Is there really a McDonald's everywhere?

One in almost every town with over 3,000 people.

Is everyone fat and stupid?

Only about a third of the population is medically overweight. As for the stupid part, from personal experience I'd say about 50%.

Do you see famous people every day?

I've never encountered a famous person in reality. However, I do know someone who was personally yelled at by Randy Orton.

Does everyone have a gun (or two)?

In rural areas, almost everyone. In cities? Not as much.

What do most people think about Mexicans?

As others have already said. Most Americans really don't have strong feelings one way or the other about Mexicans as long as they enter the country legally and at-least make an effort to learn English.

Does anyone believe that "Good America vs Evil East" propaganda?

Not as many as stereotypes suggest.

Do brawls occur often in public places?

I wouldn't say often, but it isn't unheard of either. Seems more or less the same as in other countries.

Are people generally ignorant of significant historical and political events/persons outside their country?

It varies from person to person. Most are at-least semi-decent at keeping up with world events. Geography is where most people struggle, thanks to our education system not putting emphasis on it. In my home state it isn't even a required subject so we get people thinking that Canada is a state in the U.S or that Europe is a country......

Are high school kids getting stupider and lazier?

Stupider? Maybe. Lazier? Definitely.

Are you in favor to ban the Confederate flag?

No. It's a piece of history now, banning it is pointless and won't change anything. People are too scared to look their problems in the eye so they search for a scapegoat.

Does your family worship Jesus?

About 90% does. Although we have a few Agnostics and Wiccans mixed in.

Should Cascadia exist?

I'm pretty neutral on this, but I don't really see the point of Cascadia becoming a thing.

Does America fund aliens to mess up Belarusian internet?

Darn he's found out our plans. And we would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you White Russians.

Another - that McDonald's answer has to be the most pedantic, hilarious thing I've read today.

Are you in favor to ban the Confederate flag?

There's no question of banning the Confederate flag in the U.S. - it's a question of removing it from state buildings, or making the flying of the flag (or it's sale) socially unacceptable. This is the U.S. - you can fly a Nazi flag in your front lawn (depending on zoning ordinances and your housing association contract), you just have to live with your neighbors judging you.

If you fly a Confederate flag, I will judge the shit out of your racist ass.

If you fly a Confederate flag, I will judge the shit out of your racist ass.

I used to have zero interest in the Confederate flag. I usually laugh at the "South will rise again" types and was content to let the past be the past.

However, I'm more and more tempted to buy a Confederate flag just to see all the butthurt from politically correct people who can't stop getting offended by an outdated symbol.

The Confederate flag is not so outdated - it is a living and potent symbol of the belief that "the African race ... were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable."

However, I'm more and more tempted to buy a Confederate flag just to see all the butthurt from politically correct people who can't stop getting offended by an outdated symbol.

Two three people in my town did this exact thing. And we live an hour from Pittsburgh! It was the most glorious thing I've ever seen.

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It's been a while so Its meaning has diminished a fair amount. Anyway how would 'banning' it help at all; it just causes a greater divide. (Also I've got to say it look nicer than the stars and stripes)

If you fly a Confederate flag, I will judge the shit out of your racist ass.

The flag while still used by racists also holds historical meaning why should the southern states be ashamed of there history. A flag only holds meaning when people care about it.

There's a difference between being proud of your ancestors' martial spirit, and being proud of what they fought for.

They fought for the supremacy of the "white race". That is a shameful thing.

"Banning" is anyway the wrong word - it should be removed from government buildings, and decent and respectable people should refrain from flying it, because it is a symbol of racist ideology.

It doesn't symbolize that. It's a flag. It represents Lee's Virginian Army.

It's a flag, and just like any flag, it symbolizes the institution it's flown in support of.

If you want to repudiate the racist ideology of the Confederacy, you must repudiate the symbolism of the Confederacy.

Is there really a McDonald's everywhere?

Depends on what given definition of "everywhere" you are using.

Is everyone fat and stupid?

No, but if you rephrase the question to "and/or stupid, I can only say ..... maybe?

Do you see famous people every day?

Yes. I look in the mirror, and there he is!

Does everyone have a gun (or two)?

Nope.

What do most people think about Mexicans?

Their accents aren't Southern, so they're not legit Southerners.

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Uhhh even the Union believed in White Superiority, they simply did not believe in slavery.

Decent and respectable people shouldn't fly it

Why though the further uses of it devalues any offensive meaning people hold of it. And it's damn ascetics pleasing too if it wasn't very offensive I would fly the kriegsmarine flag as well (very well design in fact a lot of the most evil flags are actually I think I just love flags)

It should also be noted that the flag everyone wants to ban isn't even the Confederate flag. It's the flag used by Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

and decent and respectable people should refrain from flying it, because it is a symbol of racist ideology.

If you want to repudiate the racist ideology of the Confederacy, you must repudiate the symbolism of the Confederacy.

Ten times as much racism,enslavement, and death has been carried by the United States in it's history as a nation. Is the U.S flag racist or hateful? Should we also ban the U.S flag if some minority group suddenly starts saying it's offensive?

In addition, is the Spanish flag racist? The Spanish Empire was one of the main engines of the slave trade for quite sometime.

I guess it's easier for people to scapegoat a dead country than actually deal with modern problems in a productive way. As I've said before, banning a flag accomplishes nothing. If anything, you're just giving more fire to the people who fly it by telling them they can't.

Uhhh even the Union believed in White Superiority, they simply did not believe in slavery.

This. The North was extremely racist, only a small percentage actually believed in full racial equality at the time.

I'm Transflag and this thread is offensive.(joke)

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*Checks out thread* *thinking this is a cool idea* *sees everybody talking about confederate flags again* *sits and aw* *marvels at some people* *promptly leaves*

The Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1868, at the conclusion of the Civil War, and its ratification was a condition of the southern states regaining representation in Congress.

The Confederacy was founded on the notion of white supremacy. You should refer to the founding documents - the declaration of causes of the various southern states, the statements of the leaders of the Confederate movement - they explicitly stated that the defining difference between the Southern and Northern states was the issue of race, and what rights should be accorded to people of African descent.

A particularly famous speech is the "Cornerstone speech" of Alexander Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy:

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition. [Applause.] This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science. It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well, that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. Those at the North, who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics. All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind -- from a defect in reasoning. It is a species of insanity. One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the anti-slavery fanatics; their conclusions are right if their premises were. They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man.

Edit: let me break out that last sentence for you, in case you didn't read all the way through: "They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man."

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