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minus-squareTattorack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoAt this point, is being American basically a religion? Such weird cult-like displays of patriotism…
minus-squareeran_morad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThere’s probably like 40% of us, at least, who aren’t jingoistic fuckbrains.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoAnd they can’t afford to miss a day of work to vote, thanks to that other 60%.
minus-squareLucidlethargy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYeah, that’s about right. Not voting is just as bad as voting for the wrong person. There’s this giant chunk of America that’s sleepwalking everyone else into chaos.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 months agoIt has actually been described as such. (It’s called Civic Religion) Many countries have elements of this, like France or the Soviet Union.
minus-squarelars@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoOnly a couple countries on Earth where every member of Congress has¹ to wear a pin: the US and North Korea. Yes there’s no law, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have to.
At this point, is being American basically a religion? Such weird cult-like displays of patriotism…
There’s probably like 40% of us, at least, who aren’t jingoistic fuckbrains.
And they can’t afford to miss a day of work to vote, thanks to that other 60%.
Yeah, that’s about right. Not voting is just as bad as voting for the wrong person. There’s this giant chunk of America that’s sleepwalking everyone else into chaos.
It has actually been described as such. (It’s called Civic Religion) Many countries have elements of this, like France or the Soviet Union.
Only a couple countries on Earth where every member of Congress has¹ to wear a pin: the US and North Korea.