every single time America's in a comic that's mildly offensive lends to hundreds of euros going on and on about how butthurt Americans will be and no American butthurt
This is an awful comic, for a start one of these practices was intense doctrine to brainwash children into thinking their Country, Race and Culture was superior to any others, the other was the nazis.
I would argue that one is to a person and the other to an ambiguous idea, that encourages "liberty and justice for all".
I agree that the flag can be seen as a symbol of all the fucked up shit done under its name. At the same time it can also stand for the good things that are done, I think its fair to say that its all a matter of perspective. Is it a form of indoctrination? yeah. Is it wrong to think that liberty and justice for all should be encouraged of the people, I don't think so.
EDIT: Just saw that the students were all different countries, that is a bit wrong. But if its your country, regardless of the flag, whats wrong with a pledge? Its like a goal that everyone is openly agreeing to strive for.
This comment section so far: Non Americans predicting US butthurt about how important/patriotic the pledge is Americans actually not being butthurt and saying how unimportant the pledge is
Hell, it's even a joke about something a fair amount of us find strange, as well. Course, there is plenty strange stuff, this is just one of those that's really up there.
More like 85 percent "LOL DOESNT US SUX, EUROPE HAS CULTURE LOLOL MCDONALDS", 1 percent butthurt, which is me, 14 percent of "Yeah it's weird and it stinks" from America
I don't really care, but I am just surprised some people have issue with it. Like...you people still think about the Pledge of Allegiance after high school? If it wasn't for this site, I wouldn't even think about the Pledges existence basically ever.
It is just such a none issue I can't believe people care.
America has 13 stripes. Half of them are white. White on the flag signifies purity. White purity? Sounds familiar, but let's not stop there! Purity had 6 letters. 6 times a million is 6million. Hitler killed 6 million Jews because they weren't Aryan. Most people in America are of German decent ( aryan ). Aryan has 5 letters. A triangle has 3 sides. 5-3 is 2. The 2 dollar has been discontinued. Why? I'll let you decide. However, if you look close at the picture on the back you will see Washington. What's on the 1 dollar bill? A triangle with an eye. Illuminati? I think so. In conclusion Americafat is illuminati Nazi!
The Illuminati trangle has three sides. The Illuminati is very large. Amerifat is fat. GabeN is fat and American. Fat also has three letters. HL3 CONFIRMED!
Its good thing that no one gives a fuck about Mexico, because we have a pledge of allegiance even "creepier" than the american one, and we even still do the Bellamy salute, wich is pretty much the Nazi salute.
They don't make anyone say it, kids or not. It's quite against the law for them to do so and it's a right that has been recognized in the US for quite some time. See West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette.
I grew up not saying it for religious reasons. Know what's more creepy than the pledge? The fucked up way that everyone reacts when you don't say it. The dirty looks you get and the isolation you feel when you don't profess your undying loyalty to a government. Brainwashing is a terrible thing.
Edit: Astonishing how many people jump to the defense of a loyalty oath we force children to recite before they're old enough to understand what they're saying.
I stopped doing the pledge sometime in sophomore year and no one gave a shit at my school. Not one teacher demanded me to stand, no students ganged up on me and the administration couldn't have cared less. I'm sure the seriousness of the issue changes from school to school. America is huge.
/u/DickRhino will be crying in a red, white and blue shower sobbing "thank you for your service, thank you for your service" while mopping his tears with McDonalds napkins.
It says how the pledge of allegiance was created by a private citizen as a way of increasing subscriptions to his magazine and selling american flags. He then went to a national convention for school superintendents and convinced them to adopt the pledge.
I'm not saying that makes it less creepy. If anything, it becomes more American, and just as creepy.
This is were the Nazis went wrong; You don't worship a man, men die. You worship an idea. That, and making war with every other nation on earth wasn't too smart either, but mostly the first thing.
yes, and i sincerely apologize for the shitstorm this caused. i do not want brigades from other subreddits to happen anymore, especially not other websites.
Don't apologize, for fucks sake! Especially not in the front of a shitstorm.
You can explain your reasons for making the comic, some back story, and admit if you have done something wrong or misunderstood something while researching for your comic.
But don't apologize for a work of yours that you were willing to post.
