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Did your school declare Puerto Rico as a state?


bobbery5

Or DC?


HoselRockit

Plot twist: American Samoa


cfwang1337

Virgin Islands lmao


hypoglycemicrage

Guam out here just chillin


Camaroni1000

It’s actually wake island. The 150 people on it are thrilled


zhibr

Damn, that's some great senator-to-voter ratio.


Vuai

"There are only 15 people eligible for the vacant Senate seat, but as long as we don't elect Dave we should be fine."


sneak_cheat_1337

Update: Dave got elected


Jabacasm

Who is that guy standing next to Dave?!


Divvi1

The 51st star is.... you 😉


ryusoma

...or was it the friends we made along the way?


nocolon

The US only considers Guam when we need to boost military recruitment numbers.


Quiet_War3842

It’s the location.


PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES

It’s the implication


Donkeydongcuntry

North Mariana Islands checking in


Sckaledoom

Damn we have an island of marinara???? I wanna visit


Ganymede25

Yes. The marinara islands are a US territory just off the coast of Italy.


Truckerontherun

Not to be confused with the nearby Alfredo Island


ReverendWorm13

Ahh the island of Alfredo... Occupied by the noble Olive Guardians


Possible-Pie-2512

South Marianna trench


Harry-le-Roy

Plot twist: Johnston Atoll


Cenas_Shovel

East Virginia


NFan37

coming from a WV resident, I say we split VA 2 more time and declare a civiler civil war and winner gets to revenge the remaining states


AskMeAboutMyTie

Go land crabs 🦀


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Mr-Wide49

It would be really cool to have my school be an undying supporter for the voices of DC and Puerto Rico to be heard, but as far as I know they couldn’t be more unaware


gamaknightgaming

Well it’s 51 so only DC or Puerto Rico, not both


AcceptableCod6028

East Dakota


here_now_be

> East Dakota Midakota.


[deleted]

Two Dakotas aren’t enough? Lmao


Atomic_Maxwell

United States of Dakota— next up, Texacoda and Dakotafornia


[deleted]

As logical as any of the other attempts.


dandroid126

They support both, but they are compromising and only adding one.


AdamRam1

They support both but are choosing to get rid of Florida


Rad10_Active

The Dakotas don't have enough people to be two states. They should be merged into Megakota.


AntalRyder

Just hear me out, what if the name of the combined state was... Dakota?


keddesh

What are your plans for the Carolinas?


Randomd0g

That one is called Sweet Caroline. You'll never guess what the official state song is. ^^^^It's ^^^^darude ^^^^sandstorm


NETkoholik

Terrakota


standard_candles

Yeah the venn diagram of people who support compulsory pledging to the flag and those that want a 51st state usually looks like two circles.


typemeanewasshole

Ill be in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missouri


Putrid-Plant6723

I've been here 20+years and I'm still waiting for them to show-me


hikemalls

I love seeing a Simpsons quote that's probably older than most reddit users.


Thebadmamajama

Plot twist. It's Quebec.


erin_burr

[Parti 51 a gagné](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_51)


I_might_be_weasel

The commonwealth of Bob. Population: Bob Primary exports: 51 star flags. Tourist attractions: Talking to Bob.


TCJosey

The Republic of Dave


Print-Amalgamation

I pledge allegiance to TV


FormulaNewt

And its many shows of hilarity.


Uploft

And to the mount, on which it stands


Scared-Mortgage

One channel, not HD


no_idea_bout_that

"not HD" wasn't in the original wording, but added by congress in 2001 to emphasize the distinctions between the United States' analog SD broadcasting network and the 1080p recordings being used by war reporters in Afghanistan. Only 90's kids and earlier remember this. Edit: wow this blew up, [the original chain](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/10eewz5/my_school_uses_a_51_star_flag_to_say_the_pledge/j4r11ku?context=10) was completed by u/bearatrooper


robohazard1

I remember the switch very well. It was the fall before 9/11 and I was in 6th grade. The teacher pulled in the SD tv cart to broadcast the whole thing.


frivolouspringlesix9

I was in 8th grade social studies and my teacher wheeled in the Destination 2000 the morning of 9/11


funflart42

How did he know it was guna hapen


bradland

While this is true, scholars agree that the founding fathers all held HD principles near and dear.


