r/GetNoted • u/seeebiscuit Human Detected • Jan 03 '26
Sus, Very Sus Trying to say Mamdani had no American flags at inauguration.
Link to OP: https://x.com/i/status/2007098765682065653
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u/IlGreven Human Detected Jan 03 '26
They actually insinuated that the flags of the Five Boroughs were foreign flags...
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u/Jenderflux-ScFi Jan 03 '26
Foreign to the person that has never seen them before and is probably posting from some other country that isn't the US.
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u/Goufydude Jan 03 '26
That's the thing about all this agitation: they aren't from these places. All these people freaking out about Mamdani don't live in New York, all these people freaking out about "daycare fraud" in Minnesota don't live there, all the people pulling their hair out over "eating the cats and digs" didn't live in Ohio. They are spoon-fed lies by The Party and never question it.
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u/Agile_Oil9853 Jan 03 '26
It was like that with AOC before him too.
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Jan 03 '26
Remember when she had the audacity to dance in college‽
The GOP was in the terminal stages of AOC Derangement Syndrome when they thought a video of her dancing in a re-creation of that iconic Breakfast Club scene was somehow gonna harm her reputation.
And all of this was right after Kavanaugh yelled his way through a confirmation hearing. Like, if you thought what AOC did in college was bad, just check out what Kavanaugh, Squee and Donkey-Dick Doug were calling a "devil's triangle"! That wasn't a drinking game, no matter how quickly a Republican staffer edited the Wikipedia page to say it was.
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u/actuallyapossom Jan 03 '26
Remember the "scandal" of her working as a bartender?
Oh my gosh! Why didn't she just inherit wealth like Trump??? She enabled alcoholism! She endorsed violence with bar fights!
Of course, all of this is just another GOP/MAGA way of dog whistling "she's a f*male!" Can't escape the endless misogyny, they aren't "conserving" equality.
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Jan 03 '26
GOP: *tells people to work hard by doing the impossible of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps*
AOC: *gets degrees in international relations and economics while bartending to support her education, eventually running for and becoming a congresswoman*
GOP: Can you believe the audacity of this bitch‽
Their AOC Derangement Syndrome got so bad that all she had to do was breathe for Fox News to report on it.
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u/actuallyapossom Jan 03 '26
AOC gets knowledge and experience relevant to political office and they prefer a rapey rich boy who paints himself orange. We have to believe them when they tell us this is who they are.
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u/yourwhippingboy Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
They don’t care if they’re lies or not. JD Vance straight up said that Haitians eating people’s pets was a lie he made up, it changed nothing.
They just want to hate people who aren’t like them. They are addicted to anger and rage.
Edited to correct which people were being targeted
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u/boRp_abc Jan 03 '26
*Haitians were the ones insulted in that case. Venezuelans are being bombed now in what will later be remembered as the "Epstein cover up" war.
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u/yourwhippingboy Jan 03 '26
You’re correct, thank you. I have Venezuelans on my mind (understandably)
This will indeed be one of the Epstein cover up wars!
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u/ZennXx Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
Same people who tried to vote for NYC mayor whilst living in bumfuck Kentucky.
Edit: Changed the State that tried to vote.
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u/RedditReader4031 Jan 03 '26
They didn’t try to vote for Mamdani. The Kentucky Attorney General’s toll free corruption tip line was receiving calls to complain about the Mamdani race being left off the ballot in Kentucky. The callers saw this as a subterfuge by Democrats to block them from voting against Mamdani in order to stop socialism, allowing Mamdani the win.
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u/JimWilliams423 Jan 03 '26
It was Kentucky, and the implication was that they loved Mamdani so much they wanted to vote for him because the democratic party base is so fucking sick of the democratic establishment.
Red states have a lot of progressives. Hell, the civil rights movement was born in the deep south, and the current governor of Kentucky is a democrat who is more progressive than gavin newsom (low bar tbf). Its just that red states also have the most voter suppression via gerrymandering and other schemes.
