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It’s a hate flag, no less than the Confederate or Nazi flags, but they’re allowed too — in your window at home, or on the bumper of your personal car.

This, though, is vile —

… Tensions began when the Springfield Township Police Department incorporated the “thin blue line” flag into its official logo in 2021. …

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      You’ll notice you’re at -10 and dropping.

      Is that at all an indicator that you might be incorrect? Or is the whole world full of clowns graced by your intellect?

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        Popularity isn’t an indicator of correctness, especially popularity in an echo chamber like lemmy.

        Fuck a cop, but conflating everything you disagree with with Nazism is lazy and immediately dismissed by most normal, rational people.

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          Popularity isn’t an indicator of correctness

          In this, and the vast majority of other situations: it literally is. Especially when your fallback is an appeal to how our average compatriot would react. How do you not make that connection?