• BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden flag represents the US colonies uniting against monarchic tyranny and despotism from Great Britain.

    This flag is implying monarchies can simply bend over anyone they want anywhere and properly fuck them without giving the courtesy of a reach-around.

    • WabiSabiPapi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      this is the most generous possible interpretation of the gadsden, while ignoring its current usage, as well as ignoring the anti-authoritarian meaning behind the sabocat, and red/black scheme.

      ps: the American revolution was a lateral move, replacing a hereditary monarchy with a dictatorship of capital. The ‘founding fathers’ were their time’s equivalent of musk and bezos, and they explicitly wanted to protect the interest of the capital owning class from the will of the working class and those humans who they kept as property.