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No one should be proud of where they were born
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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Same thing when I see people crying over their country's team winning an Olympic medal.
Get a grip - You didn't do anything except be born in the same geopolitical boundary as the actual athletes. Perhaps one 50th of a penny of your tax dollars contributed to the team athletic funding.
Fun fact, a major contributor for funding training US Olympic athletes comes from the Department of Defense, and it's about 200 million per year. Unless it's an Olympics year and then costs skyrocket.