Thats not entirely accurate… they also seem to like poitless suffering

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It’s not pointless. It’s just the point isn’t good. Slave owning, poverty, imperialism, colonial violence is all rational and benefits them. It just doesn’t compute to us because we happen to be human, not demons.

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It’d be wild if that country had a national anthem that glorifies carnage and mythologizes a battle in a bourgeois revolution. Or maybe even if they forced their youth to pledge loyalty to that flag. I don’t know, I’m just spitballing. Sounds pretty cartoonish don’t you think?

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The Battle of Baltimore took place during the War of 1812, not the Revolutionary War, and it doesn’t really glorify the carnage since the poem is about the American defenders getting their teeth kicked in by the British Navy, but the flag remaining over the fort defending the entrance to the city till the British ran out of ammunition.

Despite that, the anthem still sucks. It was a good poem, but awful as a song. Pledge of allegiance is also absurd.

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What can I say, I’m a product of the American education system.

Edit: Lol now after reading more about what the poem is actually about it’s even worse than I originally thought. There’s more verses that become increasingly more deranged.

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Have you read the other verses? It gets worse

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Looking it up- holy shit, you’re right. And naturally the author was a slave-owner, an anti-abolitionist lawyer, and noted racist, which isn’t particularly surprising when one reads the third verse onwards

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Wow, it’s genuinely awful. Never read the entire original poem, but that’s disgusting, Key should have quit while he was ahead with the first verse.

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The kind of place that would put “In God We Trust” on the only thing they really worship, which is their money. Oh, but they also worship guns, so throw some bible verses on those too.

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Truly, property, and the right to defend it

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Also the US: “So there’s these black messiahs that could unify and liberate their people from us. Let’s kill as many of them as possible.”

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Probably one of the ugliest flag designs to ever exist

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Truly, America has left no corner of humanity unmolested, not even vexillology

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