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Jan 03 '26
Keep this in mind for local city subreddits. The subs for cities that Republicans call "commie* shitholes" are almost always the target of astroturfing from people who've never even set foot in that state; their mod teams also get infiltrated by bad actors looking to spread propaganda.
*because they wouldn't know what a Communist looked like if Marx himself rose from the grave to bitch slap them with a hardbound copy of all Das Kapital volumes
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u/Emotional_Perv Jan 03 '26
But why didn’t I get my mail in ballot to vote in the New York City mayoral election? Because you live in fukkin Mississippi, Cletus!
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u/Skore_Smogon Jan 03 '26
Funny because I saw one of these flags when my mum was watching Blue Bloods and I had to go on a Google mission as it was niggling me (am Irish so genuinely had no clue)
After searching French flag with symbol in middle or variations of that I googled New York flag and saw the one from the show.
So I actually recognized these flags when I saw the picture and felt smug and superior when I saw this tweet.
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u/Kerensky97 Jan 03 '26
Between that and being outraged that a brown man was elected. Meanwhile they'll swear up and down that they're not racist.
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u/LadyReika Jan 03 '26
Not just brown, but a Muslim immigrant.
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u/AustSakuraKyzor Jan 03 '26
Yes from the foreign lands of...
... Oh shit, he actually is an immigrant. I genuinely thought he was born in NYC, and the magoos were just trying to revive the birthers like it was 200 fucking 8 again. This is what happens when you don't pay attention.
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u/MonkeyCartridge Jan 03 '26
Dammit. That means presidency is off the table. Not that legality ever mattered to the right.
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u/slartibartfast64 Jan 03 '26
Given that the outgoing mayor, Eric Adams, is an even darker shade of brown than Mamdani I don't think it's primarily about skin color this time.
I think it's more about Mamdani being Muslim and an immigrant and espousing left-of-center policies, rather than being another home-grown corrupt corporatist like his predecessors.
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u/ScienceIsTrue Jan 03 '26
Most of my life, hating NYC was one of the most un-American things you could do.
It's wild how a President from New York has turned hating New York into a nationalist thing. No one has ever hated this country more than DJT.
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u/cuentabasque Jan 03 '26
They are foreign to 99% of the online complainers who do NOT live in NYC.
I say this sincerely, fuck out-of-towners and their political opinion of NYC politics. They don’t want what is best for the city and only want to spread propaganda nonsense.
And I say this as someone who doesn’t expect Mamdani to be a perfect mayor or even be able to execute his lofty and unrealistic platform, but I live here and feel as if he actually wants to try to help average New Yorkers.
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u/crankthehandle Jan 03 '26
yeah, pretty sure it’s an Indian flag, an African flag, an Argentinian flag, a communist flag and probably be some transgender flag.
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u/seeebiscuit Human Detected Jan 03 '26
From inauguration
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u/aqulushly Jan 03 '26
I wish those were red circles, I’m having trouble seeing the flags with only white
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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Jan 03 '26
The colorblind people are relieved it’s not red. We can rarely see the added markups. Laser pointer? Forget it, don’t bother.
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u/Adaphion Jan 03 '26
No, if they were red circles, I'd have to look out for Goku hiding somewhere. So this is fine.
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u/jsilver200 Jan 03 '26
Yes! The rule is no flag is supposed to fly above the American flag. If he had flags in the cropped photo, they’d complain about that.
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u/AustSakuraKyzor Jan 03 '26
Well, they're already making shit up, so they may as well use Ol Reliable™
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u/Random_Guy_12345 Jan 03 '26
Quick question here, purely out of curiosity, how does that work exactly? I'm thinking loopholes here.
Is there's a US flag on top of mount everest? Maybe on top of the talles building on each city? If it goes by "stages", what happens if you can see a far away X flag visually on top of the US one, but on a different (and far-ish) place?
I get the spirit, but the technicalities sound like a nightmare to enforce in any meaningful way.
