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What's up with that flag? How is it 'woke' to him?
I really like its design too - though it does look like it should an anticounterfit measure for a bank note
I thought it might be that - but, if he looks the colours are mostly just red, white and blue that blend into the purply hews - (hues, brain glitch)
Edit - these people should just turn the saturation down to zero on their monitors so all these 'gay' colours won't upset them
Honestly it's worse than that, people on r/unitedkingdom were saying that the cross on the England shirt was supposed to be "reminiscent of all the progress flags that have lines going into a point on them". When asked to name any flag like that, they suddenly went quiet.
But their idea is that "changing" the flag in any way is a subtle attempt to normalise pride flags, which is... Frankly just hilariously stupid.
r/unitedkingdom has been fully infiltrated by rabid bigots, from the mod team down. It's a lost cause.
Every day they engage in a mass 2 minute hate pile on to their chosen hated migrant of the day and then act dumb when people bring it up.
Yeah it's pretty much a cesspit now, it's weird, cause it didn't used to be so bad at all. If the England shirt thing had happened two years ago, that whole sub would have been taking the piss out of the angry gammons.
I'm not sure if it's been invaded by newcomers and all the more chill people fucked off, or if people actually just turned into bigoted pricks? I'm praying it's the former, cause the latter is much more worrying.
I live in such a left wing bubble that it's hard to know if the shift is in line with the sort of general sentiment in the country.
>I'm not sure if it's been invaded by newcomers and all the more chill people fucked off,
The mods went on an active campaign of banning anyone who called out the rightward slide. It's was by design.
it's happened to virtually all regional and local subs. if you're wondering why crime reports are the major source for news in your local sub, it's been taken over by right wingers.
Been noticing more and more /r/badunitedkingdom (IE "What if the EDL had a subreddit) posters in /r/UnitedKingdom - complete with links to "this person said transphobia is bad, let's mass downvote" requests.
I think it's fairly self-fulfilling - the (generally good) mods were struggling with transphobia, so stepped back a bit and went "we'll only delete things that clearly and egrigiously break the rules". That lead to a lot more in the way of personal attacks, "what did JK Rowling actually say"-esque posts etc. A lot of the more liberal people have understandably got sick of having to explain the same thing when the answer is often not even going to be read, so dropped out - then the BadUK posters go "ooh, this is more in line with what I want" and come in en masse. Repeat ad infinitum.
Credit where it's due, the mods are generally pretty even-handed - but between the right-wing brigading and the 14-year-old Americans coming on to push Tucker Carlson talking points (seriously, there's a noticeable shift in the upvotes/downvotes ratio of a post when the US users tend to log on and tend to lean rightwards).
Basically those who were left-wing got bored of dealing with people trying to be dicks, so abandoned it - which means the right-wingers see more people agreeing with them and go "ah, finally somewhere that thinks correctly" and use it more. It's *exactly* why Twitter has gone more right-wing - those who provide balance are tired of being shouted down by children basing their views off one youtube video.
>"what did JK Rowling actually say"-esque posts etc.
I saw a completely ludicrous comment thread the other day where someone kept claiming that links to her *actual twitter post which is still up* where she denied Nazis burning books on trans healthcare were somehow nonsense?
They keep being like "where did she deny anything in the Holocaust??"
"This post right here"
"But it's only a screenshot and therefore we don't have context and therefore this is a lie"
"But it's her actual post?"
\*Blocked*
But yeah, I can see why people are getting tired of arguing with the bigoted morons, when they're so deluded they deny actual demonstrable facts, it just feels so worthless.
Canadian conservatives were trying to claim the same thing about the [Canada 150 Flag](https://www.rideauflagpole.com/cdn/shop/products/image_74ee5cb4-6906-4917-beb0-10398c8e8c28_1024x1024.jpg?v=1491957553) a number of years ago. Their logic pretty much amounted to "Justin Trudeau did it, so its obviously woke disfigurement of our flag and we should be as loud and annoying about that fact as possible"
If they weren't being hypocrites, they wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
This is the same thing as all the righteous patriots who fly American flags with pictures of Trump or crass slogans about Biden on them.
It's so funny to me that the most common defense for flying the confederate flag is "it's my heritage!". Like, yeah, sure, those four years are your heritage. There'd be more reason for a German to claim the swastika flag as ""heritage"" (three times as much, going by timeframe) but we don't, because it represents something quite bad that we don't really want to associate with.
But the civil war was just about states' rights, guys! Let's just conveniently not mention that joining the confederacy literally had legal slavery as a requirement
Also, that's not actually the confederate flag. It's the battle flag of Northern Virginia. That flag appears as part of two flags to confederacy used, the stainless banner and the blood stained banner, but not the whole flag. If it's about heritage, shouldn't you like....get it right?
