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
realistically there's no way to stop people from tacitly or explicitly allocating taxes and benefits on the basis of race and large portions of the country have interests in this happening or ideological commitments to doing so
the norms to which new immigrants are assimilating and young natives inculcated are immensely ethnically charged without any public and common ideal of transcending race for an american identity, an identity which frankly doesnt even exist anymore
the rheinweisenlager were a bunch of concentration camps in the original sense where surrendered wehrmacht soldiers were held for several months in 1945
the camps were run by the US, apparently, and that's important
my only yarvin story is that we met in a temporary teahouse and he spent an hour watching my kid while moon and i took a break, and he sent us off with advice on early reading for her
it's a small thing but it was a welcome kindness for us, bare acquaintances
no one except lord myles has "adventures" when they travel
you are staying at a hotel, paying large sums of money to have a far worse experience than you could have in your own home and a far softer experience than you could have by spending a weekend in jail
"i love to Travel" why have you failed to establish your home as a place of serenity and joy, to the extent that you feel psychically uncomfortable there and strive to get away from your life whenever you can, viewing it as the highest good?
you are not well
"i Travel" you can go wherever you like in the world but you will never escape yourself