There's a snopes article about this and it calls Bernie supporters sharing this "disingenuous" for not mentioning that she ordered the flag not be replaced after this guy tore it down for the second time in two days.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dianne-feinstein-confederate-flag/
Richard Bradley shinnied up a flagpole in front of San Francisco City Hall for the second time in as many days yesterday to tear down a Confederate flag he finds offensive. When he got to the ground, after ripping the flag to shreds and throwing the pieces to the ground, he was arrested and charged with malicious mischief. He was arrested on the same charge Sunday after he climbed the same flagpole and tore apart another Confederate flag
Absolutely based.
Stories like this always make me feel like the Confederacy won
"the union won the war, the confederacy won the peace" is how my college prof put it
100%. Reading about how reconstruction was mercilessly crushed is heartbreaking and infuriating.
I mean the Reconstruction happened under Andrew Johnson, so pretty much.
after ripping the flag to shreds
Jesus Christ dude had to have been
spoiler
ripped
Free-climbing fifty feet up a narrow metal pole requires a good bit of practical strength.
a Confederate flag he finds offensive
thin skinned snowflakes smdh
demonstrators actually stole the flag in July before it was quickly replaced
passive voice alert. The flag "was quickly replaced." Just sort of happened. A force of nature, really--nobody actually did anything.The plastic bag scene from American Beauty, but the wind blows a confederate flag onto a flagpole in San Francisco.
That is a lot of words to try and avoid saying "yes she was fine with flying the Confederate flag"
we're only taking it down because this person asked me to, not that I want it down
She even dug in when announcing it wouldn't go back up, but totally just Bernie bros making her look bad
After having it put back up after the first time.
Not to give Churchill credit for anything ever but he really summed it up when he said Americans (liberals) can be counted on to do the right thing once they've exhausted every single other option.
I was skeptical if this was true or not, but after I read this part
We could find no evidence that Feinstein was responsible for that act, and the director of Recreation and Parks, Thomas Malloy, said it was done "quite by accident."
I was like "oh okay so it 100% was Feinstein"
Snopes turned into the exact thing republicans wrongly accused it of being from the start. Anytime somebody tries to gotcha with snopes just keep the article where they said Biden didn't fall going up the stairs of air force one or the one that claims Biden didn't say he doesn't have any empathy for young people.
The debunking is literally "dont believe your lying eyes and ears"
I miss when Snopes answered questions like “Do you actually need to wait an hour after eating to swim?”
They're only claiming to deboonk that she definitely did it multiple times
Claim: While mayor of San Francisco mayor (sic) in 1984, Dianne Feinstein repeatedly ordered the reinstallation of a Confederate battle flag outside City Hall.
Unproven
At one point there was a snopes article about this and their sources were just that they asked her staff and they said no.
Well if her staff disagree, I have no reason to suspect ulterior motives!
I'm kinda pissed I can't find the article, even on wayback. I found it when Dave Anthony did a whole rant about it on the Dollop patreon a couple months back.
I do really enjoy it but it also makes me imagine chugging a jug of tears and disgusts me a bit
Give it a small brightly colored outline or else it'll be impossible to see
If you're a politician in office today and have black and white pictures of yourself as an adult, you shouldn't be in office.
Isn't that the dream of every parent? To have their children outlive them?
Some other fun facts about her
When asked about her relationship with Beijing, Feinstein said, "I sometimes say that in my last life maybe I was Chinese."
In September 2016—in advance of UN Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories—Feinstein signed an AIPAC-sponsored letter urging Obama to veto "one-sided" resolutions against Israel
At an April 2017 town hall meeting in San Francisco, Feinstein was booed when she stated that she did not support a proposal for single-payer health insurance. Feinstein said, "[i]f single-payer health care is going to mean the complete takeover by the government of all health care, I am not there."
Following her 2012 vote to extend the Patriot Act and the FISA provisions, and after the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures involving the National Security Agency (NSA), Feinstein promoted and supported measures to continue the information collection programs. Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss also defended the NSA's request to Verizon for all the metadata about phone calls made within the U.S. and from the U.S. to other countries.
At an August 29, 2017 event in San Francisco, Feinstein expressed hope that Trump could become a good president. "The question is whether he can learn and change", she said. "If so, I believe he can be a good president".
