Well in name, they tried to market themselves as an alternative brand. Alt-socialism, maybe?
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SO they finally got rid of “under god”? When did this happen?
The formal adoption as a pledge by the congress was 1942 - flag code blablabla. The text changed over time, more than once.
New socialists; no quorum. Nope nopity nope deprecated nope. Speaking of which, why would a sensible legislator do this before XOXO if they didn’t have a diverse set of State and regional emoji stickers on $nonhorrid_social_networks to introduce during the event? It doesn’t smell like 11% for Arts as is. Critical procedural fail, or chili solidarity last stand?
Come’n a Dallas and check out our Cheddar Cave!
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And this is why whenever someone in Texas says “We want to leave the US”, I reply back with “I’ll help you pack your bags and hold the door so you can leave!”
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I wonder how many kids do what I did. I just held my tongue for the “under God” and picked back up with “indivisible…” I don’t think anyone ever noticed, or at least no one ever said anything.
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Unicode 10.0 (due out in mid-2017) will include Emoji tag sequences for sub-regional flags (states, provinces, French départements, the UK home nations, etc.). See http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-10.html#flag-emoji-tag-sequences.
It’s unspecified which nations’ subregions should be supported, but I’d be astonished if anyone implemented this and didn’t include Texas.
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I hope it’s not in there 
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Just because a word is misused at some point in history doesn’t mean we should continue the farce forever after. The Nazis weren’t socialists, Hitler wasn’t a vegetarian, and the current Republican party isn’t conservative.
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See above. @nemomen has a link that says it required as of 2003. Presumably, you were out of school by then?
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That piece of conservative historical fiction can die already. It’s just not true.
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Definitely was out by then. I’ll have to ask someone with kids in the system if they had to do it.
Of course, one of the benefits of a weak-government state is that you can mostly just ignore their requirements without consequence. Good enough for the oil industry, good enough for me.
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I’d also suggest that “Democratic” doesn’t make the DPRK a democracy.
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in the same way that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is democratic.
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i was going to say “gerrymandering”, because austin is split into a lot of long skinny districts, some of which reach to the border. in this case, it looks like “lowering the bar” ( and, therefore, @doctorow ) was wrong about the district. it’s tom oliverson (r-cypress). basically, a suburb of houston.
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He actually represents Cypress, which is outside of Houston. Austin’s state reps are busy fighting the good fight.
Aaaand… gatto beat me to it.
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My kids had to say the Texas flag pledge, until I sent the school a letter saying they didn’t if they didn’t want to.
Personally I haven’t recited the pledge of allegiance since I turned 18. I’ll stand, I’ll put my hand on my heart, but that’s it.
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Yes - in NAME - they branded their style as “National Socialism”. And while they certainly weren’t pro-capitalist, it wasn’t what we would call today Marxist socialism or democratic socialism. Someone branding something “socialist” can have a myriad of different meanings. Even today the way it is used is very muddy. Yet like a lot of things the Nazis did, it gave it additional baggage to the term.
As for the vegetarian thing, I thought there was ample evidence he cut out meat later in life and had horrible gastric issues, compounded by the fact that his “doctor” was giving him pills with poison in them.
But anyway, my piss poor analogies aside, I still contend the Pledge isn’t comparable to the Nazis.
How about this - Hitler had a mustache, liked to wave flags, and dress om para-military gear, that doesn’t mean mustaches/flags/paramilitary gear equals fascism.
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I did that, but picked up with “invisible”…
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