They’re rubbish bins (or perhaps textile recycling bins, but probably not) specifically for national, regional, and/or local flags.

Edited to clarify: No judgment, I am not making a political or societal argument, just posting about a thing I learned exists. If this post gets hijacked I’ll ask the mods to lock it.

    • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Religious practice precedes religious belief. The first generation to perform religious practices don’t do it for “religious” reasons. They don’t really “believe” that a flag is a person and that it fundamentally deserves to be treated like one, they just choose to act that way. But when the following generations are raised seeing adults consistently treat a flag like a person, they DO take on religious beliefs towards the flag. And it quickly gets creepy and scary.

        • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 year ago

          This YouTube channel is an awesome resource for anyone (athiest, theist, alien anthropologist) to understand the effects of religion on the world from an impartial point of view.