politics? 

an acquaintance of ours is talking about wanting to reclaim the gadsden flag and like

I feel like that isn't a good idea but at the same time we don't know enough about the current connotations of that flag to know for sure

don't even really know what it originally meant

it just feels like something very antithetical to our worldview for some reason

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re: politics? 

I guess this is kind of a request for people to explain some things but I don't know what needs explaining

re: politics? 

@Felthry It was originally a Continental Marines flag during the revolutionary war in the USA. It wasn't until 2009 that right-wing extremists started using it as an in-group symbol.

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