[OT] Rainbow Mafia unveils new poppy with rainbow flag

[Rhino]

Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?

Wearing these pins has been done in Canada, Britain and presumably most
of the Commonwealth countries, since the end of WW I. We buy these
"poppies" - they're really just little stamped plastic representations
of poppies - at supermarket checkouts or from Boy Scouts on the street
for a voluntary donation that gets given to veterans' organizations.

The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a
scathing denunciation of the new pin in this video:

[9 minutes]

[anim8rfsk]

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?

I remember people doing it 40 or 50 years ago.

Post by Rhino
Wearing these pins has been done in Canada, Britain and presumably most
of the Commonwealth countries, since the end of WW I. We buy these
"poppies" - they're really just little stamped plastic representations
of poppies - at supermarket checkouts or from Boy Scouts on the street
for a voluntary donation that gets given to veterans' organizations.
The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a
http://youtu.be/p8UmmdHlxpc [9 minutes]

[Rhino]

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?

I remember people doing it 40 or 50 years ago.

But not in recent decades? I wonder if the people that were doing it
back in the day were British ex-pats?

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Rhino
Wearing these pins has been done in Canada, Britain and presumably most
of the Commonwealth countries, since the end of WW I. We buy these
"poppies" - they're really just little stamped plastic representations
of poppies - at supermarket checkouts or from Boy Scouts on the street
for a voluntary donation that gets given to veterans' organizations.
The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a
http://youtu.be/p8UmmdHlxpc [9 minutes]

[anim8rfsk]

Post by Rhino

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?

I remember people doing it 40 or 50 years ago.

But not in recent decades? I wonder if the people that were doing it
back in the day were British ex-pats?

More likely people that lost loved ones in Vietnam thanks to that worthless
lying rat bastard Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Post by Rhino

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Rhino
Wearing these pins has been done in Canada, Britain and presumably most
of the Commonwealth countries, since the end of WW I. We buy these
"poppies" - they're really just little stamped plastic representations
of poppies - at supermarket checkouts or from Boy Scouts on the street
for a voluntary donation that gets given to veterans' organizations.
The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a
http://youtu.be/p8UmmdHlxpc [9 minutes]

[The Horny Goat]

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?

I remember people doing it 40 or 50 years ago.

I've seen a few people wearing them in Vancouver within the past week,
including at the polls for our October 19th provincial election.
(That's pretty much the one pin that won't get you kicked out of the
polling station on election day - wearing one supporting one of the
candidates will certainly get you escorted out as political
advertising of any sort inside the actual polling station is strictly
verboten)

[BTR1701]

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?
Wearing these pins has been done in Canada, Britain and presumably most
of the Commonwealth countries, since the end of WW I. We buy these
"poppies" - they're really just little stamped plastic representations
of poppies - at supermarket checkouts or from Boy Scouts on the street
for a voluntary donation that gets given to veterans' organizations.
The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a
http://youtu.be/p8UmmdHlxpc [9 minutes]

I love how he highlights all the hypocritical bullshit with these troons who
demand we all pretend they're something they are not while everything's fine,
but when it comes to, for example, being drafted into the Ukrainian army to
fight Russia, suddenly the troons who are girls-pretending-to-be-men go right
back to being girls again.

They insist that "trans men are men" and literally want to jail anyone who
disagrees or uses the wrong pronoun right up until the moment being a man puts
them in an unpleasant and possibly deadly situation. Then all the dresses and
nail polish and makeup come back out again and they suddenly become girls
again.

Bunch of fucking nonsense and somehow we let these assholes take over
society.

[Rhino]

Post by BTR1701

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?
Wearing these pins has been done in Canada, Britain and presumably most
of the Commonwealth countries, since the end of WW I. We buy these
"poppies" - they're really just little stamped plastic representations
of poppies - at supermarket checkouts or from Boy Scouts on the street
for a voluntary donation that gets given to veterans' organizations.
The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a
http://youtu.be/p8UmmdHlxpc [9 minutes]

I love how he highlights all the hypocritical bullshit with these troons who
demand we all pretend they're something they are not while everything's fine,
but when it comes to, for example, being drafted into the Ukrainian army to
fight Russia, suddenly the troons who are girls-pretending-to-be-men go right
back to being girls again.
They insist that "trans men are men" and literally want to jail anyone who
disagrees or uses the wrong pronoun right up until the moment being a man puts
them in an unpleasant and possibly deadly situation. Then all the dresses and
nail polish and makeup come back out again and they suddenly become girls
again.
Bunch of fucking nonsense and somehow we let these assholes take over
society.

