United States | News & Politics

2463 readers

738 users here now

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

simsymbiote@midwest.social

Type1@midwest.social

308

Nazi flags can fly in Utah school, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says (www.sltrib.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/usa@midwest.social

32 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

bow and flaming arrow

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I thought about it, even though my archery skills are near nil

That said, the only way it'd work is if the arrow had a mechanism to grab the flag.

The other way I would do it is if it was a trespass with people with military training who can watch my back while I lower the flag and replace it with the proper Confederate flag.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can get some fairly high powered lasers commercially, might have some OK results burning flags with one of those? Would have to be a pretty non-windy day though. Do take care though not to be shining it in a way that it could pass through the flag and hit, for example, the eyes of a pilot in a far off plane. As @despoticruin@lemm.ee says, a laser should be treated with respect the same as any other weapon, makeshift or not.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

While this could work, please don't go firing a laser powerful enough to set shit on fire randomly into the air. It's like firing a gun, that laser will fuck up whatever it hits and you don't know what's behind that flag. Easy way to kill a plane full of people by instantly and permanently blinding both pilots. I would look into artillery calculations and water balloons filled with bleach. Pretty easy to hit a stationary target with a pi handling trajectory calculations. Paintballs might be another option, bright pink.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely. I'll edit my original comment to mention the dangers.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Drone + lighter fluid + spark

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

What about a shotgun with a dragons breath shell? Would probably catch the thing on fire.