#but now ppl r acting like youre gonna get shot for liking quails

[larnax]

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1: a water-filter screenshot of a bumper sticker with the USA flag behind a possum reading "True patriots brake for America's only native marsupial"

2: tags reading "#some usamerican leftists want to be chauvinistic but can't do it normally because of optics #So instead they do this weird obsession over nature like Appalachia or possums or redwood trees #or mt rainier or cascadia or whatever else #they do this with the imperial system sometimes as well though not as often #the less conscious ones also take up fucking institutions like usps or the national parks or amtrak #and it's not being playful or a simple enjoyment of things of your (very fucked up) country #they make them into symbols and rallying cry #usamerican anarchists love to use a possum for their artwork for example #and yeah i guess it's neat that it's america's only marsupial #but by bringing these things into your political aesthetic you just come off as weirdly chauvinistic over random things #and yes it's different from other countries #especially non-imperial core ones #because the character of your nationalism #even the cutesy half-joking type #rests on the overt shoulders of actual "overt" chauvinism"

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north american possum voted most chauvinistic mammal.