>American propaganda from elementary >Kids mostly ignore the pledge of allegiance
Pick one.
Benjamin Peterson
>we that's your main problem right there. as an individual you are extremely insignificant, so you try to derive self-importance from your country's geopolitical capacity. that is exactly why American patriotism is almost always such cringe.
Collectivism isn't always bad (although mostly it is, but that's unrelated). Yet it looks pathetic when one gear in a machine tells another one that its more significant just because its machine is bigger. Ultimately an average American is just as significant as an average European or say Australian.
Come on Ivan, admit you're jealous. You were raised in a nation or ratfinks who were so scared of their government that you'd send your neighbor to the gulag to prove you were the better party member. Try to get over your own programming drook.
Aiden Gonzalez
Most boomer post I've seen in a hot minute. Cringe and blue-pilled.
Carter Reyes
>helping others at all >not conquering them and cleansing them ethically ONIONS
Even if I am jealous as you put it, its still not about me and my feelings towards this. Its about you wanting to feel more relevant than others when you are actually just as insignificant as anyone else.
Grayson Walker
WTF is up with the back of the neck on that first horse?
Luis Thompson
O shit waddup
Nicholas Murphy
If you call yourself a patriot, and don't have the balls to do what this sweet little women is doing, you are a pussy, and you should just cut your balls off and go join Antifa.
you build the mechanisms to ignore it and you enable those same mechanisms each time someone mentions anything with the "patriotism" hashtag whether it's good or bad. willful ignorance of your status
Angel Cook
I wouldn't date a girl that cringy desu senpai
Robert Gomez
What the fuck she looks absolutely insane, even if she wasn't trying to fuck the horse.
No real American gives a fuck about public school. I was getting too wasted and dicking too many whores in middle school to worry about propaganda.
As I got older I realized that you can't even get raped by a migrant without a license anymore in the rest of the 'west' (save for Japan) and therefore, America is superior by definition.
By the way I have a pet Emu named 'Mathilda"
Faggot.
Lincoln James
Hard to feel insignificant since we're the #1 economy in the world in terms of overall wealth. Everyone not only needs to use our coveted currency but also want it due to high trust. High economic optimism. High freedom in guns and what we can say. #1 military of the world. The only country with global military dominance. Best research institutions. Everyone consumes our media and culture. Huge political influence globally compared to any other nation. The only one in the way of Chinese dominance. Huge landmass full of resources. The true leader of the world.
It's hard to not feel proud of the absolute unit that is the US of fucking A. Goddamn! it feels great being an American.
Ayden Russell
>hottest chicks ??? >Freedom ??? >Unbeatable scenery It’s good but not unbeatable
Ian Rogers
I am not talking about your nation, I'm talking about individuals here. Your country being #1 in terms of military doesn't make you any more significant as a person.
Christian Long
LMAO
Landon Hall
>"You're only a patriot when it suits your needs, instead of being a Nationalist Zealot 24-7"
In backwards socialist European countries people have made themselves the vassals of the state. Americans see the government as a collectively driven tool rather than a benevolent overlord. It's defined by all of the insignificant individuals rather than the state so patriotism is just celebrating group prosperity.
your beer is arguably the WORST in the world. but you probably believe you invented it
Camden Perry
>finally get a President with the balls to stand up to foreign nations, puts America first >peace in Korea >Italy grow's a spine; is currently BTFO'ing refugees >Stiff trade conditions put American-made goods and manufacturing into the spotlight >oh look United States sees a need for U.S. sourced materials >steel industry fires up >production jobs come back >wages are going up in every job where I live >just got hired to a new company >three-day weekends, family owned, will be trained in new skills (machining), good pay, rural area, company is renting property on church grounds, praise Jesus er'day at work >Freezer is packed with meats of every kind while Canada can't buy a pack of fucking cheddar >about to grab a nice cold beer to wash down all this freedom
Let's talk about the individual. Individually, we have the freedom to own guns and what we can say. Individually, we have high optimism about the future economy with the strongest military protecting it and us. Individually, we contribute to the spreading of our ideas, culture, and media that everyone is effected by. Individually, we have huge opportunities to do whatever we want. There is no limit. Our society is built with the principle that the collective serves the individual.
Being an American means our individuality is catered to by society. It makes us arguably the most individual people on the entire planet. On average, we are the most influential group of individuals that the world has ever seen. An American who isn't proud to be an American is no American at all. God! it feels good being an A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N.
Josiah Young
based
Ethan Carter
it's not even real patriotism with you americans though, it's totally robotic and mindless, like you're just repeating verbatim "lessons" from "history" class. from "vietnam won the war" to "hawaii agreed to join us peacefully", it's just so scripted it's fucking painful.
