Still my favorite
Here’s mine
(sorry about the ifunny watermark. I have it saved somewhere but I ain’t digging through all that)
Definitely what this combo means
I had this as a bumper sticker on my
electric carChevy Volt a few years ago. Hehe. I got a lot of laughs and comments about it when pumping gas, or parking.Edited for clarity about why I would need gas for an electric car.
electric car
pumping gas
Pick one haha
Chevy Volt. It’s a plug-in electric power train with a backup gas generator. But yes, I can see how that seems very contradictory. Lol
And that still connects the engine directly to the wheels because old car makers loathe our dreams of real serial hybrids…
The engine only helps to power the drive train in mountain mode. Otherwise it charges the battery, which drives the electric motor. The Volt is a pretty awesome car. I would still be driving it if I didn’t need something more rugged, or could afford two separate vehicles. But I loved owning it. I even took it on a long distance trip over the mountains and it did great! I barely had to put gas in the thing unless it was freezing outside and I had a lot of driving to do that day, or for long-distance trips. The first year I owned it I only put gas in it twice, and the gas tank is only 9 gallons.
Some people would put fuel stabilizers in it since the fuel would go bad.
Anyone else hate that the Gadsden flag has been appropriated by ultra-libertarian jingoists? It’s an awesome-looking flag with a cool history and symbolism, but I feel like I couldn’t fly it without looking like a twat.
I feel you, i had the flag of Culpepper’s Minute Men hanging in my college dorm back in the day. Just like the Nazis before them Fascists bastardize shit they didn’t create
They always do
Ultra-libertarian Jingoist? I’m as confused by that combination of words as I am the flags on the truck.
Lots of interesting discussions over the flags and the hypocrisy and lack of understanding of the flags by the person displaying the flags.
However, I think their message is crystal clear.
“Don’t try to stop me from oppressing anyone I disagree with.”
Fascism at it’s finest, folks… smh
There’s a person in a town near me with a big pickup truck that confuses the hell out of people because it’s a Trump flag, except the background is a pride flag. What makes it so confusing is that the word ‘fuck’ above the word ‘Trump’ is in much smaller letters.
Decent troll job if you ask me. I love the idea of MAGA assholes going apeshit over a Trump pride flag.
“Woman trampled in Capitol riots had ‘don’t tread on me’ flag”
"I put my arm underneath her and was pulling her out and then another guy fell on top of her, and another guy was just walking (on top of her).
“There were people stacked two-three deep…people just crushed.”
Paramedics desperately tried to revive her but were unable to.
Photos from earlier that day showed her carrying the banner with the phrase “Don’t tread on me”.
The flag clearly doesn’t work 😂
That’s called imbecide
Can’t believe they went so woke /s
Is this some kind of American joke that I’m too European to understand?
The way I, as another European, understand this, he’s flying an anti-oppression flag and a pro-oppression flag at the same time.
South Asian here, so I don’t know well, but left one is appropriated by ancaps. Right one is used by MAGA crazies. Both are economically right leaning ideologies. One is anti-government, other is pro-government.
First one is libertarian (do your own shit, protect your own shit by yourself), the other is pro-police forces. In the end it’s just pretty ironic.
Well not to him because police are to tread on the others, not him.
Yes, the yellow flag is anti-government, libertarian, while the black and blue flag is pro government and specifically pro police.
It’s propaganda. Cops have a serious image problem in the US so they cynically co-opted an American flag for their cause, figuring that people won’t criticize the FLAG, right? It’s a marketing strategy that only appeals to folks who already have a child-like worship of authority.
The Gadsden flag, the snake, was a patriotic symbol during the American revolutionary war.
The snake in general was a common symbol used at the time with a famous (Franklin?) illustration of a snake in 13 pieces representing how the snake needs all 13 colonies to be whole.
The Gadsden flag was the “13 pieces of the snake united, coiled and dangerous” with its “don’t step on me” motto. This flag despite being anti-government oppression was actually supposed to represent the strength in our unity (sad they now use it to divide).
The blue line flag is part of a movement that implies that the police are the only thing holding back chaos from society. It’s designed to mean the flag only exists because police keep society existing. This has and was always been a load of shit but now has moved more into meaning “our side is the side who makes stuff work” and sliding even further into a fascist strongman style ethos.
Both are now effectively just “brands” of the American conservative right.
The thin blue line flag is supposed to support police, the weapon of the state. But the Gadsden flag represents that “they can’t or won’t be oppressed.” The Gadsden flag made a big comeback during the Bush years and the spread of a more “(what they called) libertarian” sect of the American right. Which frankly is bullshit because it’s an American symbol not the hate symbol they’ve coopted it into these days.
It’s a grab bag of US conservative branding but all in all on the surface you can make a measured bet that this person complains very hard about the taxes other people pay, don’t understand civics at a fundamental level, and likely while pretending they aren’t they are supremely racist.
You could equate these two flags to be the equivalent of someone flying a Thor Steinar logo flag in europe.
A better idea of how dumb this is would be imagine someone driving down the road in 2250 flying a Brexit flag and a EU flag on their truck