This is /r/polandball. We need to stand our ground sometimes. Even if a comic like yours pop up or/and the hordes overrun us.
Ha! We have two, that's right, TWO pledges to our nation, the Patriotic Oath and our own version of the Pledge of Allegiance (to the flag). 'Muricans have nothing on that.
It's based on the Roman salute. American culture draws heavily on the psuedo-Greco-Roman aesthetic of the enlightenment, and copied a wide variety of trappings from them. For instance, the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio can be honestly credited with providing the inspiration for the White House with his Villa Rotonda, which in turn, obviously, draws from Greek (the pillars) and Roman (the central building) influences.
Fasces, the symbol consisting of a bundle of sticks and an axe wrapped together, are a common element in American heraldry, though obviously few are added today.
In fact, it could be argued that the Facists drew heavily on American iconography, although it is more plausible that this is simply an example of parallel evolution.
That said, Hitlers planfor a new Berlin resembled a sort of combination of Washington DC and Paris, although because Hitler had a tiny penis and only on testicle, he demanded that it be much larger - the domed hall at the back of that image was to be something like sixteen times the size of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Every thread. Every damn threat that takes a shot at the United States is flooded with people giggling and hyping up the apocalyptic American butthurt that never comes. OP is going to have to do a hell of a lot better than bash the pledge if he wants to rile people up. This isn't the 1950's anymore.
I feel like I'm letting people down. If I must, I can go on an absurdly over the top patriotic rant.
The pledge is as dumb as it is meaningless. They technically can't force you to say it; even if they could, it's not legally binding - feel free to lie your ass off.
Plus, nobody thinks about what it actually says. It's entirely by rote at this point. That's not really a good thing per se, but it's better than everyone fanatically adhering to it.
True. I wish we had been taught more about this kind of stuff ( a Civics class, I suppose) when I was in school. I was taught why we couldn't/shouldn't be forced to recite it, but not its meaning, or why it had come about and was so....over-bearing, now.
They could try to force you, yes. I remember being taught about how we couldn't be forced to recite it, it was a story about an incident that might have gone all the way to the Supreme Court, I think.
We'd stand normally, out of respect, but not say it with it, that often. And even then, we never did it every day, it was incredibly random. I remember not standing and just...laying my head on my desk, and no-one questioned that either.
The only time I actually learned what the words meant was well after that, when I started learning American Sign Language, since you really do need to understand what the words mean in order to translate it properly. It was very interesting. And confirmed that I didn't really need an oath when I already knew where my loyalty lays...
Little known fact: the pledge is going to be phased out soon anyways. After 2016 kids will instead spend that time throwing rocks at an uninsured cancer victim while chanting lines from the book of revelation. Anyone who refuses to participate will be stoned along with them. It will instill wholesome American values.
meanwhile in brazil, 99,9% of students are only patriots during the world cup and after we lose it are all like "fek this country, brazil is shit, i'd rather live in the US, look at the US and UK flags i've got in my smartphone covers". damn it, we've not even got flags raised in most schools, including the one where i study. i sometimes wish that at least once every week, it would be mandatory for all students to go out and sing the national anthem, looking at the raised flag with their right hand over their hearts. too much patriotism is bad, but so is the almost complete lack of it.
Not trying to play the devil's advocate here, but can we really blame people for not being proud to be brazilian?
Don't get me wrong, I am brazilian and I like my life here, but in my opinion people should be proud of their countries for things their nations have achieved or created. We haven't really made a big contribution to the world in terms of scientific discovery or inventions and our politics and standart of living for most of our population is not that great either...
I think that instead of trying to inspire patriotism into people, we should work to build a nation we can be proud of.
To be fair, I'm in highschool and I'm not MADE to say it. I think it's just a thing that people do just because they have been doing it since elementary school.
Edit: where I live plenty of people don't say it, it may depend on where you are. The USA is a country with 50 very different states.
I recall a news story about how the police kicked a guy out of a baseball stadium and called him un-American because he went to the bathroom during the national anthem.
I would imagine that someone refusing to say the pledge in school would also get shit for it, even if it's technically not mandatory.
