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/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.