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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/
Absolutely based.
Stories like this always make me feel like the Confederacy won
"the union won the war, the confederacy won the peace" is how my college prof put it
Oh shit
100%. Reading about how reconstruction was mercilessly crushed is heartbreaking and infuriating.
Succinct.
I mean the Reconstruction happened under Andrew Johnson, so pretty much.
why black man no stand for flag???
Jesus Christ dude had to have been
spoiler
rippedFree-climbing fifty feet up a narrow metal pole requires a good bit of practical strength.
thin skinned snowflakes smdh
The plastic bag scene from American Beauty, but the wind blows a confederate flag onto a flagpole in San Francisco.
That is a lot of words to try and avoid saying "yes she was fine with flying the Confederate flag"
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
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.
I was skeptical if this was true or not, but after I read this part
I was like "oh okay so it 100% was Feinstein"
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"
I miss when Snopes answered questions like “Do you actually need to wait an hour after eating to swim?”
They're only claiming to deboonk that she definitely did it multiple times
At one point there was a snopes article about this and their sources were just that they asked her staff and they said no.
Well if her staff disagree, I have no reason to suspect ulterior motives!
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.
As if that makes a fucking difference lmao