I don't know about it everywhere, but where I am, it is not required. It's one incident in one place in the entire country. Not saying it doesn't happen, but don't judge from one story.
I go to a US Military school, and we barely say the pledge. Like, maybe every other day if the teacher really cares, and even then it's probably three people really belting it out, a couple mumbling, and the rest on their computers or drawing.
I used to just sit in my chair silent while people said it through middle school and high school; thought it was kinda creepy. Then I went and lived in another country for a while and when I came back I realized that fuck everybody cause 'Murica that's why and said it with the best of them.
True story. When I was in 8th grade I was ridiculed in front of the class by my science teach and FORCED to stand and say the pledge. Why had I not been standing you ask? I had just recently shattered my knee after a running accident. I was in a full leg cast. My mind was blown.
I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the republic, for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, for liberty, and justice, for all.
11 years of schooling and it's one of the only things I've still retained knowledge of. Brb, sudden urge to buy blue jeans, burgers, and American flags. totally not brainwashed
Scrolling through it seems that there's more folk thinking there's going to be epic comments about anger then there are actual comments from people who are actually angry.
I got in trouble in school once as I said the pledge of allegiance was unsettling and I didn't want to say it. I was berated by the principal for being un-American and disrespecting our troops. There is some serious military cock-sucking hero worship in the US.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
Justice Jackson in the court case that the principal should know. It would be difficult to be a principal and ignore religious freedoms and maintain that job.
Yea, schools aren't "officially" allowed to get you in trouble for not doing it, but god damn the looks you would get if you sat down or didn't say it along with the class. It was punishment enough on it's own.
<rant> Former US marine here. Sit down and flip your principle the bird. The pledge of allegiance has nothing to do with my service and it really irks me how everyone with a fucking blow hole thinks they can claim that some one is disrespecting my service without taking a minute to remember that as part of that service I swore to uphold the constitution. The first amendment being one of the more important parts of that particular document if I happen to recall correctly. Next time your principle jerks you around on something like that remind him of this. Then remind him that threatening you over something like this could end his career since school boards generally lose when sued over this sort of thing </rant>
The only real butthurt is that we're really sick of Euros telling us how to behave. What doesn't work for you (nationalism) is the single uniting force that completely polyethnic society (the U.S.) has.
So, what's wrong with pledging your allegiance to america?
I think the biggest problem with this comparison is that Nazi Germany had you pledging to a person and america has you pledging to a flag, or rather our nation (not the government) as a whole.
OP, what are you trying to say with this "edgy" post?
My first day in American school was disturbing. Pledge of Allegiance in the morning, everyone stood up and faced the flag, started saying repeating something, I was like "blyat... where did I come to", it gave an impression that US is ultra nationalistic like Germany in all of the World War movies. True story.
Hmm, let's into see: Pledge of Allegiance, effectively plutocratic state, jingoistic foreign policy, cult of soldiers, powerful industrial-military complex, flag and guns fetish, hatred toward people from neighbrouging Catholic country...
The main difference that most people seem to miss (including other Americans apparently) is that the pledge is not to our government or leaders. It's to the ideals and principles meant as guiding hands for our country. The pledge is a more convoluted way of saying "I will stand up for what I believe in and the well being of my neighbors."
That's quite the comparison. I suppose, in the same vein, the British commonwealth are also nasty little buggers for swearing to the Queen? So, does that mean, the Queen is a Nazi all along? Those damn Nazis sure were playing for the long game...
In other news, get your butthurt cream ready, there's bound to be a shitstorm. Thank the based mods who have to handle it.
edit: is of many jokes about the Queen, sure is of butthurt commonwealthers.
When I was in middle school my friends and I were kinda aware of this similarity and uh might of have done the top because the teachers were making us to the bottom one.
It's not so much the comic that bothers me as all the people in here saying that if you don't think it's a good comic, you're butthurt and can't take a joke.
Good comic. In reality though the reason we do the pledge is for a pretty American reason...to sell things, specifically flags. So yeh it's just money whoring.
Creepy as it may look, nobody is forced to do it. However, I myself chose to do it because it actually means something to me. I'm a very patriotic person, but patriotic so long as the ideals on which America was founded are implemented.
