now i think i know more, but i'm still missing pieces...
you are right. it IS about the flag, obviously. not that I care, I'm just trying to understand the current bout of ridiculousness that the world is going through. I like to keep up to date on its stupidity, just like you.
Keeping up with stupidity makes me feel like Sham in the 1973 Belmont Stakes.
A long time ago I made a seminar slide (that I cannot locate at the moment) titled "Artificial Intelligence can't cope with natural stupidity." The worst part of that statement is that the seminar was given in 1973 and it is still true today despite at least 3 iterations of Moore's Law.
If I counted the number of times you said that to me on this board richard, and got a nickel for every time that was counted, I would be a millionaire by now