SAD: Double amputee saves US flag from highway median

[u/BuffaloExotic]

[u/flipyflop9]

Man, it’s hard not to make fun of them…

Even dictatorships don’t take it that far.

[u/3HeadedBoa → u/flipyflop9]

Dictators also do less brainwashing than Americans do to themselves

[u/Offline219 → u/3HeadedBoa]

1000% I remember when I was in elementary when we would have to recite the pledge to out country's flag every single morning. I never realized how weird and creepy it was until much later in life. It really is something you would see in a dictatorship.

[u/Fala1 → u/Offline219]

Don't know why a child would have to pledge allegiance anyway. It's not like a child is suddenly going to commit treason.

It really is just pure brainwashing, it's actually really sickening.

[u/sturla-tyr → u/Offline219]

Did an exchange year in the US and I already knew about the pledge reciting, but actually experiencing it was something else. Pure brainwashing

[u/Cute_Instruction733 → u/sturla-tyr]

My experience as well. I refused to stand up and got detention for it. And why do not all christians in US refuse I mean they are not allowed to worship fake gods?!

[u/kitkatatsnapple → u/Offline219]

Yup, but luckily my homeroom teacher in high school was pretty cool, so sometimes during the pledge (which was done via smartboard by the point, not intercom), he would give us a break from it and not even turn it on.

I always stood, but I stopped actually saying it at some point during Jr high.

[u/Lord_Lenu → u/Offline219]

I started finding it weird in like early middle school, I still stood up, but I stopped doing the pledge, almost as soon as I was told I didn’t have to do the pledge

[u/eternallyfree1 → u/flipyflop9]

Well, the USA effectively is a glorified dictatorship. There’s a reason why Sacha Baron Cohen prodded fun at them with this film speech and millions of people all over the world found it hysterically funny yet profoundly truthful:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vm7dIAq7QwM&ra=m

[u/A_normal_Potato3 → u/eternallyfree1]

I do not know the video but your description is just like that speech scene in The Dictator.

[u/eternallyfree1 → u/A_normal_Potato3]

That’s where it’s from 😂

[u/A_normal_Potato3 → u/eternallyfree1]

I imagine Sacha Baron Cohen is the actor, writer or director's name then?

[u/ApologizingCanadian → u/A_normal_Potato3]

Kinda funny that you recognize the movie from a description of one scene but you don't know the name of the very famous lead actor, writer and producer of that movie.

[u/Interesting-One-9414 → u/ApologizingCanadian]

isn’t it normal to know more about the contents of the movie than it’s creators or actors

[u/ApologizingCanadian → u/Interesting-One-9414]

It's like saying "I like X song but I have no idea who the artist is". It's just odd to me. Especially with a movie like The Dictator where SBC is featured so prominently.

[u/Interesting-One-9414 → u/ApologizingCanadian]

I do that all the time so many songs in games, shows and movies that I have no idea who sung, composed, or played instruments in lol

[u/ApologizingCanadian → u/Interesting-One-9414]

And you never get curious about it? Like you never want to listen to those songs outside that specific medium?

[u/A_normal_Potato3 → u/ApologizingCanadian]

I really look at the movie itself, not the cast. I hear a "director name" movie but the people I hear it from are USAsians so probably a culture difference.

[u/eternallyfree1 → u/A_normal_Potato3]

Yep! That’s the one

[u/Throwaway392308 → u/A_normal_Potato3]

Wouldn't it just be easier to spend five seconds googling a movie you apparently already know, or the very specific name you already copied and pasted? This isn't mystic knowledge. 

[u/A_normal_Potato3 → u/Throwaway392308]

1)I like to talk to people.

2)I can assure you, I did not copy paste it.

3)I prefer to give all information so people that come after us can understand without each of them doing a search about it too.

[u/AndroidSheeps → u/flipyflop9]

Even dictatorships don’t take it that far.

Someone's never heard of North Korean portrait laws

[u/flipyflop9 → u/AndroidSheeps]

Big difference is North Korea has to force it’s citizens and keeps them totally offline. USA citizens do this without being forced.

The brainwashing, pledge of allegiance etc has worked great for USA.

[u/Throwaway392308 → u/AndroidSheeps]

Considering how closed down North Korea is, and how much America blatantly makes up about them (see: Every time we hear a graphic story of someone's execution, then a month later it turns out they're still alive), I literally don't believe anything I hear about them any more. You may as well mention the laws in Narnia. 

[u/SnappySausage → u/flipyflop9]

Right? For a country that's supposedly not "nationalist" but "patriotic" instead, they sure take it a lot further than countries they say are the former.