Recent comments in /f/providence

thehillshaveI t1_jbc3f8c wrote

>There's a video of a flag that's already up and him climbing and reaching for the rope. That could just as easily be him taking it down. I really don't know.

what i like about this reply is you're trying even harder to defend him than his family. in your version he's now the hero pulling the flag down! it's beautiful!

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jbc2ohg wrote

>there's the video of him doing it

There's a video of a flag that's already up and him climbing and reaching for the rope. That could just as easily be him taking it down. I really don't know.

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>i mean you see this guy hanging a confederate flag and you're willing to believe this complicated story about how he just didn't know better instead of the much simpler explanation that he wanted to hang it.

we could go back and forth all night but the fact is you see him fly a symbol of owning black people and you're willing to give every benefit of the doubt.

I believe in Occam's Razor and a random octogenarian decided to knowingly antagonize everyone who passes by his house and paint a target on him and his home, but only for like....a couple of hours before changing his mind? That isn't the simplest solution. Frankly, it makes no sense at all.

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Silentjosh37 t1_jbc1rp8 wrote

...oddly a lot of the "Merica" first crowd. They don't realize what the flag and this country stands/stood for. They just use it as a tool. Thats why you see them flying it in ways that are far outside of flag code or turn it into weird shit like a speedo or mud flaps.

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cowperthwaite t1_jbc1elv wrote

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thehillshaveI t1_jbbzzwq wrote

>Hell, are we even 100% positive that he is the one who put the flag up?

there's the video of him doing it

i mean you see this guy hanging a confederate flag and you're willing to believe this complicated story about how he just didn't know better instead of the much simpler explanation that he wanted to hang it.

we could go back and forth all night but the fact is you see him fly a symbol of owning black people and you're willing to give every benefit of the doubt.

>And the narrative that an 80 year old immigrant

he's lived in the states longer than either of us have been alive. you think it's more likely he avoided learning what this flag was for more than half a century but randomly raised one yesterday without knowing. i find the idea that he just likes it much more plausible

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Silentjosh37 t1_jbbzx1m wrote

I have a feeling you a very well right. This person just happened to see the post about their racist father doing racist shit outside of his house and decides to create a reddit account just to "explain" dad isn't racist just confused. You would have to be living under a rock for his whole life for that to be the case, and the fact that they are now flying "Old Glory" upside down, which is another go to of the "totally not racist" crowd.

Day old account with no post history and hasn't responded to a single post on here. Or they have with their alt account "defendin pops" and that everyone should just lay off.

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Mountain_Bill5743 t1_jbbzbyh wrote

Remember, it's not just the prices, but also the interest rates. I assume you're taking that into account on the doubled mortgage comment.

If your job is moving you into Boston and expecting you to dump your home, I sincerely hope they are adjusting compensation to reflect that.

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SockGnome t1_jbbz4nq wrote

I simply don’t believe this man is your father and if he is, unless he is suffering from the terrible affects of mental decline, he knew what that flag means because he’s been around for 80 years!

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jbbyu0w wrote

Going just from listening to him talking and multiple people's firsthand accounts that are not just some anonymous person on Reddit, I'm not sure the dude is playing with all his marbles.

And the narrative that an 80 year old immigrant just randomly is going all "THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN" while living in Rhode Island doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, especially since he's living in an area with a shit-ton of black and brown people living nearby and passing by his house everyday.

Hell, are we even 100% positive that he is the one who put the flag up? Or have we learned nothing in the past 2 weeks since this

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Aeronaute t1_jbbx47e wrote

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