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BetterCallLoblaw t1_ixumq6o wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in It’s always nice to see Baltimore recognized on the world stage - Go USA ⚽️ by chrisbeall

It’s the ultimate, “hey bro, remember that time we fought in the third grade?” “You kicked my ass, then I kicked your ass, and now we’re BFFs.”

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hamsterstyle609 t1_ixv51u2 wrote

Yeah it wouldn’t be a stretch at all to say the War of 1812 was, at best, a pyrrhic victory for us, in the sense that we survived at all. The British thoroughly beat our asses and considering that’s what the anthem was written, it might not carry the connotations of defeat to them.

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