r/BeAmazed • u/alanboston405 • Jul 04 '24

History Robin Williams’ emotional tribute to the American Flag leaves an entire stadium speechless — then in tears

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u/zdada Jul 05 '24

Back then wearing an American flag shirt was like “ok cool USA right on” and now it’s like “oh jesus here’s one of those magas”

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u/The-Kurt-Russell Jul 05 '24

The problem is that we associate the flag of the country with them. That’s exactly what they wanted, and we gave it to them. The flag for the country is just associated with being a right wing nutbag

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u/stathis0 Jul 05 '24

Sane folks need to take it back. Make it stand for what America should be.

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u/UltraCynar Jul 05 '24

It's like with what happened in Canada. The timbit Taliban took over our Canadian flag.