npdean

I agree with you on this but with some nuance. This thinking is correct and should be used on individual level. However, time has shown us that most humans are stupid and will resort to herd mentality. So, the pride quickly turns into nationalism.

This is the whole point of resistance. Standing up to wrong is resistance, even if it needs sacrifice

I am sure most people during Hitler's rule were against the genocide but did it matter? Complicity is support.

Only the gullible are proud of their country. The real patriots are critical of the mistakes of the country.

I have taken long breaks in my education (a pretty good one) due to being lazy depressed (being depressed but not sad per se, having executive dysfunction).

My friends have moved on from college and I am stuck. It always feels that my problems were not as important or as big to waste years of my life.

I have accepted the fact that it is my life and it is not a race but sometimes I do feel that it would have been much simpler and better if I had just completed my education while being miserable because I was miserable anyways.

I am kind of rambling because I don't think such a deep and vast topic can be explained in a comment.

I literally had it today.

I used to hate it like most people, then I understood that most people don't cook it the right way.

Letting my emotions ruin my career

It is delicious if you make it right - sweet curry or dry spicy fries.

Zero. Because he would have donated the money to a war mongering state instead.

Linux Mint and PopOS.

Yes, the same working class who was not starved to death because they got food from a famine struck India. They could have easily denied eating the food and let their children starve, be the bigger person.

Ethics have never mattered to the British (and most of the world to be fair) when it benefits them.