iReaditWith all those American attacks on European unity and identity, it's about time to ditch all those crappy clothes with American flags on it, and start wearing EUROPEAN flags. #EuropeTogether🇪🇺💪
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EuropeFirst sounds trumpian, how about EuropeTogether or something a bit more inclusive?
Way better.
That's a good one.
"Europe is Way Better"
But... but...
It was always so funny to me that Bezos saved that show. I wonder if he ever got the irony.
Funny thing is that Amazon has multiple productions in progress (The Boys, Gen V, Upload, just to name a few) that are blatantly anti-corpo, anti-altright etc., yet Amazon is the very image of what those shows stand against..
Call me earth then 😎
EuropeForever
The answer to America first is Europe United.
This is a phrase made popular already by the Greens party of Germany before the last national elections.
Buy merch from your favourite artists/bands instead and be vocal about taxing the rich. Also stop using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, et cetera. The EU Parliament has plenty of money, many artists do not, yet the latter have way more reach than wearing an EU t-shirt, and plenty of artists are vehemently against our whole corrupt system. E.g., Massive Attack, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, et cetera.
Unknown indie artists living in precarious financial situations like The Biggest Name in Trip Hop and The Biggest Name in Post-Rock.
While you made me laugh out loud, those belong to the "and…against our whole corrupt system" part of the sentence, not the "many artists do not have plenty of money".
Feel free to append the list ;)
Going to concerts of local/visiting artists is the best way of support, and the by a CD or something.
Definitely.
Also, I stand corrected: the "e.g." was preceded by a dot and capitalized, so my picks indeed seem silly haha. Those are two of my favourite artists so my choice was primed. 🙃
"Make Europe Great Again" vibes
More "Make America European Again"
Through... branding, merch sales, and fear of the other? Not sure I get it
its a private owned company (from Germany), Just getting this out to avoid confusion with any official shop/resource.
nevertheless, great thought! possibly makes for a great Gift for Christmas top 😁
Pretty sure they're "official", as in a private company but directly contracted by and affiliated with the European parliament. Their physical location is even inside the parliament's visitor centre.
So this is the EU parliament gift shop on-line?
Yes, exactly.
I feel like we shouldn't copy the American flag waving and blind patriotism. I believe we're much better off with a Federation of EU States than without it, and I see Schengen as a huge accomplishment, but the EU as an institution has many problems we shouldn't be blind to.
Still, I think that what you often see in Europe is almost complete indifference to European identity, and there's a huge amount of middle ground between that and the ludicrously excessive blind nationalism that you see in the USA. I personally think it would be a good thing if we embraced an identity as Europeans a little more. Being proud of European identity, and even waving a flag once in a while, isn't a bad thing. Patriotism gives you something to fight for. A common identity is needed for people to achieve more collectively. The important thing is to not be blind or arrogant. You have to base that identity on reality, and work to make sure that identity stands for something good, rather than assuming it will automatically be so. Too much success and empire building causes rot to set in, but the EU is uniquely positioned to be a post-imperial entity. What comes after empire building is up to us.
I never owned any with any flag
It's about time to ditch American garish flag shagging and wear clothes that exemplify you for you, not overt nationalism.
(is nationalism the right word for an extranational institution? whatever)
Show your support for European values by buying clothes made outside of Europe under horrible environmental and human conditions!
(That's my assumption since there is no info on the website)
Were people in Europe wearing shirts with American flags before?
I wouldn’t think so.
I have one, with a small flag. If it's in the stores, you buy it without much thinking. People in my area also wear Canadian flags, Scottish flags or the Union Jack on their clothes. For example. They're just quite recognizable. Simulacra in the Baudrillard sense, even.
There are also a lot of shirts being sold here in Europe that have names of states or cities printed on them (such as California, Los Angeles, New York, etc).
Not a fan of the hashtag because of how Trump it sounds, but I might order like 10 pairs of socks because why not.
Or just stop buying clothes unless you really need it (hint, you don't)
As an Aussie Id love our nation to jon the grand European experiment.
With a couple of nukes, you might be able to speed up tectonic movement and get your island over here!
(Feel free to push the UK out of the way, they don't want to be here aparently)
I'm not really up on the latest research into nuclear powered continental drift but I'm fairly certain that Australia is on course to collide with Indonesia in about 100 million years. So they're going the wrong direction.
You'll need to turn left and go around Africa, if you see Brazil you've gone too far.
As an American, please stop buying our products. Funds do not go to a good cause.
Only American product I would have considered is a cast iron pan because they don't really get produced in the UK. But I already have one so I will probably never need to buy another one.
Not to mention that with cast iron specifically, there's no reason to buy new. Not when you can get an exact same pan that is 80-100 years old for a fraction of the price at a garage sale/ estate sale.
I think they are not so common here unfortunately, so there are not many second hand options either. If they were more common then the only British manufacturer I could find for them would probably still be in business.
Wanna know why you can't find old British pots and pans?
Good old shitty bloody war.
https://archive.org/details/the-world-at-war-1973-thames-television-world-war-two/04+Alone+(May+1940+%E2%80%93+May+1941).mp4
The World at War, Episode 4, 13 minutes in.
