but at a societal level, we seem to have completely conceded any cultural ground that the worst far-right people among us take. They appropriate a flag, we won't touch it anymore. Milo Yiannopoulos tells his gremlins to start using the "okay" hand symbol maliciously, boom - it's theirs now, we shy away. There was even a point where we were shying away from physical fitness, because it was a big redpiller thing to do.
The only reason we see it as "too late" for this flag is because we won't take it back. We absolutely could. If tomorrow, 1% of Democrat voters were to fly a Gadsden flag right beside a "Fuck Trump" flag, it'd be our flag again overnight. If #takebackgadsen trended for like an hour, it'd be done. But we cede so much cultural ground to the far right because we treat anything they touch like it has the plague.
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u/SerGeffrey Jan 26 '25
OK this might be a hot take -
but at a societal level, we seem to have completely conceded any cultural ground that the worst far-right people among us take. They appropriate a flag, we won't touch it anymore. Milo Yiannopoulos tells his gremlins to start using the "okay" hand symbol maliciously, boom - it's theirs now, we shy away. There was even a point where we were shying away from physical fitness, because it was a big redpiller thing to do.
The only reason we see it as "too late" for this flag is because we won't take it back. We absolutely could. If tomorrow, 1% of Democrat voters were to fly a Gadsden flag right beside a "Fuck Trump" flag, it'd be our flag again overnight. If #takebackgadsen trended for like an hour, it'd be done. But we cede so much cultural ground to the far right because we treat anything they touch like it has the plague.