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Yeah but take the small wins where you can get them. This is a good thing and we should celebrate even if for a short moment.

Yeah but they're going to spend $10,000 per flag that costs $0.10 to make. Gotta keep lining those contractor pockets!

They will probably be made by slaves, I mean prisoners.

Sounds very american to me.

but it does feel like a powerful metaphor to be importing our symbol of freedom from abroad

Freedom to buy from the lowest cost provider!

This bill is literally about the federal government purchasing flags, not private citizens...

But what if you are walking between aisles in walmart, and suddenly become unsure what country you are in?

I remember the vacation road trips of my youth, when our family would drive from Canada down into the US to go camping. We'd make a game of counting the American flags we saw. Occasionally there'd be some "game over" property with more flags festooning it than we could actually count before we drove past. It'd be a boring game to count Canadian flags in a similar way. There'd be one or two per day of travel.

You think those numbers are bad? Wait till you look up the averages for each US Senator.

But do you think American flags should be made in America?!?

Yeah I like the idea here, but I saw Susan Collins and thought “Aw fuck what bullshit from yonder asshole breaks?”

Im pretty sure Ohio is also drunk, and Maine is too busy dealing with eldritch entities and whatever is pushed out of the Maritime into the US.

Senator Brown is a great senator and literally the only statewide Democrat we have other than a few state Supreme Court justices (who will be out soon now that Republicans added party affiliation to the court ballot). He will be far better for America than Bernie Moreno.

I'd really like to see who drafted this bill and a who the share holders in the company that will be making these flags are. My gut says they are the same people.

There’s a Pretty Good Chance Your American Flag Was Made by a Prisoner: People of color are incarcerated in huge numbers. And they’re manufacturing America’s symbol of freedom.

Harris was referring to the visit she made to the Central California Women’s Facility in July, a visit on which I tagged along. It was a surreal experience to watch dozens of women, mostly women of color, at work stations inside of the country’s largest prison for women, laying out and printing fabric and then dyeing it royal blue. It was just as surreal, if not more so, to hear prison officials point out that these flags would one day fly atop every state and federal building in California, describing this with something almost adjacent to pride.

U! S! A! U! S! A! U! S! A!

Considering this only covers US Government purchased flags, this IS the invisible hand of the market. It’s a consumer choosing where they want to purchase products.

And it is t nationalizing the industry. They still will be privately produced. And individual Americans can still by Chinese flags.

Yeah honestly national symbol items being made locally just makes sense for so many reasons if possible and this is definitely possible. Especially since it should be the purpose of the national government to support internal functions and business before external whenever possible right?

With of course like allowments for maybe raw materials or specialized things if it's not possible. I would get this feeling silly for a country like Vanuatu but the US has resources aplenty.

Plus in times of broken down supply lines it provides at least one manufacturing plant to rely on. This is also true of the military already for those reasons.

So you didn’t read the article and are just making shit up in your head? Got it.

Even with current rules, 50% of the flag has to be American made.

Typical.

You can’t have a country without a flag!!