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re: Is there anything more absurd than the pledging allegiance to a flag?
Posted on 2/18/16 at 8:30 am to TJGator1215
Posted on 2/18/16 at 8:30 am to TJGator1215
Posted on 2/18/16 at 8:44 am to TJGator1215
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I just don't get how pledging allegiance to a flag does any good other than brainwashing kids to love statism. The only thing worse is standing for the anthem and removing your hat.
It's call soft indoctrination. Kind of like when parents ship their kids off to vacation bible school.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 8:45 am to Rockbrc
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Posted on 2/18/16 at 8:49 am to WallsAllAroundMe
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You should show respect to those who give you that protection, not insult them.
Not verbally pledging allegiance to a flag is all of a sudden a means of disrespecting individual veterans? Spitting in their face is insulting; not taking off your hat at a sporting event is trivial bullshite. The victim mentality is strong with you.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 8:52 am to colorchangintiger
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One nation under GOD.
Deal with it you Commie bastard.
Added in 1954. Not apart of the original pledge until we felt like we had to prove something (we didn't).
You hear people say this all the time but I really don't believe it's true.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 8:55 am to TJGator1215
At a Grizzlies game about two years ago some dildo like yourself was shucking and jiving with his flat bill during the entire National Anthem.
After the song was over a young serviceman walked up to him and removed his hat for him and threw it to mid-court.
The guy got a standing ovation for it.
Both guys got tossed out of their section. But I saw the Navy guy and his son at half time. They were moved to a luxury suite.
If I were in another country at an event while their national anthem were played, I would stand and remove my hat. But then again, I'm not a dick.
Go be a díck somewhere else TJ.
After the song was over a young serviceman walked up to him and removed his hat for him and threw it to mid-court.
The guy got a standing ovation for it.
Both guys got tossed out of their section. But I saw the Navy guy and his son at half time. They were moved to a luxury suite.
If I were in another country at an event while their national anthem were played, I would stand and remove my hat. But then again, I'm not a dick.
Go be a díck somewhere else TJ.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 9:08 am to TJGator1215
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The only thing worse is standing for the anthem and removing your hat.
I only do it so as not to piss off the brain-washed hillbillies and coonasses around me at LSU sporting events. I don't care for drama.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 9:09 am to Rebel
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At a Grizzlies game about two years ago some dildo like yourself was shucking and jiving with his flat bill during the entire National Anthem.
After the song was over a young serviceman walked up to him and removed his hat for him and threw it to mid-court.
They both sound like a couple of douche canoes.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 9:15 am to redneck
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shitty troll
Nope, just your run of the mill AnCap. No one loves to use the term "statism" more than AnCaps.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 9:23 am to TJGator1215
Go back across the border you frickin' commie
Posted on 2/18/16 at 9:30 am to Crow Pie
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Yes it more auburn that 70% of one group of people have out of wedlock babies and then bitch because those babies turn out to be Thug POS.
Surprise. Someone found a way to throw race into the mix.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 9:43 am to TJGator1215
A blind pledge is worthless. Pledging just to do it is no good. Children wouldn't understand, on any level, what the pledge is.. but it's a good idea to get their brains on a small scale AWARE of the idea that their place is worth defending.
Pledging allegiance to any country you're native to is not necessarily a pledge to the current regime... the current populace, or anything necessarily modern. To me, it represents that it is a positive notion to support the ideas that the country was founded on. The things that have allowed YOU to get to where you're at today. The stuff that allowed your family from then until now to achieve whatever it is they have achieved.
The pledge of allegiance to America is a pledge to the IDEA of what America is SUPPOSED to be. A place for freedom. A place where you have the freedom and right to forge your OWN way in this world. A place where you have an equal say.
Sure, we have really hurt a lot of what the country was originally intended to be like. Our populace votes for their own selfish needs, and not the needs of the country. There are plenty of reasons you can get mad or frustrated at the current state of affairs... but to lose total sight that what America is, what it was intended to be, what it should be, and how AWESOME those ideas still are... and to lose enough of that sight to forget what it means to feel pride in one's country is worth a down vote, man.
America is an idea much more than it is anything else. THAT idea is worth fighting for. Definitely worth a pledge.
Pledging allegiance to any country you're native to is not necessarily a pledge to the current regime... the current populace, or anything necessarily modern. To me, it represents that it is a positive notion to support the ideas that the country was founded on. The things that have allowed YOU to get to where you're at today. The stuff that allowed your family from then until now to achieve whatever it is they have achieved.
The pledge of allegiance to America is a pledge to the IDEA of what America is SUPPOSED to be. A place for freedom. A place where you have the freedom and right to forge your OWN way in this world. A place where you have an equal say.
Sure, we have really hurt a lot of what the country was originally intended to be like. Our populace votes for their own selfish needs, and not the needs of the country. There are plenty of reasons you can get mad or frustrated at the current state of affairs... but to lose total sight that what America is, what it was intended to be, what it should be, and how AWESOME those ideas still are... and to lose enough of that sight to forget what it means to feel pride in one's country is worth a down vote, man.
America is an idea much more than it is anything else. THAT idea is worth fighting for. Definitely worth a pledge.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 10:11 am to TJGator1215
GTFO this site...and meet me at te Sonic of your choice for an education.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 10:13 am to Rohan2Reed
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Posted on 2/18/16 at 11:11 am to tss22h8
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Is there anything more absurd than the pledging allegiance to a flag?
Not much. However, I do see the value in pledging allegiance to the country.
This should be the pledge:
I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one republic for which this flag stands, with liberty and justice for all.
Pretty simple, eh?
Posted on 2/18/16 at 12:46 pm to Rex
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Not much. However, I do see the value in pledging allegiance to the country.
This should be the pledge:
I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one republic for which this flag stands, one nation UNDER GOD, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Pretty simple, eh?
I can appreciate that but you left out the absolute most important part
Posted on 2/18/16 at 2:30 pm to WallsAllAroundMe
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WallsAllAroundMe
Very well stated
Posted on 2/18/16 at 5:38 pm to bigezsaint
See this is why I hate posts like this. As if this system is the best humans can do.The constitution doesn't prevent anything at all. The government easily sidesteps it with laws trampling the "rights" you're suppose to have. Yet instead of scrapping the system or improving it to increase freedom Americans point to every other country and say well this is better or if you don't like it leave! Which is retarded given that instead of creating a society that requires personal personal responsibility and social, economic and political freedom we have a broken system that is built on illusions and cliches.
Posted on 2/18/16 at 5:50 pm to Rebel
I'm shocked I tell you that a marine violated someone's space because they did something they didn't like.
This post was edited on 2/18/16 at 5:54 pm
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