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  Good it should be banned.  It's a symbol of hate and contempt for others.
context: The classic “I don’t want a 3rd DWI” decal I see on so many Dodge Rams. >
  
  1 in 22.  I work in construction and that tracks.  
  The GMC guys have Roth IRAs and maybe are in rotary club.  And have prostate issues.
  The Ford F-150 guys run the gamut, but lean chaotic good.  
  The Chevy guys have resigned themselves to their positions in life and do not aspire to the GMC level like a damn sellout.
  Toyota drivers are like the hobbits of the truck world.  Scraggly beard-weed smoking-ethnically ambiguous, and smart enough to buy the best truck available for sale anywhere. 
  Mitsu/Nissan/Isuzu drivers are aspiring Toyota drivers, and the most unreasonably optimistic people you will ever meet - losers.  Ford Ranger goes here too.
  Dodge people.  Well, they are very broken people, and they cause a lot of problems for other people around them who don’t see them coming.  Mental health issues are the driving force in their lives.  They should sell the Dodge Ram (and Dakota sport, I might add) with an ignition interlock as a mandatory piece of OEM equipment and available at Napa on a shelf right by the register.
  E: Rivian drivers never wanted a truck until Rivian made one, and it was so sexy we all wanted one too. >
  
  I drive a 97 ford ranger.  It says a i want a truck with a six foot bed that can fit in a normal parking spot, why don’t they make these anymore?
  I’ve also acquired a minivan and an audi as I’ve aged, but I love my tiny truck. >
  
  Yeah but they’re huge.  I mean small compared to other stuff out there now but way bigger than my 97. >
  
  I agree! The new Ranger is the same size my 03 F150 was! 
  Ford Maverick. That's the new "old" tiny truck. >
  
  It's not banned. He just wants it removed from PUBLIC VIEW, like the lobby. They can still have it in their offices, locker rooms, armories, and other places the public normally won't see it. 
  
  Chief Michel Moore ordered the flag, which was widely displayed in station lobbies around the city, to be removed from public view.
  Along with banning the flag from station lobbies, Moore said his order includes patches on uniforms and bumper stickers on police vehicles. Violators could face discipline, a department spokeswoman said Thursday. >
  
  And of course they can still display it when off duty.  Despite the fact that there is no other job on the planet where you could, even in your off hours, display a flag saying "People in my job should be able to murder human beings with impunity" and expect to keep that job. >
  
  I think another interpretation was "police protect society" but personally, I see it as "police protect each other", which is negative because police often DO protect each other from the law.
  At this point the symbol has such a negative meaning that it can't be fixed, IMHO.  It's like a swastika.  Sure, it had a different, better meaning before Nazis, but from now on, it  usually means Nazis.
  People who want to say "police protect society" should find another symbol, because all anyone will see from the thin blue line, is police corruption. >
  
  It came out in retaliation for BLM, from inception this thing was rotten at its core. >
  
  Pretty sure they had a thin blue line before that but it didn't have the American flag in it. Also you saw it way way less before 2020. But I've seen the more discreet symbol at least 20 years ago >
  
  They’re not talking about the blue terrorist slogan, they’re talking about the blue terrorist flag. >
  
  Which person?  I not robot pretty explicitly seems to be discussing the thing that existed before the flag.  That’s not an endorsement of anything incidentally, screw the people putting up any sort of blue line nonsense. >
  
  
  Jamie McBride, an outspoken union officer, posted a photo of the flag hanging from the side of a house on his Instagram account, with the caption “Shame on you Chief Moore! We bleed BLUE!”   
  We bleed BLUE!”   
  
  .... How does this not come off as weird for the people that say this kinda shit?   
  No, no you don't. Your job doesn't make you special, snowflake >
  
  This jackass is perfectly free to fly that fascist flag at his own doublewide.
  But for it to be on police vehicles or work by police officers while they are on duty is completely inappropriate.  Same goes for the Punisher logo.  Anybody who has that sticker on their car should immediately be put on probation. >
  
  What's the story with the Punisher logo? >
  
  The Punisher is a comic book character whose primary defining characteristic is that he straight-up kills criminals.
  Police display it because they believe they should have the right to be judge, jury, and executioner, killing anyone they want at any time. >
  
  I've never seen but, it totally scans for the right to idolize that shit >
  
  Especially because The Punisher is explicitly a deeply broken man who was an ex-soldier who lost his mind when his family was murdered by organized crime and decided to literally go to war against crime. In fact, The Punisher explicitly knows he's a monster not a hero.
  So conservatives lacking even the most basic media literacy and mistaking him for a hero tracks perfectly. >
  
  The Punisher and Fight Club: two movies that give the right wingers a stiffy, while the whole point sails over their pointy heads... >
  
  See also: V For Vendetta, Taxi Driver, American Psycho, Scarface, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Matrix, etc... >
  
  The wild thing is that V for vendetta is literally about rebellion against fascists and cops