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β€œI’m a patriot…”

Posted on 2023-01-08 by Hal
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Yes, it looks meme-like. It was made by me, at a meme generation site (I forget which one). The quote comes from Patrick Nielsen Hayden, back in the old days on the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.fandom on USENET. It’s a good chunk of why I have the US flag emoji up on the header on top.

As Patrick pointed out at the time, the US flag, as a symbol, is not feared by many traditionalists around the world because it represents rah-rah chauvinism, or our powerful military. No, it’s feared as a symbol because it represents the kind of ideas he lists.

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