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- May 25, 2020
I don't know if the term "delusions of grandeur" would apply here, but that's what I was thinking while reading this.
My mistake. I read are as were, probably because are doesn't really fit these days. Have you been to Paris, Berlin, or London in the last decade? See much in the way of homogeneity?
This nation was built through conquest just like every other nation. Or did you think Luxembourg, Chile, Laos, etc. just naturally had those borders?
I guess a normal attitude to the world would look like a delusion of grandeur to a guy doompilling about how there's nothing to be done but cry and/or die FOR DAYS because them brownies are taking away a proud heritage of coca-cola with mcdonalds after church on a sunday. But maybe you're an upstanding citizen without a drinking problem or a criminal history, maybe you're the suavest socialite with a killer career, maybe everything's just finger licking good. I'm really just judging by the ones I interact with in the ol' rusty dusty belt - so if you're a different sect, hey, kick those larping alcoholics into gear, wouldja? like, i dunno, educate 'em on the internet, with that paperless mail thing
Europe has a case because, when the idea of nation-states first emerged, them would be the states right where those distinct, calcified cultures originated from. There's migration all across the continent and Europe, sure, but you can broadly state that it's whitey's backyard and has been that way for a fucking long period of time. Especially if we're just globbing all of the subgroups together as "whites." The US is an experiment that, even tracing to its roots as a colony, is fucking young and a general outfit of misfits who were the poor dregs of wherever they came from for much of the 18th and 19th centuries
And in case you missed that point about the purchase, which is covered usually around grade 8, the gubmint bought a giant set of land that had a bunch of natives on it - but more importantly, a bunch of fucking french and spanish. I know, I told Jeffy I was furious, and then the country goes and starts absorbing in states which had significant hispanic populations that worked in them, and then it starts letting the fucking krauts and potatos immigrate over right after it fights a fucking war about blackie. I mean really this country's gone to shit in its first eighty years of existence, I tell ya - don't even ask me about those simpsons looking people or the schnauzes
it is a land of squatters because it is largely made up of people who just showed up and hung around. But yes, this version of the country that existed for a hot five or ten years is definitely the idealized form, and definitely what you experienced, yes siree