On topic. As a Canadian I find America’s fetish, and I’m using just the word I want, for the flag a bit…strange. The interest in the flag seems way out of proportion to importance. So incidents like this make my brow beetle down as my brain tries to process it.

Furries are more understandable to me. At least sex is involved there. I understand sex.

Perhaps it isn’t a coincidence that people on the far right fetishize the flag. A central tenet of their belief, especially among the alleged Christians, is that sex is bad. Maybe the flag fetish is a substitution?