Why do Americans feel the need to virtue-signal their patriotism before a sports match anyway?

Why do Americans feel the need to virtue-signal their patriotism before a sports match anyway?

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1. in that picture, the flag is aloft.
2. to disassociate ourselves from godless communists, during the Largely Invented Communist Scare of the 1950's.

it is genuine, or as genuine as a multi billion corporation can be

lolno

Americans are dumb.

>asks a question
>gets the answer
>lolno

Great thread.

>his sport is all about kneeling
>he is fat
LMAO

That same law also defines the size and dimensions of the flag. So the giant mockup used on the field doesn't count, it's a flag but legally speaking it's not THE flag. If you're going to argue about obscure government regulations don't take black twittee as a reliable source. The retards who thinks the law applies here also think that the law forbidding the use of the flag as clothing forbids the use of stars/stripes patterns on clothing. The law is referring to the US flag, the one with the exact same size/shape/colors as that used by the US government. Anything else is a mockup and is exempt.

The army pays sports leagues to increase patriotism and encourage people to join the army

Did you just mistake the Italian flag for a Mexican flag? Jesus Cristos

>Invented

>not praying to martin luther king and applauding jesus before a sports match

Do pants count as flags?

That's a big flag

This sounds believable enough.

>held horizontally
>pinned up by people holding its edges
Aloft and free means flying. Like from a flag pole, dumb dumb.

This is actually true. They never even used to broadcast the anthem because it's so boring.

If you were at the game you just stood up and took your hat off. Now these dorks stand at full attention w their hand over their heart like grade school children. It's bizarre.

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>Displays of paid patriotism are included within the $6.8 million that the Department of Defense has spent on sports marketing contracts since fiscal year 2012
>“These paid tributes included on-field color guard, enlistment and reenlistment ceremonies, performances of the national anthem, full-field flag details, ceremonial first pitches͕ and puck drops. The National Guard paid teams for the 'opportunity' to sponsor military appreciation nights and to recognize its birthday

Technically that picture is a violation of flag code. The people are facing a pair of pants which itself is a total violation of the flag code.

People in this country want to complain about kneeling but don't even know the official way to show respect for the flag themselves. Shits disgraceful. Especially at any university where you have fratbros wearing all that hyper patriotic shit or drinking budweisers with the flag on the sides.

Flag code is like someones fan fic about an actually fascist US. It's not real, no one gives a shit about flag code.

because they are cucks

It's pretty surreal. It's like everyone totally forgot that the national anthem was something we televised only during the most special events, and not every week. And the players used to never even be on the field. I used to go to Redskins games all the time in 2007 because I had season tickets as a Christmas gift and those guys and whoever they played were pretty much never out for the anthem, just like college players.

If theres anything unpatriotic about sports that people should be upset about, it should be that NASCAR has had people flying confederate flags for decades at this point, and still hasn't outright banned the flying of that flag. It's a direct symbol of treason against the union, and it's a battle flag that represents men that actually killed US troops. Like in droves. And these people have the nerve to say kneeling is disrespectful?
Like if you Google NASCAR it's not even difficult to find pictures where the confederate flags outnumber the USA flags, or even fly above or at the same height as the USA flags on the flag pole. Shit is ridiculous.

Flag Code is real, user. It's an actual government document that next to nobody in this country has actually read. If they have, any true patriot would be upset at how commercialized our patriotism has become.

OH SAY CAN YOU SEE

Because the department of defense pays them to. A patriotic country is a country that will allow it's government to create shitshow in the middle East and get the people to support it.

Man, these flag talking points are bad.

>Dude, do you eben know flag code?

>Dude, there's a Confederate flag at the Nascar race, that's like a traitor flag. Dose inbred rednecks don't luv America like us kneelers

>Dude, patriotism and anthems are gay as fuck

>dude, like these talking points are bad
Welcome to the club

All Confederate soldiers and veterans were considered US soldiers.

Also, Civil War ended in 1865. It's 2017. The Confederate flag represents regional identity.

But you know that

I'm the one looking for obscure codes about folding flags and crying because the anthem wasn't on TV 20 years ago.

>Dude, Michael Brown is my hero but he's in heaven now

>qbs kneel all the time at end of games to run down the clock

>this lenghty blog
dude, it's just a piece of cloth

They killed other US soldiers and seceded from the union in treason. The civil war ended in 1865 and it being 2017 doesn't mean people died over that flag. To fly that flag knowing it's original meaning is utterly disrespectful, and saying it means "regional identity" just because is nonsense. For all that matters, someone in Pennsylvannia could take a British flag and fly that on the flagpoles during the fourth of July and claim it's "regional identity" from that time all Americans in the colonies used to be British subjects. And that they're just identifying as having been one of the 13. It woukd be uttter nonsense.