Look, my grandmother didn't have a single racist bone in her body, but all of these things sound like stuff she said after she began to decline due to dementi- ahhhh... fuuuuu.....
My grandma just started openly calling trump a dickhead, which was extremely funny
This reminds me of my spouse's grandma who kept talking about doing a
Showon right wing politicians as she figured, "fuck it, I'm old and a widow."
Fuck I want to see this action movie, basically Inglorious Basterds but an elderly woman just blasting chuds, with fitness and graceful combat prowess.
Imagining a bunch of old ladies getting strapped up, while in jazzercise class outfits
doing a
Showon right wing politicians
Shooting out the tires on their cars?
The fine legacy of wealthy, conservative, pro-cop, anti-LGBT, Stanford graduate, doctor's kid, ex-wife of a neurosurgeon Diane Feinstein that used her influence to aggressively prosecute medical workers found to have known of, or participated in abortions up until the absolute last minute.
Diane Feinstein, mayor of San Francisco after Harvey Milk's assassination, known for publicly begging gay people to please act normal in public so as not to tarnish San Francisco's reputation. Diane "personally responsible for the SF housing crisis" Feinstein, champion of the war on drugs? That legacy?
Diane Feinstein, because what we really needed was more conservative billionaires in congress.
I don't know how anyone to the left of Goldwater could have ever defended this woman. The old guard of the DNC, Biden especially, somehow makes the republican party look progressive.
Personally I don't want the US ruling parties to incorporate young people into their ranks. I want them to be commanded by increasingly demented ghouls
his name is richard bradley https://abc7news.com/dianne-feinstein-confederate-flag-elementary-school-richard-bradley-feinsten/10138792/
Okay I didn't know about that, whoever did the climb was is badass as hell.
As I've gotten older I've seen so many shitty people do wretched stuff and get away with it. It really makes me seethe at the obnoxious atheist crowd. If the afterlife is just some end of consciousness like a TV powering off I'll be pissed. I hope there is a hell and that these folks are burning for eternity; just a white hot searing pain unimaginable to humanity.
Imagine caring about their feelings
They go in the hole where they can't hurt anyone anymore and that's it
There's no pie in the sky when you die. If you want to
punish the wicked you've got to do it in the material plane. You've only got one life!A lot of cultures believe the afterlife to be a pretty ominous place. You're floating around in endless darkness while still being able to feel hunger and thirst. What you do in life has no effect on where you go or what happens when you get there because it's the same for everybody. The only real difference is how people in your life feel about you. If they care then they will regularly leave behind offerings to you so that your spirit won't continue to feel hunger pains or thirst. Otherwise you'll be stuck in darkness while experiencing endless pain.
And they kept reinstalling it after people took it down until finally a bunch of communists cut the flagpole down
What important moment in US history was that flag symbolizing?
Also Western politicians did start allying with Southern politicians during the Civil Rights Era. It's not a coincidence that some specific moments were recognized.
If you can't make your point without resorting to insincere sarcasm, then you never had a point to begin with.
damn dawg she's so owned you totally won this debate and we all agree that flying the confederate flag can actually be cool and normal now
If you can't rebut a point without resorting to insincere debate pervert tone policing, then you never had a rebuttal to begin with.
Where's the union jack then?
You have to contort yourself like an absolute fool to believe the argument you're making.
Yeah, and America has been harassing the middle east since at least 1964. That doesn't make it a good thing
Weird to have an important moment in a different country's history
Also flown are the pre-statehood flags of the Republic of Texas and the California Republic, as well as US flags that predate the present Constitution.
And the moment it was torn down is now also an important moment in US history.
Dickhead.
americans will complain about pride flags and then have a pdf ready to go showing dozens of flags symbolizing their evil empire
there's no such thing as States, these are all just MeNtAl DiSoRdErS lol
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you must understand how your comment comes across comrade, it's not great. I've enjoyed reading about the different flags though, so thank you for that at least.
the Moultrie Flag is pretty cool, interesting I've never seen that one when people start
defending slaverytalking about southern heritage"States" are such bullshit. "Oh, it's not the USA doing it, It's Dipshitska, which is part of the United States except when it wants to do something bad then our hands are tied! So sad!"
Wine all around, another kkkracker down
