• Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    The flag was found inside Taylor’s office in the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C., Tuesday afternoon, according to an office spokesperson. Taylor believes it is the result of “foul play or vandalism,” the spokesperson said.

    So someone broke into this guys office/cubicle to alter the flag to “vandalize” the office? But they didn’t vandalize anything else? I find that very hard to believe.

    If you zoom in on the image in the politico article, you can see that the flag was altered. It appears that there are white tabs/pieces of paper placed over the parts of the red stripes, and the added red stripes look like they were done with pen/marker.

    It’s more likely that someone with access to the office, or that worked in the office altered the flag. People do prank their coworkers, if so, this is a really shitty prank. The other likely scenario is that the aide altered the flag himself, and forgot it was hanging there when he had his zoom meeting. The other possible, and least likely scenario is the person that provided the image to politico altered the image themselves via photoshop/GIMP/paint.

    If the aide hung this in his cubicle himself, he should be fired. If someone with access to the office hung it there to prank the aide, they should be fired. If the image was altered by the person that took the screenshot, they should be fired.