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Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Is this normal in the USA, or are you the crazy neighbour? Haha

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Not being against genocide and the crazy shit going on in the U.S. is what's insane. Stop trying to gaslight people.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

I appreciate your support.

THANKS! I'm gonna keep working on it.

Have they tried giving ALL the hydrogen peroxide to ONE algae and letting it “trickle down” to all the others?

If seeing two men kiss will turn your child gay then just show them a picture of a man and a woman kissing to change them back.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I am against both, but I don't express it by painting my walls.

Have you painted your walls like that?

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

The ONLY reason I painted the house is because somebody STOLE my flag.

They didn't steal my flag so they can have a flag, they stole MY flag so that I could NOT have a flag.

What kind of American steals an American flag from another American???

Answer: One of them is NOT an American. I wonder which one. I wonder what they are.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 15 points 1 day ago

This is crazy neighbor territory.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Both. It’s definitely possible to be both in the US.

[–] StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

This would be the normal response to abnormal times

[–] matthurtme@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I would say it depends on where you live

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Wow! Are there just parts of the US where everybody paints different political messages on their sheds and stuff?

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

There's crazy neighbors everywhere.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you own the house you can do whatever you want.

If you're renting, the landlord (or HOA) won't let you.

My mom got a letter from the HOA saying someone saw the hood of her car up. I was checking her motor oil level.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm asking more about how common it is, and not how possible it is.

HOAs sound insane though.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

It is getting less common to own a home.

Also I'm retired so I don't have a job/income to endanger. I don't have a wife or children in school so no local social pressures. I consider myself unique to be able to do stuff like this.

At Christmas last year I wanted to do a nativity scene with ICE agents holding Mary and Joseph at gunpoint while a third agent zip-tied the baby Jesus. "He's not from around here."

I was too busy with other things. THAT would have been fun. I'm all about having fun.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's feels normal to me.

It's seems normal for these times.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

These times are crazy, but I think most people still aren't crazy?..

[–] prex@aussie.zone 16 points 1 day ago

Shine on you crazy diamond.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Hear that noise? Yeah, he’s currently loading his gun.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

They're the 'crazy' neighbor, because most Americans are basically unfathomably out of touch with anything resembling common sense or basic decency, and are more offended by shapes and colors in patterns they don't like, than by tens of thousands of needless deaths.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is hated for being able to see anything.

there is generally at least one in every county... not necessarily every town?