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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

America is the only country in the world with a heart and soul that draws from old and new

The disgusting arrogance and chauvinism of this line alone, the "ONLY" country they say, chest-thumping trashcan propaganda

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been - Mark Twain

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

The US government has to keep pumping out American exceptionalist propaganda. It cannot be humble. It cannot allow its citizenry to be aware of its shortcomings. Because then it would have to improve.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

literally 1984

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every other country is either people hitting rocks together to start a fire in their mud huts or a technocracy where all culture and ideas are thrown out and remade on a daily basis. Only the DEMOCRACY of the USA can bring the old and new into PATRIOTIC harmony. amerikkka-clap

[–] TheDeed@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This right after the harshest immigration policies ever enacted?

agony-deep

[–] context@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

i bet the person who wrote this genuinely believes that this kind of rhetoric balances out the policy decisions

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2024 as National Immigrant Heritage Month

Biden rapidly climbing my personal list of 'most hated presidents'

lenin-rage

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

New "America is the only country that..." just dropped! congratulations

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Still selling the American dreamjagoff

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Breaking: Biden admin set to update poem The New Colossus at the base of the Statue of Liberty. The changes below are italicized, and the poem will now say the following:

Do not give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, keep them there.

Don’t send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp, and shut the golden door!

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

maybe-later-kiddo "yeah but Red Trump wouldn't have even acknowledged the people he's torturing!"

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate the fucking chauvinist language Americans use to describe their country. The countries both north and south of the United States also share this same (idealized) history

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

dem "America is the only country in the world with a heart and soul that draws from old and new. In fact, we have thousands of hearts and souls from immigrants! and my latest executive order shows how committed I am to harvesting even more."

[–] ProgAimerGirl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

tightrope walking into the ninth circle of hell

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

One of these things is not like the other...