I had no idea that China had such power over Hollywood. But of course: $$$$
What it always seems like anyway.
âIâm not interested in playing the wizened Jedi in your tentpole,â he explained. âI was successful enough in the last three decades that I can afford to do these [smaller films] now.â
I guess you could say that now all he cares about is loveâŚ
FTFY. Iâve been told Canada has a pledge, but Iâve never had to say it, or seen it performed.
I think the closest we have is the Oath of Citizenship:
I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada and fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen.
Thereâs also the Oath of Allegiance, for certain public servants to swear, but thatâs pretty much just the first half of the Oath of Citizenship.
Go on down to Texas.
The school systems I knew had both an pledge of allegiance to America and a pledge of allegiance to Texas.
In Utah, they had the American Fourth of July and âPioneer Day,â which celebrated Brigham Young & Co. arriving in the Valley. Guess which one was more popular.
Well, weâve got the fascists, unfortunately, but we donât have the pledge.
We have lemon Pledge. Does that count? Dunno if it has much use for indoctrination, but the furniture sure looks good.
The one Pledge I love the smell of.
Pledge causes clouding. So does Lemon Pledge.
So is Mexico (in North America).
Putting this here because I donât see this being destroyed. âDestroyedâ, yes⌠After a copy has been moved to a server in a basement thatâs harder to get at. Or âdestroyedâ while something magically similar appears in its place. Me, cynical? No way.
The one hope is that theyâre too incompetent to do a backup.
I think itâs about as likely that theyâll fail to disguise that theyâre still using the same database, with the same pre-ruling entries.
Grew up with polyuriaâŚ
Iâm with you. Grew up with Crohnâs.
âWetting your pants at school is one of the most stressful things a child can face or even imagine,â Cooper says.
And dumping in your pants is stressful too; one reason I have C-PTSD.
These harsh restrictions are worse than when I was in middle school.
Most of the execution machinery (electric chairs, etc) in America was built and sold by a Holocaust-denying Nazi who once took a hammer to Auschwitz in an attempt to âproveâ that the gas chambers never existed.
See the bit of this starting at 44:30 for the story: