• DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    I think it’s a case of oppinion for me being pro America would be to protect the American constitution and founder values of freedoms, report abuses of power, abuses on the constitution. So I glad they are supporting more reporting on this to be pro America. Right?

    • mcv@lemmy.zip
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      Or the Declaration of Independence. There was a time when some organisation tweeted it line for line and MAGA saw it as an attack on Trump.

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      American history lessons on Native American genocide, the Trail of Tears, slavery, Jim Crow, Black Wall Street, segregation

      Inspirational American stories of immigrants, civil rights leaders, and queer activists

      There’s a lot of room here.

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    Whats great about this is you can have whatever picture in picture you want and be doing whatever seems appropriate. Im thinking of selling american flag tissues.

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    I know in many ways this is an attempt to brainwash folks into ultranationalism, however I also believe its more so an attempt at a “gotchya” that doesn’t work anymore.

    I remember when they started forcing us in highschool to do the pledge every day, and anyone who opposed it was being chastised as an anti-American and “ungrateful to the brave soldiers who fought for our ‘right’ to pledge”.

    I don’t think these stupid assholes are gonna have that same “gotchya” anymore. I think more people than ever agree the ultranationalism in the US is cringe, fascist and based in lies.

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      I did the pledge of allegiance in elementary school. You just did it. It was unthinkable not to. Then they stopped with that bullshit.

      Then I learned they changed the pledge to add the under god part and that was the moment I realized it had all been bullshit propaganda.

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    I do not pledge allegiance to a fascist country. I haven’t placed my hand over my heart in 10 years. I would sooner burn the flag than pledge.

    I have also instructed my children to no longer pledge either.

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      I still cannot believe how stupid they must think everyone else is to have posted that nonsense he posted about net neutrality. Ajit is still an asshole.

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        Tom Wheeler was FCC chair under Obama. He was a VC and telecom industry lobbyist, so obviously he’s going full regulatory capture and letting the industry squeeze us dry right? Turns out he changes his mind, rules in favor of Title II, and ushers in Net Neutrality in the US. Crazy stuff.

        Ten years later the Roberts Supreme Court comes through and undoes all of it. Because fucking of course they did.

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        I remember seeing a sketch some number of years ago about a time travler warning his past self about Betsy DeVos and the past version was shocked that things got bad enough that he knew who the secretary of education was.

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          Fuckin-A man… I’ve never known who the secretary of HHS was, this is the second dept of Education secretary I’ve know the name of (the first was DeVos).

          You don’t normally hear about the competent ones…