Even better if you can provide your own understanding of its meaning.
Mine would be :
“Nothing kills a man as much as being forced to represent a country” (and err considering the context, I must stress it has nothing to do with the current US shitshow), by a WW1 soldier, illustrator and writer named Jacques Vaché.
For me it just means being forced into representing a group (national, of course, but maybe also social, racial, sexual, professional, any kind of group) or defining one’s identity only by reference to a group is to be avoided at all costs.
Note : Its not the same, imho, as engaging in a collective struggle or defense against a common oppression.
How about you?
I’ve heard that something like 67.3% of statistics are made up on the spot and 95.2% of people believe then whether they’re accurate or not - especially if there’s a decimal involved.
Even if its not straigh up made up, data can be easily manipulated by omission of other data, disingenous presentation (countries military spending graphs for example), outdated methodology, or straigh up meaningless indexes (freedom index lmao).
There are just way too many ways to manipulate data to paint a narrative and people that are just politically asleep, think of STEM area people, are easily fooled by these tactics.