same people still have it at half mast, and it’s 9/12.
People around here have also never put their flags at half mast for 9/11, they actually don’t put their flags at half mast for literally anything at their houses. Post offices, schools, government buildings, and some businesses, yeah. Houses, no.
So this is extremely performative for certain conservatives.
Wait people have full on flagpoles in front of their houses? That is not normal human behavior, I must emphasize that.
Oh definitely! Plus, tons of people who don’t have a full-on flagpole still hang a flag outside their house at all times.
The people who live across from me put up a comically-tall flagpole after Trump won last year… the first flag on it was a Trump flag. They now have an American flag up all the time (and it’s currently at half mast).
They’re all totally bizarre. Rarely have bad Americans announced themselves so clearly, right in front of their houses.
Oh yes. I can think of several houses with them.
I know one that has the US flag at the top, then a Trump flag right below it. Every time I go by the house it's there.
The sad part is we don’t even know anymore. It’s probably a mix of both
We havent viewed good people as good for society for some time and times have been good enough to only focus on petty shit. So they want to pretend that they have been special and amazing just for complaining constantly and making large amounts of money as that is what we say is useful to society.
They need to lie to themselves that what they are doing is good to keep themselves as self hyped as they can. Look at how Trump keeps worrying he is rightfully going to hell. They need to tell themselves and apparently the rest of us that what they are doing is good for the world cause they dont want to do anything else.
He was brainwashing kids and pushing Shitler approved propaganda
To be fair, given how Lemmy is filled with posts about this guy he wasn't "just a guy". Must be even more scary on more popular platforms. Really, you better stop praising him.
Because he was a racist who was treated like he is going to resurrect today.