Upside-down U.S flag hung at Yosemite National Park to protest employee cuts

a year ago by return2ozma to c/news

The flag — traditionally a symbol of distress when upside down — was hung on El Capitan summit at Yosemite Saturday night by frustrated park workers.
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Hlodwig 84 points a year ago

Lol, France gets whole country paralyzed for 2cents tax increase on gas. US put their flag upside down after the government is litteraly stripping all their liberties from them... Pathetic...

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ArmoredThirteen 12 points a year ago

I'm asking as someone who legit doesn't know, how does the French government respond to protesters? In the US at least we get shot at, maimed, felony records that lock you out of the job market forever, all kinds of stuff. Protesting in the US can be a life or death thing. Striking is also very difficult at a scale big enough to matter to the government because the US is enormous. If not enough people strike for critical mass then companies start firing everyone and any fines are just operating expenses. It's not impossible, we've done it before, but it's not like we're struggling to resist for funsies

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Hlodwig -14 points a year ago
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peoplebeproblems 11 points a year ago

Well the distance from one side of Paris to the other is 11.5km.

The distance from the furthest point in France to paris is like 723km.

Washington DC is 22km at it's widest point.

The furthest point in the U.S. to Washington DC is 7,800 I'm.

In the lower 48 only, if you could walk in a straight line, it would be nearly 4000km. Driving it's an even longer distance cause it ain't straight.

I don't know what the fuck you Europeans think the size and population density of the US is.

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Hlodwig 15 points a year ago
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OminousOrange 12 points a year ago

That's a whole lot of geography to say nothing.

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MellowYellow13 7 points a year ago

This is the lamest most pathetic American excuse I hear everytime. Or how about your population is ignorant and obese? And loves sucking off billionaires. Why the fuck do you have to protest in DC? God damn sick of how ignorant your comment is

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 6 points a year ago

The distance from the furthest point in France to paris is like 723km.

The furthest point in France is Wallis and Futuna which is 16000km from Paris.

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RunawayFixer 4 points a year ago

The civil rights movement managed to organize a massive march on Washington in the early 1960s. It should be far easier to organize something similar or even larger with the current technology and larger population.

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eugenevdebs 0 points a year ago

Shit Americans Say

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