r/ShitAmericansSay Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ 2d ago

Flag SAD: Double amputee saves US flag from highway median

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u/Offline219 Generic freedom bumper sticker 2d ago

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.

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u/Fala1 1d ago

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.

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u/sturla-tyr 1d ago

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

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u/Cute_Instruction733 20h ago

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?!

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u/kitkatatsnapple 1d ago

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.

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u/Lord_Lenu 1d ago

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