The kid literally said he doesn't pledge to the flag and then unironically said that he pledges to the entire point of the pledge of allegiance/the representation of the flag. He's just a dumb, edgy, contrarian kid that doesn't even realize he just contradicted himself to the point where he's actually going out of his way to not have a backbone and support his beliefs. At least mindlessly parroting it for 30 seconds is just you going with the grain for normalcy sake even if the words don't really have much meaning to you. This kid is going out of his way and against the grain to not support his own self admitted beliefs. That's not backbone, it's just stupidity. It's like when you watch some videos online of someone do something real stupid and then you'll have someone say "wow he has balls" when in reality no, he's just stupid.
