Common sense at record highs
American Pride Remains Near Record Low
Submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://news.gallup.com/poll/646655/american-pride-remains-near-record-low.aspx
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
67% combined share of Americans who are extremely or very proud [to be American]
That’s WAY too fucking high
schwim@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Not only am I embarrassed by the US and it’s inhabitants, my family has been planning an international move for some time. Once we are no longer caring for the elders in the family, we will make our exit stage right.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It will probably be too late by then
schwim@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Doubtful that it will be for us, we’re fairly well insulated from the goings on around us, income/Bureaucracy wise.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 months ago
You just went full empire, man. Never go full empire.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
Naw, it ain’t going full empire.
You can get a certain pride in going full empire. You can pretend that you deserve the power as you are the peak of civilization bearing the white man’s burden to run the world. It is really hard to have that pride in Trump unless you’re really fucking dumb.
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I haven’t seen Tropic Thunder and the way this comment is written makes me completely unsure if it’s paraphrasing a line from the movie
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fucking good.
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, GIR. That’s bad. Giving an extra fuck about the place where you live helps combat things going to shit through the tragedy of the commons. The fact that toxic people have made am awful version of it doesn’t change c the fact that it’s a positive thing. Don’t let the cunts take it away. Please take pride in where you live, and I will take pride in where I live, and we can show off our homes to each other.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Please take pride in where you live, and I will take pride in where I live, and we can show off our homes to each other.
They are not taking pride in their local environment or even their fellow citizens. Pride in America is pride for the system that bears that name, the system of oppression, genocide, war, and death so that its masters can live in luxury. And that system is fucking disgusting.
Giving an extra fuck about the place where you live helps combat things going to shit through the tragedy of the commons.
In fact, pride for America requires putting America’s system first before the environment and its citizens it claims to represent. It is antithetical to “giving an extra fuck about” anything other than the evil machine that America represents.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You shouldn’t be proud of a location just because some ditzy cunt squeezed you out on a specific bit of dirt.
Be proud of what you and your neighbors do to improve the place. And if that isn’t enough to be proud of, do better.
orcrist@lemm.ee 4 months ago
We should take pride in what we do and create and believe in, not where we live. I’m happy that many Americans are realizing that there are many bad aspects of the country, and that it’s OK to admit that.
Lexam@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
But we just had a whole month dedicated to pride. Come on guys we can do this!
masquenox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The fact that there are any “proud Americans” shows what a joke the subject of history must be in US high schools.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I was a junior in 2001. Had an elective history class that a lot of honors students, myself included, were in. This particular class was called “Holocaust”, and it was basically German history 1930-1945.
That teacher was very easy to take off track. One day, late October, we got to talking about the PATRIOT act. I remember being totally in awe of how many people, my peers, were in favor of it, and didn’t see it as a bad idea.
demizerone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nothing will fundamentally change. ~ Joseph R. Biden
Well we had one thing change. Our pride.
BertramDitore@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s very weird to me that it’s republicans who are more proud than democrats. Republicans are the ones who say the country is a crime-filled shithole full of woke gay black trans people who care about humans rights, and they think those are bad things. So what are they proud of?
I’m proud that we have all those types of people and more, and that we’ve made some progress in getting them a semblance of equality, but I’m ashamed that we’re still not quite there yet and even the pittances we’ve won have taken so freaking long and have been met with such resistance from the right.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They’re proud of the real America. Those others in this country don’t count and need to be eliminated.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
I’m proud to be an american, where they’re sleeping in the streets.
And I won’t forget the man who died, while “resisting” the police.
And I’ll proudly stand up for barbecue, if it’s what’s on sale today.
Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land. But screw the libs and gays!
AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s also really strange that conservatives love gutting the government… Which is a pretty big part of what makes a country. They they love that flag.
TheClockStruck13@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think if you asked them with open mind you’d find a very different conclusion