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penguino2077

Goth America


Planqtoon

https://preview.redd.it/hyl0a7ry8o8d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=014f0c49dda4504a7af0deda90ee94e621b95f2e


prisongovernor

!wave


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JustSomeBloke5353

If you ran that up the flagpole, I’d salute!


DjNormal

Holy cow, that’s a handy tool.


KindlyRecord9722

Fun fact but the guy in this painting was actually the artists dentist


kingkong381

Not sure I'd trust a dentist who's go-to was a pitchfork.


Comfortable_Wasabi64

And looks like an undertaker.


EverSn4xolotl

[[Maw and Paw]]


theawesomeviking

Gotta convert those corpses on health


vman81

They're father and daughter.


jbm333

Hence the pitchfork


[deleted]

!wave


Cuffuf

I just wanna leave this here: [American Dream by Ethanisreal](https://youtu.be/UUsLEy-T0-8?si=_N0MRy41sJk5xFwS)


RedTheGamer12

https://preview.redd.it/2afiffgyzp8d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=894049a0996e3a892ed29047209ff9a5793d6753 Thicc Black Line Flag


Anthony0121

United States of Brittany


Guirigalego

Spears?


Anthony0121

Wave me baby one more time


Vachekuri

r/unexpectedgwennhadu


24benson

r/subsIThoughtIDidntFallForButThenClickedAnywayAndHolyShitItExists


Competitive_Stage383

r/subsIThoughtIDidntFallForButThenClickedAnywayAndHolyShitItDoesntExist


sus_man_bob

r/subsIThoughtIDidntFallForButThenClickedAnywayAndHolyShitItDoesntExist


thehappyheathen

Why does it look like an ICP American flag to me?


hp6830

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YeastBeastFusGus

The return of the Gothic Empire


shiwankhan

United States of Emorica


peensteen

Great. The mental image of Uncle Sam in skinny jeans makes me want to cut myself.


DarkFather24601

https://preview.redd.it/rau8k7d06u8d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f5eec23fb0948cd697ec7dfd7a1b37a30e727dc


thedawesome

Fuck, I wish


SimonGeest

Goth bless America


peensteen

Our new national anthem is "Love Will Tear Us Apart".


jacksonbeya

This is really fucking funny


onetimeimadeareddit

Emorica


nthensome

Goth Bless America


ihathtelekinesis

That would need purple streaks and blood-red pentagrams.


Oligopygus

Goth Bless America...


Soviet-_-Neko

Printer ran out


activelyresting

That can't be true. Printers don't print at all if they're out of yellow


_AscendedLemon_

->MAGENTA NEEDED!


vman81

https://i.redd.it/jlx9wokn7tl31.jpg


Shufflepants

All black is the notification page they print out to let you know they're almost out of ink.


flamingknifepenis

*uses eight pages worth of ink to print a single page letting you know you’re low on ink* Printers really are the Scumbag Steve of technology.


Comprehensive-Ear283

“PC load letter, fucks that mean?!”


Spazzrico

This things luck I’m not armed


Comprehensive-Ear283

😆


GarlicThread

It ran out by pouring all of its ink on the cloth\*


twoScottishClans

while it appears to be black, this is actually a massive red flag.


Boring_Forever_9125

😂


Agitated_Advantage_2

Its currently used by fascists from what i have heard from americans(not one myself so i am a second hand source) so kind of true


Direct_Sandwich1306

Am American, and currently stuck amongst Christofascists. That is EXACTLY who uses the flag. On one hand, it's disgusting. On the other, PLEASE identify yourselves clearly and stop stealing the nation's flag to perpetuate your political views. It's EVERYONE'S flag.


chance0404

Isn’t that irritating? I literally had stuff thrown at me and got called a racist for my American Flag covid mask back in 2020 😬


Direct_Sandwich1306

Because they've tainted it and the Gadsden flag.


chance0404

Well we all need to fight to win them back. Maybe I should stick a Gadsen Flag next to a Pride Flag on my bumper and really confuse some people.


