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A recent social science study found that female obesity elicits disgust in people.

This study examined the relevance of disgust to evaluations of an obese target person, and the connection between disgust and prejudice toward that person. Participants (n = 598) viewed an image of an obese or non-obese woman, and then evaluated that woman on a number of dimensions (emotions, attitudes, stereotypes, desire for social distance). Compared with the non-obese target, the obese target elicited more disgust, more negative attitudes and stereotypes, and a greater desire for social distance.

😆 “Get away from me you lazy-eyed fatty!”

Furthermore, disgust mediated the effect of the target’s body size on all of the outcome variables (attitudes, stereotypes, social distance). Disgust plays an important role in prejudice and discrimination toward individuals with obesity, and might in part explain the pervasiveness of weight bias.

It’s a good idea to not look like a monster who elicits disgust in others.

Randall Parker speculates,

Maybe people are becoming less patriotic because of the long term rise in obesity. Think about it.

I thought about it, and there’s something to it. Obesity – particularly female obesity – aggravates trends toward social atomization and community breakdown because it compels people to get the hell away from the corpulent company of modern day circus freaks. In some regions of the US, obesity is the NORM! That’s a lot of pent-up disgust.

If patriotism is in large part an organic expression of community, racial, and ethnic pride channeled through loyalty for the nation, then obesity, by severing localized social bonds all over America, will undermine national patriotism, as the repulsive forces incited by fatties are scaled up.

When humans turn themselves into monsters, it’s inevitable that their society becomes monstrous.

89 Responses to “Obesity And Declining Patriotism”

  1. plumpjack says:

    a picture is worth a thousand…. um…pounds?

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  2. wyomike says:

    No way. Fattest states are the most patriotic. Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, etc. Least patriotic coincides more with being a liberal, left leaning, urban dweller.

    [CH: are the fattening southern states less patriotic today than they were, say, fifty years ago when everyone was thinner? my impression is that they are getting less patriotic.]

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    • uh says:

      Yep. West Virginia … most fat people, went red two decades ago. Coal, lots of white people.

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    • wyomike says:

      I don’t think they are getting less patriotic. The South, rural West and Midwest are the last strongholds of the America we love. If the states from North Dakota south to Texas and east to Alabama decide to take their energy and food production and refuse to let it leave via road or rail, the coasts would have a hard time surviving. Coal, oil, gas, refining capacity, corn, wheat, etc etc. Not to mention all the federal income, transportation and mineral taxes. What we need is a group of governors that will empower their state national guards to close down the domestic transport of energy and consumables until the coasts are in the dark. It’s close to becoming reality. Just need the leadership.

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  3. Wrong Side of History says:

    Fatsos are usually high time preference, shitty people. We probably know on a subconscious level that they’re a greater threat to defect rather than cooperate.

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    • Captain Obvious says:

      The obese also tend to be extraordinarily LAZY. Simply preserving freedom [in the face of the relentless Gl0b0-H0m0 Eskimo-Bohemian-Grove drive to enslave us] is insanely difficult work. And actually pro-actively physically fighting for freedom, in the trenches, in terms of possibly freezing to death at Valley Forge, or being hanged at New York City? Fuhgeddaboudit.

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      • uh says:

        “The obese also tend to be extraordinarily LAZY.”

        You heard it here first.

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        uh, the flip side of that is that the general populace is becoming so pathologically indolent that it would be almost trivially easy for a small core of industrious folks to mount a successful revolution.

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      • Johnny Redux says:

        In the general scheme, obesity = gluttony. Gluttony is a sign of selfishness. Selfish people tend to be less focused on big-picture, national concerns. Plenty of average and thin selfish people out there, but fat is an obvious warning signs to other that you may be a selfish person. You points are good ones, Captain. When the shit hits the fan, fat people will not be able to help one side of the other very long. They simply are not fit for war, or even hard survival. Whether by accident of not, how many fat people do you see in The Walking Dead?

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      • Sean Fielding says:

        Type ‘Nathan [space]’ into Joogle and Hale does not even appear in the top ten options.

        Wiki: ‘born to Richard Hale and Elizabeth Strong.’ Not to Richard Grosso and Elizabeth Fat.

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    • Exurban says:

      Yes, gluttony is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. The people who drew up that road map of the human heart knew what they were doing.

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  4. Mahdi says:

    Dammit, I was reluctant to look at the comments because of the inevitable fat-people pix, and WHAM, plumpjack hits it out of the park in comment 1.

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  5. I would think it is possible a fat person – because they are rejected by most people – feels like an outcast and would be more willing to side with the enemy of those who made her/him a reject, an outcast…it is just a theory…

    Either way the fact more and more people are obese is a sign we are a civilization in decline. A sign of decadence.

