I was born in Germany, I grew up in Spain, I’ve lived in the US for 15 years, and I’ve been a US citizen for about a year.
I never really understood patriotism until I became American.
Usually, when people move to other countries they are expats. A German in Spain for example. When people move to America they become American.
It’s the greatest country on earth and an experiment worth fighting for.
Happy 4th of July. 🎆
“And what about our sins? Slavery was the original sin, and I won’t sand it down. The founders knew it. Jefferson knew it, and he owned slaves — the hypocrisy was staring right at them, and they kept kicking the can down the road. But here is what a poisoned telling of our history leaves out: the New England colonies began rejecting slavery before England itself did. And when the reckoning finally came, hundreds of thousands of men died on battlefields to make other men free. “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,” read the original lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. That’s propitiation. One man suffers so others go free. A nation that will bleed that much to right its own wrong is not an evil nation. It is a great one, straining toward becoming a more perfect one. We had a black president. We had a black vice president. Our Secretary of State is the son of Cuban refugees. Anyone telling you the story that nothing here ever gets better is selling you something.”
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@politicalmath I used to do something similar with games that conferred ranks as you progressed. I would always name my characters “Asshole” so that I could laugh hysterically when promoted to Major Asshole.
@FirstDoctor Long ago I came to two hard incontrovertible facts about alcohol. It will never solve my problems. But it has never failed, not once, to postpone them.
@japan_nobunaga Kentucky is bordered by most states (7). There are things we like about all of them. But I would cut my daughter out of the will if she ever decided to attend the University of Tennessee. 🤮🤮🤮
@WVRidgeRider@JebraFaushay Oh… we were still out. We could have been hanging out in empty parking lots or strip jobs. But we were most definitely not in at 10pm. .
@fiago7 If you want to meet the best people in America who live in arguably the poorest part of the country check out Central Appalachia. East Ky, and East Tennessee , Western NC, Western VA, and West Virginia.