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[–] KoalaUnknown 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

This ban is stupid and fuck those politicians, but this article is a little misleading and not a good source of information

They never explicitly voted to keep confederate flags. That being said, one of the many types of flags that are allowed are those deemed “protected historical items” as defined by TN Code § 4-1-412 which does include items relating to “any war, battle, or military conflict in which citizens of the United States or any state or territory of the United States have participated in”.

Funny enough, this law would allow you to carry an Iranian, Soviet, or other flag that would piss people off.

I would recommend this article if you want to learn more.

[–] BradleyUffner 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Florida has declared war on "woke". That should allow all kinds of flags.

[–] captainlezbian 12 points 9 months ago

Wait that allows for a lot of communist flags. American citizens join basically every army

[–] asteriskeverything 8 points 9 months ago

Okay thank you for your information! I still wanna share a snarky quote from the article though even if it isn't technically true in the case

If there’s one time ~~the Tennessee~~ legislature feels strongly about protecting free speech rights, it’s when those rights involve a symbol promoting racism and treason against the United States.

[–] TheHotze 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there any way to get a pride flag to qualify? Large scale protests seem like they could be historic (although IDK what the actual criteria is) and it would be funny if a protest against a law made the flag protected by the law.

[–] KoalaUnknown 2 points 9 months ago

Not really, no. The AP article has a list of every exemptions and it wouldn’t really qualify under any of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I bet you could hurt some feelings by flying the flag of the Seychelles.
(It's allowed cause the USA flew drone operations out of the Seychelles under the Obama administration.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Wow! That flag is just BLASTING that color band at you lol. Awesome!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

TN Code § 4-1-412 which does include items relating to “any war, battle, or military conflict in which citizens of the United States or any state or territory of the United States have participated in”.

Funny enough, this law would allow you to carry an Iranian, Soviet, or other flag that would piss people off.

I dunno about Soviet.

Despite spending much of the last century aiming a gun at each other's head, we really never did much by way of actual direct fighting.

A small number of American soldiers were sent into Russia during the Russian revolution to safeguard arms that had been shipped in and try to help get the Czechoslovak Legion out, and there was a very limited amount of conflict with Bolshevik forces, but it wasn't the Soviet Union then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force%2C_North_Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force%2C_Siberia

We had fighting with Soviet aircraft in Korea, but then the pilots were at least officially pretending to be Korean or Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_the_Korean_War

Frustrated by the quality and shortage of Chinese pilots, in November 1950, Stalin took the decision to involve Soviet air force pilots in the war, flying under the markings of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) or North Korean People's Army Air Force (KPAAF). Soviet air units dispatched to northeastern Manchuria to train Chinese pilots on the MiG-15 were first to see aerial combat against American aircraft on 1 November 1950.[16]

Soviet pilots were active in Korea from November 1950. In order to hide this direct Soviet intervention, precautions were taken to disguise their involvement, open knowledge of which would have been a major diplomatic embarrassment for the USSR.

Soviet pilots wore Chinese uniforms when flying, whilst rules were prescribed to stop Soviet pilots flying near the coast or front lines (where they might be captured if shot down) and from speaking Russian on the aircraft radio. All aircraft flown carried Chinese or North Korean markings.[17] When not flying, for reasons of ethnicity, on the ground Soviet pilots 'played' the roles of Soviet commercial travellers rather than Chinese or North Korean soldiers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It also allows flags from “other countries and their local governments,” which, as long as they don’t need to presently exist, should cover it. If they do, just fly the flag of Cusco, Peru

[–] KoalaUnknown 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Th Soviet Union was one of our allies during WWII