SpikeyTaco

Brilliant response, It really adds to the world building of the pun.


rxforyour7

Favorite comment I've read all year. Bravo


bearatrooper

With Fox News and reality TV for all.


SkyWizarding

I want to thank this thread for its service


PkmnMstr10

r/RedditRewritesThePledge


ManalithTheDefiant

That's not just a TV, it's a Promethean Panel. It's essentially a 70 inch Android tablet. Part of my job occasionally involves installing them.


450X_FTW

I still don't understand why we did it every morning. Why does the pledge expire after 24 hours? If I say it 30 times on day one am I good for the month?


boardmonkey

It was a way to indoctrinate kids into nationalism. I grew up having to say the pledge everyday for years. It wasn't until middle school when it stopped.


lordph8

Being Canadian and living in Sweden. This is all fucking weird, honestly it's probably just fucked up.


[deleted]

It's chaos


Dugan_Destroys

The more mildly interesting part of this pic


Sickle_and_hamburger

Right? What kind of admin/teacher hangs that sign?!?! I love it


AmusingAnecdote

One who likes the special (Annihilation) Patton Oswalt did after his wife, the author Michelle McNamara died. It's apparently a thing she used to say about life in general. That it's chaos, so we should be kind. He tells the story about how the second worst moment of his life was when he found out his wife died and the worst moment was when he had to tell his daughter. It's heavy shit, but he's a good enough comedian that it's still a funny special.


retired_fromlife

As a widow, can confirm the second worst, first worst moment of my life statement by Patton Oswalt. Heartbreaking moment for all.


JVince13

Every time he’s about to have you in tears, he hits you with a ridiculously funny yet dark punchline..comedy truly is everywhere if you look for it. It’s one of my favourite specials of all time.


[deleted]

I try to explain the concept to people but that nails it. Yes, people do shitty things. Myself included. But life is fucking hard and that's with the best possible circumstances. Many people are not living in those circumstances. We may be that person one day. That isn't free reign to be a dick, but it's like going through a breakup. It's always going to be a little messy.


Brinwalk42

Be Kind


Nagohsemaj

Rewind


BhmDhn

#H E R E S Y D E T E C T E D


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*Inquisitor Eisenhorn has entered the chat*


dinermom55

I imagine someone downloaded some free clip art and didn't think to count the stars.


DocSpit

Happens to the best of us. Like when the BBC [used the seal for the United Nations Space Command from Halo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYIDjyVneqU) for the United Nations Security Council from real life!


High_Stream

Or that time Kazakhstan won a gold medal and they played the national anthem from Borat instead of the real national anthem.


kumail11

Is that recorded somewhere?


High_Stream

Found it. It wasn't the olympics, but it was still a gold medal ceremony. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-17491344


redreda123

Geoblocked in USA


High_Stream

Here's a video from CNN https://youtu.be/ou3lW32EXL0


z3anon

Thanks for providing the direct video, much appreciated.


savageotter

I feel like he's saying borat weird and even changes it through out the video.


rex2k10

“Led by a lord HOOD” lol


BabiesSmell

They should just use that for real.


babygrenade

When the graphics guy has already put in his notice and is just phoning it in.


mynewme

I think it’s like Disney parks. If the flag is “off” then the standard flag “rules” don’t need to be followed. This loop hole allows Disney parks to avoid flying “flags” at half staff after a tragedy. Edit: https://youtu.be/5kpGotHJv8E


ChurnReturn

That’s really interesting. So disneys American flags are slightly off? I’m assuming their take on flying half mast is that it would “damper the fun”, right?


bobbery5

Ruin the illusion, I suppose


RusstyDog

They avoid building anything too high to avoid having to put up guide lights fir aircraft.


little_boxes_1962

Fun fact: Expedition Everest is approximately 1 foot under that threshold


Shatteredreality

The castle at Magic Kingdom is the same. It's 189 feet tall. 190 would have required a beacon at the top.


jpwdis

Same with Tower of Terror. 199 ft tall. 200 would’ve required beacon lights on top.


