The #US #Military thinks they own the skies wherever they fly and that they don't have to abide by any "civilian" rules and regulations.

Also, we need to stop this practice of military "fly overs". Ignoring the abject #jingoism, they're dangerous as fuck! #FAA #safety #DCA #Delta

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5344430/delta-plane-dca-close-call-air-force

US Senator Carl #Schurz of Utah once said, in a speech before the Senate,

My country, right or wrong; when right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be set right.

The nationalistic fervor I'm seeing in Canada creeps me out. The Canadian flag is not the great balm for the soul so many settlers think it is. It is a symbol of colonial oppression for Indigenous folks. It wasn't so long ago that those hidden graves at residential schools were discovered. More continue to be found at the sites of former residential schools, and genocide deniers have been taking over the narrative.

Indigenous communities still remain without drinking water despite political promises even while Nestle plunders nearby water sources.

A large percentage of calls to action for Truth and Reconciliation remain unmet.

I see the jingoistic flag-waving disturbing and alienating. I've already had people laughing at my alienation.

Do not alienate Indigenous people. As Jeff Doctor says over on BlueSky, "Remember who taught you about maple trees, about the food from these lands, the ways to keep safe and warm. Some of your ancestors have already resisted Americans alongside ours, learn from the true histories, not the nationalist versions."
https://bsky.app/profile/jeff.doctor/post/3liaarncgwf2x
#Canada #CanadianFlag #MapleLeafFlag #215Children #ResidentialSchool #Jingoism #TruthAndReconciliation #SystemicRacism #Genocide

Ok, just got this text… because I’m on their spam list and I can’t get off of it because they keep sending insane shit like this…

That’s one classy t-shirt, I’ll tell ya what!

[thread] Jingoism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

* nationalism as aggressive & proactive foreign policy
* threats or actual force (as opp. to peaceful relations) to safeguard perceived national interests
* colloquially: jingoism is excessive bias in judging one's own country superior to others
* extreme type of nationalism

#jingoism #UnitedStates #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#InternationalRelations #nationalism #Imperialism #neocolonialism
#ForeignPolicy #sovereignty

@Lydie

They are also found all over the semi rural areas of WA, OR and ID..

Sort of my native region so I know it to be true. Can't speak to the southwestern states, but would be surprised if #Nazis were not found there as well. They seem to be everywhere..

Decades of #theofascist assault on Public Ed. & media, coupled with generational poverty and #racism, too many #Guns, #2A fetishes and #jingoism

Sigh...

Sometimes I get a #word stuck in my head so I have to go look it up

Today's is "#Jingoism"

It's #etymology is facinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

It originated in a song sang by the #British during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877

> We don't want to fight but by #Jingo if we do
> We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too

It came to symbolize national chauvanism

The phrase "by jingo" is a "minced oath" to avoid saying "by god", so jingoism shares that with "bigot"

I would not normally link to something in Threads, but this is a really good discussion to read -- but not to post in -- if you're from the USA (like I am). I like to think I am pretty aware of the sort of arrogant and ignorant beliefs discussed in the thread, but I discovered quite a few new ones that I am guilty of myself.

#USA #AmericanExceptionalism #arrogance #chauvinism #jingoism #patriotism #isolationism #CulturalBlinders #UglyAmericans

https://www.threads.net/@kristenzeta/post/C-ZVgx6SQxn/?xmt=AQGz1DO0zWj27qjTwnoAj_Vo5Be74Ql1sU5nU6IzkUUljw

#BarelySatire, and it will be the exact same situation here in the USA.

>Proud patriot ready to vicariously celebrate achievements of British athletes he’s never heard of in sports he didn’t know existed https://newsthump.com/2024/07/26/proud-patriot-ready-to-vicariously-celebrate-achievements-of-british-athletes-hes-never-heard-of-in-sports-he-didnt-know-existed/

@peachfront @JuliusGoat

Well said.

#warcrimes
#EatTheRich

#War is generally about #RichPeople sending #PoorPeople to fight with other PoorPeople about #Resources some other RichPeople lay claim to.

Of course it is always wrapped up in #patriotism, #nationalism, #jingoism and often #religion so that both can be convinced of the integrity and purity of their convictions.

Poor people die, and the rich people who own the factories that make the weapons - grow more wealthy and powerful

Sometimes this is blatant and open #jingoism. Sometimes they put a (thin!) veneer of tempering language over it, but it is there and in your face in all schoolbooks. Even lower levels of university have that little riptide of #AmerikaUberAlles in their textbooks.

But this isn't true in #China.

The #Chinese equivalent of a social studies class is "Politics" and of course there's also "History" as a topic. And the textbooks for both of these have a dearth of this variety of jingoism.

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