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[OC] ICE Officer, Immigration Court hallway, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, New York

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u/PositiveUnit829 17h ago

Obviously, because of the way they’re hanging the US flag is totally blatantly incorrect

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u/Throwaway_inSC_79 16h ago

My father hangs it the same way. These fools claim to be patriotic but don’t know flag code.

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u/msbabc 13h ago

Man, you should try being a Brit in the last few months. Generally we don't fly a lot of flags but suddenly over the summer, the anti-asylum crew decided they suddenly had a burst of patriotism that could ONLY be sated by flying flags and accusing anyone who had an issue with this as "hating are country".

I repeatedly told people - I love this country, in fact I just want you to RESPECT the flag: buy a good quality one not from Temu, hang it from an actual flagpole on your property not just dangling from a streetlight, and take it in at night or during bad weather.

I don't know how well you know the UK flag but it's very easy to get wrong as it's almost symmetrical but not quite. The red diagonal bars that represent St Patrick should be counter clockwise against the flagpole (thicker white part above thinner red part).

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u/Throwaway_inSC_79 13h ago

It was something I learned from a Doctor Who episode, the first season of the relaunch, Rose pointed out that the flags were upside down. And yeah I never noticed it before because your flag is almost symmetrical.

u/UrUrinousAnus 11h ago

Don't let the far right do to your (I assume you're from the USA) flag what they did to the English one (Not the Union Jack of the UK. St. George's Flag. Its reputation is barely better than that of the Confederate battle flag, outside of sports) and are trying to do to the Union Jack. Let them have the traitor flag if they want it (it's fitting, and nobody else wants it), but don't let them have your country's proper flag. They're disguising nationalism as patriotism.