But you know that

>obscure codes
I bet you also consider the bill of rights to be some obscure document, huh?
Just because your dumb ass is uneducated or wishes to remain uneducated doesn't mean the rest of us are or wish to be. You can't be half pregnant and you can't be half invested in this country. To chastise someone else and not even know what the hell you stand for is ludicrous.

BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT

You're not wrong. And that's what makes it even weirder that people get upset when others don't stand for the piece of cloth.

WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED

*kneels*

Comparing Bill of Rights to my flag folding pamphlet.

*flails hands incessantly whenever he speaks*

#just Italian things

Nigger they started world war 2

same reason every country ever, plays their anthem for their players in the olympics.. it's about having respect for and supporting your country..you know one of them common decency type things that the libtard manchildren dont know about anymore

Is mayonnaise a flag?

*kicks fuck tard in balls, then benches his ass for the rest of the year* coach says you support your country when you play on his team or you can go fuck yourself right the hell to another team faggot

Both are government documents, asshat. And that "flag folding pamphlet" is a subsection of the entire US code. The shit that outlines how we go about everything in this country from elections to military code.

>star player goes to different team
>team of kneelers proceeds to kick the rest of the leagues ass
>fans boycott for one week
>then they come back and buy up the discount tickets like hotcakes
>everyone forgets why they were boycotting in the first place just as quickly as they forgot why the players knelt in the first place
>teams go back to trying to trade for kneeler or sitting athletes like Marshawn Lynch because they value wins over ethics
>Kaep still remains unsigned

And the world keeps on spinning~

for your first statement, knowing doesnt matter when officials and superiors above you who do know the code and set the game rules tell you to play by the rule. learn to read codes when they are told to you as the rules dude.

point 2, the confederate flag is not a traitor flag nig, if you will crack a fucking book sometime you will find that it does not actually represent slavery.. it just happened to be the design chosen by certian southern groups of soldiers as their battle emblem and things.. these southern soldiers were not traitors as they were fighting the war not to hurt the north or have slaves but to make sure that their own families and fellow southern people were defended against sweeping changes that the northern gov had ordered. they were defending against what they saw as betrayal, not doing one.

point 3, if you hate patriotism so much, you are free to carry your ass to one of those shithole countries that don't like it either.. have fun being beaten by muslims for not being one of them when you get there bro.

Wait, what the heck is this protest about? What's unethical about building a team to win?

because its a symbol of america. jesus christ kill yourself you faggot

I'm not standing you fascist

you're canadian, no one expects you to

It was about police brutality, then it became co-opted by BLM, then people who only see someone kneeling for the flag and never listen to the reasons why the players knelt thought it was about hating america and disrespecting the troops and that basically took control of the story, then it recently resurfaced after Trump called the players sons of bitches and became about free speech and standing up to Trump.

Basically nobody knows what the fuck is going on and everyone here on all sides is a snowflake. I mean this past Sunday was full of grown men crying about players kneeling. Like legitimately, my Facebook feed was full of shared videos of grown forty and fifty something year old men crying with snot bubbles and everything, and some of them were burning their memorabilia and clutching their hearts like someone just stabbed them.

Going by flag code, it's probably more patriotic to kneel or sit when the anthem is being commercialized and the flag is not being held aloft or free.

Nationalism means working as a team for one single goal. Very similar to sports.

The government pays the league a nice chunk of money every year to do it.

>autism

Why do you hate America, user? It takes literally 10 minutes to read the flag code and understand what is and isn't appropriate to do with are flag. If you don't like it, you should leave.

The sentiment is more valuable than the rules.

The core ideology of your nation is commercialisation to drive profits.

I the rules are more valuable than the sentiment. That's why we have them. It's also why people are allegedly up in arms about Kaeps kneeling even though he clearly stated that he has the utmost respect for the troops and that his protest was not directed towards them or intended to disrespect the nation (but rather that he would not display pride).

Tl;dr - can't have it both ways. It's either we go by the book, or we dont. If people need to stand and have their hands over their heart because it's the rule, then we have to also abide by all the other rules in our official government code.

I'm going to have to agree with the other poster and just call you an autist because your conclusion and reverence for the rules is based on assertions that you're not supporting.

