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Meh, just be a good ambassador for it. I have a Gadsden magnet on my car. I'm not a far right nutjob by any definition of the phrase. If someone wants to judge me prematurely for it, that's their own character flaw, not my problem.
Be not judged, just wear your colors proudly if you're an American.
I had these made up from a t shirt shop out west, and me and the spouse wear them whenever we feel revolting.
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The bright yellow Gadsden flag, long a symbol of support for civil liberties and disagreement with government, has its beginning deeply rooted in the days of the American Revolution. The rattlesnake, the Gadsden flag’s central feature, had been an emblem of Americans even before the Revolution. The Pennsylvania Gazette published an article in 1751 bitterly protesting the British practice of sending convicts to America where the author suggested that the colonists should return the favor by shipping them “a cargo of rattlesnakes.” Three years later the same newspaper published what is believed to be one of the first political cartoons in America. It was of a snake cut into eight sections with the words “Join, or Die” below. Each section represented a colony and was warning of the dangers of disunity.
The rattlesnake symbol caught on and became a part of several other Revolutionary War flags. Before the departure of the United States Navy’s first mission in 1775, Continental Colonel Christopher Gadsden from South Carolina presented the newly appointed commander with a yellow rattlesnake flag to serve as a standard for his flagship. Accompanying the Navy on its first mission were five companies of Marines carrying yellow drums featuring a snake with 13 rattles and the words “Don’t Tread on Me.” The Navy later adapted the snake emblem and “Don’t Tread on Me” motto into what is now known as the First Navy Jack. Featuring a rattlesnake stretched across 13 red and white stripes with “Don’t Tread on Me” below, the Secretary of the Navy ordered in 2002 that this powerful American symbol will fly on all naval ships for the duration of the War on Terrorism.
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have seen quite a few of them on upscale houses in No Virginia.
Lots of retired military.
Its a symbol of soft squishy animals telling the huge combine not to chop it into 10K tiny pieces...
Ummmm yea....soft and squishy?! Have you ever caught a snake? Let alone a rattler. They are FAR from soft and squishy. I think that's the point of the flag.
it seems like they're many different beliefs attached to the flag and was just wondering on what you think it means
nothing to me personally.
When I see someone using that flag, I think of someone who is an insane gun nut militia type who has ties to white supremacist organizations or other extreme right wing groups, and who hates millions of their fellow Americans, and who fantasizes about killing cops, ATF agents, FBI agents, and marauding urban youths and elected officials in their fantasies about government tyranny and a war with the federal government.
To me, it means my 2A rights SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
It is definitely associated with the molon labe, gun nutter, Alex Jones crowd. Whether that is a good thing or not is up to your point of view.
One thing you can be sure of is that the person displaying the flag is more likely than not a fan of the Turner Diaries with more than a passing interest in the mechanics of building fertilizer bombs. It has become just a slightly more civilized version of the swastika flag that is also popular among the neo-nazis and skinheads.
It is the banner for the far right militia types that have not yet mustered up the courage to come all the way out of the closet.
anything that inspires such instantaneous, mindless, spluttering hatred from the leftwing nutjobs must have something going for it.
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