My job basically requires me to drive long distances across the valley almost daily. Yeah, they are everywhere. A lot of time people will forego the flag entirely and just paint or stick a blue stripe on a black area of the car (like a heavily tinted rear window).
The blue represents police. They have ones with different single colors including red for firefighters and yellow/orange for EMT and I think even green for vets.
This one I think succinctly embodies how cops view their little club: as agents of vigilantism
Yes, yes they are.
I'm sorry, but no. As a vet with PTSD symptoms (I have a hard time with fireworks and large crowds, especially at the same time, and have been suicidal in the past because of it), please don't make excuses for his racist actions.
Recorded using a Cupertino phone.
Read the comments section of Reston Now about anything involving non-white folk or the density increase. I’m honestly not at all surprised to see this video take place here.
Funny enough that's how I ended up with this hat. The two guys selling the hats for charity had camo patterns for each force, but they were out of Air Force patterns. I didn't want to wear an Army or Marine hat so I took the "black hat" because it looks cool. I never even wore it, befire I found out it was BLM. So then I just left it in my back seat.
I don't fuck with this. I don't even fuck with my hat. It just sits in my back seat.This one I think succinctly embodies how cops view their little club: as agents of vigilantism
I wasn't being accusatory. Just pointing out how certain organizations' symbology tends to express their member's feelings
The swastika was also a 15,000-year old symbol, but today its meaning in western society is not the original meaning. It's almost like symbols can get appropriated and change meaning.
https://web.archive.org/web/2016122...-of-protesters-come-face-face-mount-greenwood
Weird how it shoots up right around the time of Black Lives Matter (2013) and has been featured prominently by anti-BLM activists and white nationalists.
This one I think succinctly embodies how cops view their little club: as agents of vigilantism
I just moved from the Bay Area, but we had a family on our old block that bought two houses parallel to each other facing the entrance to our cul-de-sac. They had an American flag raised on one house and a Don't Tread On Me Flag on another. They drove around in a flatbed truck (with one of them always in the bed) that had three confed flags flying.
Specifically this is supposed to be a visual representation of the “Thin Blue Line” which is a phrase most often used by law enforcement. It’s a figurative depiction of law enforcement as the barrier between order and anarchy. It comes from the “Thin Red Line” which was in reference to the British army holding off Russians during the Crimean War, and some think it really started getting usage in the 50’s by the LAPD.
OMG yes, I've been noticing a lot of the Punisher emblem too, especially around here.
As a Vet, you should probably not feign support for a group of individuals who genuinely do not give a shit about your contributions to society, and actively work against civil rights. Blue Lives Matter is about as racist as they come.
What is this?Meanwhile in AZ, like at least 1/3 of cars have a variation of the new swastika on them.
Thin blue line, which symbolizes police as the barrier between order and anarchy.
Thank you for the explanation. All of them I support and have been grateful for their services at different points in my life.
No bullshit. Looks hot as fuck out there. Who got the time and energy to be worked up like that.
You need to get out to cities like Danville, Pleasanton, San Ramon. It's not uncommon to see this.
There is nothing wrong with being grateful for said services, but you should understand that Blue Lives Matter isn't just a courtesy or acknowledgement of law enforcement - it exists purely as another "side" to Black Lives Matter, and implies the lives of police matter more than those they take advantage of on a near-daily basis.
Haha. If only their similar insult tactics could've brought them together. I appreciated how they both boiled down to "nanny nanny boo boo" but with one inserting racial epithets and the other inserting variations on "you're a racist".