    As some famous Canadian blogger would say; We need a famine!

    In a famine the tough would get going, the weak would not have much say or a vote on how things are done, the men would do manly stuff that requires muscle, sweat and courage, the women would do womanly stuff like take care of children, gather wood for a fire, cook and sew.

    Women would seek men’s protection. The weak and the freaks would die. Feminism would die too. Men would regain control as they should. People would self segregate by race ( as in jail ) as they should.

    We would no longer give billions of dollars to other nations and then complain we have a deficit . Faggoty things such as micro-agression complaints would instantly vanish. There would be no more welfare; work or die… or return to Weirdkistan or Afreaka. There would be no leniency towards criminals, they would be shot, not jailed.

    A big war could possibly achieve the same results. But a famine would work better.

    Your milleage may vary.

    I am just rambling here, of course I do not actually wish I was starving for years, but a nation, a civilization might benefit greatly from it. It would be like a big “reset “, mostly it would be the fittest and wisest who would survive and reproduce.

    Ok…I’m done rambling.

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    • Captain Obvious says:

      > “We need a famine!” ——— In addition to the caloric intake and the need for fresh water, in a true SHTF situation [Cat 5 hurricane striking NYC, Mag 8 earthquake in LA, 1859 Solar Event taking out the electrical grid], a substantial portion of the population would quickly die [lack of Asthma inhalers, lack of insulin, lack of antibiotics, lack of renal dialysis, etc etc etc] or go crazy and commit suicide [lack of SSRIs, lack of benzodiazepines, lack of opioids, etc etc etc].

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      • plumpjack says:

        the famine starts today:

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        LOL’ed. But PJ, I guaran-d@mn-tee you that that SJW beey0tch is on at least one SSRI, and likely another prescription psychotropic, and doubtless drinks heavily and/or smokes serious weed. So in a SHTF situation, she’d go insane and commit suicide long before she was in any danger of actually starving to death. Very likely also insulin for diabetes, and an inhaler for asthma – diabetics & asthmatics can die very quickly without easy access to an Emergency Room.

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      • Johnny Redux says:

        I am guessing fatty in the photo is jonesing for a ‘tuna’ sandwich, on moldy rye.

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  6. FB (Former Beta) says:

    Why would you be patriotic to this mess? What is there to love here?

    I am 48, I grew up in a totally different America, much better America…what exactly is worthy of my love and loyalty here?

    Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Marco/Clinton?
    It is plain to me that we have a government completely disconnected from the interests of the people that pay the bills and do the work around here…
    Patriotism means…what in this context?

    (And stop posting pics of fat ugly black chicks :-))

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    • Captain Obvious says:

      > “Why would you be patriotic to this mess?” ——— Isn’t that CH’s point? That it’s a lot easier to sail across the Mediterranean and fight and die in a foreign country if you’re doing it to preserve, say, the honor of Helen of Troy, rather than, say, Lena Dunham?

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        Irene Papas as Helen of Troy, 1971

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        Diane Kruger as Helen of Troy, 2004

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      • Ponce du Lion says:

        Nobody is going to start a war for Papas. And less ancient shitwarlords Greeks

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        As dark-haired chicks go, she’s easily a hard 9 – as cute as Padma Lakshmi [who lightens her hair]. And if Papas had bleached her hair and her eyebrows [or had worn a dolly parton wig], then you’d call her an HB 9.5.

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      • Ponce du Lion says:

        Lol really Cap?
        That manjaws?

        Not only fair traits but a remodeling of facial bones

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        Matt Drudge just posted this photo of Mrs Rotten Cl!tless grovelling for votes in New Hampshire:

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      • Captain Obvious says:

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        I can’t figure out how to get this Linux GIMP piece of sh!t to paste a blonde color, but here she is in “Platinum”:

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        Also, PdL, you posted Lakshmi in her natural jet-black; she looks far better when she dyes it a more Caucasian auburn brown:

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      • mendo says:

        Judi Bowker…Clash of the Titans….best nude scene of the 80s

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      • Ponce du Lion says:

        She is hot and exotic, and very beautiful for an indian, but I prefer neotenous girls like Judi Bowker

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      • jOHN MOSBY says:

        Goddamn , that’s gross.

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      • Greg Eliot says:

        Judi Bowker… now THAT’S the Gold Standard, right there.

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      • wolfie65 says:

        The problem with ‘brown’ chicks (Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Indian) is that they age suddenly and drastically around 30-32 or so.
        Lots of hot Hispanic girls in their teens & 20’s, barely any past 35.
        Can’t say I ever personally met a Greek or Italian woman I found particularly attractive.

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      • irishsavant says:

        My God Diane Kruger is DIVINE. A wonder Hollyweird didn’t cast Whoopi Goldberg or some other vibrant for the role.

