a thing that genuinely disgusts me are politicians who arent proud of the nations they serve they lack the courage of their convictions, their people can Tell, and their ultimately fall will be shameful
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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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You would like Douglas Murray. I’m half
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Yeah the Empire of Brittania had some horror. Also some of history’s greats. And the first ever successful abolitionists, at great $ cost!
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"first successful abolitionists" is actually "only successful abolitionists" there is no reason to think the fetid institution would ever have ended without Britannia's example
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Possible cancellable take of mine is that I find the German evident self-hatred really disturbing. Like, I get it to a point, but there's something deeply uncomfortable and almost anti-life to it.
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Goethe! Luther! Bismarck!
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But that's nationalism which is Tribalism and basically a step away from Nazism
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yes well good thing we no longer have tribes now that nationalism is passë
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I get it, but it's a bit more complicated when you know the history up close? Mistakes Were Made, so I hear from the Irish and um others
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yes an enduring black mark how long to you intend to flagellate yourselves instead of doing new good things
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