• Gucci_Minh [he/him]
        hexbear
        28
        3 months ago

        They made us stand in the yard to listen to the anthem every Monday but I don't remember ever doing a pledge, but it might be different depending on city I guess.

        • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
          hexbear
          23
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          No, you're right. I conflated singing the national anthem with doing the pledge of allegiance. Although, it seems the purpose is similar.

        • CloutAtlas [he/him]
          hexbear
          12
          3 months ago

          We sang March of the Volunteers (the Chinese national anthem) on Mondays, there was never a pledge of allegiance.

    • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      17
      3 months ago

      When I was still living in AmeriKKKa, one kid in my 12th grade maths class taught me to start shitting on the pledge by calling it "corporate America" and things like "oil barons, Walmart, Lockheed Martin and Fox News", finishing off with "America deserved 9/11", something like that. But saying it in a way where it doesn't immediately stand out like me windmilling my piss on the Vietnam War Memorial, lmao

      • booty [he/him]
        hexbear
        6
        3 months ago

        God I wish I was that fucking cool as a 17 year old

        I always just pretended the pledge wasn't happening. I hoped a teacher would throw a fit about it tbh. They never did though

    • @headroom@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      8
      3 months ago

      In my country you had to pledge allegiance to the dead founder every morning. Some people lost their shit when it was lifted.