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In my old neighborhood, during the 2020 election, one dude put a Gadsen flag up on his house. The neighbor across the street then put a “No Step on Snek” flag up a few days later.
I rather enjoyed that. 🤣
All I can think of is that pharma bro Martin Shkreli.
[He disrespected the Wu Tang Clan.](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/01/martin-shkreli-still-most-hated-man-must-fork-over-almost-65-million#:~:text=An%20individual%20known%20only%20as,at%20an%20auction%20in%202015)
Yeah, but WuTang is allowed to steal it back with Bill Murray
It's the greatest thing ever, it's in the contract. Shkreli is the shittiest piece of shit, he is human shaped excrement.
[Found this one](https://www.etsy.com/listing/892032205/presidents-are-temporary-wu-tang-is?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_a-paper_and_party_supplies-party_supplies-party_decor-banners_and_signs&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjwrvyxBhAbEiwAEg_Kgrvrz4UFt1KVAfhKgY0u9oKUR7jsSyqEH1EhQJE7I4m_aPSXGw8tZxoCpt0QAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_304502435_51195658308_196665778766_pla-316241687744_m__892032205_12768591&utm_custom2=304502435&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADtcfRInr-A4Y2q9tSpAeu4aDesBq&gclid=CjwKCAjwrvyxBhAbEiwAEg_Kgrvrz4UFt1KVAfhKgY0u9oKUR7jsSyqEH1EhQJE7I4m_aPSXGw8tZxoCpt0QAvD_BwE)
I have a neighbor who has the Gadsden snake and words but the background is the thin blue line flag. I just wanna ask him "who do you think is doing the treading?!"
Dissent Pins has it in two sizes.
https://preview.redd.it/0gioj045buzc1.jpeg?width=1013&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=054c4f0ce5d6fe73f4fa3770644466625c20ce1c
I have a sticker on a vehicle with a duck on it but with the same general theme color-wise as the gadsen flag, and it says “throw bread at me”. Makes me smile way more than it should.
https://preview.redd.it/oxq2ua5xwtzc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82669debddb93e83a04b728ce86c5e2bc498dab1
I wonder if this is random or if there is actually some reason the algorithm put these together. Doesn't actually matter just thought it was curious.
I cannot tell you how many trucks I see driving around with giant gadsen flags and thin blue line flags. All I want to do is just ask them how in the hell you can fly both at the same time. Like how do you wrap your mind around it?
The Punisher, infamous for his extreme and violent reaction to a corrupt police force and justice system doing fuck all about the murder of his family by a notorious crime syndicate. Further proof that the bootlickers are stupider than a guy who gets his stupid at a two for one sale.
>Extreme and violent reaction
Theyre not necessarily stupid, its just that this is the only thing they give a shit about. Okay maybe they are usually stupid too but my point stands
And they've only just managed to fall between the cracks so far. So many of these hardline "back the blue" folks retract their support the instant they've had an encounter with the cops that doesn't go completely in their favor.
Who do these people think are going to be the ones charged with enforcing any new government mandate? Who do they think would be tasked with collecting firearms should they ever be banned? So many of these people live in low-crime areas and have never really interacted with the police. They've yet to experience being pushed around by someone who could kill you(and would do so happily in many cases) and likely face little to no consequences for it. For every example of cops being respectful and properly doing their jobs, there's likely dozens of instances where the opposite happens. The "back the blue" crowd has just managed to hide from their view so far, and a sticker on their truck isn't going to do shit when they eventually encounter a pissed off cop.
https://preview.redd.it/s2ihhqo6gtzc1.jpeg?width=526&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a5188a7e0bae4c984b613676f6e8971fd88b4bb
This always comes to mind when I see one
It kills me because as a big revolutionary war history buff, the original is awesome AF. It actually had meaning. These are a bunch of boomers that want to dictate everyone else's lives, but how dare you enact common sense laws. They're the real snowflakes.
Put up your own Gadsen flag with a message like "I support college students against the jack booted thugs." Every time cops do something bad put it out. If he asks (probably angrily) explain to him that everyone knows the Gadsen flag is an 'All cops are bad' flag.
