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So many Americans are hopelessly nihilistic. I’m truly in awe of how many people I know who completely understand that they’re being robbed by the rich and that life under this system fucking sucks but won’t consider the possibility of changing it.
- When indoctrination starts at birth, it makes sense. They literally cannot imagine any other way.
  
  I never used to question the fact that we would say the pledge of allegiance everyday at school, but when I learned that basically nobody else does that, I was stupefied.
  
  As a Brit, I was stupefied when I (only recently) learned that you guys in the USA had to do that in school.
  
  I was one of the few lame dorks that actually stood and said the pledge deep into HS, in my experience most people slowly stopped giving a fuck around beginning of HS, rightly so
  
  What made you stop? The fact that literally no one else was doing it?
  
  Different person here but I can give my own reason.
  I stopped at the start of middle school. I was sorta just edgy while also hating he US military. More so to be a contrarian against my peers and specific adults, but that chip on my shoulder did come from me facing Islamaphobia growing up.
  From there, becuase I was a stubborn little asshole (well I'm still pretty stubborn, but hopefully more reasonable) I would do it to spite people who asked me to do it or if I understood what it meant.
  I don't think there was anything more annoying go my teenage self then somebody telling me:
  "Just because the pledge/the national anthem/other 'patriotic' thing symbolizes something you see as bad doesn't mean others think those things have the same meaning. So you should do them out of respect for others."
  Maybe my neurodivergent ass just doesn't get it, but that statement/sentiment infuriated me growing up, and I always found it insulting my intelligence. I came to be a leftist largely out of spite, contrararinism, and a longing to find flocks of other black sheep. I'm glad I started reading and enhanced my ideology into something actually coherent rather than stew in hatred and diverge into a more bitter person. A lot of those things still fuel some of my resolve, but I'm not guided by it like before. Ironically it was through materialism that I think I began to understand empathy.
  Apologies for rambling but I didn't know how to finish my thoughts and just let myself ramble for the sake of it.
  
  We also stand for the National Anthem at fucking everything.
  
  As an American, I absolutely believe we should change the national anthem to “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, more people know the lyrics, it relates more to the American experience than the actual anthem and it’s more catchy. I can’t see any other suggestions that fit this criteria more
- what can you do against the divine right of pedophiles to rob you blind?

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