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Do you have a flag? - Eddie Izzard
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A clip from Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill about having a flag as justification for claiming a land.
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Invoked as a joke in threads about ownership and entitlement.
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Step 1. Get the biggest, baddest gun Step 2. Plant a flag[0] Step 3. Declare the land now belongs to you and a descendants. 0. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Absolutely. Remember: technology will make everything move to fewer and fewer sources. If you wanted a book 20 years ago, you went to your local bookstore; now you go to one company. And so the people that get to this place first put their flag on it and claim it as their own. ( [VIDEO] ) I'm glad Jeff was there first (essentially) but we can still decide the future we want.
Read original comment ↗Right, because the Do-Not-Track flag was respected oh so well. The only people that seem to care about flags are an invading colonizing system: [VIDEO]
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