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Cake day: December 19th, 2023
  • klemptor@startrek.websitetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Pledge of allegiance is woke propagandaEnglish
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    10 days ago

    The biggest problem is that kids are reciting it without understanding the words they’re saying or the concepts they convey. When I was a little kid I was just repeating the syllables I was given, with no real idea about what it all meant*. Nobody should take any pledge until they can clearly explain what it means and what it means to them. And obviously a pledge should always be voluntary.

    *Same as forcing a kid to go through the sacraments but I digress.

  • klemptor@startrek.websitetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Still a better love story than twilightEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I just woke up and haven’t had any caffeine yet so you’re getting more or less a copy/paste of a comment I’ve written previously. Enjoy!

    They don’t call us the Garden State for nothing. Northwest New Jersey is beautiful, very rural with loads of outdoors activities along the Delaware. Central Jersey has Princeton, which along with the gorgeous campus has a super beautiful downtown. There are farmstands with fresh Jersey tomatoes, corn, and peaches all over the place, and we have a bunch of nice wineries! We also have the Pine Barrens (home of the Jersey Devil!) which are beautiful. And despite that stupid MTV show*, the shore is not just loads of drunken assholes. It has tons of boardwalk stuff to do, and the beaches with tags are usually pretty nice. Plus we have Atlantic City!

    *(Side note: the cast of Jersey Shore are fucking bennies from New York, they’re not even from NJ.)

    When people shit on New Jersey, they’re thinking of Camden (Philly’s fault) or Newark (NYC’s fault). There are definitely ugly industrial areas of NJ, but that’s not the entirety of the state. Neither is the parkway.

    Come visit. Have a pork roll, egg, and cheese on a bagel. Bike down the boardwalk. Spend a day at Great Adventure. Check out Lambertville (and New Hope!). Go tubing down the Delaware. And then when you hear someone bash NJ in the future, you’ll be able to defend us ;)