Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at January 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
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The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

The “Appeal To Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

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  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    20 hours ago

    Well said. I’ve watched the left tear things to shreds, and it seems to be mostly online (I hope - though I do know a few of these types IRL). The purity tests and the more-leftist-than-thou and the constant calls to have certain people take a back seat and let the $MINORITY_GROUP do all the speaking is just so tiresome.

    I’m white, I’m male, and I’m cishet and I have zero plans to leave, but I have to say that the left is often just terrible at trying to appeal to a broader base. Yes, we get it - all should have a voice. But it gets just a bit tiresome to hear that my voice should somehow matter a bit less because of what boxes I happen to tick off, or that someone else’s voice should matter more because they tick off some box(es). Just as an example…and while demographics are changing, it would be a hell of a lot easier to win elections and effect actual real change if we would stop alienating so many people with this toxic bullshit. And honestly? I think some of the online people are plants that are TRYING to alienate a lot of the potential voting base and turning liberals and leftists into caricatures.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        ¯_(ツ)_/¯

        What can I say, I’ve seen it. A prime example was seeing how the comments on a once-great site - Boing Boing - devolved over the course of the years. In the years before comments were taken behind a paywall, it had become a total shitshow of liberal and leftist absurdity. And the mods, who often were also commenters, were fully in on it. No dissent of any kind allowed. Oppression olympics and “intersectional” one-up-manship (or should I say one-up-being-ship; wouldn’t want to “center” the humans or most definitely not the men too much) was on overdrive. Which is a real tragedy given how fun the comment section used to be before all the buzzkills moved in and took up residence (and mod privs). In some cases, they were pile-driving on Mark Frauenfelder, one of the founders and owners. Want to guess what some of the reasons were?

        Anyway, no more happy mutants were allowed, unless maybe they ticked a sufficient set of boxes, and even then, you got more points I guess if you were angry and embittered and could use all that toxicity to dump and ban/mute anyone that differed from your opinion even one iota…all of this brought to you by absurd extreme fringe liberals/leftists - oh and they would get extremely upset if someone were to call any of them “liberals”, lol.

        Anyway, no idea if the owners of the site did anything to clean up the situation when they took it behind a paywall to comment. Ironically, they ran to the impure Substack to host their comments and I don’t think you can even view them w/o paying. Something I am definitely not doing if it helps fund assholish gatekeepers like the little clique running the comment section beforehand…

        I think anyone that says they haven’t seen it is either happily offline and stays away from the ridiculous examples of liberals in their day-to-day IRL, or, more likely, is kidding themselves. Boing Boing is hardly the only example where I’ve seen this; it’s just there that I saw the most extreme example of it since the mods were 100% on board with it, apparently. Anyway, a total tragedy since I’m old enough to remember when Boing Boing was fun…