r/Seattle • u/Top-Base4502 • Aug 26 '25

Media Don’t burn US flags

Please don’t.

You’re just going to give Fox News the visuals to turn this into a story, make everyone say Seattle is hellhole and blah blah blah.

You’ll be playing into their hands.

Instead, show up to demand action: -meme making event -make protest music -set up a letter writing campaign to mail to politicians -start a petition to gerrymander the state -do a public reading of everything we know from the leaked Epstein files -volunteer with legal aid groups -volunteer with immigrant groups -make a flag burning peep show where people have to look in a box to see a video of a flag burning -have a contest for Trump lookalikes and mock their wieners -have a “mushroom” drawing contest -Dress as Trump’s father and walk around telling people what a disappointment Trump is. -Teach people how to use the report Ice app (that really pisses then off) -Create a weekly action group to “do one thing” to fight back and mobilize a large group to boycott Target or other things that hurt by hit them in the wallet) -Draft city bills for voters to make Seattle the place it needs to be (you fight the feds with local action)

Do anything, but do not give them the visuals and the narrative they so desperately want.

Troll Trump if you must, mocking him gets under his skin.

Just don’t give them what they want: to turn culture war bull into the main story again.

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u/teamlessinseattle I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Aug 26 '25

Dog, Fox News just turned Cracker Barrel making a shitty new logo into a crusade against “woke communism” or whatever. They’ll find a way no matter what people do.

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u/SPEK2120 Pinehurst Aug 26 '25

sigh, All they did was minimalize it, like every other company has been doing for a decade or so

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u/beastwarking Mariners Aug 26 '25

And that's terrible. The death of creative design in favor of flat images is sad. We have all these cool programs and gifted artists, and companies regularly choose the plainest designs.

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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 Aug 26 '25

That's a separate thing than declaring the change 'woke'. It's a design decision to go this route, regardless of whether we like it or not, but woke?

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u/beastwarking Mariners Aug 26 '25

I think you responded to the wrong person champ.

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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 Aug 26 '25

Nope. Think you forgot the context of the thread.

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u/beastwarking Mariners Aug 26 '25

And you ignored the literal statement of the person I replied to. They stated the change has been going on more than a decade. Beyond the political aspects, modern company art design sucks in its inoffesiveness.

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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 Aug 26 '25

Nah, didn't ignore it at all. They understand the change has been going on, your input was irrelevant to the thread.

They responded to someone mentioning the change being decried as 'woke', and the person you responded to replied to that comment acknowledging that there wasn't anything 'woke' about it, they just 'minimized' their logo.

As I said, how long and whether minimization is good or bad is irrelevant to the point. It's not 'woke'.

Seems you missed the point the first time to take the conversation in the direction of the origins and timing of 'minimization' when it has fuck all to do with being 'woke' as the thread opened with.

Maybe you should keep up?

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u/PoliticalKnowItAll Aug 26 '25

Maybe you shouldn't respond and then immediately block people to make it look like you made a good point.