The arrested man identified himself as a combat veteran and said he was burning the American flag in protest of an executive order Trump signed Monday targeting flag burning.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, this was before the 'net really took off. I don’t think it even hit the local paper and I don’t think cops were called. I think it was something most of the students found out about second-hand. And really went no further because it didn’t progress.

      These days with everyone taking out their fucking phones for everything, it would have hit social media before the cops even arrived - and oh yeah, I’m sure they would have been called in, stat, given what snowflakes today’s right wing are.

      And then I’m sure the usual pipeline for Bullshit Mountain would have blown it wayyyy out of proportion and turned it into something for right wing poutrage, LOL.