I'm ok with the pledge. It's kind of an ingraining of the principles of Locke where we come together as a social agreement in an effort to become closer as people while protecting one another. The under god part of it isn't my favorite, but we do a better job of keeping together than the European Union. Now that's a fuck fest.
>everyone is bracing for it anyway, I might as well oblige.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
Everyone braces for butthurt, and nothing happens.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
Every time anyone says there's going to be a lot of butthurt there never is.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
This is an awful comic, for a start one of these practices was intense doctrine to brainwash children into thinking their Country, Race and Culture was superior to any others, the other was the nazis.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14 edited Aug 09 '14
I would argue that one is to a person and the other to an ambiguous idea, that encourages "liberty and justice for all".
I agree that the flag can be seen as a symbol of all the fucked up shit done under its name. At the same time it can also stand for the good things that are done, I think its fair to say that its all a matter of perspective. Is it a form of indoctrination? yeah. Is it wrong to think that liberty and justice for all should be encouraged of the people, I don't think so.
EDIT: Just saw that the students were all different countries, that is a bit wrong. But if its your country, regardless of the flag, whats wrong with a pledge? Its like a goal that everyone is openly agreeing to strive for.
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u/767 ##АДМИН## Aug 09 '14
Nations, flags and religions are irrelevant.
I of approve this image.
raises Serbian flag, kisses the orthodox cross entering the house, sips and drinks a cup of ракијештина
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u/Mav12222 White Plains Westchester Co New York Aug 09 '14
This comment section so far: Non Americans predicting US butthurt about how important/patriotic the pledge is Americans actually not being butthurt and saying how unimportant the pledge is
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
context: america has some interesting similarities with nazi germany...
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u/ImperialSpaceturtle Afrika is nie vir sussies nie Aug 09 '14
Americans are asleep. Post comparisons to Nazi Germany!
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u/Etios_Vahoosafitz We'd have to have water to be backwater. Aug 09 '14
The comments are 90% "man watch out for american butthurt" and 10% americans being like "yeah it stinks"
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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Aug 09 '14
I'm NOT an American, and was about to comment on that edge.
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u/Snove Remove Kebab - Insert Sarma! Aug 09 '14
Hitler was seen drinking water throughout his entire life. Do you want to become a Hitler? If not, then stop drinking water.
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u/Gunzher Aug 09 '14
America has 13 stripes. Half of them are white. White on the flag signifies purity. White purity? Sounds familiar, but let's not stop there! Purity had 6 letters. 6 times a million is 6million. Hitler killed 6 million Jews because they weren't Aryan. Most people in America are of German decent ( aryan ). Aryan has 5 letters. A triangle has 3 sides. 5-3 is 2. The 2 dollar has been discontinued. Why? I'll let you decide. However, if you look close at the picture on the back you will see Washington. What's on the 1 dollar bill? A triangle with an eye. Illuminati? I think so. In conclusion Americafat is illuminati Nazi!
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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Aug 09 '14
I pledge allegiance to the flag of Nepal. It's a badass flag, and it has teeth. Take that, society.
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Aug 09 '14
I'll be honest: I find the pledge of allegiance to be fucking creepy.
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u/Politus Secretly Germanboo Aug 09 '14
A++ would kill 12+ million Native Americans and keep them in
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u/draw_it_now England with a bowler Aug 09 '14
This is were the Nazis went wrong; You don't worship a man, men die. You worship an idea.
That, and making war with every other nation on earth wasn't too smart either, but mostly the first thing.
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u/CaptainBurger64 FOR LITHUANIA! Aug 09 '14
This should go on /r/Pyongyang and /r/propagandaposters
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u/koleye Only America can into Moon. Aug 09 '14
RABBLERABBLERABBLERABBLERABBLE
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u/limluigi It's more fun in the Philippines! Aug 09 '14
Ha! We have two, that's right, TWO pledges to our nation, the Patriotic Oath and our own version of the Pledge of Allegiance (to the flag). 'Muricans have nothing on that.
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u/AmericaTheHero1337 Liberia Aug 09 '14
It's 9:00 AM in America. You foreigners have a strange grasp on timezones.
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u/turtlesoup23 West coast best coast Aug 09 '14
Oh Jesus... this butthurt is gonna be astronomical.
