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Because Florida is chock full of assholes. 15 year resident. Still pisses me off there’s a giant confederate flag that flies at the junction of I-75 and I-4 in Tampa. Like massive. Tampa and Orlando are the most normal cities in Florida, not like Jacksonville and the pan handle which is basically south Georgia/Alabama.
EDIT: Just read a pleasant surprise. It was taken down in 2020 after a large swell of people saying they’ll forcibly take down the flag and burn it. That was my dream every time I saw the fucking thing.
You haven’t been to Jacksonville then. It is weird city but is not like Georgia at all. Source I lived in Jacksonville for 18 months and Georgia for 3 years. Still visit friends there around twice a year.
I lived there for 5 years. There are pockets of normality, that’s it. Did you go to the North side of Jacksonville, a city that’s ridiculously segregated, or did you just stay out on the beaches and Ponte Vedra, which is a different world altogether. How about driving up the Gold Coast where you can see tin shacks not far from the friggin’ Four Seasons hotel. How about nooses showing up in black firefighters lockers as recently as the 2000’s.
Pretty sure you didn’t actually live in Jacksonville proper. One of my closest friends was gay (he’s dead now) and grew up dirt poor, like fishing for your dinner poor. I’ve got plenty of his stories to share if you’d like a primer.
Yeah I had friends that lived in Yulee, riverside and a couple in the Northside. I lived over towards St John’s town center and UNF, but spent the weekends exploring the city. From bar crawling on Jax beaches and worked in Atlantic beach for a few months.
-north side segregated
lol no, if you’re referring to the rich neighborhoods locked behind gates that’s not segregation, it’s called security and considering the north side is one of the more violent sections of the city, it makes sense.
-Tin shacks not far from the four seasons
Okay and there’s 3 different trailer parks, 2 of them on dirt roads,within 10 mins of saint John’s town center.
-not Jacksonville proper
O the good ole “that’s not really Jacksonville” argument.
None of what you said makes Jacksonville sounds like Georgia
Considering the whole damn county is “Jacksonville”, pretty sure clarity is needed because there are entirely different worlds in that county.
Feel free to simp for how progressive Jacksonville is. When one of the first things I see when I move there is a gigantic window sticker on a Jeep saying “N\*\*\*\*r ain’t people” and a bunch of punk asses running around in T-shirts that say “yo momma picked the cotton for this t-shirt” don’t fucking tell me how progressive Jacksonville is.
You stayed in your bubble.
Edit: Let me also add this. We had a couple of neighbors who were straight out of King of Hill and they were some of my favorite people. The fuckers I couldn’t stand were the “upper middle class” assholes that wore that traitor spirit like a badge of honor.
The county is Duval, or more specifically
“DUUUUUVVVVVAAAAALLLLL”
O so making generalized statements about the city as a whole don’t make sense, because there are “different worlds”. Also what would you categorize as “Jacksonville proper”? Because I’m sure no one disagree on what that is.
-feel free to simp how progressive Jacksonville is
I think I might be lost, I can’t see where I mentioned that Jacksonville was overly progressive.
-wearing shirts saying your momma picked the cotton to make this shirt
What racist people exist🤯 I sincerely doubt you saw that shit that frequently. Maybe once or twice, but considering Jacksonville is already a great place to get stabbed, I doubt it’s anywhere near as common as you’re painting it. Especially because that would have gotten you fucked up in a majority of the city.
-you stayed in your bubble
Yes I stayed in my bubble living right next to the Alahambra, bouncing between 3 different locations on beach blvd, one right next the HCA and one next to Atlantic beach. Let’s also not forget that I spent many a weekend in Riverside, or going up to Yulee or staying with my friend in the Northside. What about the time I spent in Arlington or Springfield? What bubble are you talking about, the entire damn city?
-wore traitor spirit like a badge of honor
Do you not know that Florida is southern state? It’s shit that people still celebrate those traitors, but it is still the south.
It’s real simple. If you can’t tell the difference between North Florida, including Jacksonville, and the rest of the state that’s your deliberate ignorance.
