nowhere more than in the us. Ugh these flag wavers. If you want pride in the country the country first has to act and function in a way that elicits pride!
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I think a lot about something I read years ago. It said something like, "Some people love their country the way a child loves a parent. The parent is the smartest and the best and perfect. Some people love their country the way an adult loves a peer. They see the strengths, the potential, but also the weaknesses and problems that need to be addressed."
Conservatives are generally children. Driven largely by emotion with a very simple moral framework. Much like you will likely struggle to explain to a toddler that taking the other kid's toys, screaming constantly, and shitting in the sandbox won't make a lot of friends, explaining politics to a conservative is likely to be an ordeal. They don't care. They have feelings and that is their reality.
It's also kind of funny how conservatives are the ones who typically say "reality doesn't care about your feelings". Everything is projection.
The qons are very much into performative bullshit that they think is patriotism. They'll cry about how someone kneeling while a song plays and a piece of cloth is displayed at a sportsball game hurts "the troops".
Then they'll proudly vote for a party that treats the men and women of the military like a used Kleenex, and embrace a figure like Taco who called them suckers and losers.
They'll blather about free speech, then cry about Hollywood airing shows they don't like. They'll talk about liberty and The Constitution, but want xtianity to be put on a pedestal.
Xtianity sounds like the Muskrat’s new political party (or religion, or both).
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Man over the years that projection thing just gets more and more. Which is just crazy when they spend most of their time accusing their opponents of things we eventually find out they are actively doing at the time.
"reality doesn’t care about your feelings"
but science is woke
The patriotic thing to do now is fly them upside down.
Thats how I wear the little one on my black armband at protests. Definately in distress.
the country first has to act and function in a way that elicits pride!
ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you
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I think US popularity is collapsing in the US as well. I know I'm starting to hate it here.
I've been trying to convince my wife to leave since 2016. I'm 99% sure the main reason she won't agree is because she will burst into flames if she ever admits to being wrong about anything.
When I married my wife in 2005 she told me she'd NEVER leave her home and family. Took her to Australia for the first time in 2015 and within an hour of landing she was ready to move, which we did in November 2015, right before trump 1.0. Now since last November she's looking into Australian citizenship and says she's never going back. Don't give up hope!
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Yup, half our population is now defending human trafficking and statutory rape.
Never in my long life have I considered leaving America, but I'm looking at options now.
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Trump is the symptom not the disease
He's a cancer, and it has spread.
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Turns out most of the world doesn't like felon rapist liars.
'Merica does though.
Don’t forget they don’t like people who are best friends and love to party with pedos
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But Trump said the world loves us?
Whatever he says, the opposite is true.
You’d have to mad to want to go to the clown show Nazi pedo-nation.
Is this really surprising to anyone?
Probably only hardcore MAGA. Actually probably not them because they wouldn't believe an MSM article that claimed Trump was hurting the image of the USA, even if they could read
They probably believe it but think it's because Trump is playing hardball and making them pay their fair share and that's why they're mad.
I think they love the hate. Because it's the only emotion they get from anyone.
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No, no, MAGAs keep insisting that the world finally respects us again!
To be fair. Respected and loved are two different things. I don't think the rest of the world respects the US more than 1 year ago, just saying.
This article is 2 months old.
And it’s only gotten worse
when US was popular in the world? can you call a bully the popular kid?
Basically the same way the douchey rich kid who's tolerated because he's got a Playstation AND an N64 is "popular".
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It's actually been quite nice here in Canada lately, in the last few years we've been quite politically divided but once Trump started talking about annexing Canada it seemed like everyone I know came together to be like he can fuck right off lol.
Our household is still refusing to buy anything American or go anywhere near the place until (at the very least) Trump is gone and the US can demonstrate that something like this won't happen again.
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