Recently, at the Olympics, Gabby Douglas was criticized...

Fk the US, horrible country.

 

Not sure why the military pic is in there with the rest. They are standing at attention which is proper form for those in military service.

 

honestly, the US has some weird as beliefs that nobody in the world shares with them, but they got mental over

 

Like islamists, just more victims

 

Another fake controversy like the starbucks war on christmas lie from december.

contrary to sensational outrage media headlines, nobody actually gives a sh|t about the athlete's hand over her heart.

 

Then why did media cover it so extensively before?

 

because trying to convince people that irrelevant things are worth your attention and emotional investment is more profitable for The Media at large than actually going, finding, and discussing potentially worthwhile cases


also, saying "no one cares" is just about always wrong. were you to instead say "no one that's not a disgrace to humanity cares", i think you'd be closer to the truth.

 

I forget that you guys only have corporate media and they have to adhere to big money interests.

/stabby stab

I guess so. There were probably enough nutjobs that thought christmas was under attack. Or whatever else comes up

 

Dunno, from what I can tell Fox News was every bit in there as the others. But who knows.

Media in america is weird to me.

 

dagda ban incoming

 

It's also a ridiculous violation of European culture and values. Why shouldn't people be able to dress like they want?

But France always had some fascist sympathies with their militarism, one-size-fits-all school system and that crap. Well, by far not as bad as the US, to be fair.

 

Honestly I would purposefully not respect the national anthem, possibly even to purposefully piss people who would be offended off.
A: What, is there something horrid about not likeing the country you were born in? I'm pretty sure most Americans would cheer on a North Korean openly rejecting the national anthem.
B: "But, America is different then other countries! Those are bad!" No, it isn't actually. Not relatively anyway- America is statistically pretty much the worst in nearly every aspect out of any of the first world countries. That alone is good enough reason to dislike it... Putting aside the possibility of hating American politics, which are often far more right wing then nearly every other first world country- We're the oy first world country in existence that debates this much about free healthcare, for example, or has the death penalty (hell, we're so isolated on that issue no one will even send us the drugs to kill inmates anymore and have given at least one inmate an extremely unpleasant death because of it).
Oh, and that's not even *mentioning* the fact that if you were to actually sing the anthem yourself your progressing belief in a monotheistic god... so Hindus, Buddhists, pagans, atheists and likely others might not only not want to respect the anthem but could be offended by it.
There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to not respect the anthem. In fact, the fact that people are so offended by the idea of not respecting it only makes me disrespect it more... Because it represents a country with so many of those people in it.

 

you have to look at it from an American point of view. we already live in the best country, so to disrespect it is crazy. for other countries, sure, but for America? outrageous

have a nice day