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
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
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
And America! Good God!
Washington sat in that chair! Or one like it, modulo that snafu in 1812. Jefferson! Generations of Adams! Lincoln!
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?
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
@the_beringian @RevrseSolipsist @HMBroughMD he was a weird guy
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