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[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 134 points 1 year ago

There's a snopes article about this and it calls Bernie supporters sharing this "disingenuous" for not mentioning that she ordered the flag not be replaced after this guy tore it down for the second time in two days.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dianne-feinstein-confederate-flag/

[-] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 124 points 1 year ago

Richard Bradley shinnied up a flagpole in front of San Francisco City Hall for the second time in as many days yesterday to tear down a Confederate flag he finds offensive. When he got to the ground, after ripping the flag to shreds and throwing the pieces to the ground, he was arrested and charged with malicious mischief. He was arrested on the same charge Sunday after he climbed the same flagpole and tore apart another Confederate flag

Absolutely based.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 78 points 1 year ago

Stories like this always make me feel like the Confederacy won

[-] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 105 points 1 year ago

"the union won the war, the confederacy won the peace" is how my college prof put it

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago
[-] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

100%. Reading about how reconstruction was mercilessly crushed is heartbreaking and infuriating.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago
[-] Magician@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean the Reconstruction happened under Andrew Johnson, so pretty much.

[-] VernetheJules@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

why black man no stand for flag??? frothingfash

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

after ripping the flag to shreds

Jesus Christ dude had to have been

spoilerripped

fidel-cool

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Free-climbing fifty feet up a narrow metal pole requires a good bit of practical strength.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

a Confederate flag he finds offensive

thin skinned snowflakes smdh

[-] ComradeCmdrPiggy@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Malicious mischief

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 89 points 1 year ago

demonstrators actually stole the flag in July before it was quickly replaced

LIB passive voice alert. The flag "was quickly replaced." Just sort of happened. A force of nature, really--nobody actually did anything.

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

The plastic bag scene from American Beauty, but the wind blows a confederate flag onto a flagpole in San Francisco.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

That is a lot of words to try and avoid saying "yes she was fine with flying the Confederate flag"

[-] goferking0 43 points 1 year ago

we're only taking it down because this person asked me to, not that I want it down

She even dug in when announcing it wouldn't go back up, but totally just Bernie bros making her look bad

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After having it put back up after the first time.

Not to give Churchill credit for anything ever but he really summed it up when he said Americans (liberals) can be counted on to do the right thing once they've exhausted every single other option.

[-] JohnBrownIsCool@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

I was skeptical if this was true or not, but after I read this part

We could find no evidence that Feinstein was responsible for that act, and the director of Recreation and Parks, Thomas Malloy, said it was done "quite by accident."

I was like "oh okay so it 100% was Feinstein"

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Snopes turned into the exact thing republicans wrongly accused it of being from the start. Anytime somebody tries to gotcha with snopes just keep the article where they said Biden didn't fall going up the stairs of air force one or the one that claims Biden didn't say he doesn't have any empathy for young people.

The debunking is literally "dont believe your lying eyes and ears"

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

I miss when Snopes answered questions like “Do you actually need to wait an hour after eating to swim?”

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're only claiming to deboonk that she definitely did it multiple times

Claim: While mayor of San Francisco mayor (sic) in 1984, Dianne Feinstein repeatedly ordered the reinstallation of a Confederate battle flag outside City Hall.

Unproven

pinocchio-evil pinocchio-evil pinocchio-evil pinocchio-evil

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

At one point there was a snopes article about this and their sources were just that they asked her staff and they said no.

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Well if her staff disagree, I have no reason to suspect ulterior motives! blob-no-thoughts

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

I'm kinda pissed I can't find the article, even on wayback. I found it when Dave Anthony did a whole rant about it on the Dollop patreon a couple months back.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 year ago

As if that makes a fucking difference lmao

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