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  • I didn’t realize the glasden flag was a religious symbol used by many different countries and cultures. Oh wait, it’s not…

    Also if your definition of ban is that loosy goosy then wow.

    Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me that you didn’t read the article, because it ends with the school allowing the student to display the patch after a meeting because they knew of the historical significance… They just made sure he couldn’t wear the other patches, which had semi-automatic firearms on them…

    So why tf are you here arguing about a ban that didn’t fucking happen?




  • First thing, you need to understand that I don’t support banning the usage of the glasden flag. I’ve already said that in my initial comment, so your comment was meaningless from the beginning. I quoted a piece from the article that could explain why some people view the glasden flag in a negative light today.

    Second, the US flag is the flag of the country. If your logic is “well dipshits flew it during their failed attempt at a coup thus you’re saying it should be banned?”, your argument is childish. The US flag doesn’t stand for what they did, they’re just adopting it and using it despite it’s underlying meaning. Banning the Nazi flag makes sense, because it’s a literal enemy flag that represented Nazi ideology. Banning the confederate flag makes sense, because it’s a literal traitorous flag flown by slavers and supporters of racism. The glasden flag doesn’t have the same innate meaning because it was the flag of revolution, it’s just that inbred wannabe revolutionaries today fly it when they’re larping freedom fighter 80 action heroes when in reality they want authoritarian rule.

    Again, I was quoting the article on why the glasden flag has a bad rap today, namely because idiotic authoritarians think they’re all mcs from an 80s action flick.






  • Except “progressive” doesn’t appear anywhere in the article…

    Maybe you should read the article you’re telling others to read before you say that… maybe this part of the article kinda would explain why the Gadsden flag has a bad rap today

    In recent years, the flag has become the symbol of the American Tea Party political movement and has also been adopted by far-right extremists.

    In 2014, a Las Vegas couple who espoused anti-government, pro-gun beliefs killed two police officers at a pizza restaurant and draped over one of their bodies a swastika and a Gadsden flag.





  • In my defense, I use it not because I don’t know how to get where I need to go, but because it shows real time traffic info that could help me find another route to avoid said traffic rather than being stuck in that traffic. Driving through local roads to get to work sucks because sometimes it’s fine but other times there are accidents or roadwork that causes backups.


  • Only advantage I can think of is the faster soc and more ram on the more expensive models.

    Fairphone 5 uses the Qualcomm QCM6490 (equivalent spec to a snapdragon 778g, which is in the nothing phone 1) and has 8gb of ram. Nothing Phone 2 has snapdragon 8+ gen 1 and 12gb of ram on the $699 model, 8gb of ram on the base model that costs $599. Fairphone 5 also has a micro SD card slot coupled with the 256gb of storage, while the nothing phone 2 doesn’t have any microsd card slot and starts with 128gb of storage on the base model.

    The fairphone 5 is more expensive, but you’re paying for the ability to actually repair it and 8 years of support.

    I already have a nothing phone 2 and I’m outside the return period, but if I didn’t and had the choice between the two today, ngl I’d pay the extra for the more sustainable fairphone 5. Yes it costs more, but it’d pay off in the long-run with repairability and long-term support.