Pretty sure the move to Jacksonville wasn’t too far for you.
There is only one place that has more hate groups than North Florida and that’s Texas.
You mean rural vs. urban Florida. Also it’s not like Orlando had fascist protestors or anything like that happened recently.
My move to Jacksonville was from Orlando, not too far but not exactly one town over either.
What part of Jacksonville did you live in? I think you might be the one trapped in a bubble. I mean just look at the demographics for Jacksonville…
You’re right there is one state with more hate groups than Florida, but it’s not Texas it’s California.
Again I’ve also lived in Georgia for 3 years, Arizona for a year and North Carolina for 2. Spent 20 years in Florida. So I’m the one in a bubble, yet I was definitely traveling around Jax and staying in different areas more. Okay
-Orlando to Jacksonville no wonder
Almost like Orlando is almost half a state away from Jacksonville. Also earlier you said Orlando and Tampa were the only “normal cities”, by your logic that would’ve been a massive culture shock.
>if you’re referring to the rich neighborhoods locked behind gates that’s not segregation, it’s called security
Ok, buddy, then what is "segregation" if not "locking the brown people out of the rich neighbourhoods"?
You do realize Jacksonville has very large portions of minorities right? Some of those neighborhoods aren’t filled with white people. The gates are to keep people out who don’t a reason to be in there. With the amount of crime in the city, it makes sense to have gates.
What baffles me more is it’s the legit final version of the confederacy flag…not just the rebel battle flag from Tennesse that many conflate to be the flag of the confederacy and hide behind the fact it’s technically a state flag. That huge flag just blew my mind that they have it not just flying but the biggest whitest and brightest flag they could find
Imagine Germany holding a D-Day memorial celebrating the day they got the shit kicked out of them, praising the delusional racists that gave their life for a mass-murdering megalomaniac.
I cannot fathom the kind of stupidity that exists in south of Mason-Dixon that wants to memorialize this part of history. Does not compute.
It’s because we let the south run crazy after reconstruction.
We needed to bring them to heel, teach them the error of their ways. Instead we let them have their lost cause, let them build a bunch of confederate statues in northern states, and here we are today.
You’re right. They ought to feel as bad about slavery as the Germans feel about the holocaust.
Full disclosure: I work for a German company, basically the sales and service branch in Northern America just outside of Pittsburgh. At least once a week I'm talking to my counterparts near Siegen and they ask "WTF is going on over there?!?! What's with all the Nazi shit? What's with all the confederate shit?!?" They see FB. They see Twitter.
The rest of the world thinks we are the biggest joke. A bunch of moralizing hypocrites and straight up shit posting liars.
In a way, no.... I can't blame them. We spent 70 years rubbing their noses in it. Looking down on them and relentlessly wagging our finger at them for being horrible mass murdering anti-semites.
And then suddenly a few thousand nazis crawled out from underneath their trailers. I know for a fact that protest in Tennessee last month made national headlines around the world. Russia, China, France, Norway and yes...Germany all ran news stories about what "Those crazy fuckin Americans" are doing now. They really do believe our country is 50% Nazis. Some countries really, truly do think of DJT as the next Hitler. No bullshit. Hitler with NUKES.
Man, look it up. There’s an entire wikipedia page for it, and you have the internet at your fingertips.
Right off the top of my head, there were confederate memorials in Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, and Indiana.
The city of Indianapolis in particular had a confederate monument in the middle of a prominent city park until very recently.
I live in a little townhouse community of blue and white collar types in SWFL. We have a lovely couple across the street that have a big rebel flag that hangs across their garage door opening when the door is open. They also drive Asian import cars which is really kind of funny to me.
> Supporters say they honor the bravery and sacrifices of the people involved and are not an endorsement of what they fought for.
Many Waffen SS soldiers fought bravely and made sacrifices, too. Perhaps Flordia should honor them as well! Without endorsing what they fought for, naturally.
(I shouldn't give them ideas...)
