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Is anyone else here appalled by the nationalism in the Super Bowl?

[I wanna call it "The World Football Bowl" just to drive these people up a wall.]

yes my husband. he just turned off the superbowl to watch sci-fi channel.

[Makes sense, you people already live in a fantasy world. He must have thought it was "The History Channel"]

The false appearance of national unity the fraudulent linkage of a sordid colonial war to WWII. If our national prestige could fall any lower with our traditional allies this will do it.

[Do you mean that country that makes a 25 year old woman work in a brothel, or lose her unemployment benefits? How can we ever look /them/ in the eyes again!]

I know, it's insulting to those who fought in WWII for them to use WWII to glorify the imperialist wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Is it me, or do these people sound like the loudspeaker in the reeducation camp in "Red Dawn"? AMERICA...IS A WHOREHOUSE...IN WHICH THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEALS...OF YOUR FOREFATHERS..HAS BEEN CORRUPTED..]

I'm glad I am not watching it. I used to be a loyal football fan--no more. I suspected this fascist overview would reign--sports events are susceptable to propagandist devices now. If it is true--I shy away, much as I like sports.

[You're not a sports fan. You probably like soccer.]

It's the 1936 Berlin Olympics Redux

[I thought you guys found Leni to be cool now? Wasn't she rehabilitated once she went to Africa,and became a 'renowned photographer'?]

amazed. disgusted. and somewhat sickened. kind of like Germany and the nazi Olympics... or what I would have expected in communist Russia in the days of old...spreading the "freedom" bs a bit thick and deep and the militaristic rah-rahs gave me a nauseating jolt. have turned off the telly at this point. Frankly i would have preferred another Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction...

[I'm sorry you suffer from Normal American Behavior Aversion Syndrome. Symptoms include: dementia, paranoia, and tourette-like behavior when confronted with churches, Boy Scouts, or US uniforms. Please up your dosage of patouli, incense, and medicinal m-j.Oh, and you said, "telly". I knew you dug soccer. And from what I gather, you're a woman who wouldn't mind seeing another woman's bare breast. Good luck with that in the Taliban's Afghanistan.]

IT IS SICKENING... I used to live in Jacksonville and I can't believe the way in which the bush fascist empire has taken over a previously incredibly healthy get together sports time in jacksonville...There will be true celebration on the streets of MURRRIKKKAHHHH the day the bush fascist empire falls...as it has always happened anywhere when dictatorships of the right or of the left fall.

[Thank you for throwing in the absolute lamest attempt to appear unbiased ever. "or the left". Classic. I'm sure you're saying, "I've never heard of such a thing, but it will make me sound reasonable.]