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Fossy@programming.dev to pics@lemmy.world · 23 days ago

The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags

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The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags

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Fossy@programming.dev to pics@lemmy.world · 23 days ago
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  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    All they have now is hostility. America first, America only, America always.

  • Carrots@quokk.auBanned
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    23 days ago

    I suggest you all piss on the lobby floor.

  • Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I am surprised they didn’t put up 200 Flags of trumps face.

    • YragNitram1956@feddit.uk
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      22 days ago

      Which one?

    • 50MYT@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Na, that will be on the outside of the building

  • Fives@discuss.online
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    23 days ago

    I hate my country so much right now.

    • speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 days ago

      Now? As if Trump isn’t merely a symptom.

    • obvs@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Oh your country hasn’t existed in almost two years, bro.

      • jobbies@lemmy.zip
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        23 days ago

        Two years? It hasn’t really been ‘America’ since the 70s.

        • UsernamesAreForSuckers@lemmy.world
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          deleted by creator

          • Awooooooga@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            Are you american? We can yak about cause and effect all we want but the US has crossed the Rubicon. I’m tired of people pretending what’s happening now is not a distinct departure from the role the US previously enjoyed.

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              It’s a very odd form of propaganda that I see constantly here.

              Yes, we know all about how bad Reagan was. We know the US has always been a little rotten.

              What’s happening now is new (for us at least) and needs to be treated that way.

  • voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 days ago

    Apropos with their current foreign policy.

  • limer@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    In many senses of the word; the USA only has diplomatic relations with itself

    • nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      What a wankers

    • jobbies@lemmy.zip
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      23 days ago

      only has diplomatic relations with itself

      Only has diplomatic relations with corporations and billionaires.

      • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Seriously. I’m surprised it’s not a bunch of corporate logos on those flags.

        • jobbies@lemmy.zip
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          23 days ago

          The American Govt. - sponsored by the ParamountWarnerWendysExxon corporation

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            23 days ago

            Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

    • arak@lemmy.today
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      23 days ago

      Selfcest at its finest

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    23 days ago

    Holy shit what a fucking eyesore. It seriously looks so bad. Just a smear lmao.

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    23 days ago

    That there. That’s the sign of an upcoming dictatorship. You can all see that yes?

    • Broadfern@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      “Upcoming?”

      • Sequence5666@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        when you guys going to go on the streets and protest? fight for your own rights

  • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    In spite of this, the US government does not actually have meaningful diplomatic relations with the American people.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      The beatings will continue until morale improves

      • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        They don’t care about morale

        • FundMECFS@piefed.zip
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          22 days ago

          until morale obedience improves

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    23 days ago

    This is such an embarrassment to this country, but regarding this administration, I’m not at all surprised.

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    23 days ago

    Fucking gross

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    23 days ago

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 days ago

      They’re the same picturePam from The Office saying "They're the same picture"

  • Miller@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Even the American flag is pushing it.

  • arak@lemmy.today
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    23 days ago

    The flags are all made in China so they are displaying 200 Chinese flags

  • hal_baleigh@piefed.social
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    23 days ago

    Gonna play devil’s advocate here and say this is probably just for the 250th anniversary and it will go back to normal next year. This is probably ragebait.

    Edit: OP is a bot. Why did I even waste my time.

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      23 days ago

      The Deputy Secretary of State originally implied that was why, but now they’re steering into it, according to the NYT:

      Eventually, the State Department’s top public affairs official, Dylan Johnson, chimed in with the department’s response to the flap.

      “In no other foreign ministry or state department in the world do they display the flags of hundreds of other countries in place of their own,” he wrote on social media. “This is the United States Department of State — not the World Department of State.”

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