See, this is something that makes me so incensed because I see it happen with Italy a lot too. And at least for me it's like this - if you ignore it you feel like you're just like, secretly endorsing it as fact and helping to spread the lie, but if you go "no wait that's not how it is!" people start treating you as if you're some crazy nationalist who defends their country no matter what and it's not. like that. I'm aware my country is jacked up. it's jacked up as hell it's the most jacked. but it's not jacked up in that way, it's jacked up in this other way and spreading lies helps nobody.
Re: ITT: venting