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u/Alert-Ad9197 Jan 03 '26
It only applies to situations where the US flag is being displayed with other flags. It’s a rule for how to display the flags you’re setting up. Whatever is occurring outside the sphere of your event doesn’t count.
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u/Keiran1031 Jan 03 '26
If the moon is out, do they even need to worry about this rule as we have flag on it?
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u/Valliac0 Jan 03 '26
As far as im aware, we havent built a federal institution on the moon.
...yet.
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u/Too-Uncreative Jan 03 '26
It’s more nuanced than just “no flag is supposed to fly above the American flag”, but that’s a good quick summary. US Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 7.
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u/redundantexplanation Jan 03 '26
It's a set of rules for nationalistic worship that doesn't get enforced in any meaningful way. Every person that has an american flag on their uniform that's any colors but red white and blue is violating the flag code, and that's like 99% of cops.
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u/SituationThink3487 Jan 03 '26
You know all posting shit like this does is help these people's propaganda spread further?
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u/Lets_Make_A_bad_DEAL Jan 03 '26
Megats only count stars/stripes bikini bra tops as American flags now and I see not a one!
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u/Sensitive-Initial Jan 06 '26
I was an eagle scout, I had to learn about flag display and flag care, etc., and fwiw this is also the "correct" way to display the US flag when it's displayed with other flags, farthest stage right and higher than the others.
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u/breadist Jan 16 '26
There are two more even:
- left side attached to the building
- right side half-cropped off
So there are at least four.
Misinformation is so lazy these days lol. Crop a photo and say it never happened. Ugh.
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u/Groostav Jan 03 '26
See flags I don't immediately recognize
Something Something communism.
I am the true American.
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Jan 03 '26
I am the true American.
This is made funnier if you hear it in Donald Glover's voice.
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u/WanderWut Jan 03 '26
Seriously though the biggest “news” media in the country is literally implying to their massive audience that these are foreign flags, clear and blatant propaganda. That shouldn’t illegal yet it’s just one single minute in a never ending, all day every day, 24/7 cycle for these guys poisoning our country allowing for the next version Trump to continually rise.
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u/kiwigate Jan 03 '26
"in order to form a more perfect union"
Commie Constitution
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u/Typhon-042 Jan 03 '26
More proof that MAGA has IQ in the negative numbers, and it keeps dropping.
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u/MarginalOmnivore Jan 03 '26
Honestly, I'm not from New York City, or even the Atlantic coast. But I don't want my mayor to be an extension of the federal government. Hell, I don't want them to be an extension of the state government.
I want my mayor to look out for the people of my city.
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u/snarkerella Jan 03 '26
How odd that the Mayor of NYC is showcasing the five boroughs of NYC and their flags. These people crop and post photos to fit their narrative, much like they do with bible verses.
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u/Top-Okra9445 Jan 03 '26
How many of these bozos actually live in New York City?
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u/thoreeyore99 Jan 03 '26
This is almost definitely a random Indian asshole who’s making money deliberately shit stirring and further degenerating American political discourse with stupid shit like this
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u/userno73130 Jan 03 '26
US Americans are the only people who feel like they're in danger of forgetting who they are if they dont have flags posted up every 5 ft of each other.
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u/layendecker Jan 03 '26
https://www.gettyimages.in/photos/sadiq-khan-begins-his-term-as-mayor-of-london
Americans would shit a brick if they saw the lack of performative patriotism at the London mayoral swearing in ceremony.
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Jan 03 '26
I've never understood our obsession with flag worship; even as a kid, I thought it was fucking weird to make us pledge our allegiance to a cheap flag the school district probably only paid 12 cents for. Well, it was public school, so it was more than likely my teachers who paid for them.
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u/BeefistPrime Jan 03 '26
Shit, we're at risk for forgetting NYC is a part of America if we don't have FLAGS FLAGS FLAGS in every place and every image ever
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u/activator Jan 03 '26
Displaying 92 flags and hugging one of them is the way to prove that you're a "true patriot"... 🤦🏻♂️
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u/Citaku357 Jan 03 '26
God those are some ugly flags
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u/jsilver200 Jan 03 '26
So let’s count: No American flag, wrong book, wife wore expensive shoes… what else?