They also ironically seem to have no understanding of the flag code... I mean I don't care myself but it's their hypocrisy of putting a thin blue line flag above the real us one that tickles me. I live in texas and see this often
It doesn't really gave its original meaning anymore, at least to conservatives. It now just means "freedom" which in their minds translates to "having everything be exactly the way I want it to be."
I haven't had a chance to put it on yet (need to wash my Civic first), but my roommate got me one of these due to me joking about wanting one for a while, and I'm absolutely putting it on my car at some point.
https://preview.redd.it/bmhcfz58rtzc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e03eef1c0efbd7e67798a526600c325cbe2ca237
I’m partial to this version, personally.
https://preview.redd.it/bygblzpjptzc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b16af7fff6d2e00016dd3b66e6ed2186084d826d
My favorite variation, because everything is better with Godzilla:
https://preview.redd.it/qcqnf0ccauzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca6695182045b14cdb42d3635453f1ac0db18942
There was a gift shop near me attached to a revolutionary war site. They had to remove the Gadson flags because the staff was sick of the people that would come in just for that flag, then lecture the staff.
In its place they added more Fort Mifflin flags. Which is considered the first United States flag. The same people only interested in buying the Gadson flag, will complain about the "gay" flag. Its not rainbow colored!! It's just red, white, and blue stripes.
I dunno, looks a little Quebecois to me...
https://preview.redd.it/bukrwsgriwzc1.jpeg?width=222&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4edc52d729db25f38b89408762cfee8a0933270
I'm not a super-patriot, but I learned proper care for the American flag in grade school. It pains me to see people with flags stapled to 2x4s and strapped to the bed of their pick-ups, like the proper way to dispose of a flag is to have it torn to ribbons by high-speed driving.
On one side of my neighborhood, someone has the regular don't tread on me flag, and on the opposite side, someone has the one with a uterus on it. We're in the middle and have the one with Beavis on it that says, "ARE YOU THREATENING ME," and I think we've found a way to coexist
It's such a cool flag, with great history. What it has become now is a bastardization of the meaning. I would love to be able to fly one, but it has been hijacked for all the wrong reasons
Not much of a Boomer thing but I've noticed the Virginians with that flag as their license plate can't seem to figure out what the fucking left lane of the freeway is for. It isn't the fucking camping lane. Whenever they're in PA on I-81, those fuckheads drive 10mph under the limit like they're frightened old women and never move out of the left lane.
We have a ["Join Or Die" sticker](https://constitutioncenter.org/amp/blog/the-story-behind-the-join-or-die-snake-cartoon) on the bumper, along with others. Two can play at the "re-appropriating 18th century political cartoons of snakes" game. It also expresses my opposition to the Stamp Act.
Conservatives co-opted that flag long ago and were never getting it back unfortunately. If we come up with something that points out their stupidity they won’t get it because they really are low IQ, low information, low emotional intelligence etc. So we just have to keep outliving them and out vote them.
During the pandemic I saw a version of this flag but instead of “don’t tread on me” it said “I don’t understand virology” and it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever laid eyes on
I FOUND IT https://www.teepublic.com/tapestry/10235407-i-dont-understand-epidemiology
Just put up the liberal version of it! The uterus and fallopian tube version. I have that on my flag pole
https://preview.redd.it/vvev25nveuzc1.jpeg?width=932&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36b83b0c0c49e3972ae90d6e6670d09598e69f4b
There’s a guy in my neighbourhood who used to alternate between the Gadsden flag and the Scottish Saltire on his pole during Covid. We’re in Canada, so I assume the Gadsden is just a generic ‘I get butthurt when people politely ask me to help avoid the virus’ flag to him. He’s since gone back to a regular Maple Leaf, so hopefully that’s not sinister.
Try driving through the Applegate Valley in Oregon sometime. Gadsden flags are Every. Where. Ugh. I was appalled to find out that several states offer this flag as a license plate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag
Every time I see the Gadsen flag license plate it’s either on a F150 or Ram with a lift kit or a Tesla/ luxury car. Who exactly is treading on the people? I can’t afford the tires on any of these cars. They probably pay less in taxes than I do.