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  7. Look up Lynyrd Skynyrd shows, especially Oakland, 1974 or so, I saw a video awhile back.. An ocean of skinny beautiful women, maybe 100,000 of them at that concert. Celebrating America. That is the America I went off to go defend. And I had a bunch of those women. And somewhere along the way, those women became obese and hateful and angry for no other reason than that they had the right to be obese, hateful and angry.

    Whatever the patriot angle, it doesn’t matter if obese women are patriotic. What matters is if women can inspire their men to patriotic heights. Ok, so some broads go join the military because of their own feminist inspiration, even if to the detriment of the military. But if our women become fat, if they hate us, if they hate our Christianity, our values, if they choose to trample on that, what then is there for young men to defend? My instinct would be to abandon them to their fate. And I am not alone.

    To Hell with them all.

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    • Captain Obvious says:

      Oakland CA, 1977

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      • Captain Obvious says:

        SoCal, 1984 [maybe someone recognizes the pier?]

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      • Days of Broken Arrows says:

        I’m old enough to remember when girls looked like the ones in that Skynyrd show. I was just joking with my brother about how at our old high school, the biggest problem with dating was that the girls were “too redneckish.” The school was pretty much 100 percent thin girls, half of whom were blonde, but we were annoyed because we felt they were a bit too country. Yeah, that should be our biggest problem now.

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      • irishsavant says:

        Look at that LS audience. Not a single vibrant to be seen. Happy days.

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  8. Ponce du Lion says:

    Whales belong to the oceans, nobody wants a whale-mermaid shared nation on earth. They have to go to the sea. Even there is a film about this. Trump will fix this

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  9. plumpjack says:

    (trigger warning)
    remember when a cherry picker was for pulling the engine on a chevelle?

    not anymore!

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  10. Joe Magarac says:

    Fat and patriotic:).

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  11. Ponce du Lion says:

    Obsessive emotional liar David (whale mammoth manboob) Frutelle wants to be deported to deep sea via be launched from a plane without parachute.

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  12. Vagina dominator says:

    Gentlemen,

    I have assembled some notes discussing the video of the fight in the NY subway that appeared in CH’s “Who this bitch Redux”.

    It is not a great fight but it does have a handful of very generic features that I point out not just because they are very commonly seen but because I think they show the importance of having good strategies as well as good tactics or techniques.

    I have already sent these notes out to those who sent me an email for my earlier notes on openhand fighting.

    Anyone else interested can get them by sending me an email at [email protected]

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    • Carlos Danger says:

      Thanks VD. I printed these and have been trying them out. I bought a Katana a couple of days ago. I’m looking forward to that getting here.

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  13. Johnny Redux says:

    I am torn. Fat people, and fat women in particular, absolutely disgust me. Anymore I can barely control making weird facial contortions when I see them, especially the land whale variety. I want to go Captain Ahab on them. On the other hand, the most faggy, d-bag liberals tend to be on the thin side (probably in part due to their vegetarian tendencies). That said, heavier people (especially men) who eat good by fattening foods (steaks, eggs, potatoes), and work/play hard, seem to be more conservative than the fat slobs who owe much of their weight to soda, fast food, snacks of all varieties, and no exercise – spending much of their time being keyboard jockeys, porn addicts, and video game heroes.

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  14. Yeah, but these generalised stats hide behind vagueness, and need breaking down. Why is it that when America was mostly White that fat people were scarce, and now its epidemic? How much of the fat is on White and how much is on Brown? I’m betting on Brown. Find anything darker than tan that doesn’t weigh a metric ton. Mexican girls are skin and bones when they’re young, and a ton of blubber waddling like a penguin after their first pregnancy. The black landwhale weighs an average of sixteen tons. Load sixteen tons and what do you get? More crime.

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    • Johnny Redux says:

      Good thoughts, Joshua, but think about this: In the good old days of the USA (pre-1965), it was 80% White and much, much thinner; however, that was arguably the worst generation because they did nothing to stop all of the insanely radical (even by today’s standards) racial and social engineering changes being forced on them (I mean, shit, desegregation was a MASSIVE government forced experiment and barely a gunshot over it). So, if the theory is that not being fat is a sign of strength, vitality, etc., that argument it fell flat in the thin USA in the 1960s (and even well before that, if one studies history). As such, although fat is disgusting, and a sign of weakness and selfishness, I tend not to believe that there is a direct correlation between the obesity epidemic and the fall of the Nation. Obesity is a sign of weakness, and the people were already weak. The availability of more fattening, sugar-laden, GMO foods just made the weak more apt to put on the pounds. That and the increasingly non-physical desk jobs that many perform these days (or living off the public dole, which generally was not done before the 1960s in blacks or Whites), makes being obese a very survivable malady.