>the the tldr is about as long as the original statement
>caring this much much about a flag
>implying the nfl don't have bigger problems then kneeing

So if you hate America and our flag code, why don't you leave?
Why do you hate america, user? All I'm doing is saying you either are all in or you're not.

@78588963
>baiting this hard
>implying the nfl don't have bigger problems then kneeing

Yeah, and our government, according to those old manifestos, should be trying to stop it, but fuck trying. Right?

Idk I think those assertions are pretty well supported given that we have official US documentation on the matter.
If they have bigger problems than kneeing, why is MAGA so obsessed with it?

They've only made such a big deal about it since 2009 when the military gave the NFL a fat check to start putting on big patriotic displays. The irony in brainwashed sheep acting like some age old tradition is being shat on when the "tradition" is less than 10 years old

>That same law also defines the size and dimensions of the flag
No it doesn't

@78589003
because trump is a fag who wants to one up people instead of solving shit

please bait harder

Don't speak ill of your president that way, user.

@78589036
so you loved obama too?

I love all my presidents.

Brainwashed fat cucks

this whole thread is disingenuous, then again the whole topic is

>muh flag code

>largely invented
Jesus Christ the delusion

Well it makes sense. It's disingenuous to go hollering
>muh flag
If you don't even know the damn code or the reason why you stand.

The military finances it as a giant recruitment tool

We know who supports and loves this country.

We know who hates and feels embarassed by this country.

There's no need to legislate the Flag Code.

The enemies of America are on notice.

>they were defending against what they saw as betrayal, not doing one.
Is that why they attacked first?

>Military wants new retards to die to get america oil
>Pays schools to play anthem before school every day to brainwash kids
>Pays schools to teach muh freedums shit instead of useful stuff
>kids get shit grades so have to go to military
>Military pays sporting events to play anthem before them to brainwash people more

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Its funny because as someone who has a brother who is a military veteran, I get mail from The Wounded Warriors Project to donate money to support vets because apparently the US Goverment has no cash to support them.
Yet the same Government apparently has almost a trillion dollars worth of money for new defense spending. Really makes you wonder.

Clearly we don't know who loves and hates this country if people can't follow simple rules outlined in our flag code. Clearly the people who make things like flag bikinis and flag beer don't give a damn about our code, only profits, and the majority of our populace is too ignorant to realize when blatant disrespect of our nation is occuring right in front of their faces. It's been happening for decades and people have been lapping up the product like dogs.

That's more dangerous than anything. That means most of our citizens are useful idiots that just believe what they're told of they're told it by the right people, instead of people who actually think and maintain a consistent world view. This isn't the type of country we should want to have. We should all be patriots familiar with our code. Not a bunch of morons half assing it and paying out the ass to wear, drink, eat, and use products which are egregious violations of our US code.

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(((wounded warriors))) is a shity charity lad look it up on charity navigator. I work for a vet charity and some of the mongs that were cooks for 2 years or so were too lazy to submit paperwork on time or do basic adult shit once they did not have their officer on their ass

>loving men that are not his family

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most amerifats never interact with the flag code at all. The one time I glanced at it was when I learned how to fold the flag for some cub scouts shit

Of course you like rituals be for the sake of rituals
>i-if you don't do it, you must hate America
Trumpfags are retarded

Civil war led by Kaiser "Actual Conservative" Pence when?

>Pays schools to teach muh freedums shit instead of useful stuff
Maybe 50 years ago. Now it's
>Pays schools to teach muh diversity shit instead of useful stuff

>thanks to Trump you know have to go thru DHS to get hired
>DHS wants your email and phone number

Lol absolutely cucked. And where is Alex Jones to complain about this data collection that most def will be used for mass surveilance? He is silent about this.

Why do Mexicans feel the need to sneak into our country and abandon their families?

Do you guys get shot if you violate muh flag code?

They used to make americans sing the pledge of allegiance in school.

>actual conservative
>stood with Trump on this MAGA flag code violating shit and let him sell Chinese made hats exploiting people's patriotism
Nah

Why do you hate America?

>you know have to
fokin illiterate mong

>let him sell Chinese made hats exploiting people's patriotism
Other people sold Chinese knockoffs, not trump himself. And I hate the guy. There's a million faults to be had with him but we lost credibility when people like you spout proven falsehoods.

Yeah I know what you mean my brother was in the Air Force for 9 years and would tell me about all the shit that would go down behind the scenes. Coddling/ babying seems to be a big issue among veterans as they seem to expect other people to do shit/ be there for them once they are out of the safety net of the military (my brother himself was lazy af too when it came to filling out paperwork).