Comparison of the American and British anthem

[rupol2000]

We will not talk about the American anthem for a long time: it is the anthem of the free and the brave.

The British anthem, on the contrary, expresses servility to the monarchy, totalitarianism and the enslavement of other peoples, and praises the totalitarian regime. And besides, the word "queen" but not "king" is used there, this is matriarchy.

In my opinion, it's diametrically opposed. Would the British want to be freed from this slavery?

 

[cnm]

We will not talk about the American anthem for a long time: it is the anthem of the free and the brave.

Slaves need not apply. It's amazing how easily Americans who bloviate about freedom forget the economic base of the US was formed from slave labour.
It's an inconvenient thought, so dismissed out of hand even while disparaging the 'slavery' of others. Mind boggling.

 

[Bleipriester]

Whether monarchy or not, civil rights and parliamentary representation clearly were on the British credit side when those were largely unknown in the rest of Europe.

 

[there4eyeM]

The extreme far-left government adopted at the inception of the United States' Perpetual Union gave hope and impetus to republican aspirations around the world. The defect that it shared at the time with so many other nations and cultures, slavery, is lamentable. Fortunately, it was not irredeemable, though the country paid dearly for the error. European culture, of which North America is an extension, showed the way for the world to head in the matter of human rights. As bad as things are for women in some places, for example, what our example holds up is a bright and shining goal our sisters everywhere can be certain of. Divisiveness over the distant past that hinders progress in the present only serves the enemy of the good.

 

[cnm]

Whether monarchy or not, civil rights and parliamentary representation clearly were on the British credit side when those were largely unknown in the rest of Europe.

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[cnm]

The extreme far-left government adopted at the inception of the United States' Perpetual Union gave hope and impetus to republican aspirations around the world.

Risible.

 

[rupol2000]

Slaves need not apply. It's amazing how easily Americans who bloviate about freedom forget the economic base of the US was formed from slave labour.
It's an inconvenient thought, so dismissed out of hand even while disparaging the 'slavery' of others. Mind boggling.

Not US but British Colonies

 

[rupol2000]

Whether monarchy or not, civil rights and parliamentary representation clearly were on the British credit side when those were largely unknown in the rest of Europe.

After the French Revolution, Britain and Prussia were the initiators of the return of the old order. they strangled Free Austria-Hungary

 

[rupol2000]

The extreme far-left government adopted at the inception of the United States' Perpetual Union gave hope and impetus to republican aspirations around the world.

Republicans are right

 

[cnm]

Not US but British Colonies

Hilarious.

 

[Mindful]

We will not talk about the American anthem for a long time: it is the anthem of the free and the brave.

The British anthem, on the contrary, expresses servility to the monarchy, totalitarianism and the enslavement of other peoples, and praises the totalitarian regime. And besides, the word "queen" but not "king" is used there, this is matriarchy.

In my opinion, it's diametrically opposed. Would the British want to be freed from this slavery?

So why do they play “Land of Hope and Glory” at American high school graduation events?

 

[cnm]

It's almost as though Rupol received an American education.

 

[rupol2000]

So why do they play “Land of Hope and Glory” at American high school graduation events?

It's the British Communists who are dumping the US into the trash. It's time to start capturing them using McCarthy's experience.

 

[Mindful]

It's the British Communists who are dumping the US into the trash. It's time to start capturing them using McCarthy's experience.

Is that supposed to be an answer?

 

[Blues Man]

I always thought the US anthem was a terrible song.

I'd much rather see America The Beatiful be the anthem

 

[rupol2000]

Is that supposed to be an answer?

What are you talking about? There are no such words in the original, it's about the free and the brave

Foreign agents and wreckers are engaged in outright forgeries. They generally deprived America of the anthem, instead of it they palm off some kind of shit.

 

[rupol2000]

O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep.
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the Star-Spangled Banner! O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the Star-Spangled Banner, in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just
And this be our motto: «In God is our Trust.»
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

 

[Mindful]

What are you talking about?

You mean what are YOU talking about?

 

[rupol2000]

And this:

When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile,
If a foe from within strike a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that dares to defile
The flag of her stars and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained, who our birthright have gained,
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained!
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.

 

[Mindful]

And this:

When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile,
If a foe from within strike a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that dares to defile
The flag of her stars and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained, who our birthright have gained,
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained!
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.

And to think, it all started with a snowball fight.