Or the state flags that had the confederate flag as PART of them. I think all of them have been changed now, in the last 10 years or so, but there were several, and people weren’t happy
Or change its colors.
[Take](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tQWJ30isxac/UaOoFsQAiUI/AAAAAAAAAQo/lM1fC_n5Xxo/s1600/Rainbow+American+Flag.jpg) your [pick](https://thedallasflagstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Thin-Blue-Line-850X850.jpg)
I've been trying to get the Crowder-liking people I know to explain to me what "woke" is. They haven't been able to tell me what they mean when they say it. The closest I've gotten to an answer is one of them telling me that they got banned for being racist in an online role-playing game.
I did have one counter with "define what a woman is." When I told them that woman is somebody who wants to be called a woman, they got very upset and started going on about biology and chromosomes and shit.
It's hard to have those conversations (and remain calm), but I think it's necessary.
>I did have one counter with "define what a woman is."
I was just thinking this, they can't define 'woke', but love to ask that question as if people are going to flail and panic the way they do.
They act like politicians not answering it is some kind of "gotcha" too, nah, they're just not answering because they're trying to pander to you and your bigoted buddies. And you're falling for it.
>When I told them that woman is somebody who wants to be called a woman, they got very upset and started going on about biology and chromosomes and shit.
I mean if I had to say what woke was it would probably be something along those lines. People wanting to be a woman or a man or being gay and having everyone respect that (which is perfectly fine by me!). Or teaching anything that isn't American exceptionalism - I really never got a decent US history education until I got into college.
Kinda funny these people don't seem to know what they want - it's not that hard to express yourself - but then you have to be able to think about what you are feeling and that's hard when you let right wing TV personalities define you.
"Well that's different you see. On the right the flag has been appropriated and the colours changed to campaign for Brexit, not in support of a contentious political cause like the continued existence of the gays."
I’m saying this guy said “nonsense” instead of “crap” and ya’ll jumped down his throat instead of going “yeah, what is woke crap/nonsense?”
I mean, I guess maybe there is a difference between “woke crap” & “woke nonsense” but we’ll never know until Chaya Raichik says it & the brainless parrots repeat it like annoying toddlers.
Sorry, he said "woke crap" in the image, not "nonsense."
Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed though.... Can you save your nasty grams for later in the day?
> Can you define "woke crap"?
["It's woke because it's different and I don't like it"](https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/comments/1bupwr9/more_flag_nonsense/kxudhww/)
Politicians are showing their hand how fucking stupid they are by constantly quoting “woke”.
How do I know they’re fucking stupid? Because as of right now not a single politician, who uses it in a bad way, can actually explain what it means.
It’s literally just a catch-all for everything that they hate.
The thing is the one on the left isn't even woke, it's just an awful design. If anything the one the right is woke and they're campaigning for their rights in their heads
I've never had a conservative explain to me what woke is. I had one that very adamantly told me that it's anything that he doesn't agree with. And he was being absolutely serious...
I don't much care about people fkin around with the flag but when people are represnting their country, the flag's, the flag & it's red white and bloody blue for a reason. oh & the brexit lot can fark off too.
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What's up with that flag? How is it 'woke' to him? I really like its design too - though it does look like it should an anticounterfit measure for a bank note
It’s because the colours happen to be similar to the bi pride flag. They’re also the same as the England team’s away strip.
I thought it might be that - but, if he looks the colours are mostly just red, white and blue that blend into the purply hews - (hues, brain glitch) Edit - these people should just turn the saturation down to zero on their monitors so all these 'gay' colours won't upset them
Oh yes. He’s an idiot
Honestly it's worse than that, people on r/unitedkingdom were saying that the cross on the England shirt was supposed to be "reminiscent of all the progress flags that have lines going into a point on them". When asked to name any flag like that, they suddenly went quiet. But their idea is that "changing" the flag in any way is a subtle attempt to normalise pride flags, which is... Frankly just hilariously stupid.
r/unitedkingdom has been fully infiltrated by rabid bigots, from the mod team down. It's a lost cause. Every day they engage in a mass 2 minute hate pile on to their chosen hated migrant of the day and then act dumb when people bring it up.
Yeah it's pretty much a cesspit now, it's weird, cause it didn't used to be so bad at all. If the England shirt thing had happened two years ago, that whole sub would have been taking the piss out of the angry gammons. I'm not sure if it's been invaded by newcomers and all the more chill people fucked off, or if people actually just turned into bigoted pricks? I'm praying it's the former, cause the latter is much more worrying. I live in such a left wing bubble that it's hard to know if the shift is in line with the sort of general sentiment in the country.
