Oooooh, you’re reading this as “I have that assumption about the US flag”?
No, no, I have that assumption about my own flag. We did it. We broke the country by following a fascist leader, and so overtly patriotic assholes waving our flag are typically fascistoid idiots.
Assuming all patriotism is a disease is a healthy assumption that has served me well in life.
I do get freaked out by Americans, though. First time I attended a US sporting event in person and saw a stadium stand in silence for a national anthem for no legitimate reason I lost my ability to be shocked at anything that’s happening there today. Did not know what to do for the duration because I sure as hell won’t stand in awed contemplation, hand in heart, for my own anthem, so I wasn’t gonna do it for the US’s. But I definitely became hypearaware of who noticed I was not standing up and I was looking utterly horrified because I wasn’t sure if that was going to end well.
Hopefully your country wasn’t destroyed because we wanted bananas
Oooooh, you’re reading this as “I have that assumption about the US flag”?
No, no, I have that assumption about my own flag. We did it. We broke the country by following a fascist leader, and so overtly patriotic assholes waving our flag are typically fascistoid idiots.
Assuming all patriotism is a disease is a healthy assumption that has served me well in life.
I do get freaked out by Americans, though. First time I attended a US sporting event in person and saw a stadium stand in silence for a national anthem for no legitimate reason I lost my ability to be shocked at anything that’s happening there today. Did not know what to do for the duration because I sure as hell won’t stand in awed contemplation, hand in heart, for my own anthem, so I wasn’t gonna do it for the US’s. But I definitely became hypearaware of who noticed I was not standing up and I was looking utterly horrified because I wasn’t sure if that was going to end well.