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One of them is an American flag, one of them is a pro choice bumper sticker, and a cross. Nothing that fancy or poltical in my eyes. In the timespan I've had the stickers on my car, said car has been keyed numerous times, and some times the sticker itself was removed from the vehicle, my guess is in rage. My mom's reaction on the issue, is to appease the terorists and suppress my own free speech. Funnily she cited seperation of church and state as an argument, which not sure how that's even relevant when my own property is involved. Second, how is appeasing to the terrorists going to solve anything? So when a rabid person decides to cause property damage, it's somehow MY fault because I was asking for it

One of them is an American flag, one of them is a pro choice bumper sticker, and a cross. Nothing that fancy or poltical in my eyes. In the timespan I've had the stickers on my car, said car has been keyed numerous times, and some times the sticker itself was removed from the vehicle, my guess is in rage. My mom's reaction on the issue, is to appease the terorists and suppress my own free speech. Funnily she cited seperation of church and state as an argument, which not sure how that's even relevant when my own property is involved. Second, how is appeasing to the terrorists going to solve anything? So when a rabid person decides to cause property damage, it's somehow MY fault because I was asking for it

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I used to think this as well until I started to think in terms of speciation and territorialism.

While, yes, they are virtue signalling, all groups virtue signal their groups value systems. However, that isn't the REAL purpose of those stickers. The REAL purpose is signalling to other groups. Those stickers signal your active presence and act as defacto territorial claims. In addition, they signal aggressiveness because most people would just rather duck and hide and not have to confront people so anyone willing to LOUDLY proclaim group allegiance (the flag) and make proclamations about values around that is signalling a claim to territory and an aggressive posture merely by the existence of the owner of those stickers.

Advertising works, it's not as pointless as it seems.