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Actually, I would suggest that it's very irritating for many Americans to see that. Don't you think that blurs the message?
I'd never take issue with someone celebrating their heritage. I do take issue with someone celebrating a short lived, and failed coup, that wrapped up before their fathers' fathers' fathers were a seed. That isn't heritage, it's just racism, weakly masked as a rebellious identity.
 

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Not sure what to make of that - not sure if it even means anything at all, really. That it's self-assessed means you're filtering objective factors through highly-biased judgements. To me it suggests that some groups over-rate the usefulness and value of their work.

There are also huge variations within such groups - in particular, some teachers and journalists are considerably worse than useless, while others do extremely valuable work.

I also would bet that if you asked British journalists their self-assessment would be a lot lower than how their US equivalents rate themselves, because US journos are reknowned for their self-importance, the British media tarts for their cynicism (in all senses of that word).
 
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StinkyPinky

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So a sitting senator dragged out and arrested by the FBI for having the audacity to ask a loud question at a press conference.

I wasn't aware it was a crime to be a little bit rude.

The United States is very rapidly becoming a fascist police state and it scares me how quickly this is happening, and how so many people in this country are content for this to happen.
 
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"Using RevEye, a reverse image search tool, we found the original image shared by The Associated Press on May 9, 2025, captioned, "Russian servicemen attend the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 9, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II.""
 

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So a sitting senator dragged out and arrested by the FBI for having the audacity to ask a loud question at a press conference.

I wasn't aware it was a crime to be a little bit rude.

The United States is very rapidly becoming a fascist police state and it scares me how quickly this is happening, and how so many people in this country are content for this to happen.

The Republicans are using the same formula over and over again that comes straight out of the "Standing Up A Dictatorship For Dummies" tutorial as derived from the classic Hitler/Nazi methodology. Scare the masses shitless with fictitious diatribes about some/any segment of society they have picked as an existential threat and name themselves as the only answer to defeat that bogus threat that seemingly becomes more real and tangible the more their propagandistic rumor mongering machine (FOX) gets up and running with it.

Works every time on the hordes of clueless ignorant gullible folks who cannot muster a single synaptic nerve of independent thought. Like how a school of baitfish will instinctively form up into a tight ball for mutual defense against a perceived (real or contrived) threat.
 
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Actually, I would suggest that it's very irritating for many Americans to see that. Don't you think that blurs the message?

I get your point, but why does it seem it's only certain flags that trigger people?

Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Palestine, etc. really bother some folks. Yet an Israeli flag is just fine. Or Scandinavian countries.

If it's acceptable for some, it should be acceptable for all.

Personally, I'm more bothered by Confederate battle flags on hick-up trucks everywhere, since it came from seditionist assholes.
 
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I get your point, but why does it seem it's only certain flags that trigger people?

Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Palestine, etc. really bother some folks. Yet an Israeli flag is just fine. Or Scandinavian countries.

If it's acceptable for some, it should be acceptable for all.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation. Season 3, Episode 11, "The Hunted". First aired Jan 8, 1990.
35 years, 5 months, and 5 days ago.

A _little_ premature on the Irish reunification.

But maybe not off by that much. Though that is indeed the really, really awkward thing about terrorism - it sometimes works (contrary to the ridiculous line in the Liberal fantasy that is The West Wing, where one character - President Handsome Liberal, or one of his aides, I think - says something about it having a "100% failure rate"). Damn weird to hear that being acknowledged on Star Trek of all places, though.
 
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