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Re:Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man ... by mrex on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:00AM (#32605759)
Germany is less surprising to me, given the history involved. Based on what I am looking into on Google Maps, however, it hardly seems to be a phenomenon confined to the US, and at least based on my spot checks it seems to be more common than not for public schools to display national flags.
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Re:Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man ... by Vespasian on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:11AM (#32605842)
Flags are probably somewhat common and I'd say it's a part of US culture to dial these things up to 11. (This is not meant as a sentiment.)
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Re:Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man ... by feet on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:09AM (#32605823)
>given the history involved.

It's almost like other countries could learn from that history of extreme nationalism. The US especially

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Re:Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man ... by mrex on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:59AM (#32606201)
We taught the lesson on this, didn't we?
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Re:Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man ... by feet on Friday August 26, 2022 @08:12AM (#32606340)
What does that mean, exactly?

How many people alive today truly remember what it was like during WW2?

I would argue that Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union is actually what did them in, not the US invasion

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Re:Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man ... by mrex on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:22PM (#32610971)
You really think that the USSR of the early 1940s could have fought that era's Germany and Japan at once?

What about the comments by no less than Admiral Zhukov himself acknowledging that in his view, the USSR couldn't have defeated Germany without US assistance?

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Re:Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man ... by feet on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:50PM (#32611292)
It wasn't about pure fighting ability. Germany overextended their supply by moving into the USSR which weakened them

But this is all beside the point of extreme nationalism being a bad thing

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