GreatArchitect

Not a bad idea tbh.


TheDunadan29

I've heard it's "no quarter", so basically kill everyone, take no prisoners. Sounds about right for American Neo-fascists. They are all having wet dreams about lynching their Democrat neighbors in the streets when the "civil war" begins.


altiuscitiusfortius

With pirates the black flag meant quarter was given and the red flag represents blood and means no quarter will be given.


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VonCrunchhausen

Be cool if it was leather. Like a kinky gimp flag.


_Creditworthy_

United freaky states


StudyingRainbow

𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 States of America


Browncoatinabox

How did you do that?


StudyingRainbow

https://lingojam.com/FancyTextGenerator


Browncoatinabox

𝕬𝖜𝖊𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊


holy-ghost-rodeo

𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖞𝖊𝖆𝖍


jihyonce

The united freaks of america


jomones

"Here in black flag america, we don't believe in safe words"


peensteen

I didn't know that Henry Rollins was into BDSM!


mmahowald

if a flag wore a ball gag.... how?


PhysicsEagle

Historically a plain black flag means “no quarter;” that is, “we will not take prisoners, we will kill everyone.” All-black US flags have cropped up in more edgy circles as a way of basically saying “ooh look at us we’re so edgy; we aren’t pushovers and weaklings like the snowflake Left.” Suffice it to say this guy probably isn’t a pacifist.


lasttimechdckngths

>Historically a plain black flag means “no quarter;” A plain black flag can mean anything, while in the context of pirates, a red base flag would mean that. A black flag base would mean the quarter was given.


japed

I think it's worth remembering that a lot of the accepted wisdom around pirate flags is based on *very* little evidence. From memory, there's one or two contemporary sources mentioning pirates using the red flag to indicate no quarter given (in contrast to black effectively meaning this is your last chance to surrender or something like that), and also one or two which appear close to the other way around. But once one idea was taken up by some modern fictional portrayals of pirates, it latched on in the public imagination. Whoever started the idea of this all black stars and stripes as a "no quarter" thing presumably was going off something like that rather than the popular pirate story. I suppose it's similar that there's a lot more evidence of people talking about black flags in non-pirate settings such as the US Civil War metaphorically to communicate the idea of no quarter being given, than of actual black flags being used that way. And the way upside down flags were rarely ever used as a distress signal at sea, because there were plenty of other alternatives, but that became known as one way to use the flag and so became more common as a political protest than as the personal distress signal the idea was based on.


lasttimechdckngths

>I think it's worth remembering that a lot of the accepted wisdom around pirate flags is based on very little evidence. True, but we do have some solid evidence regarding the pirates who hoisted Jolly Roger and of course oriflammes, that were going to be either black or red. That, and of course bloody flag already having that connotation, recorded from the late 13th century onwards, incl. bloedvlag, pavillon sans quartier, Swiss red banners, or even the Jolly/Joli Rogue itself that was based on the red flags used by French pirates. Even in early modern era, i.e. up until the end od 18th century, red banners were in use, as also articulated in Geoffrey Parker, 'Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe'. Not like these symbols are there only due to recent popularity of the Atlantic piracy.


japed

Oh sure, the bloody flag idea is much older. It just seems a bit strange to single out pirates as the context for using red rather than black for that meani ng, given that some of the oldest descriptions of the other way round are in a pirate context.


jayv9779

“The code is more what you'd call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.” – Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean 😀


Lilywhitey

except it is not only a pirate thing but the bloody flag was a thing in several occasions and cultures.


Rion23

Flags have been used for Naval communication for a long time, like the first way to talk between boats before radio was invented. So it's not unreasonable to assume the pirates had something similar.