In future decades, I feel sure there will be many baffled historians,
psychiatrists and sociologists trying to understand just how the madness
that infested our society early in the new millenium came about and why
sane people let it go on so long.

[Ubiquitous]

Post by BTR1701
I love how he highlights all the hypocritical bullshit with these troons who
demand we all pretend they're something they are not while everything's fine,
but when it comes to, for example, being drafted into the Ukrainian army to
fight Russia, suddenly the troons who are girls-pretending-to-be-men go
right back to being girls again.
They insist that "trans men are men" and literally want to jail anyone who
disagrees or uses the wrong pronoun right up until the moment being a man
puts them in an unpleasant and possibly deadly situation. Then all the
dresses and nail polish and makeup come back out again and they suddenly
become girls again.

Things were so much easier when gays weren't allowed in the military.

--
Let's go Brandon!

[David Hartung]

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?
Wearing these pins has been done in Canada, Britain and presumably most
of the Commonwealth countries, since the end of WW I. We buy these
"poppies" - they're really just little stamped plastic representations
of poppies - at supermarket checkouts or from Boy Scouts on the street
for a voluntary donation that gets given to veterans' organizations.
The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a
http://youtu.be/p8UmmdHlxpc [9 minutes]

The gays have already taken over. They tell me they've been assfucking you
on the side since 2017. They've always been more powerful that you.

[John Smyth]

Post by Rhino
http://youtu.be/p8UmmdHlxpc [9 minutes]

I saw a youtube video saying trump's a fag. I guess I should believe it.

[The Horny Goat]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 12:26:17 -0400, Rhino

Post by Rhino
The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a

Boy I doubt I'd be amazed if I was warmly welcomed if I wore that pin
at the local (Canadian) Legion Hall.....

[Rhino]

Post by The Horny Goat
On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 12:26:17 -0400, Rhino

Post by Rhino
The British Legion, which is the main veterans organization in the UK,
has apparently drunk the LGBT/DEI koolaid because it is now selling a
poppy that has merged with a rainbow flag. Leo Kearse delivers a

Boy I doubt I'd be amazed if I was warmly welcomed if I wore that pin
at the local (Canadian) Legion Hall.....

The guys that actually fought in WWII - and I know there are still a few
left - must be wondering why they bothered given what the world has
become since then.

[Ubiquitous]

Post by Rhino
The guys that actually fought in WWII - and I know there are still a few
left - must be wondering why they bothered given what the world has
become since then.

Ditto for MLK Jr and his contemporaries.

--
Let's go Brandon!

[Adam H. Kerman]

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)? . . .

The WWI Armistace is still commemorated but it was renamed Veterans Day
in 1954. It was never intended to be a national holiday but a brief
cessation of business at 11 am, and parades. The Web page says that 27
states had already designated Armistace Day as a legal holidays by 1926 as
noted in a concurrent resolution in Congress requesting the President to
make a proclamation.

An act of Congress in 1938 made it became a national legal holiday.

The Uniform Holiday Act of 1968 changed the dates of four national legal
holidays to Mondays starting in 1971 to create three-day weekends for
federal employees. Washington's Birthday (it's not President's Day in
the statute as Southern states would not celebrate Lincoln's Birthday),
Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Columbus Day. But states didn't change
their legal holiday designations for Veterans Day and it was generally
unpopular. The law was amended in 1975 and the legal holiday returned to
the 11th in 1978.

https://department.va.gov/veterans-day/history-of-veterans-day/

[Ubiquitous]

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?

I cannot say I ever have seen it in America, but I assume it's because
the people who cared had died by the time I was born. It hasn't been
called "Armistice Day" for decades here, too.

--
Let's go Brandon!

[The Horny Goat]

Post by Ubiquitous

Post by Rhino
Do Americans wear little poppy pins in remembrance of war veterans in
the days preceding November 11 (Remembrance Day in Canada but I think
you call it Armistice Day)?

I cannot say I ever have seen it in America, but I assume it's because
the people who cared had died by the time I was born. It hasn't been
called "Armistice Day" for decades here, too.

Many Canadian kids learn the poem "In Flanders' Fields" to this day.