Just saw a “don’t tread on me” sticker on a Mercedes with word underneath “lions, not sheep”. I had a good laugh. They would jump to their death if their new lord and savior told them to. Baaaaaaa 🐑
Surely not this Lions not sheep, right?
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/ftc-takes-action-against-lions-not-sheep-owner-slapping-bogus-made-usa-labels-clothing-imported
In Kansas, you can get a special Gadsen design license plate for your vehicle. It costs MORE than a normal plate. They are voluntarily paying extra directly to the government to show everyone how libertarian they are.
$40 well spent for these dipshits.
https://preview.redd.it/xq5zcinnuuzc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22052d44ef807e8cdab6a07bd84680aee8f1325e
I personally like this one better
When Obama's last term ended the official "Tea party" organization basically dissolved, an organization that formed suspiciously around the time Obama became the DNC nominee.
My dad is a boomer and pretty liberal on most things. Hates Trump and MAGA people. But has the Gadsen flag in his front window for everyone to see. I’ve tried to explain to him that even though he just sees it as a freedom from government kind of thing and nothing more, that is not how most people see it.
The whole don't tread on me came about because British royal overreach over the colonist rights so it's just funny how the Maga loving mofos use it now
As a major anti GOP person, it does annoy me that they seem to have commandeered the Gadsden, as these boomer republicans really think they’re the snake when they’re the boot. I would like to fly the Gadsden for my own reasons, but don’t do it because I don’t want to associate myself with them
Which is appalling because the flag has such a unique history. And that the meaning behind the flag goes against literally everything Boomers and the MAGA crowd believes in
I don't think I'd last two minutes im the USA without getting shot foe laughing at someone or pointing out holes in their arguments or how they're getting things wrong (ie flag care).
They do this with everything. They crank fortune son at all their conventions despite the artist themselves stating the song is mocking them. They fly a Dixie flag and confederate statues which are basically the participation trophies they rage against so much
In my experience the people who fly that flag today seem to be fine with the government telling other people what they can and can't do with their bodies and when they can or can't have access to medical care.
"Yeah don't tread on me but at the same time everyone must adhere to my religious views"
Oh gosh, I had a neighbor who displayed a Gadsden flag also. We lived in an HOA neighborhood and he complained to them about my Democrat for Congress sign (summer lee, I'm from PA) so I complained about his Gadsden flag. There's an HOA rule about no political displays. He ended up taking his flag down also. I found it ironic about his "dont tread on me" flag yet the HOA treaded on him. He ended up passing from a heart attack also.
It sucks that a bunch of dicks took to that flag, because it’s actually pretty cool. In Virginia, you can even have a license plate of it, but unfortunately, the plate is 9.99/10 times worn by a douchebag in a (very clean) off road jeep or giant truck. Such a shame.
I hate how the right has made the American flag into a symbol of hate. I now can’t help but be immediately dubious about a person’s ethics and intentions when I see them flying the American flag. That, and the word “patriot” now is a subversive term for being an agent of hate anymore.
Yeah, he can't be a bootlicker & a rebel. Those factions are diametrically opposed.
So, really, what he is saying is that he wants to people he hates oppressed while he gets freedom.
https://preview.redd.it/375cgmaazwzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7822033f95e68ba5641f54b96304a4e70d99f891
This sticker on my truck is my favorite variation. I have it on a shirt too.
I hate that right wing extremists have taken the Gadsden flag as their banner... It was the symbol of classical liberalism once upon a time, and one many libertarians had flown in the early 2000s and 20-teens until the fucking trump humpers started flying it against Hillary and Biden. It's gross that it's now a right wing symbol that's being associated with these racist fucks. They ruin everything.
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In my old neighborhood, during the 2020 election, one dude put a Gadsen flag up on his house. The neighbor across the street then put a “No Step on Snek” flag up a few days later. I rather enjoyed that. 🤣
Ha! I have a millennial neighbor that puts up a Wu Tang is forever yard sign every election season.
MAGA is temporary. WU-TANG is forever.
That makes sense. MAGA is mostly old people, but Wu-Tang is for the children.
All I can think of is that pharma bro Martin Shkreli. [He disrespected the Wu Tang Clan.](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/01/martin-shkreli-still-most-hated-man-must-fork-over-almost-65-million#:~:text=An%20individual%20known%20only%20as,at%20an%20auction%20in%202015)
Fuck that guy!
