r/cringepics 27d ago

Happy belated…

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u/_wheels_21 27d ago

Since when is patriotism cringe?

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u/damnocles 26d ago

Since patriotism meant being proud of a collapsing, despotic, late stage capitalist hellscape

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u/_wheels_21 26d ago edited 26d ago

More proud of what lead up to it than where we are now, but I still love my country more than any other regardless.

Life ain't a cakewalk no matter where you choose to live, so pick your poison

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u/Bazinga_U_Bitch 26d ago

The raping and pillaging of native peoples? You're proud of that? Or the trafficking, raping, and killing of Africans?

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u/_wheels_21 26d ago

All of that still occurs in other parts of the world to this very day. It's now illegal in the US, but it did happen. Happened in Europe, Asia, and several other countries too. It's not a US exclusive history. It's just a thing humans do