With 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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“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
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.
EuropeFirst sounds trumpian, how about EuropeTogether or something a bit more inclusive?
Way better.
That's a good one.
"Europe is Way Better"
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.
EuropeForever
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)
Do a chat control shirt next.
Yeah no thx nationalism will definitely defeat the threat of nationalism.
Probably this is just marketing by the people selling those shirts but ehhh
"Make Europe Great Again" vibes
More "Make America European Again"
Through... branding, merch sales, and fear of the other? Not sure I get it
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.
hoodie for 70€
damn they sure learned capitalism from the US..
Were people in Europe wearing shirts with American flags before?
I wouldn’t think so.
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).
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.
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"
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 😁
I never owned any with any flag
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.
Or just stop buying clothes unless you really need it (hint, you don't)
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.
I'm glad I could be of service
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)
F*ck flags
Ew, I don't wanna see what.
Were people in Europe decked out in American flags?
Not a fan of the hashtag because of how Trump it sounds, but I might order like 10 pairs of socks because why not.
They have enough eu pins to make you look like a north korean general.
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 still weird to see Americans who claim to be patriots do stuff like wear the flag as clothing, let the flag touch the ground, etc.
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
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.
How about #UnitedInDiversity?
No thank you.
Damn, didn't know the EU had such killer swag. Just look at those socks and hats!
I won't wear the flag of an imperialist, capitalist entity. Good try MEGA
The design is a bit bland in my opinion but still good 👍 But something more interresting would be great, f.e.
I agree. Needs a bald eagle or something. /s
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!
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).
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.