Why is this tolerated?

[Jamski]

Umm, they keep you warm? They promote nationalism? They give young men something symbolic to throw away their lives for? They are useful when justifying killing the citizens of another country.

Sure us Euros understand the true meaning of flags. That's why we don't care if you burn them.

-Jam

[Mr. President]

Hey, I'm trying to take this lightly like someone on page 2 suggested. Don't push it.






























Seriously. MarkG's temper is a glacier. Mine is a tripwire.

[Jamski]

Everybody be cool...


...You! - Be cool.


-Jam

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
I'm surprised people are complaining about that avatar instead of mine.

Jealous?

Edit: After some furter consideration, I'd like to rephrase a sentence of mine:

As -Jrabbit says, this avatar is a representation of some of my beliefs, as I don't like the current American political-economic-social-ethical-cultural system,

to the more nuanced:

the current mainstream American political-economic-ideological system

That sentence was kind of bugging me. I wouldn't want people to see me as someone thinking in black and white.

[aaglo]

This puzzles me.

Ming's location is Mingapulco. Well, I thought that it was the location for the banned, who have no means to post in these forums. Is this a bug?

[ColdWizard]

Originally posted by aaglo
This puzzles me.

Ming's location is Mingapulco. Well, I thought that it was the location for the banned, who have no means to post in these forums. Is this a bug?

Ming's the owner and operator of Mingapulco of course

[Dauphin]

Its a not-for-profit company too. Ming is very charitable.

[atawa]

Originally posted by Guynemer


But they're not free... I'm still 350 or so on-topic posts short...



(+1)

You play civ?

Join a demogame

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Maniac


Jealous?

[alva]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Meanwhile, in the 19th century....

British Officer - Do you have a flag?

Indian Guy - We don't need a flag - we live here! There's 500 million of us!

British Officer - No flag, no country! You can't have one! Those are the rules that ... I've just made up.

Damn you, I wanted to do this routine...
Still cracks me up this one...

[XarXo]

Originally posted by Mr. President
You Euros just don't understand the true meaning of flags!

After 2 world wars, invading our countries tons of times and having 20~30 official languages... Yep

For example, Alsace, Loraine and Säarland nowadays don't know if the local language is german or french because they have been invaded a lot of times, and somebody is saying that they speak a new language ( ).

We know BY FAR what mean a flag, and we don't want to relate our emotions to some nice colors.

So, I agree with the free avatar theme (except for the Mingcode of rules).

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Ming
There are always going to be differences of opinions... and in most cases, people are welcome to their opinions.

On rare occasion we have asked somebody to change their avatar...

If it bothers you... do alva and Rasbelin suggest...

hey, i got banned for several avatars that offened people, Ming.

how are you drawing this line anyway? are you going to say something to the effect of "burning flags isn't intended to offend people" ? that image is used as an appeal to indignation, dragging any flag waving american into the debate in an angered state.

a burning flag is a sign of hate. perhaps not as much as a swastika, the SS logo, or the White Power logos (KKK Red blood drop, etc) but a sign of hate none the less.

the US allows anyone to wear such signs, and they allow people to burn flags. how are you to draw another line such as this?

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by aaglo
This puzzles me.

Ming's location is Mingapulco. Well, I thought that it was the location for the banned, who have no means to post in these forums. Is this a bug?

Ming stays in Mingapulco and has his agents kidnap other Apolytoners, then drags them to his lair for torture.


Whoa guys, some ppl are getting really angry at this. I say that everyone should calm down and take what other ppl say with a grain of salt.

(Although i'm one to talk.......

[Ming]

It's all a matter of opinion... There are no clear rules, just a feeling. A burning flag is considered a political statement, not a symbol of hate. You are welcome to disagree with that... but that's my opinion.

You are one of the few people that have been asked to change yours... so it is indeed a rare event considering the many different avatars here

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Ming
It's all a matter of opinion... There are no clear rules, just a feeling. A burning flag is considered a political statement, not a symbol of hate. You are welcome to disagree with that... but that's my opinion.

You are one of the few people that have been asked to change yours... so it is indeed a rare event considering the many different avatars here

what if, hypothetically, i wish to deliever the "political statement" that the white race is superior. All the "others" could just disagree with it, no?

: sigh : me and my avatars