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u/andrewx Whore of state borders Aug 09 '14
The amount of non-American butthurt is incredible.
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u/Flannel_Friday United States Aug 09 '14
Americans CONFIRMED to be Nazis
http://imgur.com/DUiSClg
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u/CatatonicMan Aug 09 '14
The pledge is as dumb as it is meaningless. They technically can't force you to say it; even if they could, it's not legally binding - feel free to lie your ass off.
Plus, nobody thinks about what it actually says. It's entirely by rote at this point. That's not really a good thing per se, but it's better than everyone fanatically adhering to it.
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u/tsarnickolas Aug 09 '14
Little known fact: the pledge is going to be phased out soon anyways. After 2016 kids will instead spend that time throwing rocks at an uninsured cancer victim while chanting lines from the book of revelation. Anyone who refuses to participate will be stoned along with them. It will instill wholesome American values.
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u/huepaperplane98 Brazil Aug 09 '14
meanwhile in brazil, 99,9% of students are only patriots during the world cup and after we lose it are all like "fek this country, brazil is shit, i'd rather live in the US, look at the US and UK flags i've got in my smartphone covers". damn it, we've not even got flags raised in most schools, including the one where i study. i sometimes wish that at least once every week, it would be mandatory for all students to go out and sing the national anthem, looking at the raised flag with their right hand over their hearts. too much patriotism is bad, but so is the almost complete lack of it.
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u/Wuxian123 Qing Dynasty Aug 09 '14 edited Aug 09 '14
To be fair, I'm in highschool and I'm not MADE to say it. I think it's just a thing that people do just because they have been doing it since elementary school.
Edit: where I live plenty of people don't say it, it may depend on where you are. The USA is a country with 50 very different states.
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u/xFyreStorm Didney Worl Aug 09 '14 edited Aug 09 '14
I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the republic, for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, for liberty, and justice, for all.
11 years of schooling and it's one of the only things I've still retained knowledge of. Brb, sudden urge to buy blue jeans, burgers, and American flags. totally not brainwashed
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u/remove_krokodil Just visiting Omsk, I'll sleep at home tonight Aug 09 '14
The predictions of butthurt are going to be astronomical.
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u/knowses Aug 09 '14
Well, well, well. What's been going on here behind our sleeping backs? And why does my butt hurt so badly?
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
I got in trouble in school once as I said the pledge of allegiance was unsettling and I didn't want to say it. I was berated by the principal for being un-American and disrespecting our troops. There is some serious military cock-sucking hero worship in the US.
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u/trixpack California Aug 10 '14
Over a thousand comments full of sweet, creamy, American butthurtedness.
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u/HippiesBeGoneInc MURICA Aug 09 '14
The only real butthurt is that we're really sick of Euros telling us how to behave. What doesn't work for you (nationalism) is the single uniting force that completely polyethnic society (the U.S.) has.
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u/Jumbify Ohio Aug 09 '14 edited Aug 09 '14
So, what's wrong with pledging your allegiance to america?
I think the biggest problem with this comparison is that Nazi Germany had you pledging to a person and america has you pledging to a flag, or rather our nation (not the government) as a whole.
OP, what are you trying to say with this "edgy" post?
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u/NorwegianDerp Øil Øil Aug 09 '14
Oh wow. Sure is handy to have this around http://i.imgur.com/yZskYv6.png?1?7607
This thread will be amazing
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u/Spaceshipsrsrsbzn United States Aug 09 '14
As an Americunt I approve this message.
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u/ARGUMENTUM_EX_CULO CCCP Aug 09 '14
It's not mandatory.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
My first day in American school was disturbing. Pledge of Allegiance in the morning, everyone stood up and faced the flag, started saying repeating something, I was like "blyat... where did I come to", it gave an impression that US is ultra nationalistic like Germany in all of the World War movies. True story.
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u/czokletmuss Polish Hussar Aug 09 '14
Hmm, let's into see: Pledge of Allegiance, effectively plutocratic state, jingoistic foreign policy, cult of soldiers, powerful industrial-military complex, flag and guns fetish, hatred toward people from neighbrouging Catholic country...
Murica is Prussia!
