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    9 months ago

    Also can someone please tell me why the NAACP has the ability to declare a national anthem? I must have missed that in the Constitution.

    Dude, you can hear a song that moves you tomorrow and call it the njm1314 national anthem if you want to. And if enough people like what you have to say about it, they might start calling it that too. I’d hope none of those people think that means you have the ability to “declare a national anthem” because it would be about the stupidest thing to complain about.

    I mean there’s no way I could sit here and show you multiple proclamations by groups in 1917 that I wouldn’t think hold true today but we could play that game.

    You incorrectly implied the origin of the phrase and were corrected. No one has to call it that. You don’t have to call it that. No one is forcing you to call it that, nor demanding you stand when it is played, nor will be angry if you don’t call it that. Some people, not just maga, still call it that. So you can rage at 100 years of some people voluntarily calling it that, or you can just exercise your freedom to not call it that and move on.

    Any chance you are as angry about the maga tantrum as you are about this song?