Mexican flag burned at a High School...

[Devastatin Dave]

public schools still fly confederate flags -

I'd looooove to see your proof on this statement...

[Strike For The South]

whats wrong with this flag I dont get it.

[solypsist]

"Mexicans" ?

Those kids were United States citizens.

If the Mexicans want to create a special little flag that symbolizes latino-american pride, they can be my guest. But the Mexican flag is the symbol of an existing nation that most Americans find fault with. Whether it be the illegal immigrants or the drugs or a myriad of other issues.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Well, just so you know, there's at least a battalion or thereabouts more or less permanently stationed near the capital, and as might be imagined specifically trained for urban combat. And a naval base or two right off the coast.

Although I suspect the cops would arrest your whole lot, thinking them to be some sort of unregistered demonstration...

Division > Battalion afaik, and you really love to kill my already bad jokes, eh?

[Watchman]

I'm aware of the size difference. I'm also aware of there being a whole slew of military bases within easy reach of the capital - Helsinki is quite possibly the single best defended urban centre in the entire country - and that your division would be up against a better part of the entire Finnish military inside a few hours. Actually, make that long before it reached even the suburbs.

I'm also fully aware the discussion is very stupid and pointless. That's no reason to not go along if I happen to feel like it.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

I'm aware of the size difference. I'm also aware of there being a whole slew of military bases within easy reach of the capital - Helsinki is quite possibly the single best defended urban centre in the entire country - and that your division would be up against a better part of the entire Finnish military inside a few hours. Actually, make that long before it reached even the suburbs.

I'm also fully aware the discussion is very stupid and pointless. That's no reason to not go along if I happen to feel like it.

I'll just buy some Tomahawks then. Kabam.

[Watchman]

Those cruise missiles, you mean ? It's not like we didn't have SAMs and surface-surface missiles you know. Or combat aircraft.

Look, just bring along an entire army big enough to invade a reasonably sized nation while you're getting out of hand, anything less won't really suffice. You're the one who brought up the idea of bringing foreign troops to a national capital after all.

That weird coastal artillery we've guarding our archipelago and coastline has to trump most anything you can come up with in sheer peculiarity, though. Where else do you find heavily modified Soviet T-somethingorother 100mm tank turrets converted into long-range coastal artillery role (range ca. 15km normally, something like double that with booster systems) ?

[Idaho]

Aaah... how I love to drop into the org every so often to to remember how nuts you yanks are. Total fruit-loops.

[Tribesman]

Aaah... how I love to drop into the org every so often to to remember how nuts you yanks are. Total fruit-loops.
Look Idaho, this is serious stuff .
Some yanks were getting annoyed that people were saying that they were really mexicans not yanks and they should bugger off back home .
So the yanks that were not really yanks decided that in that case as they were home they should raise an American flag that isn't The American flag .
Then the yanks were were yanks decided that the yanks who were not really yanks were really yanks and shouln't fly an American flag , they should only fly The American flag .
Since a flag is important and should not be disrespected it was decided that the sensible thing to do would be to disrespect a flag by burning it .
Errrrrr.........what flavour were those fruit-loops you mentioned ?

[Slyspy]

It seems to me from the article that the raising of the Mexican flag was not an attempt to somehow usurp ownership, but a reaction to previous provocation. A student stunt to make or prove a point in other words. Tensions clearly exist in that school and, presumably, the community in which it sits.

[Idaho]

Seems to me that a lot of people get their knickers in a twist about things that really don't matter when there are vastly more significant things going on.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Seems to me that a lot of people get their knickers in a twist about things that really don't matter when there are vastly more significant things going on.

That summarises the Backroom very nicely.

If not life in general. But it has the virtue of being diverting

[Strike For The South]

There are 3200 kids at my school. There was a walkout today. 32 left.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Those cruise missiles, you mean ? It's not like we didn't have SAMs and surface-surface missiles you know. Or combat aircraft.

Look, just bring along an entire army big enough to invade a reasonably sized nation while you're getting out of hand, anything less won't really suffice. You're the one who brought up the idea of bringing foreign troops to a national capital after all.

That weird coastal artillery we've guarding our archipelago and coastline has to trump most anything you can come up with in sheer peculiarity, though. Where else do you find heavily modified Soviet T-somethingorother 100mm tank turrets converted into long-range coastal artillery role (range ca. 15km normally, something like double that with booster systems) ?

I'll get alot of Tomahawks. You can't shoot them ALL down.

[BelgradeWar]

Taking the flag down seems like an appropriate move, but burning it down seems like overreacting. Won't help the tensions either.

[yesdachi]

It’s not about the flag burning but about the intended reaction from those who are flying it. By hurting the flag you are hoping to hurt those who are represented by the flag. Kind of like a Yo Mamma joke, you don’t care about your targets momma; you just want to hurt your target.

Must resist … nope, I can’t.
Yo Momm'as like a head of lettuce, always getting picked up by Mexicans.

[Telys]

Most people live in their "country" as a result of migration. No matter how far back your lineage may go you came from somewhere else, given that I dont positively know where human life began. To get so worked up over a something that doesn't belong to anybody, and only exists because we make it, is ridiculous. We are the same thing that came from the same place, where you live does not define who you are. I dont know if anybody will understand this, but it makes sense to me.