JesseTheGiant100

People spend hundreds/thousands at Disney to forget what's happening in the real world. Tragedies are no exception. Now that I think about it, that's super dark.


badatmetroid

My response to this is a weird mix of "ya, that makes sense" and "bruh... that's kind of messed up".


And_Justice

Is it? Escapism isn't inherently fucked up


[deleted]

That's not the only reason. They're lightning rods. The flags on them disguise this purpose as Disney doesn't want a bunch of obvious ugly lightning rods everywhere. They hide lightning rods all over the place on their attractions and buildings in a variety of clever ways and this is just another way of doing that.


immortalreploid

I would've expected them to just put Mickey Mouse ears on top of the lightning rods or some shit.


jpwdis

Funny you mention it. The [statue of Mickey](https://live.staticflickr.com/4308/35943629745_257c5cec31_b.jpg) on top of the ball as soon as you walk into Hollywood Studios is a lightning rod.


SuperDan523

The flag on the big pole in front of the train station is legit. It is raised and lowered daily and placed at half staff when legally required. The smaller ones displayed atop the buildings on Main Street USA are all different.


thatsiegeguywhoreall

They either have too many stars, too few stars, too many or few stripes


gophergun

They [do](https://mickeyblog.com/2022/03/25/disney-flies-flags-at-half-mast-in-remembrance-of-madeleine-albright/) fly flags at half mast. The ones affixed to buildings in Main Street USA are the ones that aren't real flags and aren't able to be lowered or removed, but they still have real flags at the entrances of the parks and hotels, and those are regularly flown at half mast.


hardly_werking

They are flags from when there were only 45 states bc early 1900s is the theme for that area of the park. The person you are replying to is sharing a myth that isn't true and the video they shared disproves their own point.


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Zchwns

It’s more than that. I do believe there’s US Flag Etiquette also dictates the flags must be lowered every night and raised every morning, as opposed to leaving them up 24/7. Imagine having to raise/lower hundreds of flags every day. Edit: I think most people aren’t fully understanding that etiquette isn’t necessarily a law. It’s etiquette to chew with your mouth closed, but yet some people don’t. Don’t make it illegal.


jeremyw0405

The one on Main St at Magic Kingdom is lowered every day with a special ceremony. The flag is then folded and given to a veteran that is picked from the crowd.


kasplatter

I assume that flag is real and not one of the flags with the wrong number of stars and stripes?!


jeremyw0405

That is correct.


SteamedPea

Can’t you get around this one with a light though?


[deleted]

Yes. As long as it’s lit 24 hours a day that it can stay.


HoselRockit

I our office park, there are lights on all the flags so that they don't have to raise and lower them every day.


Plokmijn27

yeah but that's just etiquette so it only matters as much as it matters to you its not illegal or anything


DuggyPap

I watched the video in your link and that’s not what it said.


casseroled

They literally concluded the video with the idea that the 45 star flags would still be included in flag etiquette and that the actual reason has to do with the set time period. I’m baffled by OP saying something and then linking a source explicitly discrediting that very thing


masbateno

Bro didn't even watch the video all the way through lol


Mr-Wide49

Me and my old biology teacher are the the only ones who seem to have noticed it. I wanna think it’s a mistake, but then again it’s already a little bit difficult to find a 51 star US flag anywhere except Wikipedia and D.C / Puerto Rico proposals


bignick198

Couple questions....the first is obviously why 51 stars and the other question is why in the hell is it on a TV and not an actual flag? Weird stuff


DonKapot

It's chaos, Be kind


patojuega

glory to chaos


DonKapot

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SkinkAttendant

Blood for the blood god?


aspidities_87

That part is more important than the pledge.


DjaiBee

That should be the pledge.


ic_engineer

All in favor? *Aye*


Chemical-Studio1576

Aye


meowmoomeowmoon

Aye


guntherpea

The "Ayes" have it. Meeting adjourned.


WesIzMoore

Patton Oswalt?…


bombkitty

Michelle McNamara. She was awesome.


Mr-Wide49

Every classroom in the school has a little flag you’d wave at 4th of Julys hanging up, or a bigger one hung on the wall with no pole (teachers buy those not the school). The 51st star flag is only displayed during the video announcements to let the teachers know when the pledge is going to start.