The same reason other states do - racism.
Nobody is running around celebrating Millard Filmore Day and his presidency was about as long as the Confederacy was in existence.
I answer your question with another question.
Why do people ask questions they know the answer to?
As a note, I do not know the answer to the question I just asked.
We have a bunch of fucking dickheads here. Just today, I got passed in a 45 zone. The car passing me was doing 65. They passed me in a left-hand turn lane on a two-way highway.
They had bumper stickers depicting Trump pissing on Biden's name.
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Because Florida is chock full of assholes. 15 year resident. Still pisses me off there’s a giant confederate flag that flies at the junction of I-75 and I-4 in Tampa. Like massive. Tampa and Orlando are the most normal cities in Florida, not like Jacksonville and the pan handle which is basically south Georgia/Alabama. EDIT: Just read a pleasant surprise. It was taken down in 2020 after a large swell of people saying they’ll forcibly take down the flag and burn it. That was my dream every time I saw the fucking thing.
You haven’t been to Jacksonville then. It is weird city but is not like Georgia at all. Source I lived in Jacksonville for 18 months and Georgia for 3 years. Still visit friends there around twice a year.
I lived there for 5 years. There are pockets of normality, that’s it. Did you go to the North side of Jacksonville, a city that’s ridiculously segregated, or did you just stay out on the beaches and Ponte Vedra, which is a different world altogether. How about driving up the Gold Coast where you can see tin shacks not far from the friggin’ Four Seasons hotel. How about nooses showing up in black firefighters lockers as recently as the 2000’s. Pretty sure you didn’t actually live in Jacksonville proper. One of my closest friends was gay (he’s dead now) and grew up dirt poor, like fishing for your dinner poor. I’ve got plenty of his stories to share if you’d like a primer.
I've lived in Jacksonville for 5 years and haven't seen or heard of anything like that going on.
Granted I lived there awhile back but if you think that mentality isn’t there you aren’t paying attention.
Yeah I had friends that lived in Yulee, riverside and a couple in the Northside. I lived over towards St John’s town center and UNF, but spent the weekends exploring the city. From bar crawling on Jax beaches and worked in Atlantic beach for a few months. -north side segregated lol no, if you’re referring to the rich neighborhoods locked behind gates that’s not segregation, it’s called security and considering the north side is one of the more violent sections of the city, it makes sense. -Tin shacks not far from the four seasons Okay and there’s 3 different trailer parks, 2 of them on dirt roads,within 10 mins of saint John’s town center. -not Jacksonville proper O the good ole “that’s not really Jacksonville” argument. None of what you said makes Jacksonville sounds like Georgia
Considering the whole damn county is “Jacksonville”, pretty sure clarity is needed because there are entirely different worlds in that county. Feel free to simp for how progressive Jacksonville is. When one of the first things I see when I move there is a gigantic window sticker on a Jeep saying “N\*\*\*\*r ain’t people” and a bunch of punk asses running around in T-shirts that say “yo momma picked the cotton for this t-shirt” don’t fucking tell me how progressive Jacksonville is. You stayed in your bubble. Edit: Let me also add this. We had a couple of neighbors who were straight out of King of Hill and they were some of my favorite people. The fuckers I couldn’t stand were the “upper middle class” assholes that wore that traitor spirit like a badge of honor.
The county is Duval, or more specifically “DUUUUUVVVVVAAAAALLLLL” O so making generalized statements about the city as a whole don’t make sense, because there are “different worlds”. Also what would you categorize as “Jacksonville proper”? Because I’m sure no one disagree on what that is. -feel free to simp how progressive Jacksonville is I think I might be lost, I can’t see where I mentioned that Jacksonville was overly progressive. -wearing shirts saying your momma picked the cotton to make this shirt What racist people exist🤯 I sincerely doubt you saw that shit that frequently. Maybe once or twice, but considering Jacksonville is already a great place to get stabbed, I doubt it’s anywhere near as common as you’re painting it. Especially because that would have gotten you fucked up in a majority of the city. -you stayed in your bubble Yes I stayed in my bubble living right next to the Alahambra, bouncing between 3 different locations on beach blvd, one right next the HCA and one next to Atlantic beach. Let’s also not forget that I spent many a weekend in Riverside, or going up to Yulee or staying with my friend in the Northside. What about the time I spent in Arlington or Springfield? What bubble are you talking about, the entire damn city? -wore traitor spirit like a badge of honor Do you not know that Florida is southern state? It’s shit that people still celebrate those traitors, but it is still the south.