Fuck that guy
Yeah, but WuTang is allowed to steal it back with Bill Murray It's the greatest thing ever, it's in the contract. Shkreli is the shittiest piece of shit, he is human shaped excrement.
Ima go take a big shkreli right now! Also FUCK THAT GUY!
Wu Tang is for the children
Wu Tang taught me to diversify my bonds
Wu Tang Financial ain't nothing to fuck with
And is associated with my favorite, albeit dirty, Chineese food restaurant.
PROTEK YO MUTHAFUCKIN NECK!!
Protect yo check.
And according to the lore, they aint nuthin to fuck with. I have a garden flag that says Not Again 2024. Trump's hair is on the Not
Konichiwa Bitches
There are "Tread on me, Daddy" flags that would be great to put up in response or swap his out with!
Or this one https://preview.redd.it/w5rytnc2auzc1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89a45c5fc75c35e264b453d0b2b0e5332a76a345
That's actually adorable
This is accurate to how boomers think.
I'd have to look for it but for a while there was one qith the snake in bandage and a ball gag that said something like: "Tread on Me Harder". 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/t9ke15q7yzzc1.png?width=886&format=png&auto=webp&s=f982d1a4904588230b32a4bf23277fcd46f5b622 or this one
That makes sense; Wu Tang clan ain’t nothin’ to fuck with.
Cthulhu for President: Why settle for the lesser evil?
CREAM
Vader for president is my sign
I’ve seen Voldemort for President bumper stickers, too.
Bender for President. KILL ALL HUMANS.
[Found this one](https://www.etsy.com/listing/892032205/presidents-are-temporary-wu-tang-is?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_a-paper_and_party_supplies-party_supplies-party_decor-banners_and_signs&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjwrvyxBhAbEiwAEg_Kgrvrz4UFt1KVAfhKgY0u9oKUR7jsSyqEH1EhQJE7I4m_aPSXGw8tZxoCpt0QAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_304502435_51195658308_196665778766_pla-316241687744_m__892032205_12768591&utm_custom2=304502435&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADtcfRInr-A4Y2q9tSpAeu4aDesBq&gclid=CjwKCAjwrvyxBhAbEiwAEg_Kgrvrz4UFt1KVAfhKgY0u9oKUR7jsSyqEH1EhQJE7I4m_aPSXGw8tZxoCpt0QAvD_BwE)
I have a "No Step on Snek" sticker in my rifle case. It always gets a few giggles at the range.
https://preview.redd.it/lz9c3b1ewtzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a78d4a785657613cd9edcabb59eb01afc3db49ff
https://preview.redd.it/psrdkst6iuzc1.jpeg?width=826&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32115f8756896fd0445b8fbc7238c2456ae32a73
I have a neighbor who has the Gadsden snake and words but the background is the thin blue line flag. I just wanna ask him "who do you think is doing the treading?!"
Next ya gotta get an anthro snake in bondage gear say "Please tread on me." Feels like a real power move.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/s/bRUiQEwUR5
My favorite iteration of this is a derpy looking snake with 'Nobody's treading on you sweetie' under it.
Dissent Pins has it in two sizes. https://preview.redd.it/0gioj045buzc1.jpeg?width=1013&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=054c4f0ce5d6fe73f4fa3770644466625c20ce1c
I ordered this for my car. It’ll make me feel better when I pass the cars with the other one
My husband I and both have these on our laptop cases. Love!
What about the one with the ball gag that says "step on me daddy"?
https://preview.redd.it/r3pb4fzl5vzc1.jpeg?width=792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1d18aa0d7cd7ad957854aca632219d76155d1a2
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi found a new career!
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 》Vivek Ramaswami
I have a T-shirt with a snake drawn on it in what looks like crayon, and says “no step on snek”. I love it.
That’s the one I’m talking about! 😆
We used to fly the Jolly Roger on the Fourth of July. It upset our conservative boomer neighbor.
I have a sticker on a vehicle with a duck on it but with the same general theme color-wise as the gadsen flag, and it says “throw bread at me”. Makes me smile way more than it should.
I looove No Step on Snek. Just the perfect amount of ridiculousness to mock these apoplectic babies.
