Why is off topic such a dumpster fire

Originally posted by Monnsteri:

Why is off topic such a dumpster fire

You forgot the question mark...

Update: looks like this is yet another vandalism campaign being done by radical leftists to multiple Republicans:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/gop-congressman-blames-swastika-flag-in-his-office-on-a-ruse-00612783

“Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said. “My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”

OMG, I have a Gadsen flag and a Confederate battle flag sewn to one of my winter jackets!!!

MAGA LIVES!

Originally posted by admiral1018:

Update: looks like this is yet another vandalism campaign being done by radical leftists to multiple Republicans:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/gop-congressman-blames-swastika-flag-in-his-office-on-a-ruse-00612783

“Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said. “My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”

It's probably not fake. Young GOP leaders had their chats exposed as liking Hitler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ZjuitGtUw

Where is the issue? I don't understand.

Originally posted by 1320001095:

Where is the issue? I don't understand.

Some people think that Nazis are bad - actually the left and the right. So everybody accuses that the others are the "real Nazis". While both "sides" have no idea what it means, because they enjoyed the American education system which is about doing this pledge of allegiance every day, while they got rid of the Hitler salute which comes with it in 1942, and ever since they would put their hand on the heart instead, which shows that they can´t be Nazis. So if there is any swastika to be found in any office - it can only be a terrorist act of vandalism, here in this case apparently from the so called left...

Originally posted by admiral1018:

Update: looks like this is yet another vandalism campaign being done by radical leftists to multiple Republicans:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/gop-congressman-blames-swastika-flag-in-his-office-on-a-ruse-00612783

“Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said. “My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”

How dumb do they think people are...
This is some Scary Movie level stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_64VUg4Rok

Originally posted by admiral1018:

Update: looks like this is yet another vandalism campaign being done by radical leftists to multiple Republicans:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/gop-congressman-blames-swastika-flag-in-his-office-on-a-ruse-00612783

“Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said. “My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”

Ain't no one believing in "optical illusion flags only visable through a camera lens"
You can quite literally see the white pieces of tape attached over the red lines and the red tape attached over white to create the swastika

Originally posted by admiral1018:

Update: looks like this is yet another vandalism campaign being done by radical leftists to multiple Republicans:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/gop-congressman-blames-swastika-flag-in-his-office-on-a-ruse-00612783

“Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said. “My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”

How were the flags "indistinguishable" from other flags?

Originally posted by Grimno:

Originally posted by admiral1018:

Update: looks like this is yet another vandalism campaign being done by radical leftists to multiple Republicans:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/gop-congressman-blames-swastika-flag-in-his-office-on-a-ruse-00612783

Ain't no one believing in "optical illusion flags only visable through a camera lens"
You can quite literally see the white pieces of tape attached over the red lines and the red tape attached over white to create the swastika

Wait.

That's the excuse?

Lol. This is some "internet is a giant series of tubes" level of competency.

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

Originally posted by Grimno:

Ain't no one believing in "optical illusion flags only visable through a camera lens"
You can quite literally see the white pieces of tape attached over the red lines and the red tape attached over white to create the swastika

Wait.

That's the excuse?

Lol. This is some "internet is a giant series of tubes" level of competency.

If you go to Twitter and pull up the photo, if you zoom in you can literally see the white rectangles for the tape covering up the red pieces. It's a different shade than the white on the flag

So what?

In todays society I'm supposed to get worked up about a single meme/flag in the background? We don't know the context of it. It's pretty small. Who put it there? Does the guy in the Zoom even know it's there?

-Hamas a Nazi aligned group with historical ties to Nazis is all over college campuses and they've been known to target Jewish students. UCLA in California had to pay 6 million to Jewish students because their school was defending the Nazi-aligned students.

-Ukraine has a very HEAVY Neo-nazi presence. It's in part while I've always kind of supported the Russians as one of their stated goals was to help root out Neo-Nazism. Remember Canada and Ukraine brought a soldier from WW2 that was famouse for killing lots of Russians forgetting that the dude they were honoring was an ACTUAL Nazi. Nothing really happened there and I'm supposed to be worked up over a meme/flag in the background?

-Joe Biden's Pentagon did the right thing and banned the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine from getting military aid...and then realized it was a HUGE percentage of the military and walked backed the ban a week later. And despite us being able to see that they acknowledge we were funding Neo-Nazis and giving them guns/bombs/tanks anyways I'm supposed to be upset about a small picture on the bulletin board that they might not even know was there.

-George Soros on a 60 minutes interview said he has no remorse for going around as a teenager in Nazi Germany and helping the Nazis hunt for Jewish people who were hiding and helping the Nazis acquire stolen wealth. He said he has no remorse for what he did on the interview. He funds various progressive causes and for the longest time social media banned people for mentioning him in a negative way. And yet we're supposed to be upset about a distasteful meme?

No longer party of Lincoln. Basically party of Hitler.

Originally posted by admiral1018:

Update: looks like this is yet another vandalism campaign being done by radical leftists to multiple Republicans:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/gop-congressman-blames-swastika-flag-in-his-office-on-a-ruse-00612783

“Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said. “My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”

Not ruling out some meddling here, but how exactly can an American flag be modified to look like a Nazi flag, when the US flag looks absolutely completely 100% different from all Nazi flags I know of? Which American flag has a symbol on it, that could be modified to look like a Swastika?