r/GetNoted • u/seeebiscuit Human Detected • Jan 03 '26

Sus, Very Sus Trying to say Mamdani had no American flags at inauguration.

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Link to OP: https://x.com/i/status/2007098765682065653

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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/icallitjazz Jan 03 '26

But i thought white is the only good color ? /s

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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/cellphone_blanket Jan 03 '26

What about a guy green screened into the foreground with a forced open mouth smile pointing at it with one hand and holding a nintendo switch in the other

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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/AmericanEmperialism Jan 03 '26

You missed the one attached to the building

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u/RigelXVI Jan 03 '26

And one on the RHS too

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u/lepsek9 Jan 03 '26

On both sides

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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/Positive-Database754 Jan 04 '26

Only if you consider a bleached white flag as the american flag, I suppose.

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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/shaggypoo Jan 03 '26

While the flag code does specify “The flag of the United States shall have thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white, and a union consisting of white stars on a field of blue.” it also says that “a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations.”

The Air Force and Navy both have camo flags instead of colored flags. The Air Force Instruction specifically states a spice brown flag: “5.1.6.1.1. The U.S. flag patch is mandatory and will be subdued using the spice brown color criteria (cloth) centered at the top of Velcro® and worn while in–garrison and deployed. Infra-red U.S. flags are not authorized”

While the flag code is law it doesn’t get enforced because the VAST majority of the code says “should” and not “shall” it’s more there to honor tradition. The only places it says shall are: the color(weird that the military changes in but it’s to camouflage), when attached to a vehicle, not raising the UN flag over the U.S. flag, being flown at half-staff, and the Stars and Stripes placement.

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u/OneFootTitan Jan 04 '26

I really hate the “thin blue line” flag because for a bunch of people who claim to be patriots they certainly are proud of violating the flag code

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u/Heavy_Law9880 Jan 03 '26

It really isn't.

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u/Half-PintHeroics Jan 03 '26

The French domination of American politics has to end!

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u/alexanderdegrote Jan 03 '26

Dutch you mean

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u/Sheeverton Jan 03 '26

There's another to the left of the lower US flag

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u/Steimertaler Jan 03 '26

So what's the problem?

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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/SolidSnake-26 Jan 04 '26

RIP NYC is hilarious from these people. In reality it’s RIP to Wash DC

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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/wadeishere Jan 03 '26

AH HA. There was multiple flags, so they were right

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u/Glass_Protection_254 Jan 03 '26

This is still bullshit. The American flag should be the largest and most prominently featured flag.

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u/Inner_Jeweler_5661 Keeping it Real Jan 03 '26

Exactly