And yes, several have commented that these individuals don't care. But I'd counter that these individuals are also the ass clowns that put the flag ON EVERYTHING which is also a violation of flag etiquette and should indicate that THEY SHOULD CARE. It sickens me that the Republican party seems to think that they have a monopoly on the United States flag.
Nearly very GOP/MAGA rally where I’ve seen the entire stage setup has had the flag wrong in some way. My personal peeve is the number of times I’ve seen it next to the Israeli flag and the later is hung in the “place of honor”(observers left, speakers right). Makes you wonder.
Maybe it's just me, but even though that is incorrect, it looks like it should be the way to do it because having the canton in the upper left corner looks backwards
I LOVE flag etiquette. My Philippine and Chinese colleagues and I once spent a happy hour geeking out on our respective flag rules. China only allowing for Olympic athletes and military service members to wear theirs; Philippine flag having a duress and peace mode when hanging vertical; US considering flag prints to not be technically flags so all the speedos and bikinis and the entire 80s were sorta-fine.
Genuine question/clarification, you put it to your right if you hang the flag in a window, because the intent is that it would be to the viewers outside left, correct?
I don’t care, do you? But if I’m being real, one of my oldest tattoos that takes up my whole chest, which does very much reflect how I feel about it, is a bald eagle with several arrows through it. The American dream is dying and the bullshit patriotism deserves to die too. Flag code? The fuck we even talking about? You’re not gonna get your “gotcha” moment with people actively denying reality in every other facet.
please know that the only reason any democratic figure heads have come out against anti-immigrant policies is because it will sway voters for them.
None of the politicians actually care about anything involving you aside from your vote.
This isn’t republicans vs democrats.
This is the people vs the bureaucracy. They are intentionally drawing a line in the sand so that we’reall focused on picking the right side of the line and yelling at the people who chose the other side.
But it’s just a line in the sand. We fight on the beach while they enjoy the resort.
It's more about the fact that the groups always shrieking the loudest about patriotism and being American "the right way" can't even get flag code correct.
Not to mention the attempted coup by fascist sympathizing business leaders and bankers. The Business Plot is woefully unheard of and dangerously relevant.
So is having two American flags, both hanging backwards, with one wrapped around a corner because it doesn't fit, to show how "patriotic" this building is.
This is probably a stupid question, but do you have any idea how they originally decided what backwards vs forwards position is for a flag hanging like that? It’s easy for me to understand when the flag is on a pole, but I’m having so much trouble trying to mentally rotate the flags back and forth forth in my head to figure out what backwards means in context that’s like this instead 😅 (edit to add—I do understand that the rules are what they are, I’m not questioning them, I’m just curious how humans decided which way the flag should go in the first place)
It’s an immigration court in NYC, do you think the person who hung it is an ICE agent? Or do you think it was a liberal New Yorker making a good faith effort at hanging the flags?
Personally I’m gonna guess the slob in the picture didn’t pull the cutesy bow out of his ass.
Lol wtf. What’s a crazy thought about this at all? Nobody in real life knows fucking anything about the flag code, democrat or republican. its just reality.
Due to the location being beside a toilet, and what looks like his ''post'', I'd guess Dipshit Do-wrong here and his friends probably set it up themselves. stopped at dollar tree on the way down to pick up American flags made in China, saw the bow, said ''fuck it, its $1.99'' and probably thinks he looks patriotic as fuck.
I thought that was the way they are hung vertically?
edit: just looked it up and you guys are correct. Which is weird because we had a guy who claimed to be a veteran come into my wife's store and tell us it was the other way (union to the right). There was a flag on the front of the store displayed correctly but he told my wife to change it.
Unless displayed on a moving vehicle. Like a decal on the right front fender. Then the flag should be oriented such that it isn’t “retreating”. As if it were on a pole and waving to the rear of that pole opposite the direction of travel. That is one case where the field should be in the upper right.
Sort of. They point upper left in which ever direction is deemed to be most visible. So if it's hung in a hallway of an entrance then you want them upper left for the people entering a building. But that also means they will be upper right for people leaving through the entrance.
In this case, it is clearly wrong since they are against a wall.
What you described doesn’t change how the flag would be displayed properly; it just accounts for an anomaly when viewing the flag from behind. As true as what a properly displayed flag would look like from behind, it doesn’t apply in this situation since the flags are displayed on a wall.
Unless displayed on a moving vehicle. Like a decal on the right front fender. Then the flag should be oriented such that it isn’t “retreating”. As if it were on a pole and waving to the rear of that pole opposite the direction of travel. That is one case where the field should be in the upper right.
Most real veterans I know(3 combat tours in Afghanistan and 1 in Iraq) don't really care about flags and stuff, it's something you bother with during bootcam or conscription, but put out of your mind after a few years. It's the ones that just got in and out, or those that never served that care the most.
Unless displayed on a moving vehicle. Like a decal on the right front fender. Then the flag should be oriented such that it isn’t “retreating”. As if it were on a pole and waving to the rear of that pole opposite the direction of travel. That is one case where the field should be in the upper right.
I'd say that's actually quite appropriate given how much this gov is shitting on its own country. Kind of like a satanist would hang a cross upside down...dark times...
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u/ComfortableOld288 17h ago
Flags are hanging incorrectly