• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    Yes, sadly. The same people still have it at half mast, and it’s 9/12.

    People around here have also never put their flags at half mast for 9/11, they actually don’t put their flags at half mast for literally anything at their houses. Post offices, schools, government buildings, and some businesses, yeah. Houses, no.

    So this is extremely performative for certain conservatives.

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      Wait people have full on flagpoles in front of their houses? That is not normal human behavior, I must emphasize that.

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        Oh yes. I can think of several houses with them.

        I know one that has the US flag at the top, then a Trump flag right below it. Every time I go by the house it’s there.

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        Oh definitely! Plus, tons of people who don’t have a full-on flagpole still hang a flag outside their house at all times.

        The people who live across from me put up a comically-tall flagpole after Trump won last year… the first flag on it was a Trump flag. They now have an American flag up all the time (and it’s currently at half mast).

        They’re all totally bizarre. Rarely have bad Americans announced themselves so clearly, right in front of their houses.