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[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

[Country] isn't real, it was made up by [its founders] to [dodge taxes / dominate neighboring city-states / measure dicks with [Other Country]]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

heh, just replace [Country] with [The Country I dont like] and you've got yourself a deal

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

Oh, definitely not. This format is explicitly for pissing off nationalists.

Simply dismiss the validity of the governing body they worship by reference to the historical contingency of its creation, then sit back and watch as they work themselves into a froth trying to justify their imagined superiority without reference to their mythic founders.

this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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