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Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today
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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Is this real? Nobody is reporting on it.
You write that like you're sure it's not real, and/or that others would or should think so. There's no obvious thing pointing towards it being fake by just looking at the photo, no clear editing signs or anything like that. But we should make sure it is real by finding other photos, there must be more if it is real. And if there was ever a time in our lifetimes where this would be real, it's now.
This does appear to be the state department flag pole (on 21st street looking East from the state department). And it does appear to be winter, and there is construction in that area around the fed building. But that's all I can say. The photo is weirdly blurry and grainy so be suspicious.
Which of the conservative media in the US do you expect to report it?
but all the mainstream media is run by libruls.
Why does the flag have no stars?
It clearly does have stars. They just blur into the field because the quality isn't high enough. Zoom in and you can see there's slightly whiter dots where the stars should be. You just can't really make them out.
Because the image quality is poor
It is on reddit
I'm surprised they haven't pulled it the way they went ban crazy this morning.
Right??? Protest coordination on traditional social media is like… iffy now, at best.
It really makes me wonder how people were able to pull this shit off in the 50s, 60s and 70s when we can't make it happen today with everything available to us.
They still had third places where they could organize face-to-face. Think union halls, fraternal organizations (which us Millennials only know about from old cartoons), churches, etc.
See also this Adam Conover video, which isn't specifically about organizing to protest but nevertheless is pretty insightful about it.
they didn't use maligned, monitored areas for communication.... people today should coordinate face-to-face or at worst via telephone if they haven't already exposed themselves.
Telephones have been insecure for at least 20 years. Cellphones have backdoors built into the protocol standards. Face-to-face or good encryption are the options.
Oddly, the recent thing in LA was via TikTok, but to be fair their knee bending is probably superficial at best.
Based on white people Twitter ban this is similar to Luigi situation...
People are just overwhelming their modding ability.
It will be taken down and the opposition sentiment will be supressed in due course.
I'm only seeing one source so far. Not mainstream.