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Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today

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[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 week ago

Is this normal in the USA, or are you the crazy neighbour? Haha

[-] velma@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Both. It’s definitely possible for both to be true in the US.

[-] StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This would be the normal response to abnormal times

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago

It's feels normal to me.

It's seems normal for these times.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 28 points 1 week ago

Shine on you crazy diamond.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

These times are crazy, but I think most people still aren't crazy?..

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 22 points 1 week ago

This is crazy neighbor territory.

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Hear that noise? Yeah, he’s currently loading his gun.

[-] INeedANewUserName@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

there is generally at least one in every county... not necessarily every town?

[-] matthurtme@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I would say it depends on where you live

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Wow! Are there just parts of the US where everybody paints different political messages on their sheds and stuff?

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

There's crazy neighbors everywhere.

[-] matthurtme@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ever been to anywhere in Humboldt county California?

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I've never heard of Humboldt county. Is that a flag-painting kind of place?

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

If you own the house you can do whatever you want.

If you're renting, the landlord (or HOA) won't let you.

My mom got a letter from the HOA saying someone saw the hood of her car up. I was checking her motor oil level.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I'm asking more about how common it is, and not how possible it is.

HOAs sound insane though.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

It is getting less common to own a home.

Also I'm retired so I don't have a job/income to endanger. I don't have a wife or children in school so no local social pressures. I consider myself unique to be able to do stuff like this.

At Christmas last year I wanted to do a nativity scene with ICE agents holding Mary and Joseph at gunpoint while a third agent zip-tied the baby Jesus. "He's not from around here."

I was too busy with other things. THAT would have been fun. I'm all about having fun.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Heh. That makes sense!

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Not being against genocide and the crazy shit going on in the U.S. is what's insane. Stop trying to gaslight people.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I am against both, but I don't express it by painting my walls.

Have you painted your walls like that?

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

The ONLY reason I painted the house is because somebody STOLE my flag.

They didn't steal my flag so they can have a flag, they stole MY flag so that I could NOT have a flag.

What kind of American steals an American flag from another American???

Answer: One of them is NOT an American. I wonder which one. I wonder what they are.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

That makes sense. It's a lot harder to steal a house!

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I appreciate your support.

THANKS! I'm gonna keep working on it.

Have they tried giving ALL the hydrogen peroxide to ONE algae and letting it “trickle down” to all the others?

If seeing two men kiss will turn your child gay then just show them a picture of a man and a woman kissing to change them back.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're the 'crazy' neighbor, because most Americans are basically unfathomably out of touch with anything resembling common sense or basic decency, and are more offended by shapes and colors in patterns they don't like, than by tens of thousands of needless deaths.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is hated for being able to see anything.

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