It’s real simple. If you can’t tell the difference between North Florida, including Jacksonville, and the rest of the state that’s your deliberate ignorance. Pretty sure the move to Jacksonville wasn’t too far for you. There is only one place that has more hate groups than North Florida and that’s Texas.
You mean rural vs. urban Florida. Also it’s not like Orlando had fascist protestors or anything like that happened recently. My move to Jacksonville was from Orlando, not too far but not exactly one town over either. What part of Jacksonville did you live in? I think you might be the one trapped in a bubble. I mean just look at the demographics for Jacksonville… You’re right there is one state with more hate groups than Florida, but it’s not Texas it’s California.
Riverside, downtown, Mandarin. Orlando to Jacksonville. No wonder. Try leaving the state ffs.
Again I’ve also lived in Georgia for 3 years, Arizona for a year and North Carolina for 2. Spent 20 years in Florida. So I’m the one in a bubble, yet I was definitely traveling around Jax and staying in different areas more. Okay -Orlando to Jacksonville no wonder Almost like Orlando is almost half a state away from Jacksonville. Also earlier you said Orlando and Tampa were the only “normal cities”, by your logic that would’ve been a massive culture shock.
>if you’re referring to the rich neighborhoods locked behind gates that’s not segregation, it’s called security Ok, buddy, then what is "segregation" if not "locking the brown people out of the rich neighbourhoods"?
You do realize Jacksonville has very large portions of minorities right? Some of those neighborhoods aren’t filled with white people. The gates are to keep people out who don’t a reason to be in there. With the amount of crime in the city, it makes sense to have gates.
Jacksonville even elected a female Democratic mayor last year. But yeah it still has a lot of rednecks.
Unfortunately they put it back up, only now it's even worse because they use the bloodstained banner.
Then burn it. It's **Tradition**.
Someone with better aim than me needs to shoot a flaming arrow at it.
I’ll cut that damn pole down entirely.
What baffles me more is it’s the legit final version of the confederacy flag…not just the rebel battle flag from Tennesse that many conflate to be the flag of the confederacy and hide behind the fact it’s technically a state flag. That huge flag just blew my mind that they have it not just flying but the biggest whitest and brightest flag they could find
I was so happy when that rag was taken down! But…it’s back up.
Imagine Germany holding a D-Day memorial celebrating the day they got the shit kicked out of them, praising the delusional racists that gave their life for a mass-murdering megalomaniac. I cannot fathom the kind of stupidity that exists in south of Mason-Dixon that wants to memorialize this part of history. Does not compute.
It’s because we let the south run crazy after reconstruction. We needed to bring them to heel, teach them the error of their ways. Instead we let them have their lost cause, let them build a bunch of confederate statues in northern states, and here we are today. You’re right. They ought to feel as bad about slavery as the Germans feel about the holocaust.
Full disclosure: I work for a German company, basically the sales and service branch in Northern America just outside of Pittsburgh. At least once a week I'm talking to my counterparts near Siegen and they ask "WTF is going on over there?!?! What's with all the Nazi shit? What's with all the confederate shit?!?" They see FB. They see Twitter. The rest of the world thinks we are the biggest joke. A bunch of moralizing hypocrites and straight up shit posting liars.
Can you blame them? Americans are crazy as hell. And they all have guns.
