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[-] FirstToServe@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Someone who wasn't alive at the time simply will not be able to understand how totally it took over all of culture and identity.

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

Can confirm, I was not alive and do not understand

[-] FirstToServe@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In the before times you would only really see the US flag at post offices and schools. Maybe a flagpole in a strip mall. But only because McDonald's wanted to fly their flag and it would be weird alone.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

lol what no

i was in the US in about 1998 and it was full of flags. the amount of flags was already ridiculous.

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

As a zoomer I'm kinda shocked by this. Americans being weepy flagwavers who display it anywhere they can just feels in-character to me, I never would've thought it wasn't in front of people's houses and shit back then.