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thisaintright

(15 posts)
Sun May 17, 2020, 02:56 PM May 2020

What kind of brainwashing does this?

In my state (NJ), the governor has asked that flags be lowered to half mast to honor those lost to the covid pandemic. A very reasonable and kind of the least you can do if you have a flag pole at your home, business, etc. gesture that requires no effort and is deemed at all times to be a respectful act.

Please someone explain why without fail as I drive around that anyone who has a flag supporting the orange menace does NOT lower their flag to half mast (why they even have such a flag is a subject for another day)? Not one.

Just my informal survey when I get out to get some air in my area, but what on earth could cause someone to suspend their decency for people who did not ask for this disease, did not ask to die, did not state their party affiliation when they went to the hospital nor were they asked...

Seems to me that this happening tells you all you need to know about how nazis came to power...

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What kind of brainwashing does this? (Original Post) thisaintright May 2020 OP
By the way customerserviceguy May 2020 #1
you are totally correct...my apologies thisaintright May 2020 #7
I too live in New Jersey and haven't heard about Murphy's request HotTeaBag May 2020 #2
maybe thisaintright May 2020 #8
Birds Faux pas May 2020 #3
Going home from an errand Friday Ohiogal May 2020 #4
Wrong order, state should have been 2nd. And a purist would fly the USA seperatly. Runningdawg May 2020 #6
It's quite clear. Runningdawg May 2020 #5
Remember: "It's just a hoax to make Der Fuhrer look bad." rickyhall May 2020 #9
Most don't know, and don't forget this is a sad country after the recent shit-hole conversion? Brainfodder May 2020 #10
"Suspend decency" makes the extremely erroneous assumption that they had any in the first niyad May 2020 #11
 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
2. I too live in New Jersey and haven't heard about Murphy's request
Sun May 17, 2020, 02:59 PM
May 2020

so I'm not entirely sure we're in NaziLand quite yet.

thisaintright

(15 posts)
8. maybe
Sun May 17, 2020, 05:16 PM
May 2020

Perhaps gov's was just a suggestion, but enough of them out there to assume most felt it was a strong recommendation. Either way, no one with trump flag lowered theirs, not even the US flag so to me that's the indicator of something not so good with those folks.

Ohiogal

(32,006 posts)
4. Going home from an errand Friday
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:04 PM
May 2020

I drove past a CVS pharmacy with a flag pole in front of the store that had an American flag at half staff, underneath that, a POW/MIA flag, and under that, the state flag. ??

Runningdawg

(4,520 posts)
5. It's quite clear.
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:26 PM
May 2020

They don't consider the deaths of liberals, minorities or the old anything to mourn. And the MAGAts that died, died of something else not the virus. No reason to lower the flag.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
10. Most don't know, and don't forget this is a sad country after the recent shit-hole conversion?
Sun May 17, 2020, 05:39 PM
May 2020


Top 10% have 99% of the wealth? (I pulled this out of my arse for fun?)

It's madness, we should be for each other, not against each other?

Pro Sports personifies/amplifies/exemplifies/glorifies this?
People paying a lot of $ to watch other people exercise and root on a team whose owners made the city pay for the place to play, what a racket?

Greedy assholes whomever they are will continue to covet/hoard cash and find out it can't buy happiness, but it can rent it? If you have too much already, why all the dickish behavior toward others? ASK THAT DEAR MEDIA?







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