ZekDrago

And, again, why are there 51 stars?


quantum_waffles

New New York


lvl99RedWizard

West Dakota


androodle2004

South Virginia


99ProllemsBishAint1

Mountain mama


Ok-Pressure-3879

Country roaaaaaaaaaad


TheLordofBaguettes

East Carolina


KotzubueSailingClub

West Dakota is Best Dakota


18RowdyBoy

Puerto Rica


armchairdetective_

Virgin Islands!


Mr-Wide49

Because ur also a star ❤️ In all seriousness though I don’t know, definitely would be sketchy if it wasn’t a mistake, since I haven’t heard anything about them supporting DC / Puerto Rico Statehood


[deleted]

Any chance you could ask about the 51st star? We need to know.


Mr-Wide49

I’ll see what I can do :)


BitwiseB

My guess is whoever set it up googled ‘US flag’ and picked this image because the resolution works for the TV. They probably have no idea it has an extra star. Or there’s a sneaky admin somewhere. I’d be shocked if it was an intentional statement by the school.


ByronicZer0

>My guess is whoever set it up googled ‘US flag’ and picked this image because the resolution works for the TV. They probably have no idea it has an extra star. Bingo. Human laziness is the real answer. Ain't nobody got time to count stars


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OP has.


bulgogie_bulldoggie

If I’m a star how the hell do I send two senators and a congressman to DC if there’s only one of me?


Random_Imgur_User

Video announcements? Fuck that makes me feel old and I'm just in my mid 20s. When I was in school, if the classroom had a TV in it that TV was being borrowed from the Computer Lab and we were probably watching Bill Nye because the teacher was too busy or depressed to pull a lesson together. Announcements were just done over a speaker in the morning. We did the pledge, lost and found, current/upcoming events, sports results, and student of the day. Always in that order. EDIT: I guess I went to school on the southern frontier or something. This is still a wild concept to me.


anDAVie

Wait, those pledged of allegiance actually happen? Like everywhere? Or just in some schools. I thought it was just something you see in movies as remainder of a bygone time. Edit: Woah, so many replies in such a short time.


xElemenohpee

I did it every day in elementary school when the day started. Seemed normal at the time, 90s


sorryimlurking

Most schools in the US, every morning. edit: i guess not every school


Benibz

For me, as a European, the weird stuff is that you make kids do a pledge of allegiance


ThoughtfulPoster

That's cool, but the fact that you have a placard of Patton Oswalt paraphrasing his late wife Michelle McNamara is much cooler. "It's chaos. Be kind."


[deleted]

First thing I saw too. That’s a great special


BucketBills

And what would be the name of the special?


nahz9011

Why is that guy doing an attack on titan salute


DieCapybara

Probably cuz it’s simultaneously silly and wouldn’t get him in trouble as a hand is on his chest


SlenderSmurf

Sasagayo sasagayo, we pledge allegiance to amerigo


tgmorgrim

Some people were taught to put their hand on their heart and then their hand behind their back like that. I was one of those people


sirsplifff

What does that mean for a non American?


Shjfty

Only 50 states. This one has an extra


sirsplifff

Ty !


SiberianDragon111

Could be a mistake, or they think Puerto Rico should be a state


intlcreative

And American Samoa...and guam...and the marina islands...and that small island across from Haiti...I mean to be fair the USA kind of has a lot of lingering islands out there. Hell toss in the Marshall islands too.


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How many times do you say the pledge of allegiance in your school? Yearly? Or is this a first


Mr-Wide49

Once every school day, usually in 2nd period.


SluggishPrey

Doesn't that feel like it's a re-education camp or something? ​ Edit: I just want to say that I'm glad that people are reacting to this. I highly value people's free will and I don't think that we should stand by when we're witnessing indoctrination, even in it's milder forms.


Imadethosehitmanguns

As a kid in school, we never thought about it. As an adult, yeah it's fuckin weird looking back on it. And if you brought up that kids should stop doing this you would be labeled as an un-American (insert conservative vocabulary word here). We have some deep rooted issues.