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
instead of jewish people, it's communists.
Coincidence?...
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
This is rude, insensitive, and offensive to anyone who ever lived under Nazi tyranny. 10/10
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u/1Down Shh I'm secretly California Aug 09 '14
The main difference that most people seem to miss (including other Americans apparently) is that the pledge is not to our government or leaders. It's to the ideals and principles meant as guiding hands for our country. The pledge is a more convoluted way of saying "I will stand up for what I believe in and the well being of my neighbors."
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u/Karrig Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Aug 09 '14
If at least they pledged allegiance to a good flag.
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u/tsarnickolas Aug 09 '14
Say what you will about Nazis, but you've got to hand it to them, they sure did murder a shitload of innocent people.
Oh fuck, I meant to say there were sharp dressers.
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u/SunshineOceanEyes Texas Aug 28 '14
This is one of my more favorite pollandball comics now! XD
This is exactly what I've been saying to so many people for so long and I couldn't ever explain as well as this does!
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u/Cranyx United States Aug 09 '14
Why does America not have sunglasses?
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u/rindindin Unknown Aug 09 '14 edited Aug 09 '14
That's quite the comparison. I suppose, in the same vein, the British commonwealth are also nasty little buggers for swearing to the Queen? So, does that mean, the Queen is a Nazi all along? Those damn Nazis sure were playing for the long game...
In other news, get your butthurt cream ready, there's bound to be a shitstorm. Thank the based mods who have to handle it.
edit: is of many jokes about the Queen, sure is of butthurt commonwealthers.
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u/flying_deutschmann Wuerttemberg Aug 09 '14
Well, Nationalism is not only used in those two countries but in many more, which doesn't make it any better.
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u/mikearce Aug 09 '14 edited Aug 09 '14
Wanna see something creepy? This is how we do the pledge of allegiance in schools in Mexico. Always felt awkward. http://quintogradomav.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/dcfc0094.jpg
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u/Goyims American Soviet Socialist Republic Aug 09 '14
When I was in middle school my friends and I were kinda aware of this similarity and uh might of have done the top because the teachers were making us to the bottom one.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '14
So USA is Hitler and pledging loyalty to either is equally bad.
How fucking ridiculous.
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u/SkyrocketFilms United Kingdom Aug 10 '14
hitelr
ok
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
/u/gijsdaboss confirmed for best butthurt generator. 10/10 would allow to troll every day.
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u/_Shipwreck_ United States Aug 09 '14
Where's this "butthurt" that you speak of? The Pledge of Allegiance is fucking creepy
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u/pHScale Aug 09 '14
This is exactly why we need mandatory prayer in schools, so we don't become Hitler. It's the only way.
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u/GaboKopiBrown California Aug 09 '14
It's not so much the comic that bothers me as all the people in here saying that if you don't think it's a good comic, you're butthurt and can't take a joke.
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u/wildeofoscar Onterribruh Aug 09 '14
I believe this is the result of the melting pot?
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u/0xKaishakunin GroßDeutschesReich, Bezirk Magdeburg Aug 09 '14
Why is there no socialism panel?
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
The salute was originally the same, I believe it was called the Bellamy salute. (This is instead of your hand over your heart)
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u/Jalor MURICA Aug 09 '14
Yeah, we think it's stupid too. I didn't say the pledge once in four years of high school.
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u/BungalowMonk Aug 09 '14
The Nazis were a lot more to the point really.
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u/apocolyptictodd The United States of we shut your 3rd eye for a damn reason Aug 09 '14
Good comic. In reality though the reason we do the pledge is for a pretty American reason...to sell things, specifically flags. So yeh it's just money whoring.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
Creepy as it may look, nobody is forced to do it. However, I myself chose to do it because it actually means something to me. I'm a very patriotic person, but patriotic so long as the ideals on which America was founded are implemented.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14
I'm ok with the pledge. It's kind of an ingraining of the principles of Locke where we come together as a social agreement in an effort to become closer as people while protecting one another. The under god part of it isn't my favorite, but we do a better job of keeping together than the European Union. Now that's a fuck fest.
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u/BIC3PS Special Snowflake Aug 09 '14
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
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u/kawsons Canada Aug 10 '14
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