Lilywhitey

oh the pirates definetly did use the bloody flag occasionally. I was just pointing out, that This specific flag got used by more vessels than just pirates


iminyourfacejonson

everytime pirates come up i am obligated to recommend the youtube channel gold and gunpowder, they talk about, and debunk a lotta pirate myths like pirates weren't these proto-anarchist illegalists, they were greedy nobility who wanted more money, the shares thing existed, but it was more like 'captain and his friends get 95%, the rest 5'


DukeDevorak

What's even funnier is that just in about a decade ago, activists flying flags upside-down does not mean that their country was being hijacked by politicians and was in distress, but as a simple sign of disrespect of the whole sociopolitical machinery. Somehow, the symbol was transformed and reinterpreted, and gained a much wider traction, because the more modern reinterpretation fits better with most protesting people's political worldview.


japed

There has been, for a least two decades and I expect longer, some tension between the ideas that flying the flag upside down is disrespectful (which some activists would happily acknowledge and direct at the "whole social machinery" as you say) and the idea that it means no disrespect to anything the flag stands for since it is an accepted signal of distress. The distress meaning was a relatively common explanation for the practice both in anti-Iraq war settings, both to talk about current usage and to explain anti-Vietnam War use decades earlier. Whether the protest (either in terms of disrespect or distress) is more in terms of despair at the whole setup or a claim of being hijacked is probably a more subtle question.


bongophrog

lol for some reason the fact that we skipped modern anarchists and went straight to pirates really amused me


SaliciousB_Crumb

As much as pirates were in the zeitgeist. They sure got a lot of the facts wrong


PLZ_N_THKS

Modern American right wingers also tend to get a lot of facts wrong so it’s pretty fitting that their edge lord flag is inaccurate as well.


300hoplite

In 1836, General Santa Ana flew an all red flag from a church near to the Alamo to signal no quarter.


DrMux

It's like a reverse hobo marking. "This house has guns in it."


SwimNo8457

The good ole "rob me while I'm at work" flag


mollockmatters

Ammosexuals hate it when you inform them that most burglaries statistically occur when they’re supposed to be at work.


RollinThundaga

"And we're itching for the chance to use them on our neighbors"


Boring_Forever_9125

I see it as a way to "scare" the cops and the government away if they pull up to your house. Very silly considering the government don't give a shit about a edgy flag. 😂


pridkett

LOL. Jokes on you. It's the cops that are flying the flag.


Yodec

Or your house 🤣


SebN92

Or you


Bake_My_Beans

And especially not your dog


Bearguchev

And the same guys will praise the government in the same breath if it’s “their guy” or a law they support. Cognitive dissonance on extreme display.


Bearguchev

Probably thinks he’s a tough guy but the people who fly shit like this, especially the stupid punisher skull flags, are usually the most insecure and cowardly amongst us. As someone who spends a lot of time around firearms, I encounter these people a lot and while insufferable, they’re usually big babies who can’t even shoot well.


Tyrfaust

They're nowhere near as bad as cops, but they're close.


Bearguchev

The Venn diagram between the two groups is nearly a circle


Tyrfaust

My personal favorite act of cognitive dissonance is cops with gadsen flags. Dude, you're LITERALLY the boot that's treading. At least Punisher can be some sort of "I think the system's broke" mentality (it never is, but it can be!)


Bearguchev

The punisher even killed cops in the comics


Tyrfaust

To be fair, corrupt cops. I'm totally on The Punisher's side but I'm also not sworn to uphold the law, just to support the constitution.


tharthin

Sure, but the cops who sport punisher logos aren't the ones that'll adress the corrupt cops in the bunch.


vorephage

They all want to be Dirty Harry but they don't realize they're Magnum Force. Edit: or they do realize and don't care, which is worse.


StopDehumanizing

The Punisher is a criminal. He told cops to stop using his symbol, or else "I'll come for you next." https://www.newsweek.com/punisher-police-blue-lives-matter-skull-logo-1449272


HotShipoopi

Years ago I saw a SFPD motorcycle cop with a snek flag on his bike. And he was ASIAN. I'm like what in the cognitive fucking dissonance am I seeing here


Wordshark

Wait how does the Asian connect?


BoeufTruba

I think the owner "would've enlisted, but..."


That_Search_2731

I thought that was the red flag?


