Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick named the bill one of his legislative priorities after Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, stopped playing the anthem before home games.
I haven’t looked up the researcher, but there are researchers of chiropractic ‘science’ as well.
What I am saying is that calling it a religion is taking it a bit far. Personally I feel like its more this stupid thing “if you dont want to sing the american song or do this and that you coul just move to another country” meme
Every country has to have some sort of debate on the issue. Norway has the debate regarding if you can have other flags than the Norwgian flags on consitutuion day. Luckily it seems like we ar emoving towards (It’s always been legal) that people are free to flag whatever flag of nationality they want without people getting angry. And that instead people just gotta work hard so that immigrants and refugees are proud to raise the Norwegian flag in addition to their birth or ancestral nation’s flag.
I haven’t looked up the researcher, but there are researchers of chiropractic ‘science’ as well.
you didn’t agree with him and thought yeah, he must be some nutjob?
there are many things about American nationalism that really resemble a religion, imagine it like this, every morning at school you pray to a flag and your classmates accompany you in the ritual, that flag is so important that an athlete makes national news for having a pose that’s considered against the flag code. then suddenly your state dicides those teams that don’t play the national anthem aren’t faithful enough, so let’s stop the funding. and you’ve got “in God we trust” on your dollors, and your supreme court says it’s not religious, and votes for it to remain this way. and your politicians always pray at the end of their speeches, and everyone believes in a redemption called the American Dream^TM , and guns are the holy objects that are held more valuable than human lives, and then you’ve got this superiority complex that makes you think your the most righteous. should I go on and talk about evangelicals too?
at what point does it stop being just nationalism and becomes a religion? considering that most definitions of religion don’t even exclude fandoms or consumerism, it’s not controversial to say that.
now does Norway really compare to this? when was the last time you invaded a country because God had told your president to do so? what you describe is more like trying to remain a nation with the same collective identity.
I don’t know how the ideas of an actual researcher means lemmy is crazy, care to elaborate?
I haven’t looked up the researcher, but there are researchers of chiropractic ‘science’ as well.
What I am saying is that calling it a religion is taking it a bit far. Personally I feel like its more this stupid thing “if you dont want to sing the american song or do this and that you coul just move to another country” meme
Every country has to have some sort of debate on the issue. Norway has the debate regarding if you can have other flags than the Norwgian flags on consitutuion day. Luckily it seems like we ar emoving towards (It’s always been legal) that people are free to flag whatever flag of nationality they want without people getting angry. And that instead people just gotta work hard so that immigrants and refugees are proud to raise the Norwegian flag in addition to their birth or ancestral nation’s flag.
you didn’t agree with him and thought yeah, he must be some nutjob?
there are many things about American nationalism that really resemble a religion, imagine it like this, every morning at school you pray to a flag and your classmates accompany you in the ritual, that flag is so important that an athlete makes national news for having a pose that’s considered against the flag code. then suddenly your state dicides those teams that don’t play the national anthem aren’t faithful enough, so let’s stop the funding. and you’ve got “in God we trust” on your dollors, and your supreme court says it’s not religious, and votes for it to remain this way. and your politicians always pray at the end of their speeches, and everyone believes in a redemption called the American Dream^TM , and guns are the holy objects that are held more valuable than human lives, and then you’ve got this superiority complex that makes you think your the most righteous. should I go on and talk about evangelicals too?
at what point does it stop being just nationalism and becomes a religion? considering that most definitions of religion don’t even exclude fandoms or consumerism, it’s not controversial to say that.
now does Norway really compare to this? when was the last time you invaded a country because God had told your president to do so? what you describe is more like trying to remain a nation with the same collective identity.