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Didn’t they throw a fit about this last year too?
Snowflakes gonna snowflake
broflake conservatives gonna cry and whine about literally everything.
I don’t know why I bother even reading articles anymore. Zero information about the actual content of the song so now I have to go research it myself.
I first heard Lift Every Voice and Sing in high school (which was back in the 90s, I’m old) and I liked it, much better than the official national anthem. It acknowledges the atrocities of the past while being hopeful of the future instead of the usual “rah rah our country is the greatest” crap.
But is it styled after a British drinking song? That’s the best thing about the current anthem.
Not even a very good one, at that!
Too much religion at the end for my taste, but I really like the rest of it.
Agreed, but since there are multiple verses, the last one can simply be omitted according to preference.
The really funny thing about this article and about the comments is that some asshole wrote “sends MAGA into meltdown” trying to equate just a few people’s opinion as that of an entire “movement’s” (if you could even call it a movement, I think the term MAGA shouldn’t even refer to any group of people - it’s simply an expression that people can have without referring to anything else at all. But whatever) opinion. That not just wrong, it’s incredibly lazy opinion writing under the guise of journalism. To read that and not just ignore it does not applaude one’s judgement when it comes to information that needs to be shared. This is made worse by taking it seriously and then reflecting its lazy judgement towards a large portion of the population and further claiming that they are racists. Believing in a false claim of a meltdown, then arguing its validity AND throwing in racism is so absurd in its duplicity, that’s it comes across like a claim that a 6th grader might make. And that is a serious take. Anyone with any reasonable adult intelligence should be able to critically judge what is written as news these days, but that, unfortunately does not seem to be the case.
You seem like you’re having a meltdown.
FUCK MAGA. Every single one of them can fuck right off. They are babies, snowflakes, mouth breathing morons. They can’t think for themselves, they have to be told how to feel. I wish these lemmings would walk out into the ocean and feed the sharks.
Hey now, maybe don’t insult the lemmings on Lemmy?
People on Lemmy are just as bad.
You forgot racist too
That’s a big one too.
They said MAGA already
The sharks don’t want 'em. 🤮
They’re worthless traitor filth. A waste of carbon.
They want to be Russia so bad airdrop them over Russia. 🤷
No chutes though, save the tax dollars.
They DO hate federal spending.
I was doubtful right leaning media cared, but quite clearly it’s being heavily covered by such media.
https://ground.news/article/black-national-anthem-sends-maga-into-meltdown_c255a4
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The Star-Spangled Banner is pro-slavery shit. No wonder MAGA loves it.
“I’m STILL not standing for this divisive garbage. One nation. One anthem.”
But kneeling during the national anthem was such utter disrespect that players should be fired?
God. These people are insufferable.
Every complaint they make has a big old exception hole that they jump through.
But kneeling during the national anthem was such utter disrespect that players should be fired?
Yeah, cause that was the good Christian White People anthem, not the evil BLM Antifa Communist Hate-American anthem.
Let’s not forget that Kap got that suggestion from a Soldier. These asshats don’t bother with context or nuance, it’s all just too woke
Bruh I got into such an intense argument with my parents because I defended the BLM protests. They came at me hardcore for “violence” and “destruction of property”. I asked them what the hell protestors were supposed to do to draw attention to their cause, and they told me that they would have respected a “peaceful protest”.
I then pointed out the fact that Colin Kaepernick’s career still hasn’t recovered, and that they themselves haven’t watched an NFL game since then…so no, they wouldn’t. My dad then of course whipped out his favorite “insult”: “Fucking Liberal”, and then proceeded to tell me that I have no respect for the flag.
The inability for them to think critically is absolutely astounding.
The inability for them to think critically is absolutely astounding.
They’re coming from an emotional place. They feel things and scramble for words to express it. You can’t use facts with someone who doesn’t care about them. It’s all emotion.
Family is the worst when it comes to this stuff. Mine is all military, it is fucking WILD to me to hear all the old grunts who’d kill a commie for being red back when we were in a Cold War…now they’re telling me why this orange guy says the truth. Propaganda is a hell of a drug
It’s really wild to me, tbh. The military is what made me as Progressive as I am. My father served as well during Desert Storm in the USMC. He traveled around too. Yet I grew up in an extremely conservative household.
I wonder what yours says when trying to reconcile their own cognitive dissonance. It wasn’t that long ago that we were actively against Russia FFS,
My dad did 4 in the navy and got out chillin on ships and seeing some places, I haven’t talked to him for a long time cause he burned that bridge in other traditional shitty family ways,. Over covid out of the blue he commented on Facebook on one of my posts that protestors aren’t a problem if we shoot them, and that I’m “a pussy lib who hates America.”
