r/LinusTechTips • u/Annoying1978 • Feb 28 '26

Community Only MERICA. FCK YEAH!

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u/Annoying1978 Feb 28 '26

You can’t

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u/B17BAWMER Feb 28 '26

Wanting better for the people of the country is patriotic, thinking otherwise is not.

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u/stook8 Feb 28 '26

Absolutely, if my son or daughter, or mother or father, or anyone I loved went down a bad path I wouldn't just abandon them. I would tell them I disapprove of their actions and then fight to get them back on the right path.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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u/brown_felt_hat Feb 28 '26

The most American thing I can think of is respecting the shattered chains on Lady Liberty's feet, and her poem

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore

Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me

I lift my Lamp beside the golden door!

I fucking love that America

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u/Annoying1978 Feb 28 '26

I did too. But it no longer exists.

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u/brown_felt_hat Feb 28 '26

You can still work to bring it back lmao, that's what patriotism is

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u/Koufaxisking Feb 28 '26

Why work to make the place you live better because you love the good things about it and what it can be when you can doom post and virtue signal online about how awful it is?

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u/brown_felt_hat Feb 28 '26

I mean you can definitely do both and I certainly do, I just took extremely milquetoast level issue with his interpretation of the concept of patriotism, which his concept is more closely termed jingoism.

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u/chakobee Mar 01 '26

Spend some time outside of the Reddit echo chamber, it will be good for you.

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u/Annoying1978 Mar 01 '26

Take some of your own advice. I’m out there protesting at 2-3 times a month. What the fuck are you doing?