It's not flying upside down fwiw. It's flying parallel to the ground aloft on a wire between two cranes.
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Even when hanging the flag vertically, this is the correct orientation, with the stars in the upper left.
Really?
Iβd have thought the stars should be on the right side when hanging vertically, since it would be rotated 90 degrees clockwise from the standard position.
I have no idea which way is correct, this is just my intuitive reasoning.
Yep, according to the US Flag Code:
When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flagβs own right, that is, to the observerβs left.
TBF, it does have different instructions about how to display the flag outdoors, hard to tell from this perspective if it was actually hung properly.
That's obvious and was not claiming it was actually upside down, I just found that detail uncanny seen from that angle
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Photographer should have deleted that image...
Because it'll make look Trump look heroic?
That was my first thought too, because Trump is a horrible, vicious fuckwit, but now I'm not so sure.
The photographer's job is to document what happened, and this does that. On a purely aesthetic/journalistic level this is a hell of a photo. I don't think it'd be right to delete it just because of how it might get used later, or by whom.
I hate, hate, HATE that MAGAs will make this iconic, don't get me wrong. But the photographer captured a major news event, while literally under fire (albeit the shooting had just stopped) and I think that deserves respect and recognition.