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The pledge of allegiance is stupid but it’s a non-issue. Everybody just rolls their eyes and blah-blahs through it.

The general point is right fucking on though.

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24 points

Nationalism /patriotism is a religion, where the country’s identity is a god

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“make [god] great again”… Hmm it checks oot

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Did You watch John Oliver recently? When You get American citizenship, they make You listen to a god awful, pro American song while waving tiny American flags. This shit is so cringy.

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The play God Bless the USA when you complete Battlestations at the end of Navy bootcamp. There’s a projector and slideshow while everyone is standing in formation, receiving their “Navy” ballcap, officially becoming a sailor.

Looking back… Yeah, it was cringe af.

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Yeah, but most folks are too tired to actually give a shit. They’re just waiting to get it over with so they can go to bed.

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This is definitely the only memory I have of it, yeah. Brightly lit room after running hither and yon across base all night… and being too tired to give a shit what was going on…

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The pledge in schools is relatively new, I think it was passed under reagan or something. Your grandparents weren’t doing it.

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12 points

That’s not relatively new; it’s about 20% of our entire existence, with multipliers for technology gains.

This country is young, and we have been heavily propagandized for decades.

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9 points

They made me do it back in the 1960s. I remember learning they added “under God” during the McCarthy red scare days

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All of those things that the twitter person says we don’t have are definitely available and achievable in the USA. It’s nothing but a useless doomer post.

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They shouldn’t be achievable, they should be human rights.

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