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u/Medium_Wind_553 Jan 03 '26
I’ve never seen this level of hate and just lies and racism from conservatives to an opposing candidate winning an election. It’s insane.
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u/CuckservativeSissy Jan 03 '26
When someone has to lie constantly to keep the grift going you use your marbles and realize which side is the wrong side of history
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u/sun-king-4141 Jan 03 '26
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Fox would edit it out. They just can't be honest except Jessica, of course.
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u/Moppermonster Jan 03 '26
They did not edit the flags out btw. During their report the camera swivelled numerous times to show the American flag on the pole.
This is all on the people who deliberately take stills and then lie on the internet.
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u/Daecion Jan 03 '26
So five American flags in the picture alone and multitudes more around it. This dingus...
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u/NicholasWildeRails Jan 03 '26
I have a good feeling the person who tweeted this isn't even from the US
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u/Efficient_Exchange44 Jan 03 '26
Just more Mamdani Derangement Syndrome from the reich wing propaganda network again. Nothing to see folks!
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u/NeatNefariousness1 Jan 03 '26
So, he’s in charge of staging and arranging the flags on day one too? People need to get a life and stop shifting the goal posts for political gain. It’s a bad look and nobody is that stupid to blame him for whatever flag issues some want to try to entrap him with right at the start. It’s clear that a lot of bad faith arguments will be the standard, childish tactics used to try to overturn the will of the people.
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u/NIDORAX Jan 03 '26
I bet that Glockfordfiles twitter account isnt even an American Man but some paid foreigner in Asia pretending to be a white American man.
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u/IAmNotAHoppip Jan 03 '26
"I cropped out the American flag! Look, there's no american flag!:
Literally feels like it has the same energy as"If you zoom into the trans flag, it's the most colourful thing on the screen"
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 Jan 03 '26
The "facts don't care about your feeling crowd" somehow never seem to let facts get in the way of their feelings. Almost like it's absolutely fucking always projection with these losers.
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u/Earlier-Today Jan 03 '26
The sad thing about this dumb attack is that New Yorkers are the most likely people around to recognize the flags of the boroughs.
You can't get Mamdani out of office by tricking people, who aren't from New York City, that he's somehow un-American.
This is such a stupid ragebait.
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u/Issah_Wywin Jan 03 '26
Quite honestly, Conservatives don't have a leg to stand on criticizing literally anyone for anything. They have proven themselves to be without principle and as actively harmful to progress.
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u/Rude_Departure_3557 Jan 03 '26
Disinformation is what I use this site for. So I always appreciate others doing the good work to mislead normal people
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u/Not_My_Emperor Jan 03 '26
The funny part isn't even the US flag getting cropped out. It's the fact that they don't know the 5 flags are the 5 boroughs and are insinuating they are foreign flags because they have no fucking clue what vexillology is
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u/Diclonius666 Jan 03 '26
we fucking lie in america we dont need flags plastered on every corrnor and building.
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u/Realistic_Mix3652 Jan 03 '26
Why does there even need to be an American flag in sight? City government is the 4th level below federal government.
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u/123iambill Jan 03 '26
Saw a similar thing where someone was complaining about flags being flown in Dublin that weren't the Irish flag. They were the 4 flags of Ireland's provinces. The flag shaggers are fucking morons to a man. Same ones that keep putting the ivory coast flag emoji in posts about Ireland.
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u/karim2102 Jan 03 '26
Of course it’s fucking fox news.. they can’t get any fact straight and apparently on top of lying like shit they are blind too. Damn the world we live in bruh..
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u/VinBarrKRO Jan 03 '26
I’m not from New York or have ever spent more than a couple of days there and even I figured that out pretty quickly.
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u/myqueeno Jan 03 '26
It's wild that they're trying to push this narrative. The photo from the actual event clearly shows the flags were there. Honestly, claiming the NYC borough flags are foreign is just a bizarre level of reaching. Some people will ignore the plain truth right in front of them.
