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normalguy9293 t1_izln440 wrote

Reply to comment by Ham_Ahoy in What are you thoughts on Pennsylvania's current flag? by [deleted]

why do you fly it higher than the USA flag?

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Ham_Ahoy t1_izlnnk8 wrote

Because I'm a Pennsylvanian first and am American second. Also, because it is technically illegal, but so is putting the us flag on merchandise, or clothing. .. changing the colors of the flag (blue lives matter flags are illegal flags.) A whole host of things. "Flag code." There are many laws governing the proper use of flags and they are so often violated I violate one myself for fun.

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normalguy9293 t1_izlpcce wrote

interesting. what do you value about PA so much? or in what ways do you feel PA is better than the US as a whole?

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Ham_Ahoy t1_izlqhuj wrote

Honestly PA has lots of problems. I do want our coastline back. Delaware doesn't exist. The Johnstown flood tax needs to go. I do think PA is better culturally than most states (I feel this way about the northeast in general, and the original 13 more broadly). PA was founded directly because of one man railing about the right of jury veto, and pissed off the king so much he sent that man to the colonies with a sizeable chunk of land just to get rid of him. I love that.

It's not that I think PA is necessarily better than the US as a whole, though. . . Just that the US as a whole is ridiculous and I don't feel allegiance to it in the same way I do my home state.

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ellipses1 t1_iznvbuv wrote

It sounds like you’re a true american

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Ham_Ahoy t1_izo0sd5 wrote

I'm a Pennamite first.

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ellipses1 t1_izo16c0 wrote

As was intended… I don’t owe any Idahoans the time of day

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Redlar t1_iznzqrm wrote

>technically illegal

Eh, not technically illegal because it's the Flag Code not the Flag Law but I know exactly what you mean, burns my butt to see people that claim to be patriots and the like going around mistreating flags with the flimsy excuse that it's "not the actual flag" just something very closely resembling the flag 🙄 or attaching one to a vehicle only to let it get shredded

>There are many laws governing the proper use of flags and they are so often violated I violate one myself for fun.

I like your style

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