Basically, we needed to increase production of planes for the Battle of Britain and needed metal to do so. Not only was there a military battle happening though, but a propaganda one. A need to ensure morale stayed high within the British public. So to make them feel like they're playing their part to help the war effort, to understand how desperate the situation was, there was a drive to donate any metal that you could to build planes. Mostly pots and pans, gates, and fences. That's why you'll often see large stones with rows of black metal stumps in front of old houses, because the fences were chopped at the base.
The best bit? It was a waste of bloody time. There's not much aluminium in all that metal and that was what was needed the most. Huge piles of metal sat and rusted for years after the war.
That wouldn't get rid of 1970s pans though, people still don't buy proper pans.
The Frenchies make some excellent ones. (The smell of cheese washes off.).
I'm glad I could be of service
damn they sure learned capitalism from the US..
How about #UnitedInDiversity?
Damn, didn't know the EU had such killer swag. Just look at those socks and hats!
I would totally wear that to walmart here in the states. Just for the chance one of those throwbacks might recognize it.
"Is that the Union flag??"
The only union they know over here is the one they hate because they ain't paying no dues to some union that isn't going to give them anything back. Things like collective bargaining, better pay, better benefits and job security. No way they are gonna fall for that. Instead they are going to fear that they can be fired at anytime without any reason. They ain't stupid.
/s
F*ck flags
some people love them so much they actually do.
now I'm wondering which flag is the most fuckable, as wel as which one looks best to wear naked.
yellow makes most people seem more approachable and thus more attractive.
my vote is for Barbados or Flanders.
Ew, I don't wanna see what.
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
The design is a bit bland in my opinion but still good 👍 But something more interresting would be great, f.e.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284345732755
I agree. Needs a bald eagle or something. /s
Y'all are being played by more Russian bots....
Wearing the US flag as clothing is actually against US flag code, so when people wear it, it really highlights their ignorance and disrespect.
Mostly it’s just really weird living in non-America seeing non-Americans wearing American flags.
Agreed, but it's also weird to see Americans who claim to be patriots do stuff like wear the flag as clothing, let the flag touch the ground, etc.
It’s a piece of fabric. Do with it what you will
Sure, and people will think of you what they will.
Is that supposed to upset me?
That's up to you, doesn't really affect me, but it might affect you at some point.
I’m autistic enough and old enough that I genuinely could not possibly care less
There's been reports for this link to be an ad... we're allowing it nonetheless because the discussion is very rich (I, personally agree with many of the criticism that were done: products may not be socially or environmentally friendly, or even it may be better to support an European artist). The EU parliament is more like a tool, and sometimes it does work well. Oftentimes it just makes decisions that are not aligned with our values as a community. Nonetheless, the EU flag is nowadays an important symbol that's being undermined by bigots and propaganda. That's why I've been ignoring the reports of this as an ad. I believe the underlying message to be more important. And, as I said, the discussion here has brought very good points that I wouldn't have thought so just by myself.
Best regards, anzo.
Were people in Europe decked out in American flags?
They have enough eu pins to make you look like a north korean general.
Did you know that the USA didn't help Great Britain in the WW2, it was all about loans and power shifts (abandoning the pound sterling, turkey, grece, letting the USA be on their soil for 99 years and more...)? They stopped the lend lease loans 7 days after the peace treaty, letting the brittish starve.
They paid off the loans in 2006. Let that sink in.
They abused the world after WW2 As Much as they could because they were not bombed to splinters.
Time for Europe to get back IMO, these clowns have just had a lucky time in history, the USA in the thirties had famines and an economy in the shitter.
/Rant off 😋 Love you good americans though, but enough is enough!
Did I miss the part of the shop selling British swag? 🤔
In my worldview the brits should be in the EU.
I don't know about you but I don't think I've ever worn anything with an US flag on it. Or one that says "I ❤️ NY"
I won't wear the flag of an imperialist, capitalist entity. Good try MEGA
No thank you.
As an American, a Boy Scout, and a Veteran, I think it is shameful to the flag to wear it, since it specifically says that you don't do that in the Flag Code.
That only applies to the US flag AFAIAW, so feel free to wear the flag of the EU!
After those nice photos from the White House I was sure the US goverment had abolished the flag code as woke already.
It was never enforced, because if it was, MANY people would have been prosecuted a longtime ago.
It isn’t enforced because it isn’t law. There’s nothing to enforce
It is indeed a law, just no enforceable punishment. It isn’t hard to google search before you make dumb statements.
Title 4 chapter 1 of the US code
And I quote (thanks Google for finding Wikipedia):
So it’s a recommendation. Not a law in the commonly accepted meaning of the word.
You’re right: It isn’t hard to look something up before shooting off your mouth
Thanks for quoting that it is federal law. Look at the last sentence
Most countries have very strict flag codes, but also most don't really enforce them (at least not harshly), tho only USA absolutely abuses them (just one of them uniquely Murikan things I guess, tho there is prob a lot od consumerism & branding as a private interest).