Today, a bunch of people on my Mastodon feed are making declarations about somebody apparently flying a flag upside down, and this apparently has something to do with the New York Times being terrible.

What happened?

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Uh… no:

    Don’t fly [the] flag upside down unless there is an emergency.

    Though you’re right about the hijacking of the symbolism. Used to be exceedingly rare to see. Nowadays, it’s basically just fascists self-identifying themselves.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        So, for example the Usa flag upside down means insulting the Usa.

        Gee, I wonder why he was talking about the US in response to this in your comment, and the OP saying it was related to the New York (the one in the US, not old York in the UK) Times. Damn Americans, there are other countries!