#jingo — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jingo, aggregated by home.social.
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Joe Tall spent the whole weekend in our yard, celebrating the USA's Semiquincentennial. #Semiquincentennial #celebrate #celebration #usacelebration #usacelebrations #fourthofjuly #patriotic #patriot #jingo #jingoism #jingoistic #holiday #holyday #lewistown #pennsyvania #centralpennsylvania #wackywavingarminflatable #inflatable #inflatables #wackyinflatables #zhuzh #decorate #decorations #summer #summertime #summersolstice #warm #warmweather #hot #hotweather #summerweather
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Dawn of our Country's Semiquincentennial at the Lewistown Courthouse. #Semiquincentennial #anniversary #usaanniversary #usacelebration #celebration #history #historical #celebrate #patriotic #jingo #jingoism #civilwar #civilwarmonument #monument #concrete #courthouse #civilliberties #civilrights #scotusiscorrupt #potusiscorrupt #flotusiscorrupt #corruption #corruptioningovernment #governmentcorruption #EndCitizensUnited
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"Happy Two Hundred and Fiftieth, USA!" from Lewistown, the All-American City, once identified on a regional newscast as "Heroin Capital of the Eastern Seaboard." #Semiquincentennial #america #usa #fourthofjuly #anniversary #250th #250 #twohundredfiftieth #twohundredandfiftieth #twohundredandfiftiethbirthday #birthday #anniversay #scotusiscorrupt #corruptpolitics #governmentcorruption #celebration #fireworks #fireworksscarewildlife #fireworksscareanimals #jingo #jingoism #patriotic #patriot
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Another Discworld book finished, number 21, over half way now. I loved Jingo, because it highlights the readiness people have to judge and "hate" each other if they're slightly different and because they're told to. Something that is, sadly, still too prevalent as when Sir Terry wrote it in 1997.
Might take a break from Discworld for a bit and try Brandon Sanderson's Storm light Archive.
#Discworld #TerryPratchett #Jingo #Bookstodon #BrandonSanderson #TheStormlightArchive #BooklyApp
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Sometimes I get a #word stuck in my head so I have to go look it up
Today's is "#Jingoism"
It's #etymology is facinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism
It originated in a song sang by the #British during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877
> We don't want to fight but by #Jingo if we do
> We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money tooIt came to symbolize national chauvanism
The phrase "by jingo" is a "minced oath" to avoid saying "by god", so jingoism shares that with "bigot"
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#discworld fans: I just bought #jingo and I'm going to continue on finishing the City Watch story line. When I finish the City Watch books, where should I go next? I still haven't read #smallgods or any of the #aching ones.
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The Patrician is always right
#Discworld #Jingo #pratchett #sayhisname