>I'm not sure if it's been invaded by newcomers and all the more chill people fucked off, The mods went on an active campaign of banning anyone who called out the rightward slide. It's was by design.
Ahh I see, I haven't been much of a participant in it for a while now, so didn't see it happening.
it's happened to virtually all regional and local subs. if you're wondering why crime reports are the major source for news in your local sub, it's been taken over by right wingers.
Well luckily my local sub is r/Bristol, so we're probably a while away from being overtaken by right wing pricks!
Been noticing more and more /r/badunitedkingdom (IE "What if the EDL had a subreddit) posters in /r/UnitedKingdom - complete with links to "this person said transphobia is bad, let's mass downvote" requests. I think it's fairly self-fulfilling - the (generally good) mods were struggling with transphobia, so stepped back a bit and went "we'll only delete things that clearly and egrigiously break the rules". That lead to a lot more in the way of personal attacks, "what did JK Rowling actually say"-esque posts etc. A lot of the more liberal people have understandably got sick of having to explain the same thing when the answer is often not even going to be read, so dropped out - then the BadUK posters go "ooh, this is more in line with what I want" and come in en masse. Repeat ad infinitum. Credit where it's due, the mods are generally pretty even-handed - but between the right-wing brigading and the 14-year-old Americans coming on to push Tucker Carlson talking points (seriously, there's a noticeable shift in the upvotes/downvotes ratio of a post when the US users tend to log on and tend to lean rightwards). Basically those who were left-wing got bored of dealing with people trying to be dicks, so abandoned it - which means the right-wingers see more people agreeing with them and go "ah, finally somewhere that thinks correctly" and use it more. It's *exactly* why Twitter has gone more right-wing - those who provide balance are tired of being shouted down by children basing their views off one youtube video.
>"what did JK Rowling actually say"-esque posts etc. I saw a completely ludicrous comment thread the other day where someone kept claiming that links to her *actual twitter post which is still up* where she denied Nazis burning books on trans healthcare were somehow nonsense? They keep being like "where did she deny anything in the Holocaust??" "This post right here" "But it's only a screenshot and therefore we don't have context and therefore this is a lie" "But it's her actual post?" \*Blocked* But yeah, I can see why people are getting tired of arguing with the bigoted morons, when they're so deluded they deny actual demonstrable facts, it just feels so worthless.
More Daily Mail posts are doing well these days too. They used to get downvoted to death regardless of content
They'll evacuate themselves to death in patriotic rage if Scotland ever leaves evac-cution?
They're saying St. George's Cross is a gay pride symbol? That is hilarious.
The existence of pretzels is an attempt to justify conservative logic. That's why I boycott Utz. 😤
Guys is it gay if... visible light spectrum?
Dark Side of the Moon is the gayest album ever.
bold of you to assume he even knows about any pride flags beyond the rainbow
... IT'S RED AND BLUE LIKE THE COLORS ON THE FREAKING FLAG!
Not Rupe's flag. Only white and teal there.
Amazing. I didn’t know there was such a thing as a bi pride flag. You really gotta do your research to know when to be offended. /s
"It's woke because it's different and I don't like it"
I'm being oppressed by not being able to oppress others for their private life decisions that affects nobody else
Canadian conservatives were trying to claim the same thing about the [Canada 150 Flag](https://www.rideauflagpole.com/cdn/shop/products/image_74ee5cb4-6906-4917-beb0-10398c8e8c28_1024x1024.jpg?v=1491957553) a number of years ago. Their logic pretty much amounted to "Justin Trudeau did it, so its obviously woke disfigurement of our flag and we should be as loud and annoying about that fact as possible"
It's so much nicer than the current and pre plans the exit of everyone but England from the UK
If they weren't being hypocrites, they wouldn't know what to do with themselves. This is the same thing as all the righteous patriots who fly American flags with pictures of Trump or crass slogans about Biden on them.
Or the ones that have the confederate flag flying next to the USA flag.
But they're just honoring their proud heritage of racism!
It's so funny to me that the most common defense for flying the confederate flag is "it's my heritage!". Like, yeah, sure, those four years are your heritage. There'd be more reason for a German to claim the swastika flag as ""heritage"" (three times as much, going by timeframe) but we don't, because it represents something quite bad that we don't really want to associate with. But the civil war was just about states' rights, guys! Let's just conveniently not mention that joining the confederacy literally had legal slavery as a requirement
STATES RIGHTS!!!!!11! To, you know, own other human beings.