Toast6_

Well it *is* a red flag


Levi-Action-412

Red flags tend to be identified more with leftist movements nowadays


lasttimechdckngths

More like since the 19th century, at least.


FeloniousDrunk101

You know Dude I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in ‘nam of course.


nilfgaardian

What's funny is that an all black flag is a very old left-wing symbol.


bongophrog

Yeah I was gonna say is nobody in this thread familiar with anarchism?


Shortleader01

If I remember it's basically a political flag stating that the person who owns it is willing to kill.


merdadartista

"sir, this is an Arby's"


DaMemelyWizard

We have the felons


vorephage

For sandwiches


Panzer_Man

Flag of "I'm a domestic terrorist in the making, but call myself a patriot"


elgattox

I think I've read about these before somewhere, It meant something like no forgiving opposition/enemy or something like that as I remember, Basicly, Killing them all. Not sure if there's more to it, This is all I know.


qazedctgbujmplm

You’re trying to explain [no quarter.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_quarter)


downtownvicbrown

The new orange


Mekroval

I smell a Netflix sequel.


suicidedaydream

Hit it! (Obnoxiously long intro begins)


Honeynose

THE ANIMAL, THE ANIMAL


CyanideTacoZ

defaced flag that's announcing they want to murder their political opponents


RollinThundaga

Specifically their neighbors.


MelonJelly

Especially their neighbors.


Yodec

Happy cake day!


Letmehaveyourkidneys

it's always really funny to me to see a happy cake day in response to something upsetting


Particular_Raisin196

happy cake day yo


Professional-Scar136

>Been seeing this all over tiktok describes as the "no surrender flag" Tiktok really have the most idiotic people from all sides of the internet, do they think they are in a war. No, it is more like "no mercy", which is worse


Lilac_Elise_714

The same thing as an oversized truck, "Alpha" stickers, and a mid-life crisis sports car - compensation.


RockyMountainOister

Pizza cutter flag, all edge and no point....


FunSockHaver

incel flag


Super-Peoplez-S0Lt

The United States of the Blackpill.


Kodiak_POL

Divided States of Embarrassment


TheChosenOneMapper

Isn't that just the US normally?


MakeChipsNotMeth

It's not so much a pill as a suppository...


BeardiusMaximus7

The house four houses down from me has this hanging in their front yard. I'm sure they think they're tough and I actually would not doubt they may be unhinged a bit if someone else on the street hung up a pride flag, for example... those seem to be opposite agendas communicated through draped fabric in public places, after all. I see it as a symbol of fear, not to be feared. But - also violence... so we are cautious none the less.


isdjan

Me like "Uh, is this flag blue and black or white and gold?" (Remembering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress)


Rigasondevil

It means yarr harr diddly dee


I_like_earl_grey_tea

Being a pirate is alright with me


GreatTrashWizard

Its a big note on a pole saying “I COMMIT WARCRIMES!” Or more likely “IM A BRAIN WASHED REPUBLICAN!”


Grin_AFK

it means that they *will* kill you if you're not one of them and don't 100% agree with them. its the flag of crimes against humanity


Boston__Spartan

It’s the traitors American flag.


SpaceFonz_The_Reborn

It means a violation of flag code


phvg23

Original meaning: - “We don’t take POWs. Run or die.” Modern meaning: - “I’m a far right populist”


INCARSERUS

It’s no quarters given, meaning if we were to ever be invaded by another country, we won’t be giving aid and will kill anyone who approaches. Essentially a no mercy no surrender flag.


Last-Foundation-8828

“The owner of this property spends too much time on social media and probably bought into a conspiracy theory flying this flag.” Genuinely no idea what the flag is but that’s all I think when seeing a modified American flag.


MonikaLovesCola

It means the venom symbotie has taken america as it's host


LordMartingale

Not a-lot of flags could pull off wearing all black; I admire this flag’s bold and powerful style move. Dressing monochromatically is a surefire way to make a bold statement with less. Simplicity projects strength. And while it’s possible to dress monochromatically with any color, it just hits differently when we’re talking about wearing all black. Dressing in all black attire is often considered a reflection of simplicity, elegance, and sophistication. This choice of color scheme can be interpreted as a sign of a flag who is confident, empowered, and unafraid to stand out in a crowd. This flag has nailed that look, and wearing all black is slimming too!


