To remove or decrease the amount of something inside anything considered as a ball(s).
"My girlfriend is as good at deflating balls as the New England Patriots."
The act of being on the NFL patriot bandwagon
There is NFL patriotism in this house.
Noun.
somebody with the passion and heart of a social justice warrior but more intellect and actually pays attention to what's going on. Debates with integrity. Is aware of thier own biases and able to put them aside and listen to alternative points of view.
the rise of social justice warriors led to the rise of social justice Patriots like Jordan Peterson.
darawiish patriotism refers to devotion to any form of the SSC-Khatumo state
he depicted his darawiish patriotism
An individual whom will complain about players kneeling during the national Anthem while sitting on their sweating, couch-swallowing ass during the national Anthem when they are at home and nobody's looking.
Someone whom is insincere in their patriotic statements.
"Did you hear Billy-Bob-Carl-Danny-Frank yesterday? He kept going off about how unpatriotic and Unamerican those players were for kneeling during the national anthem, but he was sitting on his ass during it and drinking beer while wearing his baseball cap."
"Yeah, he's such a Plastic Patriot."
A person with an unhealthy level of celebration and deference to the Uniformed services until a member of the Service contradicts any element of their previously held world view. Then the Service member is viewed as uncommitted, un-American, and not a “real” serviceman because real servicemen and women adhere to a strict world view presented to the Plastic Patriot by draft dodging actors and opportunistic politicians.
I told my uncle that the Senator talking on Fox News about going to war with China is missing a lot of non-military solutions and that plastic patriot told me I was being a snow flake that’s making the army he never served in weak and all real soldiers want to fight the Chinese
On June 14, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill to insert the phrase “under God” into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance that children recited every morning in school. The United States wanted to distinguish itself from godless communist countries.
Following this Eisenhower signed another bill that declared all children born after the year 1950 would be required to visit all 48 U.S. States to obtain a high school diploma. This was put into place as a way to promote patriotism in American youth.
In 1959 after the installation of both Hawaii and Alaska as U.S. states. The law was called into question as Congress was unsure of requiring students to travel out of the continental United States.
Currently American students are required to visit all 50 U.S. States in order to graduate from high school. Each student gets 12 years to complete this. They are allowed to cross their home state off the list (Excluding District of Columbia students). They must show proof they've visited the state either by photo, souvenir, or a local signature.
In 2016 Hilary Clinton argued this law was classicist and targeted marginalized communities.
Many Americans are forced to get GEDs due to not visiting all 50 states. The groups with the lowest average graduation rates were Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic.
Democrats have been calling for this law to be revoked but have been blocked on several occasions by Republicans who wish for the law to remain in action.
American: "In order to graduate high school in the U.S. we have to visit all 50 states."
Brit: "Please, that's not true. How stupid do you think I am?"
American: "No, seriously it's the 1954 Adolescent Patriotism Act."