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I hear you have really realy big flags

Honestly, I'd say the national park system. But that's a "for however long we still have it."

Our country is beautiful, and we have an incredibly diverse array of climates. Tropical beaches, vast deserts, snow capped peaks, dense forest, sprawling grasslands. And so much of our land is protected in National Parks, BLM, National Forests... It's truly a treasure.

I agree, the majority of Americans are decent, not racist or various forms of genophobic, and resisting as best they can. The government and media has merged into a monster. ii looks huge and scary; that's by design. If you give up hope, they have won.

I'm legitimately struggling to answer this right now. I have little pride for nations in general, and none whatever for ours at the moment. I have plenty of pride for individuals and groups that are trying to do the right thing, but there's nothing unique to America in that regard.

I'm proud that a man can overcome extravagant wealth and luxury, a low IQ, a criminal record, extreme narcissism to climb all the way to the top to become the worst leader in history.

Even though there is a tsunami of hate, more than half the country is outraged and truly wants to defend those being targeted. I'm still proud of that, it's the propaganda that affects the 30+% of the population that really sucks...

Remember: the entire population doesn't vote. Roughly half of the voting population chooses this hatred.

Despite this anti-immigrant push from the far right, we are very accepting of immigrants in general. If you've lived in the US for a while and speak English, we assume you are American and we consider you to be American. You don't even need to have citizenship to necessarily be considered American by the average person. You just have to have been here for a while. This is much more open and accepting and than the vast majority of countries are.

The pockets of blue areas that still would beat up nazis.

I know my fellow Philadelphians will beat an open nazi. And I have literally never seen a nazi in like 10+ years in Philly. Philly has 40+% of Black population (who are not fans of nazis), and Harris won by double digit percentage points, there is no chance someone can openly be a nazi wearing the swastica armband or doing the salute on a busy street around here and not get beaten.

Also, despite the ongoing autocrazation, I can still access any foreign website I want to, so at least the "free speech" aspect is still not totally gone (but if the republicans don't get stopped soon, this is probably going away 😖).

We have had and currently have some incredible authors artists and musicians who make beautiful and brilliant things that reflect the spirit of the average American far better than the handful monsters who have power over us

That's not to say other countries don't also have fascinating and ingenious creators and cultures too, just saying that ours are the thing I like most about my country

Some things I'm proud of:

• The citizens that volunteer their time to defend the potential of others in their communities. E.g. youth development, homeless assistance.
• The common principles the nation is built on (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) and bind us together. Today, it seems the many ways those principles are interpreted has splintered society. However, in my experience, most Americans feel strongly about those principles, and they can be used as a basis for relationships across many unlikely social groups.

I think it's easiest to be proud of your country and fellow citizens when you start interacting meaningful with your neighbors with an open mindset, regardless of their world view.

Funk music and brownies. I make both often! Very very good stuff.

The cities and states fighting back and keeping some sanity in these time. Best I got. I mean given our history we really need to be the best we can to make the best of ourselves that we can to justify our existence and we have been failing hard for ugh. Most of my life now.

My hobby is genealogy. Almost every generation seems to have someone in the family that endured significant hardship but made it through. The most recent one I found was a young child burned to death in a barn fire. Others are kids orphaned by flu or other illness. I always find that one person that could have quit - but didn't. Americans seem to have a recessive resilient gene. It comes out only at dire need. This can give us great hope these days.

We know what it is to live free

It's kind of interesting that America does this thing where we punish ourselves.

And by punishing ourselves I mean the rich people bond together to torment the poor people by flaunting their wealth and exacerbating their poverty until the poors scream and struggle.

Typically this happens while natural disasters are also happening like the dust bowl or when earthquakes, fires and plagues beleaguer the nation.

We do this in order to make ourselves feel better in the long run by overcoming that and returning to a point where the rich people are not bonding together so tightly and the poor people are not so oppressed that they would rather die than continue living.

We are pretty good at that, and it has sustained this economy for at least the last 120 years.

But aside for that, I'm proud of the fact that the poors persevere, and that eventually the rich will unmake themselves, and we will inherit the earth.