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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I mean, it was in 1944 that for the axis it went from “not going well at all” to “run for your lives”. And I mean, one of the main contributions of the US was A-mostly dealing with Japan, B-supplying half the world (including the soviets). The troops sure were important as hell, but not their main contribution










  • It is possible to be proud of the good parts of your history and ashamed of the bad ones. History is not black and white but has nuance... For example: I am a Portuguese. I am extraordinarily proud of the 15th and early 16th centuries of our history. We were a small country poor in grain with nowhere to expand. So we decided to look out for adventure and sail the seas. We mapped most of the coast of africa and brought that knowledge back to Europe, we went all the way to India by sea (where the local ruler laughed off our faces as we were primitive in comparison to them, and he would only trade spices for gold, not for the hats and nautical instruments we had). Little after we found out about Brazil, found new plants, new animals, a whole new continent. I am proud of that part of my history.

    Does it mean I am proud of what ensued later? Does it mean that I am proud of the slave trade we fuelled between the edges of the Atlantic? Does it mean I am proud of the later colonial era? Of course not. But the love for my history is not incompatible with the shame I feel for other parts of it.

    The exploration phase and the colonial phase were done by very different people, and that allows me to separate concretely my pride and my shame