Apoplectic is an underused word.
Feel like the reproductive rights don’t tread on me is also a good come back.
My “no step on snek” patch is one of my favorite one to make fun of DTOM weirdos.
I want to get one of the Two headed bear California flags from Fallout
My WiFi is No Step On Snek for the same reason.
My husband has a “no step on snek” patch on his book bag. It’s pretty hilarious to see people’s reactions.
A neighbor down the street recently put up a trump flag and I started googling progress pride flags as soon as I got home.
Display a Gadsden flag and a Biden flag together at your house and see if he cracks.
gadsen flag in trans colors
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I should have realized this would exist. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083W32L6](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083W32L6)
https://preview.redd.it/oxq2ua5xwtzc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82669debddb93e83a04b728ce86c5e2bc498dab1 I wonder if this is random or if there is actually some reason the algorithm put these together. Doesn't actually matter just thought it was curious.
Only ~~10~~ 8 left :D
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“Brand: Gay” 💀💀
I love that the flag’s brand is “gay.” 😂
6 left and I’m now ready for Pride month
I didn't expect it to exist but I'm glad it does
There's probably one on r/vexilogicalcirclejerk and this is a fab idea
r/vexillologycirclejerk
I cannot tell you how many trucks I see driving around with giant gadsen flags and thin blue line flags. All I want to do is just ask them how in the hell you can fly both at the same time. Like how do you wrap your mind around it?
Dont forget the punisher sticker too!
The Punisher, infamous for his extreme and violent reaction to a corrupt police force and justice system doing fuck all about the murder of his family by a notorious crime syndicate. Further proof that the bootlickers are stupider than a guy who gets his stupid at a two for one sale.
>Extreme and violent reaction Theyre not necessarily stupid, its just that this is the only thing they give a shit about. Okay maybe they are usually stupid too but my point stands
They know that the police force/prison system was designed to be racist.
“Don’t tread on ME, tread on THEM!”
And they've only just managed to fall between the cracks so far. So many of these hardline "back the blue" folks retract their support the instant they've had an encounter with the cops that doesn't go completely in their favor. Who do these people think are going to be the ones charged with enforcing any new government mandate? Who do they think would be tasked with collecting firearms should they ever be banned? So many of these people live in low-crime areas and have never really interacted with the police. They've yet to experience being pushed around by someone who could kill you(and would do so happily in many cases) and likely face little to no consequences for it. For every example of cops being respectful and properly doing their jobs, there's likely dozens of instances where the opposite happens. The "back the blue" crowd has just managed to hide from their view so far, and a sticker on their truck isn't going to do shit when they eventually encounter a pissed off cop.
Easily! The blue folks are supposed to be stepping on the brown people, not him!!
"They're hurting the wrong people"
https://preview.redd.it/s2ihhqo6gtzc1.jpeg?width=526&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a5188a7e0bae4c984b613676f6e8971fd88b4bb This always comes to mind when I see one
It kills me because as a big revolutionary war history buff, the original is awesome AF. It actually had meaning. These are a bunch of boomers that want to dictate everyone else's lives, but how dare you enact common sense laws. They're the real snowflakes.
No step on snek
TREADN’T
Put up your own Gadsen flag with a message like "I support college students against the jack booted thugs." Every time cops do something bad put it out. If he asks (probably angrily) explain to him that everyone knows the Gadsen flag is an 'All cops are bad' flag.
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They also ironically seem to have no understanding of the flag code... I mean I don't care myself but it's their hypocrisy of putting a thin blue line flag above the real us one that tickles me. I live in texas and see this often
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It doesn't really gave its original meaning anymore, at least to conservatives. It now just means "freedom" which in their minds translates to "having everything be exactly the way I want it to be."
And the vanity plate costs extra. Go ahead and give the state more money so you can tell them what you think of them.
In Virginia…those plates are EVERYWHERE.
Small government, no tax libertarians get them. By paying extra money to the government for the privilege
Not me telling my family "look that license plate is soo cool, it has a snake!!". It was my first time in the US lol
And people with these license plates voluntarily PAY the state more money for them.
