If you're here by choice, youre an American. Flying other flags just confuses the message that people who have come here are all Americans. Brothers, not the enemy. Even if many of us have forgotten, we're all immigrants who could claim other nations' flags, we've chosen this country. This flag.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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If you're in California, flying the California flag is probably the best option here.
This country isn't the flag. This country is made of people from many countries.
Fly whatever flag you want, especially if you and yours came from that country. Remember where you came from.
Unless you're a Confederate. You lost. That flag don't fly.
Also no one around today really came from the Confederacy. It's not anyone's heritage. It was around 160 years ago and lasted less time than Obama's presidency. Anyone claiming it today is just using it as a crutch for their hatred and bigotry.
Mexico only occupied California for a score of years or so. Anyone claiming "This was Mexico once" (as the article did) is an idiot.
You lost. That flag don't fly.
This is a really bad argument that people use. Plenty good causes have lost.
The issue with the Confederacy is that it was a really bad cause, fighting for the enslavement of millions for generations.
E pluribus unum. We are a nation made of many who coalesce to form a more perfect union. I see no issue with cultural pride, especially from those who have left their homeland to start a fresh in a foreign land for one reason or another. I do agree about at least for this purpose, that we should be flying the american flag. This is our fight, to remain free as a nation. A fight for the soul of our nation. Who we are as a people. Out of many, one!
"Because fuck you that's why" is also an acceptable answer.
Im curious about other peoples experience around the world with foreign flags. Outside the us the only things I have heard of is the assholes flying the nazi and confederate flags and its not a flag but maga stuff.
Usually when people have flags it's for fairly innocuous stuff. Poland has a kind of ridiculous law criminalizing the desecration of a flag of any country.