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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No. America is the only one and it's fucking creepy

[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's mandatory in China every Monday

[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They made us stand in the yard to listen to the anthem every Monday but I don't remember ever doing a pledge, but it might be different depending on city I guess.

[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, you're right. I conflated singing the national anthem with doing the pledge of allegiance. Although, it seems the purpose is similar.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

being 20% as bad as america is still a huge L tbh

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

20% bad as post-9/11 america. some schools that had dropped it for all the obvious reasons it's stupid to do picked it back up

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

We sang March of the Volunteers (the Chinese national anthem) on Mondays, there was never a pledge of allegiance.

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I was still living in AmeriKKKa, one kid in my 12th grade maths class taught me to start shitting on the pledge by calling it "corporate America" and things like "oil barons, Walmart, Lockheed Martin and Fox News", finishing off with "America deserved 9/11", something like that. But saying it in a way where it doesn't immediately stand out like me windmilling my piss on the Vietnam War Memorial, lmao

[–] booty@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

God I wish I was that fucking cool as a 17 year old

I always just pretended the pledge wasn't happening. I hoped a teacher would throw a fit about it tbh. They never did though

[–] headroom@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

In my country you had to pledge allegiance to the dead founder every morning. Some people lost their shit when it was lifted.