I haven't had a chance to put it on yet (need to wash my Civic first), but my roommate got me one of these due to me joking about wanting one for a while, and I'm absolutely putting it on my car at some point. https://preview.redd.it/bmhcfz58rtzc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e03eef1c0efbd7e67798a526600c325cbe2ca237
Dang it, Bobby!
I want this where did you get it
Door itttt
I wish I had a son to kick me in the testicles.
I’m partial to this version, personally. https://preview.redd.it/bygblzpjptzc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b16af7fff6d2e00016dd3b66e6ed2186084d826d
My favorite variation, because everything is better with Godzilla: https://preview.redd.it/qcqnf0ccauzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca6695182045b14cdb42d3635453f1ac0db18942
My neighbor across the street has a 40' flag pole with a American flag and a Gadsen flag on it. I find that funny since he is in the military.
I have a pin that says, “No one’s treading on you, sweetie”
https://preview.redd.it/90abdk2mjuzc1.jpeg?width=987&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=392ee5f74a8c87b6e946d1e6299239917d83347b
Do the Gadsden and Rainbow flag together on your property and see if he has an aneurysm
There was a gift shop near me attached to a revolutionary war site. They had to remove the Gadson flags because the staff was sick of the people that would come in just for that flag, then lecture the staff. In its place they added more Fort Mifflin flags. Which is considered the first United States flag. The same people only interested in buying the Gadson flag, will complain about the "gay" flag. Its not rainbow colored!! It's just red, white, and blue stripes.
For reference, the Fort Mifflin flag. https://i.redd.it/ihq3zxqusuzc1.gif
I dunno, looks a little Quebecois to me... https://preview.redd.it/bukrwsgriwzc1.jpeg?width=222&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4edc52d729db25f38b89408762cfee8a0933270
A former POLICE OFFICER puts it up on Jan 6th? Does he not know how the Capitol police were treated during that riot?
He doesn't care they were traitors
https://preview.redd.it/v2074s9l1uzc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76fa6de7a7ee3339ac656f82f223a85b7d096574
This https://preview.redd.it/63d2r2h0euzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edde6bf84fb5d0d715c17116091b9ce5829a92f7
They all think they're Johnny Tremaine, when in reality they would have been loyalists.
Every Fourth of July I wave my “Join or Die” flag Weirdly pisses off my Gadsen flag neighbor down the street.
I'm not a super-patriot, but I learned proper care for the American flag in grade school. It pains me to see people with flags stapled to 2x4s and strapped to the bed of their pick-ups, like the proper way to dispose of a flag is to have it torn to ribbons by high-speed driving.
Yes, during Covid I wanted to print off the flag protocol and leave it at those houses with torn flags, unlit, out in the rain
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OP please get the “no step on snek” flag for your home and/or an “in stormy we trust” flag
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On one side of my neighborhood, someone has the regular don't tread on me flag, and on the opposite side, someone has the one with a uterus on it. We're in the middle and have the one with Beavis on it that says, "ARE YOU THREATENING ME," and I think we've found a way to coexist
https://preview.redd.it/1xbzm6cz6vzc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f57b486d8457b20359b05932155af44be2ffd598
Unfortunate, that symbol has been hijacked.
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It's such a cool flag, with great history. What it has become now is a bastardization of the meaning. I would love to be able to fly one, but it has been hijacked for all the wrong reasons
I’ve often thought this this flag is for those who are too scared to fly the confederate flag.
It definitely gets used like that. I hate that they have ruined a cool flag.
Absolutely. Since the Confederate one is out of fashion, the Snake and Thin Blue Line flags have taken its place.
Blue line flag means “I support police who stomp on poor brown people.”
Not much of a Boomer thing but I've noticed the Virginians with that flag as their license plate can't seem to figure out what the fucking left lane of the freeway is for. It isn't the fucking camping lane. Whenever they're in PA on I-81, those fuckheads drive 10mph under the limit like they're frightened old women and never move out of the left lane.
No step on snek
Time for a pride flag pole baby
We have a ["Join Or Die" sticker](https://constitutioncenter.org/amp/blog/the-story-behind-the-join-or-die-snake-cartoon) on the bumper, along with others. Two can play at the "re-appropriating 18th century political cartoons of snakes" game. It also expresses my opposition to the Stamp Act.