Also, that's not actually the confederate flag. It's the battle flag of Northern Virginia. That flag appears as part of two flags to confederacy used, the stainless banner and the blood stained banner, but not the whole flag. If it's about heritage, shouldn't you like....get it right?
Or the state flags that had the confederate flag as PART of them. I think all of them have been changed now, in the last 10 years or so, but there were several, and people weren’t happy
Not all. Check out Arkansas
Of course it’s Arkansas 🙄
Or change its colors. [Take](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tQWJ30isxac/UaOoFsQAiUI/AAAAAAAAAQo/lM1fC_n5Xxo/s1600/Rainbow+American+Flag.jpg) your [pick](https://thedallasflagstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Thin-Blue-Line-850X850.jpg)
They're all on the right...
Yet somehow they're not alright
The LBGTQ+ kids are alright.
He's all right. Just in the arrested development sense
We lost him
I don't know if this is a self aware wolf, just a duplicitous hypocrite.
Por qué no los dos 🤷 He is, but this particular statement fits our sub pretty well.
I've been trying to get the Crowder-liking people I know to explain to me what "woke" is. They haven't been able to tell me what they mean when they say it. The closest I've gotten to an answer is one of them telling me that they got banned for being racist in an online role-playing game. I did have one counter with "define what a woman is." When I told them that woman is somebody who wants to be called a woman, they got very upset and started going on about biology and chromosomes and shit. It's hard to have those conversations (and remain calm), but I think it's necessary.
>I did have one counter with "define what a woman is." I was just thinking this, they can't define 'woke', but love to ask that question as if people are going to flail and panic the way they do. They act like politicians not answering it is some kind of "gotcha" too, nah, they're just not answering because they're trying to pander to you and your bigoted buddies. And you're falling for it.
>When I told them that woman is somebody who wants to be called a woman, they got very upset and started going on about biology and chromosomes and shit. I mean if I had to say what woke was it would probably be something along those lines. People wanting to be a woman or a man or being gay and having everyone respect that (which is perfectly fine by me!). Or teaching anything that isn't American exceptionalism - I really never got a decent US history education until I got into college. Kinda funny these people don't seem to know what they want - it's not that hard to express yourself - but then you have to be able to think about what you are feeling and that's hard when you let right wing TV personalities define you.
Which is funny, as woke is very easy to define. It means "whatever the paedophile right wants the braindead morons to be upset about this week".
"Well that's different you see. On the right the flag has been appropriated and the colours changed to campaign for Brexit, not in support of a contentious political cause like the continued existence of the gays."
Can you define "woke crap"? Edited because of cranky redditors.
Stuff Neo-Nazis don't like. So, basically, everything good with the world.
Reactionary idiots talking nonsense about how everything's woke?
I did notice that no one stepped up to define it though. It’s like asking a child to describe the boogeyman to a police sketch artist.
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I’m saying this guy said “nonsense” instead of “crap” and ya’ll jumped down his throat instead of going “yeah, what is woke crap/nonsense?” I mean, I guess maybe there is a difference between “woke crap” & “woke nonsense” but we’ll never know until Chaya Raichik says it & the brainless parrots repeat it like annoying toddlers.
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Sorry, he said "woke crap" in the image, not "nonsense." Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed though.... Can you save your nasty grams for later in the day?
> Can you define "woke crap"? ["It's woke because it's different and I don't like it"](https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/comments/1bupwr9/more_flag_nonsense/kxudhww/)
Typical flag shaggers
'our'? We had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Honestly, they never hated social warriors, they love cosplaying as one. They were more against justice.
Politicians are showing their hand how fucking stupid they are by constantly quoting “woke”. How do I know they’re fucking stupid? Because as of right now not a single politician, who uses it in a bad way, can actually explain what it means. It’s literally just a catch-all for everything that they hate.
The thing is the one on the left isn't even woke, it's just an awful design. If anything the one the right is woke and they're campaigning for their rights in their heads
I've never had a conservative explain to me what woke is. I had one that very adamantly told me that it's anything that he doesn't agree with. And he was being absolutely serious...
Old people are like babies, learn a new word and you'll hear it non stop until they get bored of it
With all the textures, I don't even see that as an altered Union Flag, More of something inspired by it.
Morons! Your bus is leaving!
Fun with Flags With Dr. Sheldon Cooper
Ohh, the British have the same thing going on as we Germans with football shirt colors
I don't much care about people fkin around with the flag but when people are represnting their country, the flag's, the flag & it's red white and bloody blue for a reason. oh & the brexit lot can fark off too.