The OP also talks about this issue in terms of political free speech: "As far as States Rights, one only has to see what the power-hungry Federal Government has managed to do, trampling all over the rights of the States in its quest for domination. Its a bloody disgrace."
Yes, but changing the Mississippi State flag is very different from de facto banning the Confederate flag. This is where your dishonesty comes into place - you meld different issues together to detract from the actual discussion. You're not interested in discussing things, merely in ruining productive discussions for others.
How is it dishonest to quote you verbatim? I didn't even quote you.
I'll just leave this here. It's funny enough as it stands.
If you genuinely think I'm trolling you, then why not just add me to your ignore list?
You're not
successfully trolling me, and calling you out is kinda fun. I talk to you for the same reasons I talk to EJ or Saddam - it entertains me.
And I'm asking why those two things are being conflated.
And I'm answering: They're not being conflated. You fabricated that.
I believe that spending money counts as speech. If a bunch of people don't want to spend their money on certain products or with certain firms, that's not a ban or oppression or authoritarianism or whatever. That's the market. If some firms want to adapt their sales to that market, that's not authoritarianism, and it isn't a ban on the products that they don't carry. It's just a marketplace. That's how they work.
Given that Confederate flag sales are soaring in response to the ban, and that they weren't low at all when the ban came into effect, your argument is based on an assumption that directly contradicts current events. People want to buy the flags. It's just that they can't, because there's a de facto ban in place.
But yes, in your hypothetical world, you would be correct. It's just that your hypothetical world is not this world.
Walmart also doesn't carry any swastika flags. Swastika flags haven't been banned in America, but it's hard to find them at popular retailers because they're Nazi flags and pretty much everyone thinks that flying a swastika is fucked up. That's really different from being fined by the government for flying a swastika. They're worlds apart.
They do, however, happily sell swastika cakes and ISIS flag cakes. Just not Confederate cakes.
So, again, why are you conflating them?
Again, boo, that's you, not me.
It seems at least a little arrogant to suggest that you know how to maximize the revenue of their multi-billion dollar corporation more effectively than the executives of that corporation.
rofl. Look at yourself. This is how desperate you are right now.