Shittyditties

That’s a pretty sick flag. I’m sure my neighbors would think I’m making some kind of statement though


47_aimbots

Would love to hang one up, but it has a dumb edgy meaning


Kerbalawesomebuilder

[https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/yd5f0d/what\_does\_an\_all\_black\_american\_flag\_mean/](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/yd5f0d/what_does_an_all_black_american_flag_mean/)


MedricZ

Conservatives just love defacing the flag.


numptyeyes

They want to kill their neighbors.


nashuanuke

The person flying it is an asshat.


SuhNih

Fascism lol


stroobyy

That’s a garbage bag


dumbname0192837465

Pride flag for the deeply closeted.


Ifuckinglovedogsbruh

Goth Bleth America


Mynd_Flayer

Mike Tython?


BigPappaFrank

Flag of I am Insane and jumpy and will shoot the next person who knocks on my door


No-Organization-6968

Idk but goes hard


S-Katon

V M E R I K A ...so aesthetic...


ExtremeRelief

i swear to god ive seen this exact post


AngusAlThor

It honestly looks like bedding.


ChariAkademe

emo


FelixDaPenguin

Dye vat accident


theoht_

i don’t understand this because flags are meant to be 2D. they’re not designed to have depth. you can only see the pattern on here because of the embossing, but if you just saw it in image form, it’s a generic black rectangle


whatnow990

A violation of the US Flag Code


Free_Gascogne

A flag that absolutely that does not have utility and recognizeability as a flag in mind. Hang it from a flag pole and it looks like a black flag that you may be mistaken for an anarchist or a pirate. it only looks metal from up close because of the bevel and texture but from far away it looks like someone left their flag in the oven for too long.


Portal471

I LIKE MY FLAGS CRISPY


GravityEyelidz

It means a Henry Rollins sighting is imminent.


Historical_Koala_688

Fascists with a murder fantasy


Traveler_Constant

Super duper de-stress for the super duper victims.


CitiesofEvil

It actually looks pretty cool imo edit: nevermind it's apparently used by extremist far righters


ethics_aesthetics

People mostly use this flag to signal the passing of someone from the military or because they think it looks cool. It is one of those don't read to much into situations. You can just go read the amazon reviews for why people bought it.


SmallRedBird

Fascism pride flag


thriceness

That isn't an American flag anymore.


Writerhaha

It’s waved by fucking idiots.


anarcho_centrism

Thick Oil Line to represent fracking support


KillingTimeAlone2019

That someone is a dumbass


Relevant-Ranger107

I understand it as "no quarter" flag. Like take no prisoners everyone dies


squanderedprivilege

It means they hate America and love violence


OhmyMary

It means no prisoners no quarters


Initial-Fishing4236

Kill the Libs


Msanthropy1250

Generally when I see it I translate it to “I’m a gigantic douchebag bigot that wants a theocracy”.


ScaryPollution845

No clue but it looks sick


peensteen

The owner has warrants for not paying child support.


airmanbattleuniform

Opposite of white flag. “We’ll fight to the death” basically


Pwntuz

As someone who doesn’t actually know, I can just imagine it being the flag of My Chemical Romance fans.


od3795486159601

they asked for it to be well done


mehatch

There’s an interesting history of all-black flags associated with the 747 AD revolution which established the Abbasid Caliphate (the super successful Muslim empire with golden age of Baghdad and learning & later annihilated by mongols) and echoed in later use by many groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Standard


idontdomath8

It means you need to fix the printer toner.


Schmoopy88

Goth bleth America


SyntaxicalHumonculi

It means No Quarter, which is a military term for taking no prisoners during times of war. Killing the entirety of the opposition including non combatants and civilians. The practice of No Quarter was officially recognized as a war crime in 1899.