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Ms. Toad

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12. I don't stand FOR the US, any more than I stand for any other piece of property surrounded by human borders.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:48 PM
6 hrs ago

So people carrying Mexican flags are just as united with me AGAINST Trump as people carrying US flags. In many instances, probably more united with me.

Mexican flags carried by protesters no more inherently mean those bearing them are foreign than did burning flags in the Vietnam war meant those burning them were foreign - both are acts of expression, not a declaration of citizenship or alliance to another country.

Trump will do whatever he is going to do regardless of whether protesters are carrying Mexican flags or not. The court case will be decided based on the facts, and the law - not on what messages individual protesters are conveying - and carrying Mexican flags does not convert a protest into an invasion.

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