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"I salute all who served" GTFO
(lemmy.nz)
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
I've never understood the concept of "being proud of your country" at all, to be honest. Like, you as an individual have such a vanishingly insignificant impact on your country as a whole that anything you may have contributed is pretty much irrelevant. This applies doubly so if you're below the age of, say 30 or 40, or if you're being "proud" of something your country did before you came of age, as you literally didn't contribute anything whatsoever and just happened to be born into it.
The obvious exception is if you are the supreme dictator-for-life and singlehandedly made every major policy decision for the last 3 decades. Or if you live in Liechtenstein and therefore your individual impact is drastically overrepresented compared to a "regular size" country.
Yeah it feels more healthy to be proud of achievements.
Includes being proud of your children if you have achieved good parenting, but being part of a country, what is the achievement, what is the work you have put in there?
Pay taxes maybe. "I'm proud to pay taxes for country X" doesn't have the same ring to it, though.
I understand where you're all coming from, but at the same time I do believe you can be proud of things you've done nothing for.
For example I don't see anything wrong with being proud of a family member for beating addiction or running a 5k etc.
Edit: Phrasing