anyone else like.. american born and/or raised and like.. sort of traumatized by the sight of the american flag? like, idk if I know how to explain it
like. we’ve been raised all our lives, taught to be pledging and saluting to it. But like, even then it’s meaning felt hollow? and now every time you see it, whether its just on the average american’s lawn or building flagpole, or set up during celebrations/holidays, the only thing you feel when looking at it is cold fearful detachment or regret and anger because everything that you’ve grown up to associate with it is everything you learned you never wanted to be part of?
The more often I see the American flag, the more it pains me. It is supposed to be a symbol of our country and that is the problem- our country at this time does not deserve our praise and admiration because of every bit of hurt it we are going through, so why should we see it’s main symbol and not recoil?
It has always been a symbol of oppression, imperialism and racism to many
Please, please be gentle and think about what you’re saying when you’re talking to children. I met a woman in her 60s-70s the other day who was nervous about her new haircut not having bangs because someone told her she had a large forehead way back when she was 12 and she still felt self-conscious about it not being covered up. Your words really can affect a kid’s life that far into their adult future.
funniest thing about mettaton not actually being ai is that none of the traditional robot gotchas would work on him. someone tells him to count how many grains of sand there are on a beach and he just tells them to fuck off
Bold of you to assume he wouldn’t show off every single grain of sand while doing a flashy pose until the person who asked him regrets everything
the concept of irredeemable media is already pretty ummm but to list a webcomic and a kids tv show as your foremost examples of what the hell that may be is so fjjdnskansg
