2024: hold my beer

And not just in the US.

Does this mean if we see a display like this today, a lot of people are about to make another bad decision?

It has actually been described as such. (It’s called Civic Religion) Many countries have elements of this, like France or the Soviet Union.

There’s probably like 40% of us, at least, who aren’t jingoistic fuckbrains.

There are few large countries in the world where this isn’t the case. Nationalism, in general, is absolutely a cult.

It kinda is

Pretty much. Secular education tends to begin with Columbus sailing across the Atlantic and seldom ventures north or south of our boarders – let alone touch on the rest of the planet until World War 2, after which a lot of curriculums just end. Elective courses are better… which is why nearly every year at least one of the states try to ban them.

Most of our protestant schooling likes to make special note of the fact that people fled here to escape religious persecution, that this or that sect wouldn’t be possible without American Freedoms™. Hell, Mormon scripture straight up says the US is a promised holy land.

No, it’s just what’s on my passport. There’s not much I can do about it.

They call themselves Patriots. They are a cult.

A price to die for

It’s s twin tower sale

This is solid level 2 Walmart art.

There are 7.5 known levels.

1307 – Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy.