hairy_hen said:

I am wary and distrustful of anything to do with flags or nationalism in any form. Most of it is a bunch of hyper-masculine prick-waving, designed to keep a somnambulant public from questioning their masters, tossing about largely empty and ill-defined notions like 'freedom' while playing up arrogance and cultural superiority as justification for all kinds of horrible things.

George Carlin nailed it when he reduced this to what it's really about by describing the Bigger Dick Foreign Policy Theory, which is best summed up as, "What? They have bigger dicks? Bomb them!" And as a corollary, "My god has a bigger dick than your god!"

You don't have to be an Angry Feminist Stereotype (tm) to see the illogical and ridiculous truth of this.

Nope, you just have to be anti-American, or a pacifist, or and extreme leftist. So freedom is an empty and ill-defined notion, and we bomb countries cause we think they have bigger dicks huh? wonderful. Here I thought that things like 911 and Pearl Harbor had something to do with why we bomb countries. What an idiot I am. You should go to the politics thread. I'd love to watch you debate Ferris, Xhonzi, and C3PX(whatever happened to Ferris and C3PX?). It would be great comedy.

ChainsawAsh said:

Exactly. It was originally "One Nation, indivisible," which I'm perfectly fine with (and I personally think makes more sense, anyway).

I guarantee you Ferris would strongly disagree with you on the indivisible part.