was yelling about this with @selentelechia, I dont recall how we got on the topic but it may have been world war one via tolkien via anti-aging via socialism destroying womens ability to have a fulfilling life outside of the marketplace
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she identified the british specifically as people who seem embarrassed to have been an empire at one point and are now basically a backwater which you know what fucking get over it you bastards are the heirs of Elizabeth and Pitt and you should act like it
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And America! Good God! Washington sat in that chair! Or one like it, modulo that snafu in 1812. Jefferson! Generations of Adams! Lincoln!
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A ragtag army drunk on liberty defeated the most powerful empire on earth to birth this country and you can't spare a moment to take pride in inheriting the system they built with pen and sinew and blood?pic.twitter.com/X4XslDRM9Q
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one should be proud to participate in the continuation of great deeds of the past and aspire to become worthy of it by building on the work of one's forebears everyone should go read burke immediately https://twitter.com/Morgan_Anastasi/status/1330616119254716419?s=19 …
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N.b. Michael Ignatieff spending his entire life at US universities, and coming up to CDA only to run for PM in 2011. Dude voted with his feet all his life, his revealed preferences weren't subtle
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These memes make me sad because they come across like history is a zero sum game, but maybe I should say “ecology” :/
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they do but there are degrees
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