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[Bo Diddley]

Just for fun, I put the text of this post into an AI image generator. The attached is what it came up with.

Yeah, someone whose wife hangs that flag probably should be fired.

[Moliere]

if my wife hung a flag at our house that was in direct opposition to the interests of my business (e.g., advocating taxing carried interest as short term capital gains) and it was directly or indirectly discovered by anybody connected to my employer, whether or not i was the one that flew the flag, i would best case be removed from matters involving affected business affiliates and worst case terminated with no ability to ever work in the industry again (more likely). alito and thomas should recuse.

But your wife would be correct in that scenario

[fusnik]

It’s wild you guys just believe the, it was my spouses fault, BS. Imagine planting a BYU sucks sign in your yard, expecting everyone to believe that it was your spouse, and rolling into your job as a BYU admin as if no biggie, lol.

Mitt thinks it’s a matter worth investigating.

Also weird JL defending Trump posting the Third Reich stuff, as if it’s fake news. There is a definitive pattern of this inside the GOP since Trump came around.

Vermin, poisoning our blood, fine people on both sides, RDS nazi iconography, third reich, hosting Nick Fuentes at MAL.

But don’t fall for it people!

[Applejack]

Scoreboard:

alito: meh
thomas:

[Jeff Lebowski]

It’s wild you guys just believe the, it was my spouses fault, BS. Imagine planting a BYU sucks sign in your yard, expecting everyone to believe that it was your spouse, and rolling into your job as a BYU admin as if no biggie, lol.

Mitt thinks it’s a matter worth investigating.

Also weird JL defending Trump posting the Third Reich stuff, as if it’s fake news. There is a definitive pattern of this inside the GOP since Trump came around.

Vermin, poisoning our blood, fine people on both sides, RDS nazi iconography, third reich, hosting Nick Fuentes at MAL.

But don’t fall for it people!

In other words, you believe it because it confirms your bias. Not because it makes any sense.

Let's apply occam's razor:

1) Trump campaign deliberately and intentionally promoted nazi verbiage in a campaign video.
2) Some random schmuck made the video and a trump staffer saw it and shared it on a social media channel.

If you think the answer is #1, you truly are the gullible one.

[Uncle Ted]

Mitt thinks it’s a matter worth investigating.

"No one cares what Mitt Romney thinks."

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10153947529845238

[falafel]

In other words, you believe it because it confirms your bias. Not because it makes any sense.

Let's apply occam's razor:

1) Trump campaign deliberately and intentionally promoted nazi verbiage in a campaign video.
2) Some random schmuck made the video and a trump staffer saw it and shared it on a social media channel.

If you think the answer is #1, you truly are the gullible one.

That doesn't explain the "vermin" comment, the "poisoning the blood of our country" line, or the copy of the Hitler Bible Mein Kampf Trump's got all marked up next to his bed.

[USUC]

In other words, you believe it because it confirms your bias. Not because it makes any sense.

Let's apply occam's razor:

1) Trump campaign deliberately and intentionally promoted nazi verbiage in a campaign video.
2) Some random schmuck made the video and a trump staffer saw it and shared it on a social media channel.

If you think the answer is #1, you truly are the gullible one.

It's default text from a video template. Even the random schmuck who made the video likely had no idea it was in there.

[Jeff Lebowski]

It's default text from a video template. Even the random schmuck who made the video likely had no idea it was in there.

Ha! There you go. Mystery solved.

From that right-wing rag, The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...social/678443/

Trump’s account has removed the video, and his campaign said it did not create the video but reposted it from another user. It also said the post was done not by Trump but by a staffer who hadn’t noticed the “Reich” reference. Although Trump has a long history of blaming staffers for foolish posts, the excuse here is plausible. The video appears to have been made using a stock video template available online. And the text that appears in the video—about the “unified Reich”—comes, as the Associated Press notes, from a Wikipedia entry about World War I (“German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich”) rather than anything about Nazis. It’s a safe bet that the gospel singer Candi Staton wasn’t aiming to boost Hitler when she used the same template for a video of a song about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

Come on, people.

