It's not the MAG movement. You forget the last "A". You want America to be great AGAIN. Like it used to be, apparently. Roll back the clock & calendar.
Oh please. The effort to disparage and ridicule how The United States was conceived and born, and those individuals who accomplished that is leftist ideology. That attitude may or may not include a majority of the left/democrats, but whatever the actual percentage is, the effort is 100% left/Democrat.
It means the agenda of the Trump Administration , including paying special attention to urban (minority) economic development, minority urban education reform, and significant criminal justice and sentencing reform.
That’s reaction is 100% on you. I bet you use the ignore button too.
I can’t believe you can ever be a credible expert when you make associations like that. Try that on the witness stand and a good cross examiner will gut you like a dead pig.
Read both posts post again. Nuance is not your long suit.
You can read about my successful expert testimony on one drug patent infringement case ~10 years ago, in at least one patent law textbook. I was sent an excerpt by the attorneys.
It counters your belief that I would not be a credible witness, when the United States Court for the District of Delaware has ruled otherwise.
As long as the "why did Europeans come to America" includes those suffering religious persecution, seeking a station in life beyond that of their forefathers in England, Ireland, Holland, etc., or looking to escape the European monarchies to pursue a more perfect form of government in the New World.
You wouldn't want to know what he was thinking when he saw you looking his way.
You might be borderline ok. But what does your wife think? 😎
When will this be over?
You need a history lesson in Slavery
Does it tell me about the black folks that profited off of selling black people? Quick, find me a fainting couch. Do tell sir, who were they selling them to exactly?
What’s wrong with wearing a red hat, one with flag on it or flying a flag from a pole in front of your residence?
Strongly disagree with your second paragraph. Make that very strongly. The mythios of those coming here solely to exploit peons to enrich themselves is way way oversold. While it is an undeniable part of history, it’s not nearly as major as we now like to believe and teach. The story of America is much more closely related to the characters Steinbeck wrote about than what Howard Zinn wrote about. Even Michener’s characters and actual events are closer to our history; and Michener pulled no punches when he wrote about the exploiters.
Nationalist collective thinking is the bedrock of pretty much every totalitarian society/cult/government movement, even in fiction, so this discussion always gets my hackles up.
First, I don’t think you know what critical thinking is.
Probably a generational thing, but it's hard to beat the acting of Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep compared to Stallone, although I'll grant you the soundtrack...
I’m buying that cap. I already fly a DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP flag on occasion.I saw these cool Americana caps (Aloha, thought of you on the 1812 cap):
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I'd like to buy one. But where I live, I have to think about looking MAGA, which is sad.
I already wear a South Bend Cubs hat with the logo of the bear in stars and stripes, and I get looks from people. I think it started in 2020 after the George Floyd incident and protests, and it seems to me that in certain deep blue areas, patriotism is now frowned upon. I think the woke (or call them those heavily invested in the the current social justice movement if you hate the term) frown upon patriotism, and so do a lot of young people. (By the way, I'm not accusing anyone on here of being ashamed of the U.S. or frowning upon patriotism and don't think anyone does).
There are a lot of reasons to be critical of the U.S. past and present (and each party's policies and actions are to blame), and I am critical of it. But I still identify as an American.
I think I like the hat that says "Liberty" in the crescent the best, in terms of style and symbol. But two things make me pause: (1) Liberty has become the buzz word of the anti-maskers to such an extent some of the left seem to openly mock the term; and (2) the symbol was created and used by American Revolutionaries in South Carolina--so they were fighting for liberty while simultaneously supporting a system of slavery. That bothers me, although I guess it's a great reminder of the contradiction at the heart of the U.S. founding.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't want to discuss/teach what makes America and the idea of America amazingly great. That's patriotism.
If someone finds the idea that we are capable of making our own country even better than it already is as somehow unpatriotic, that's a pretty clear signal that they aren't longing for greatness - they are longing for the comfort of regression.
I think the difference is on the emphasis. My perception is that the "left", for lack of a better term, prefers to emphasize what went wrong. And really that is almost entirely around slavery and the black experience in this country. It has expanded to cover other non-white groups with grievances, real and imagined, but it is mostly the idea of slavery. So that is the lens by which we are judging things now. Your own post even hints at it. "That there nationalism is really about something else donchyaknow."
I'm enjoying Tulsa King. Seems to be a perfect casting for Stallone.
One might argue that you have that exactly backwards, that the conservatives would downplay just how bad the bad was. One might remember Lincoln's words on the morality of the Civil War: "Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." One might recognize that our national sin was not some sideshow to our national greatness, but actually a huge, cosmic-level sin that affected millions of lives.
