I love my country. Exceedingly glad to be a citizen here, but, like... if I had a boyfriend who suggested "it's traditional that you pledge your love for me each morning, and you are of course free to opt out with only my minor disapproval," I'd be like... welp this was fun
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It's a little weird to still be able to recite the pledge to perfection... as far as I can tell, there's no other slice of memorization from my childhood that's survived to adulthood with the same fidelity. Even the standard classroom cadence survived
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1/I agree. Putting aside the totalitarian/fascist vibes, it feels very strange to pledge allegiance to a FUCKING FLAG. If the flag tells me to shoot up an enemy encampment, am I supposed to do it? The whole thing is, in substance and origin, a clumsy attempt at creating a civic
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2/religion and imbuing a metonym of empire with the sacral force of crown or standard. Deeply unrepublican.
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I hope this is a rhetorical question.
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Not that small imo. It's a remnant of the McCarthy era red scares and it has the noxious stink of authoritarianism and militaristic nationalism all over it.
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