[fusnik]

Ha! There you go. Mystery solved.

From that right-wing rag, The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...social/678443/



Come on, people.

Star of David Hilary ad, Jewmerica retweets, white genocide retweets, retweeting legit nazis, Loomer endorsements, calling white nationalists my people.

Always blaming staffers and unnamed interns.

[Maximus]

chalk another one up to they didnt mean it

[Jeff Lebowski]

Star of David Hilary ad, Jewmerica retweets, white genocide retweets, retweeting legit nazis, Loomer endorsements, calling white nationalists my people.

Always blaming staffers and unnamed interns.

I am ready to accept your apology for being 100% wrong on this.

[falafel]

Always blaming staffers and unnamed interns.

Well they are usually the ones doing this kind of work.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Well they are usually the ones doing this kind of work.

Yes. When Biden tweets something really stupid, I always assume it is a staffer. So do most people.

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[Jeff Lebowski]

When this flag story broke, I had no idea that an upside down flag had anything to do with January 6. The traditional meaning is a sign of distress. Well it turns out that a careful Google search of the dates in question shows that it was NOT a symbol of the insurrection.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...BzZHowOQ%3D%3D

So, the connective tissue between the “stop the steal” symbol and Alito’s judicial role was missing in two separate directions. But was there a “stop the steal” symbol at all? I confess that this was the first time I had ever even heard of an upside-down flag being used as a symbol specific to the “stop the steal” movement.

Jeff Blehar had the same reaction:

I lived through January 6 as an extremely online Never Trumper deeply familiar with the alt-right. And yet I have only just heard the claim, much to my surprise, that in January 2021, flying a flag upside-down was immediately known as the universal MAGA signal for “stop the steal,” in much the same way that everyone who flashes you an “OK” sign is secretly a Groyper. As law professor David Bernstein points out on Twitter, the concept didn’t gain currency until much later (if at all, honestly).
Here’s what Bernstein found:

I follow the news reasonably closely, and until the recent brouhaha I had no idea that this was supposed to be a MAGA election denial thing. So I did a google search with a date restriction for 12/1/2020 to 1/6/2021 “upside down” “american flag” trump -alito (the latter to avoid getting recent hits that show up in the search anyway). As you can see for yourself, there are precious few references to anyone flying an American flag upside down to protest the election.

Margot Cleveland came to the same conclusion:

While there may have been a few upside-down flags seen displayed during protests at the Capitol, calling it a symbol of “Stop the Steal” is a completely concocted narrative. Consider, for instance, that contemporaneous reporting by leftist outlets, such as CNN, professing to “decod[e] the extremists symbols and groups at the Capitol Hill insurrection” included no mention of protesters appropriating an upside-down flag as a universal symbol for “Stop the Steal” adherents.

Ann Coulter adds that the sources cited by Kantor don’t bear much weight, including social-media posts that don’t draw the connection or were made long after the fact:

The idea that it was a secret symbol of “Stop the Steal” has zero support, zero evidence, zero examples of any “Stop the Steal” believers using it. The Times loaded up its false claims with links, giving the impression that it had gobs of proof, but when you click on those links, they have nothing to do with the Times’s assertions. Apparently, the Times’s only “source” is a lefty PhD student at Univ. of Colorado Boulder — but I repeat myself — whose entire oeuvre is about right-wing hate movements…In the Times’ follow-up article this week, really nailing down that an upside down flag was absolutely, 100% a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” campaign immediately after the 2020 Election, the paper cites — AGAIN — as its sole source … Alex Newhouse, PhD student, Univ. of Colorado Boulder…The Times’s hysterical promotion of its own invented story that Justice Alito had a “Stop the Steal” flag flying outside his house seems to rest entirely on the shoulders of this one PhD student.

It looks like you have all been had.