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      • Johnny Redux says:

        For example, Native Hawaiians, who used to be pretty fit and strong with their native, healthy diets, not have a 35% obesity rate (yes, 35%) and growing. They did not change, their diet did – having access to various snack foods, sugary drinks and cakes, and super fattening foods available to the general American populace. So, a thin, hard working (but weak-willed) White person with a better diet in the 1950s (not by choice, but by availability and price limitations) could easily become a fat disgusting cow in the present (especially in the last 20 years). And remember, there are probably more gyms, exercise videos, etc. now than at any point in the last 20 years. And the fat epidemic is getting worse, not better. The weak gonna be weak.

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      • Johnny Redux says:

        And, in addition to the availability of more food, and more types of foods (some of which should not even be called foods), having more chemicals and hormones in the foods doesn’t help matters either.

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      • Johnny Redux says:

        My final comment is in moderation (have no idea why), but hope that it appears by tomorrow. Too many thoughts…some nights the noggin’ keeps spinning pretty fast with ideas. This was one of those nights.

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      • Ponce du Lion says:

        Completely agree. Moreover there is evidence of genetic greater insulin resistance in people who is now fat, but before were average. This is, in the past as famines have been common insulin resistance/obesity provides a insurance against food depletion, by storing fats and doesn’t burn sugars so fast. I’m sure that low will/iq people were the most benefited from that, as they had less food supply stability. But now their low will and food excess is clear disadvantage. With the benefits of being medically healthy and socially appealing overwhelm the short term satisfaction of eat too much

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      • Carlos Danger says:

        People tried but information flow was much more piecemeal and the silent majority was drowned out by the elites. The INternet has been revolutionary in Terms of exchanging ideas. We have daily conversations with Australia now. That would have been a miracle in the 60s or very pricey.

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      • Carlos Danger says:

        Type II Diabetes is mostly a mechanical problem from the blood sugar sensors on the pancreas being covered in fat and no longer functioning normally. Lose the weight and the Diabetes goes with it.

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      • Carlos Danger says:

        When you work hard all day, you can eat like a horse and have to. In the South, the big meal used to be Dinner, which was a big hot meal at noon. Supper was the evening meal. My farming relatives could eat 3000 calories a sitting and never put on weight.

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      • Ponce du Lion says:

        From wikipedia
        Thrifty gene hypothesis
        primary interest was in diabetes, but the idea was soon expanded to also encompass obesity. Thrifty genes are genes which enable individuals to efficiently collect and process food to deposit fat during periods of food abundance in order to provide for periods of food shortage (feast and famine).
        Dutch famine of 1944
        The Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study, carried out by the departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Gynecology and Obstetrics and Internal Medicine of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit of the University of Southampton in Britain, found that the children of pregnant women exposed to famine were more susceptible to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, microalbuminuria and other health problems.[7]

        Although the evidence isn’t conclusive.

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    • Carlos Danger says:

      The American diet is loaded with perservatives, hidden sugars and fats. Nearly all processed food in the US is slow poison. You can eat for less and eat much healthier if you make your own meals.

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  15. Carlos Danger says:

    Obesity as you see now was rare, about one in 10,000 or fewer. You could literally go for years in a place now plagued with obesity and not see anyone grossly overweight. Old men might have a belly and old women a bigger butt but it was well within normal constraints. These people have handicapped themselves.

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  16. TestosteRON says:

    Check out the Happy meal that a lady posted on social media that is 6 years old and still looks edible due to all of the preservatives and garbage chemicals in the food nowadays.

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  17. Rum says:

    What could be more simple? Men are instinctively willing to sacrifice more for attractive women than un-attractive women – across the board – in any arena.
    Patriotism = the instinct to protect ones women. If they are not really acting like they are yours and the women involved are of such low value that that they are not worth protecting the game is over.

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  18. Rum says:

    K = Calvinism

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  19. tspark156 says:

    America’s obesity explains why so many brown skinned men want to get inside her.

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  20. Days of Broken Arrows says:

    I also think that if you live in a condo community, having fat neighbors brings property values down. People coming to look at property assume lowlifes live there when they see lumbering fatasses because being fat is associated (correctly) with lack of education and achievement.

    It becomes an embarrassment when you’re getting a real estate agent to show your property and there’ some Fat Bluto Fuck outside smoking and a woman who can barely walk because she’s so morbidly obese. This sends a very different message to buyers than if you have a tennis hottie running to her car with a racket or a well-toned guy in a nice suit.

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  21. Insulent says:

    Interesting. Posts like this keep me coming back.

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  22. Mike says:

    Patriotism is love of nation, this spot on the earth and the people in it. Make them ugly, watch love die.

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