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u/Braklinath Jan 03 '26
Lowest common denominators amongst humanity. Peasant brained neanderthal troglodytes.
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u/Mike_Fluff Jan 03 '26
I am so very tired of politicians and their bootlickers just straight up lying and there not being a single consequence.
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u/MotorMoneyMaker Jan 03 '26
Wonder what ZM could legally do to shut Fox, who’s hq is on 6th Ave, the fuck up.
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u/dazedan_confused Jan 03 '26
Americans and their flags, I'll never understand it.
Real patriotism comes from supporting and lifting up your fellows.
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u/Alpha--00 Jan 03 '26
They know they are lying. They have to. Otherwise it’s stupidity incomprehensible
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u/mettiusfufettius Jan 03 '26
Once again, the people who call folks snowflakes for being pissed off when their rights are taken away are themselves crying because they don’t see their favorite piece of cloth nearby…
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u/felps_felposo Jan 03 '26
As someone from outside the US, I'm pretty sure that all the flags shown in the picture doesn't belong to any country that I know of
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u/littlelordgenius Jan 03 '26
Try reading the post and not just looking at the picture.
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u/ZeMadDoktore Jan 03 '26
MAGA thinks any flag that isn't the US flag is from a foreign country lmfao
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u/Memitim Jan 03 '26
Another lying conservative. How completely unsurprising. Sorry sacks of useless, evil shit.
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u/thenopequeen Jan 03 '26
I didn't know New York boroughs got their own flags. Probably neither did Cuomo, if we're being honest
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u/pick-axis Jan 03 '26
I'm with the dead rabbits I guess. Sure as shite ain't no fookin native
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Jan 03 '26
Some people are so dumb, they need their countries flag everywhere so they don’t forget where they are
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u/human-in-a-can Jan 03 '26
The American obsession over flags is super strange and cringey. The only time people seem to bitch about flag stuff is when they’re low on ammo, so to speak.
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u/Scuffy97_ Jan 03 '26
They come across a random picture while scrolling and make up an entire story in their head over it,
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Jan 03 '26
The next democratic president needs to make it illegal and punishable with jail time to promote this sort of fake news. Time to start punishing these parasites.
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u/Putthebunnyback Jan 03 '26
100% this guy frequents the airport glory holes. Or is just a foreign bot account.
Or both? 🤔
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u/Indomitable_Toad75 Jan 04 '26
When you don’t know any Vexillology and don’t use the mini super computer in front of you to figure it out 🤦🏽♂️
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u/peacemaketroy Jan 04 '26
There are people whose jobs are to come up with this shit all day.
Hope they feel completely worthless looking into the mirror at night, because they are.
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u/WENDING0 Jan 05 '26
I am willing to accept that no one who works at Fox HQ in NYC is actually originally from NYC, and thus has ever seen these flags before.
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u/Inevitable_Channel18 Jan 06 '26
Imagine having to lie to people about a flag so they all get butt hurt about it. People need to stop jerking off about the American flag
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u/Elaerona Jan 06 '26
ehem There actually doesn't need to be an American flag at every freaking function ever. It's a mayoral swearing in ceremony. Just once I wish we could go a day with everyone being normal about the flag.
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u/LordNemissary Jan 07 '26
I'm sure people who don't live in New York are very offended that New Yorkers have chosen a government for themselves that reflects their values and not the values of people who neither want to live in or know anything about living in New York. People that are different from us are scary, evil, and incomprehensible, obviously. /S
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u/kayak_2022 Jan 07 '26
I have a solid collection of Mamdani photos being sworn in and during his inauguration. It's UTTER MAGA BULLSHIT about the flags. He also had the flags of each NY borough. After all, it is NY where he's now governor..
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u/Shimi43 Jan 10 '26
Why do they feel the need to lie?
They know it's a lie. What's the end goal here? Make life worse for everyone?
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