• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Wasn’t the upside down us flag thing used by j6’ers? Are the line workers taking it back as the symbol of a stolen country for themselves, or is this Musk and crew indicating we’re fucked?

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        3 months ago

        Not quite, it’s an international sign that a vessel is in distress.

        Then mostly right wing lunatics co-opted it to mean that our country is in distress.

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          3 months ago

          Which they co-opted from protesters in the 60’s, rallying against the Vietnam war, which they co-opted from the Revolutionary war, where (allegedly, much harder to source), the revolutionaries also flew the Union Jack inverted. Its history to mean insurrection in the US is as old as the US.

          Its been used in many other instances internationally, and yes, also at sea with a much deeper history to signal distress. Regardless, the pedantry is both technically and figuratively misplaced.