Ayden Ramirez
America is exceptional. Only brainwashed euroshits and euroshit colonies think otherwise
Connor Lopez
>Being an American means our individuality is catered to by society.
unpack this for me.
Jace Clark
Name your favourite state, and why.
Bentley Torres
Who are you quoting?
Christopher Ortiz
Tennessee because I like the people and the scenery
Hudson Kelly
reading comprehension.
I liked arkansas but not all of america is like that. at least half is a dump. there's honestly nothing exceptional about the place because american's complete lack of volume control
Luke Ross
besides* not because
Jonathan Hall
strawmanning and you know nothing about Arkansas
Xavier Sanchez
>Individually, we have This alone demonstrates your supposed individuality quite well. Ironic, isn't it? Yet, that's not the point here. Most of the things you have described are freedoms that contribute to personal well-being, but do not influence significance of an individual all that much. When the policies of the country, no matter how great it is, are decided through a multi-layer process of elections (with voting powers shared by a collective of more than 300 million people) and decision making, the importance of a single citizen and his personal role in it is almost non-existent.
>the importance of a single citizen and his personal role in it is almost non-existent This right here is why you will never understand the true power of America.
Joseph Cook
The results of a deracinated nation that abandoned core principles of American identity, especially concerning foreign entanglements and the genetic stock of her citizens.
Our worst beer is exported. You can find most everything from the thousands of breweries in the country, but a lot are admittedly hipsters that follow trends (the current trend is fruity or chocolately beer, fuck that)
Zachary Robinson
lucky user
Sebastian Hernandez
>It's not REAL patriotism Oh? Have we been graced by the Arbiter of Patriotism? My apologies for my ignorance, lord inquisitor.
>Being proud of your history is robotic Is it possible that they are highlights of American history, and therefore are brought up more often?
Collectives still exist in America.There's no denying that collectives tend to have more power than individuals. That's just how it works with numbers. However, in America, the collective is thought as the manifestation of individuals and not individuals in a collective. In other words, the individual comes before the collective. In America, people believe in not just the individual but also freedom. This results in individual freedom, meaning that individuals are free to do what they want. They can pursue joining a collective or refusing to join collectives if they want. They can pursue forming or destroying collectives. Since every individual is treated as not better than another in principle, a single vote isn't going to be treated any more than another's. The collective serves the individuals fairly, such as in merit.
In short, individuals are treated fairly, with freedom, with the consequences of their actions, and with the collective as second.
Hudson Parker
>he thinks you can’t own a gun in Illinois Big oof
Austin Watson
That is true, but when comes to individuality you cannot have it both ways, at least not for yourself. If you insist on your individuality coming before the collective body, you are no longer in a position to claim any kind of superiority over another person derived solely from the group you are a part of. You have dis-attached your personality from it and exist as a separate being with independent sources of significance.
Brody Ortiz
Superiority comes from the fact that individuals of the collective (America) are superior than the lesser individuals such as in rights, opportunities, influence, politics, culture, etc. It's a comparison of the state/position between individuals. In this, Americans are superior.
Brandon Cook
>a slavbug talking about individuality topkek
Sebastian Sanchez
Shocked to see an American superiority thread with no Zeihan.
Maximum boomerposting. None of this makes sense relative to the other portions or reality. >They can pursue joining a collective or refusing to join collectives if they want. You don't get to refuse a variety of collectives. You are a part of your racial group, you don't get to deny it. It is irrelevant whether or not you want to be in the group, you're in it if other people in their own collectives decide to put you there. You absolutely aren't free to pursue your own collectives, there is zero respect for private association anymore, if you go against the grain hard enough you get to lose your job, your family and friends, you banking and business, your opportunities, your speech, all of it, just for wrongthink and often for low levels of wrongthink. The Proud Boys and Alex Jones are exemplars of this lesson, they are a milquetoast as it comes on a wide swath of issues but they still get struck down. >The collective serves the individuals fairly, such as in merit. This has literally never happened in the US and you're beyond retarded if you believe it has. At all times there has been a dominant culture that has run things that has not been meritocratic.
I would agree, but only to the extent of well-being (which is still debatable, because European countries, for example, simply value different things than Americans, but nevertheless). Significance is a completely different thing that requires either the individual to have personal worth, or to attribute themselves to a group and try to obtain some relevance from its collective body.
Jacob Watson
You're only defined by your racial group if you decide to work on the Democrap plantation. Otherwise your an American.
Jonathan Evans
bump
Cooper Gray
Bumppppp for red white and blue truth of the ages. Fuck off earth. We're too good for you and you don't deserve us.