You're really reaching, but it's cool. Where I'm from, people do the same thing. I get why they do it, I just don't have the patience/stomach for it anymore. I used to be the same way. Then I realized I had to stop defending my country and be realistic, which most people automatically interpret as pessimistic/negative. On the plus side, it means I'm not one of these smug-yet-insecure upper-Canadian cunts who, were this the comments section of many other sites, would be rubbing your face in the fact "we did it way before you guys!" on everything from gay marriage to ending slavery to legalizing weed and all the obnoxious bullshit the more realistic Yanks rightly criticize us for.
National pride is folly when it's not fanaticism. If "leaders" like Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau should teach us anything it's that symbols of progress are nice, but they're just symbols, as are the largely toothless laws that fail to govern our crumbling world. These kids literally going on strike from school, protesters who keep protesting despite plenty of recent evidence that it could cost them their lives, okay, still largely symbolic, but much more potent than the token gestures we've been conditioned to accept up until now. It almost gives me hope... Almost.
I guess given the choice I'd rather see you be this kind of apologist than the other kinds of apologetics you've tried in the past. It's much more understandable and less cringeworthy even if I disagree.
You're really reaching, but it's cool. Where I'm from, people do the same thing. I get why they do it, I just don't have the patience/stomach for it anymore. I used to be the same way. Then I realized I had to stop defending my country and be realistic, which most people automatically interpret as pessimistic/negative. On the plus side, it means I'm not one of these smug-yet-insecure upper-Canadian cunts who, were this the comments section of many other sites, would be rubbing your face in the fact "we did it way before you guys!" on everything from gay marriage to ending slavery to legalizing weed and all the obnoxious bullshit the more realistic Yanks rightly criticize us for.
National pride is folly when it's not fanaticism. If "leaders" like Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau should teach us anything it's that symbols of progress are nice, but they're just symbols, as are the largely toothless laws that fail to govern our crumbling world. These kids literally going on strike from school, protesters who keep protesting despite plenty of recent evidence that it could cost them their lives, okay, still largely symbolic, but much more potent than the token gestures we've been conditioned to accept up until now. It almost gives me hope... Almost.
I guess given the choice I'd rather see you be this kind of apologist than the other kinds of apologetics you've tried in the past. It's much more understandable and less cringeworthy even if I disagree.