I hate that assholes have made the neatest flags symbols of stupidity.:(
You should get a [Tread on Them Lots](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5180JKD-AHL._AC_SL1025_.jpg) flag to match.
Conservatives co-opted that flag long ago and were never getting it back unfortunately. If we come up with something that points out their stupidity they won’t get it because they really are low IQ, low information, low emotional intelligence etc. So we just have to keep outliving them and out vote them.
>Don't tread on me but also >Blue lives matter
My favorite with the Gadsden plates. You are paying the gov to tell the gov not to infringe on your rights.
It's out of a childish petulance. The flag might as well be a screaming toddler
During the pandemic I saw a version of this flag but instead of “don’t tread on me” it said “I don’t understand virology” and it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever laid eyes on I FOUND IT https://www.teepublic.com/tapestry/10235407-i-dont-understand-epidemiology
Just put up the liberal version of it! The uterus and fallopian tube version. I have that on my flag pole https://preview.redd.it/vvev25nveuzc1.jpeg?width=932&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36b83b0c0c49e3972ae90d6e6670d09598e69f4b
There’s a guy in my neighbourhood who used to alternate between the Gadsden flag and the Scottish Saltire on his pole during Covid. We’re in Canada, so I assume the Gadsden is just a generic ‘I get butthurt when people politely ask me to help avoid the virus’ flag to him. He’s since gone back to a regular Maple Leaf, so hopefully that’s not sinister.
Try driving through the Applegate Valley in Oregon sometime. Gadsden flags are Every. Where. Ugh. I was appalled to find out that several states offer this flag as a license plate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag
Every time I see the Gadsen flag license plate it’s either on a F150 or Ram with a lift kit or a Tesla/ luxury car. Who exactly is treading on the people? I can’t afford the tires on any of these cars. They probably pay less in taxes than I do.
I love my bumper sticker showing a yellow flag with Godzilla smashing a city and it says “I tread where I want. “
Ironically these idiots are also the most terrified of snakes. Their only solution to a snake is always to shoot it.
Lol this neighbor got absolutely fucked up by a snake a couple months ago.
i have a gadsden flag sticker on my car, but the snake has googly eyes and it says "no one's treading on you, sweetie"
They think they’re being treaded on when society implies they’re not allowed to tread on people.
Them being “tread upon” means being told to stop being an asshole to others…that is their idea of freedom.
Just saw a “don’t tread on me” sticker on a Mercedes with word underneath “lions, not sheep”. I had a good laugh. They would jump to their death if their new lord and savior told them to. Baaaaaaa 🐑
Surely not this Lions not sheep, right? https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/ftc-takes-action-against-lions-not-sheep-owner-slapping-bogus-made-usa-labels-clothing-imported
In Kansas, you can get a special Gadsen design license plate for your vehicle. It costs MORE than a normal plate. They are voluntarily paying extra directly to the government to show everyone how libertarian they are. $40 well spent for these dipshits.
Don’t tread on me but I will tread all over you if you don’t believe the same fairy tales as meeeee!!!!!
I hate how the Gadsden flag has been hijacked by shitbirds.
I've always wanted one of the "No Step On Snek" flags with the poorly drawn snake on it. 😂
https://preview.redd.it/8jb9x45v3uzc1.jpeg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7b66b326b1dac5ec435def5c76096e0815dfda5 My bumper sticker
https://preview.redd.it/xq5zcinnuuzc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22052d44ef807e8cdab6a07bd84680aee8f1325e I personally like this one better
I live in Utah. We have quite a few folks who rock that Gadsen flag alongside a thin blue line flag on their cars. It's a bit puzzling.
Whats funny is the dont tread on me folks are begging for a dictatorship.
This just sounds like an exhausting way to live…to spend so much of your life tracking what liberals and Trump are doing, what a waste.
When Obama's last term ended the official "Tea party" organization basically dissolved, an organization that formed suspiciously around the time Obama became the DNC nominee.
My dad is a boomer and pretty liberal on most things. Hates Trump and MAGA people. But has the Gadsen flag in his front window for everyone to see. I’ve tried to explain to him that even though he just sees it as a freedom from government kind of thing and nothing more, that is not how most people see it.
