I see worship of a country (or religion for that matter) as some kind of a national collective mental breakdown that is somehow tolerated as fine.
I mean, to misquote Bill Hicks, 'Your parents fucked there'
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Octo I ruin everything.,
Mon 6 Jun 2022, 9:27,
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Peer pressure
See also thursday doorstep clapping, grudgingly closing the russian branches of your multinational, and OTT wailing over a people's princess who was thoroughly reviled the week before
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Turtle Power & Knuckles,
Mon 6 Jun 2022, 9:40,
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