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The word idiot had its origin in not being elected to the senate or alike and yet you seem to be an idiot when you argue with origins instead of usage by white supremacists.
Are white supremacists really using this flag?
While the answer to this is "yes," some white supremecists are also drinking coke, and the two things are equally as relevant to white supremecy. "White Supremecy" is frankly antithetical to libertarianism, whether you're right (individualist) libertarian or left (collectivist) libertarian. It'd be like if Goldman Sachs stuck a hammer and sickle on their logo or if the proud boys hung up drei pfeile flags, it wouldn't suddenly make those symbols of capitalism or whatever the fuck the ptoud boys are, they'd just be "wrong," "stupid," "intentionally misrepresenting themselves to manipulate you or temper perceptions with a label that doesn't actually apply to them," and labels are simply a tool for control btw. This concept also applies to the Gadsden flag, or any other myriad of appropriated symbols.
Do you label yourself as libertarian or something like that? This post and the other one hint at it: https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1115631
Is in your eyes the problem the "corporatism" of capitalism? If yes it would be funny that a person that ate that propaganda is defending fascists, since you would be carrying water for fascists.
Yes. I typed in "White Supremacists 2020 USA" and this is what I got in the first rows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
Look at those flags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#/media/File:Charlottesville_'Unite_the_Right'_Rally_(35780274914)_crop.jpg
1 Nazi flag per 2 Gadsen "Tread on me" flags and per 3 confederate flags.
Meanwhile when you search for "tread on me" flag usa 2020 you will get a vast majority of right wing white supremacists posing with that flag and little else.
Yes
I've always thought that the type of people that fly this flag usually are not very nice.
Generally not. They just want to be left alone.
They just wanna grill* for God's sake
*make some gender expressions illegal and keep people in abject poverty