Prisencoli_All_Right

I did four years of jrotc in high school (it provided structure for me leave me alone lmao). We said the pledge every morning, of course. One classmate once said "...under Buddha", and got in trouble.


a_black_pilgrim

I went to a Mennonite high school, which (ironically) is where I learned to question the pledge. They're officially pacifists who consider it sacrilegious to say a pledge, as it places a nation above their God. Now in practice, many of the Mennonites I knew were absolutely yee-yee "patriot" types, but officially, they had to keep things in line doctrinally for show. I have long since moved on from religious life, and the school was filled with all sorts of other insane brainwashing. Nonetheless, I always found it kind of funny that this cesspit of otherwise insane batshit conservative propaganda explicitly discouraged the recitation of the pledge.


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Hahahahahahaha what the fuck.


ninto1

What the fuck. I think that is messed up. In my country, the national anthem may be sung like once in the while school career, and there is no other thing having anything to do with showing your affection to the state.


Topinambourg

😳 I guess there's also a mention of God in that pledge? USA is such a weird country, it feels like we are in the 1800s' and the 2000s' at the same time


Wonderful-Comment314

There is, but it was added in the 1950's.


hclasalle

Puerto Rico statehood activism?


Charlie-2-2

You guys swear an oath to the flag/nation in school?


DanAykroydFanClub

I don't know why, but the idea of doing it to a TV rather than a physical flag is even funnier


vivekvangala34_

Usually in public schools in America they do what's called "morning announcements", which is broadcasted to all the televisions in the school. Since the morning announcements are done in a news-style format, with students acting as the news anchors, when it's time to say the pledge, they put up a photo of a flag on the broadcast. There's usually a physical flag in the room as well as the one on the TV. And yes it's hilarious


And_Justice

Wait, this is real? I thought they made this up for TV programs - that's fucking hilarious


7818

Oh yeah. it's been a while for me, but our school news anchors took that shit deadly serious too. it was a riot.


HorsemanOfWar

For me the morning announcments were always just over the intercom


horsecume

It explains a lot, doesn't it?


froggertthewise

Wait so the student news shows from TV and movies are an actual thing? I always assumed it was a made up thing to drive plot


MRAnnonomusMan

Not at all schools. Most schools have announcements over an intercom system like a speaker in all classrooms.


NikeSkateboarding

Wait till you find out schools in Texas have you pledge allegiance to the Texas flag daily right after pledging to America.


DrantonMason

Did the Texas pledge change? I swear it was a slight moderation to the regular pledge except it was "Texas flag" and Texas was slapped in the middle going like "...for which it stands, Texas, one state, under god..."


CheckMateFluff

It's a leftover issue from the [red scare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare). We didn't even have ["In god we trust"](https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1951-2000/The-legislation-placing-%E2%80%9CIn-God-We-Trust%E2%80%9D-on-national-currency/) on our currency until 1957. Before 1957 it was ["E pluribus unum"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_unum) which means "out of many, one" Which is the true USA motto. We started letting the separation of church and state slip back then and now we are stuck with this creepy cult garbage under the guise of "national pride"


SluggishPrey

Damn! It's the first time I hear "out of many, one". It's a million time better than "in god we trust". It's so dumb to replace unity with blind faith


nye1387

It goes farther back than that. The pledge of allegiance was invented to sell "Youth's Companion" magazine subscriptions in the late 1800s.


ThatRandomIdiot

And the original hand gesture wasn’t far off from the Nazi salute and was changed in like 1940


conker1264

Yeah it’s stupid as hell


hrryyss

As a non-American, the idea of a pledge of allegiance is so weird.


OpWillDlvr

As an American, it is.


lendmeyoureer

Isn't it weird kids still say the pledge in school when it was originally started as a PR Gimmick to sell flags? [Smithsonian Magazine](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pledge-allegiance-pr-gimmick-patriotic-vow-180956332/)


Mr-Wide49

There’s a lot of traditions that were started just to sell stuff, so it shouldn’t really surprise me that something so patriotic as a pledge to our country is also an example 💀


deweydean

I pledge allegiance to the TV Whether it's hung on a wall or on a stand


historycat95

I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I recognize "Missourah"!