Blogson Johnny-Oh of Closet Extremist has a reasonable reply to a disgruntled commenter who opposes showing reverence for the flag because:

America has a long, LOOOOOOOONG history of brutalization, imperialism, genocide in the name of "manifest destiny", coup-fomenting, democracy-crushing assholery that smears that flag with more filth than any protester ever could

If you're gonna hate on the flag, hate on the right one.

As you probably know, the US flag changed every time a state joined the Union, as an additional star was added the July 4th after the admission. The various designs can be found here.

If you're going to burn an American flag, please make sure it's of the appropriate time period.

Still bitter about slavery? Don't burn one with more than 35 stars.

Think the Spanish-American War was the 10 on the Quagmire Scale until Vietnam came along? Torching something with 45 stars might be just the message you want to send.

Or, if you hate oil spills, you can always spark up the Iraqi flag that sailed over Saddam when he dumped 400 million gallons of crude into the Arabian Gulf - just because he could.

Me, I'm going to go burn a pre-91 Soviet Union flag, because I hate f*ckin' commies.

I just wish hippies had a flag.

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