I never feel more American than when I'm arguing with an Alt-Right dipshit I'm a White dude with German/Scottish/Welsh ancestry, but have never identified as White/German/Scottish/Welsh I'm a fucking American If you need a larger sense of belonging than that join a book club
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And I certainly don't feel "part of a European people" who, fun fact: Historically have never felt that they were part of a "people" with other Europeans either. This idea just looks like pathetic nostalgia for a "people" & socio political landscape that never existed.
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I honestly can't tell how much of this is about people wanting to "reclaim" that phantom nostalgic ideal & how much of it is a Pan-Euroism that is being used as a deliberate catalyst to enact a gambit for domination over (((other people)))pic.twitter.com/Lc0KMd9wiB
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Yeah, that's probably a big part of it. My experience of never feeling like that stuff mattered probably makes me an outlier. I just feel like there are better things to identify with than "our ancestors came from the same place".
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Well I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this was
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