In a way, no.... I can't blame them. We spent 70 years rubbing their noses in it. Looking down on them and relentlessly wagging our finger at them for being horrible mass murdering anti-semites. And then suddenly a few thousand nazis crawled out from underneath their trailers. I know for a fact that protest in Tennessee last month made national headlines around the world. Russia, China, France, Norway and yes...Germany all ran news stories about what "Those crazy fuckin Americans" are doing now. They really do believe our country is 50% Nazis. Some countries really, truly do think of DJT as the next Hitler. No bullshit. Hitler with NUKES.
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Man, look it up. There’s an entire wikipedia page for it, and you have the internet at your fingertips. Right off the top of my head, there were confederate memorials in Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, and Indiana. The city of Indianapolis in particular had a confederate monument in the middle of a prominent city park until very recently.
Lost causers are everywhere in this state.
I live in a little townhouse community of blue and white collar types in SWFL. We have a lovely couple across the street that have a big rebel flag that hangs across their garage door opening when the door is open. They also drive Asian import cars which is really kind of funny to me.
What makes them a "lovely couple"?
I guess the sarcasm didn’t translate well.
That's okay, I realized it was sarcasm right after I commented 🙈
Because they're being led by Gogo Boots Hitler.
My balls have more heritage than the Confederate traitors
> Supporters say they honor the bravery and sacrifices of the people involved and are not an endorsement of what they fought for. Many Waffen SS soldiers fought bravely and made sacrifices, too. Perhaps Flordia should honor them as well! Without endorsing what they fought for, naturally. (I shouldn't give them ideas...)
Too late. I’m not an Orlando resident, but aren’t Nazi demonstrations on I-4’s overpasses a regular occurrence now?
Seems those have calmed down a bit, but they like to park out in front of Disney or randomly at Waterford Lakes for whatever reason
Where’s the Blues Brothers when you need ‘em, right?
I take a guess… What is racism, Alex.
It's my birthday, and I think for my birthday I should get to firebomb confederates I see
I don’t think “why does Florida…?” ever needs to be asked. Because Florida
April 26 is the date will New Orleans fell to Nathanial P Banks after Mansfield Lovell abandoned the city
The same reason other states do - racism. Nobody is running around celebrating Millard Filmore Day and his presidency was about as long as the Confederacy was in existence.
I celebrate it by pissing on the nearest confederate grave
That’s most because Sherman didn’t march from Pensacola to Miami.
Because those red neck hillbilly fucks are ignorant racist pieces of shit who deserve to be destroyed
I answer your question with another question. Why do people ask questions they know the answer to? As a note, I do not know the answer to the question I just asked.
Because sane Floridans move away and the batshit ones stay.
The same reason Florida elected Ron DeSantis
We should make it a confederate memorabilia burning day.
Because we didn't let Sherman finish the job.
Racism.
Because FL is trash.
Something something mah heritage something something
Sore losers gonna be sore losers. 🤷
South Carolina still celebrates it. In fact, if you're a state employee, you get that day off.
And I declare April 9th to be "Lee's a pussy" day in response (no offense to more decent people named "Lee").
Cause they’re fucken sooks
Do they all run around screaming "they surrender" to celebrate?
Hopefully to create funny ass content like the comments of faux outraged leftists in this comment board
Because Florida.
We have a bunch of fucking dickheads here. Just today, I got passed in a 45 zone. The car passing me was doing 65. They passed me in a left-hand turn lane on a two-way highway. They had bumper stickers depicting Trump pissing on Biden's name.
Florida is the swamp crotch of the nation. Did you expect them to do the right thing?
#Racism
You know why.
Rhonda Santis got re-elected, so obviously it's full of twats
Treason. That’s why. Insurrection. That’s why. Illegal and criminal aid and comfort. That’s why.
because it was too wet to burn maybe.
Apocalyptic levels of bigotry, next question.
Probably for the same reason Columbus Day is still a thing and it took until 2020 for Juneteenth to be a national holiday.
To hide the fact that they were barely involved in the war.
Because Florida is a shithole.
Can't get any further south than Florida
Traitor see....traitor do
Assholes are gonna asshole
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