do u guys understand how creepy the pledge of allegiance is though like every day when ur a kid everybody just chants how great america is every morning it’s creepy
You do that every morning???
EVERY MORNING.
wait
wait
is this a real thing i thought that was just in the simpsons
no son
Wait, other countries don’t do this.
*whispers* Not even Russia
I remember when my dad had a conversation with me
because I asked him what the Austrian pledge of allegiance was (because he’s from Austria)
and he said “we don’t have a pledge of allegiance”
and I said “why not?”
“honey, think about what training your children to mindlessly pledge to a flag, without really knowing what they’re talking about, sounds like to Austrians”
“oh. hitler.”
“exactly”
RE FUCKING TWEET
EVERY - FUCKING - DAY?!?!??!!!!!
Yep, every day. When you’re made to do it daily from childhood, you don’t realize how fucked up it really is.
Hate to slap on a story here, but you know what honestly sucks? You used to get punished and belittled if you didn’t do the pledge. I found it really creepy when we first started to learn it and would normally do stuff like mouth the words, replace with other words, or keep my head down while they spoke so no one could see if I was doing it or not. Teachers of course didn’t like that.
I remember a lot of my teachers yelling, calling me a privileged brat, refusing to start class, even threatening to call my parents because the pledge didn’t fly with me. One even started going on about how I was part of a “devil cult” and that I should fear god cause I’m CLEARLY a catholic (she was white, stereotyping a tiny Mexican with no religion, you can see where this goes). Another actually grabbed her fucking keys and chucked them into the wall, nearly hitting a kid and also stabbing them deep in the wall because I didn’t even want to stand up that day. I remember every horrible interaction with it and every word they threw at me, all because I wouldn’t pledge to an old flag innan old classroom.
But, I also remember the first day of high school. The kids rose up dead on schedule, all hands on their heart, and I remained in my seat with my eyes closed tight. But when the chants didn’t come, I opened them to find my new history teacher standing in front of class with her arms crossed over her chest and a sharp glare that silenced everyone. “No, we’re not mindless drones, we don’t do that at this school. If you wanna pledge yourself to this nation like that every day you can do that at home, but in this class we’re gonna learn what that kind of hive mentality has done in the past. Now everyone sit down, and let’s start learning something much, much more fun.”
Never have I ever wanted to cry so hard in class. She later pulled me aside to tell me she was proud I tried to sit through it and reassured me it wasn’t something to be ashamed about. I saw through the lie, and she nor any other teacher there was going to punish me for it.
I love where I live. I was born and raised here, I’m as American as they come. But the pledge is an absolute nightmare that’s taught from kindergarten up, and honestly? It’s not even in our constitution to do it, as many try to argue it is. The pledge was a late 19th century scare tactic that was created specifically against the oncoming pour of immigrants, based deeply in racism and to “ensure” that they truly were a part of this country.
“If you can’t pledge your loyalty every day to this flag, then you are scum, you’re not allowed to exist here.”
Nothing but a scare tactic, nothing but old nationalism.
When i was in elementary school, we had TVs mounted on the walls fro the school news (basically lunch, school events and the pledge) each mornign and 1 kid from each grade would be selected at random a day in advance to do the pledge. when i was selected, i didnt really want to do it because I knew i would get nervous on the camera (i had froze during the school play the year before and someone else had to do the only line i had in it) but i was guilted by the teachers because “it was my civic duty” so the following morning, when it came time to do the morning school news and the pledge, i froze up. 5 other kids did the pledge and i just stood there silent. I didnt even hate this country back them i was just an undiagnosed autistic kid with stage fright. but that still got a lot of backlash. I got suspended for 2 days and when i got back the bullying was even worse including other students accusing me of being a terrorist (this was post 9/11) and looking back on it, its just generally creepy as fuck that every student is being indoctrinated into a militant national mindset since the moment they enter school.
Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people don’t just “have pain for no reason” doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that “well some people just have pain for no reason” get a new doctor. That’s a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.
I just wanna add to clarify the psychosomatic thing.
That word DOES NOT MEAN you’re making it up. It doesn’t mean you’re imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISN’T DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.
I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldn’t see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.
My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasn’t imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadn’t even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going “HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????”
He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.
Psychosomatic symptoms are NOT imagined or fabricated or happening for “no reason”. Experiencing them DOES NOT make you a liar. It makes you someone who has been battling with something serious for so long that your own body has started to get impatient with you.
I completely agree. Thank you for sharing this.
Psychosomatic symptoms are literally your body flipping random alarm switches just to get any alarm blaring because you’ve been ignoring the regular ones
silver-tongues-blog asked: fun fact, if jesus was real he would have been born closer to april or may. the reason why 25th is christmas is because it was a ritual involving the winter solstace that christianity appropriated
Yep I know that, because shepherds n shit wouldn’t be out and about like that in the buttass winter for one thing
Christianity basically cannibalized Peganism in to a part of their own religion and it’s really gross. But they tend to do this to any cultures they can get their hands on, forcing them to change traditions or molding their traditions to Christianity in order to make forcing them easier.
The cross worn around the neck? That’s because of Thor’s hammer being flipped around. Pegans wore Thor’s hammer, it got turned in to a cross which is why it even has the shape it does instead of what Jesus’ actual cross likely looked like:
Thor’s hammer:
Pegan/Christian Thor’s Hammer/Cross combo:
It was a weird compromise where Vikings were like “well I guess we’ll worship the Christian god, too, along with our other gods just so they leave us alone”
They even tried to make the Pentagram a christian symbol by claiming it was the 5 wounds of Christ.
A white man was throwing racial slurs at a Black FedEx Driver. He started Punching the driver, the FedEx driver punched him back one time, killing the man with One Punch.
