I would totally wear that to walmart here in the states. Just for the chance one of those throwbacks might recognize it.
I won’t wear the flag of an imperialist, capitalist entity. Good try MEGA
“Make Europe Great Again” vibes
More “Make America European Again”
Through… branding, merch sales, and fear of the other? Not sure I get it
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.
Or just stop buying clothes unless you really need it (hint, you don’t)
I never owned any with any flag
F*ck flags
some people love them so much they actually do.
EuropeFirst sounds trumpian, how about EuropeTogether or something a bit more inclusive?
EuropeForever
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.
Call me earth then 😎
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m glad I could be of service
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.
Not a fan of the hashtag because of how Trump it sounds, but I might order like 10 pairs of socks because why not.
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)
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? 🤔
