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An old comic that feels oh so relevant in this tumultuous election year.

Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah.

Patriots would be there waving a giant flag saying we’re the best house ever, despite not actually being involved in building the house or having anything to do with the state of it outside of living in it.

Patriotism and nationalism has zero place in society.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Patriotism and nationalism has zero place in society.

Not true. Patriotism is wanting and seeking the best for your country. Because our society relies on those physical divides, patriotism would actually improve society. Nationalism is deciding that whatever your country is doing already is the best simply by virtue of self-identification. There is no desire for improvement outside of an individual perception so it, functionally, can never offer any improvement for society.

One is potentially beneficial. The other is cancerous.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Strange, nationalists in Europe have a lot of ideas about how to change their various countries.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Only in that they want to move it to a more extreme version of what they already perceive it to be. They are not looking to change it based on any meaningful measure. Nationalists are almost always conservatives.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's true.

I was reading a nutter manifesto from the Heritage Party in the UK earlier... It is a hodgepodge of animal rights laws that are a mix of actual animal rights and outlawing Halal and Kosher slaughter, encouraging free markets and nationalising railways and utilities, being free speech and personal freedom but LGBTQ people can't have families or be spoken about, want to invest in the military and especially navy but also apparently are anti-war and want to cease support for Ukraine.

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