I’m 100% with the VA for injuries sustained in an IED blast. ^(and he knows that)
Bruh, I am so fucking sorry that not only does your father seem uncaring in general (going off the “traditional shitty family ways” comment), but the fact that he completely disregarded the very real sacrifice you endured for the United States in general sounds like the most unbelievably frustrating and demoralizing thing ever. I’ve been fortunate enough to never deploy to a combat zone (all of my deployments have been to friendly zones), and I cannot imagine what you’ve been through, and how you’re contending with a family member disregarding it. I hope you have all the support in the world my dude!
It sounds like they just want to be mad at black people
They came at me hardcore for “violence” and “destruction of property”.
Same as it ever was.
Nobody question how much of that damage was caused by squad cars plowing through pedestrian traffic and beanbag rounds crashing through store fronts. Nobody ask why there’s a cop’s night stick protruding from your windshield.
Its those damned violent extremist protesters, I tell you.
proceeded to tell me that I have no respect for the flag
Hey, listen. Maybe if the price of toilet paper hadn’t risen so quickly, you’d be right. But I respect the shit out of some cheap disposable material when I’m in a tight spot.
Kapernick’s day has long passed because of this. But I think the base issue was that he wasn’t good enough as a player to get away with it. For example: Mahomes would get a pass.
The NFL is replete with examples of them turning a blind eye to a player’s actions IF they are good enough. See: DUI and domestic abuse cases against players. Like say Deshaun Watson…
I’ve made that same argument so many times. Weaselly maga jackasses can’t even stay consistent with their own tortured logic.
She forgot the “ein Volk and ein Fürer” bit of the phrase. I’m sure it was just a minor oversight.
Doesn’t take much to rile up the Trumpanzees.
There are so many snowflakes that you can trigger an avalanche by sneezing.
Former Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake responded to a picture showing her sitting down during a performance of the hymn at last year’s Super Bowl. Lake said on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday: “I’m STILL not standing for this divisive garbage. One nation. One anthem.”
If she really thought that she’d stand the fuck up.
“Me either!!!”, added Greg Abbott
Oh, so if she wasn’t standing, was she kneeling then? Is it ok for them to kneel during the national anthem now?
Does anybody actually like virtue signalling? I feel like the people who this is supposed to “pander” to are either
- dying of cringe
- Don’t care
- Able to see through it being the scam it is
- More worried about more important things, eg, Palestine
And everyone who doesn’t like it just gets mad.
It’s like they’re trying to sow division or something to turn the working class against each other
It has to start somewhere. Today it’s virtue signaling, tomorrow it’s normal and expected.
Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons can still be a win.
what is this from?
Megg Mogg and Owl by Simon Hansellman. I think that panel is from the covid comics they made for Instagram but I don’t really remember. That series was called Crisis Zone.
Looks like an excellent setup for a new Dimension 20 season.
My nightmares
I’m not even riled up by the fact that they are riled up. I just do not care either way about a song.
I’m all riled up because I never knew there was something referred to as a “black national anthem”. I don’t pay much attention to popular culture, but something like this could actually have meaning to some people, so I wish I knew about it
What doesn’t send them into a meltdown? It’s almost like they’re the things that melt easily that they’re so fond of calling everyone else.
They don’t call America a melting pot for nothing ;)
They got upset by an energy savings change on Xbox, lmao
Old enough to remember when they went berserk over florescent light bulbs.
Old enough to remember when they lost their minds, because Obama suggested they check their tire pressure.
CFLs were kinda shit tho. I’m so happy LED became standard.
The mercury was bad
LEDs are definitely an improvement on an improvement. But I’ll never get why people got angry at bulbs that were cooler, brighter, and cheaper by life expectancy than their old filament bulb counterparts.
Reactance. They didn’t feel like they had a choice. CFLs were different and buzzy and the color was off.
Reactance. They didn’t feel like they had a choice.
Only because they weren’t a sizable market share.
CFLs were different and buzzy and the color was off.
Engineering problems that were solved within a few iterations. But by then LEDs that were better and cheaper were hitting the market and the argument became moot.
Now my biggest problem with modern light bulbs is the absurd market-ups relative to what they cost everywhere else on the planet.
Just like their bigoted positions on LGBTQ+ rights. Like, nobody is forcing you to identify as one. It’s literally as respecting someone to be called John instead of Johnathan.
Then righties go, “bUT I dONt lIkE tHaT nAMe!”
So much for individual freedumb I guess.
Cheeses? Do they melt like various cheeses? Mmmm cheeses.
That would at least explain the saggy orange thing they worship. lol
Damn you its time for brie.
