me whenever someone from another country is explaining why theyre mad at the united states over something that happened before year of our lord 2022
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"actually india has good reason to be mad at the united states for selling biplanes to ruritania in the 1973 india-vietnam fishing war" tbqh i dont think any of those countries even exist
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if you live in such a country you can be mad about these things but you should know that no american will ever even know what your talking about and will forget the instant after you tell him
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the final moral victory of america: we dont even remember the sins for which you think we ought to atone
How happy is the blameless Yankee's lot! / The world forgetting, and history forgot
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i dont mean to condemn nor to defend this stance. i just want to make this clear this so you can correctly understand the utterly innocent american sense of historical morality as benign imbecility rather than an insult of you in particular
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I've got a lot of exciting and fun things on my mind, I can't keep straight your centuries of inter-tribal conflict and how we once got somewhat involved I am sorry
"History is a nightmare that I am trying to screen out long enough to finish Elden Ring (they don't let you pause!!)"
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