I think he was identifying, not as a citizen, but as a countrymen, which is a little definition found on infoshop.org. It's sort of like loving your family: they are fucked up fuckers, but you were born into it and you still tend to love most of 'em or, at least, tolerate them. No sooner are you going to run off to Seattle and denounce your family and form a new one, than are USers going to give up the ritual of stuffing themselves, baking apple pies out the ying yang, squabbling, and getting piss drunk in front of a football game, one hand on the aching gut, the other close to the beer can and bag of Doritos. :)
More pie for thought:
http://murdershow.net/post/2005-11-23/fuck-cool/#more-54 http://redstateson.blogspot.com http://www.livejournal.com/users/kdotdammit/585373.html (hell, just go to the main blog and reall all the entries on the ritual of TG. just read the entire page with entries on Thanksgiving. Damn, I'm so glad someone else looks like I do when baking.)
She's the same person who wrote this: http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1995/20/nicolini.html
such a horrid horrid person for not sitting in a corner brooding about genocide.
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