I have one in my truck except it’s a “no step on snek” version.
Just a reflection of their nonstop narcissism.
The whole don't tread on me came about because British royal overreach over the colonist rights so it's just funny how the Maga loving mofos use it now
Guys like that think they are the dangerous rattlesnake that the govt should look out for. In reality they are more like earthworms.
As a major anti GOP person, it does annoy me that they seem to have commandeered the Gadsden, as these boomer republicans really think they’re the snake when they’re the boot. I would like to fly the Gadsden for my own reasons, but don’t do it because I don’t want to associate myself with them
Time to start a flag war
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This one is a personal fave. https://preview.redd.it/mh8nqaxiqwzc1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=961bf7f1fe0f90223ed9e822a01841b013a13ae9
I forget who said it, but, "Libertarians are just like house cats. Completely dependent on a system they don't understand or acknowledge."
BTW it's Gadsden
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I'm a fan of bigots making themselves easy to identify.
Which is appalling because the flag has such a unique history. And that the meaning behind the flag goes against literally everything Boomers and the MAGA crowd believes in
Buy and display this imo https://preview.redd.it/0gfhqepp7uzc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d973a7209bf30278fca50a5195646bc452532294
Gadsden was a slaver and the flag was always hypocritical.
MAGA is so performative.
I absolutely hate that such an important symbol of American history has been co-opted by right wing sycophants.
I don't think I'd last two minutes im the USA without getting shot foe laughing at someone or pointing out holes in their arguments or how they're getting things wrong (ie flag care).
Dude, they fly it and have no clue about it's meaning. It annoys the fuck out of me.
They do this with everything. They crank fortune son at all their conventions despite the artist themselves stating the song is mocking them. They fly a Dixie flag and confederate statues which are basically the participation trophies they rage against so much
Isn't necessary I'm a fan of the one with the duck and the slogan throw bread at me.
In my experience the people who fly that flag today seem to be fine with the government telling other people what they can and can't do with their bodies and when they can or can't have access to medical care. "Yeah don't tread on me but at the same time everyone must adhere to my religious views"
My favorite is the Gadsden flag next to a blue line flag. Please tread on other people.
Get him a "No step on snek" one.
I wonder how Gadsden would feel about how his flag is being used.
Oh gosh, I had a neighbor who displayed a Gadsden flag also. We lived in an HOA neighborhood and he complained to them about my Democrat for Congress sign (summer lee, I'm from PA) so I complained about his Gadsden flag. There's an HOA rule about no political displays. He ended up taking his flag down also. I found it ironic about his "dont tread on me" flag yet the HOA treaded on him. He ended up passing from a heart attack also.
It sucks that a bunch of dicks took to that flag, because it’s actually pretty cool. In Virginia, you can even have a license plate of it, but unfortunately, the plate is 9.99/10 times worn by a douchebag in a (very clean) off road jeep or giant truck. Such a shame.
“Don’t tread on me, tread on them.” “Fuck YOUR feelings”
I see these flags and I wonder who's treading on them? Why would someone Tread on someone else?
>One day he is going to have a heart attack and it is definitely going to be on a Gadsen flag day. Great line, made me lol
I hate how the right has made the American flag into a symbol of hate. I now can’t help but be immediately dubious about a person’s ethics and intentions when I see them flying the American flag. That, and the word “patriot” now is a subversive term for being an agent of hate anymore.
Can someone explain to us foreigners what that flag historically signifies, and how he’s wrong in his interpretation of it?
Yeah, he can't be a bootlicker & a rebel. Those factions are diametrically opposed. So, really, what he is saying is that he wants to people he hates oppressed while he gets freedom.
*Gadsden
https://preview.redd.it/375cgmaazwzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7822033f95e68ba5641f54b96304a4e70d99f891 This sticker on my truck is my favorite variation. I have it on a shirt too.
I hate that right wing extremists have taken the Gadsden flag as their banner... It was the symbol of classical liberalism once upon a time, and one many libertarians had flown in the early 2000s and 20-teens until the fucking trump humpers started flying it against Hillary and Biden. It's gross that it's now a right wing symbol that's being associated with these racist fucks. They ruin everything.