I said they weren't gonna, and they didn't. We got a big ol flag display outside town, the towns proud of it. It goes to half staff when appropriate. It did not fly half staff yesterday.
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My town too. Most flags at houses are being flown at full mast.
Like, flying a flag at all is questionable at best but it’s nice to know that most people clearly don’t care.
As long as we remember Harambe
I saw an electronic billboard yesterday on the road that said "In Rememberance Today" or something like that and started getting angry thinking they were talking about Charlie Kirk but then I'm like, oh damn, I done forgot...
US sports (except maybe basketball) are very right-wing. I don't think they actually care one way or the other, but their audience is mostly boys and men, and boys and men are right wing these days, so the sports cater to that audience.
I have a good time watching the game but the commercials make me wince.
The salute the troops makes me gag.
The nationalism disguised as patriotism … it’s honestly getting to be too much.
It's not just commercials, it's often also the commentators. They're not saying outright Nazi things, but, for example, they often they reminisce about how things used to be better, and complain about the current world.
I imagine people won’t like to hear it, but there’s no denying that major sports teams rely on the same “in-group/out-group” dynamic that fascism relies on.
It may be a more benign form (for the most part), but the whole “my sports team is better than yours!” Is definitely tribalistic in nature. It’s not surprising to me that many die-hard fans may revel in arbitrary social divisions in other facets of their lives.
I don't know if they do it in the US, but it's well known that Nazis in Europe are recruiting from the soccer fan clubs.
People turning their entire lives into revolving around artificial factions about a game they have no say in, and willing to get into physical fight over it, yeah, those are exactly who they want.
Fascism is about the in-group that gets to make rules that bind the out-group but not themselves. The important bit there is the enforcement of those rules with the state's monopoly on violence.
Merely having an in-group and an out-group is harmless on its own. It's how you have inside jokes. It's how you have friends who you can trust with secrets. It's how families work.
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If I'm there and they call for one for him, Ive got my clown music loaded and ready to go. "not for him", so say we all
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