Message from @pratel
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remember "we have changed our terms and conditions" emails
that i believe was because of EU regulations
The Culture war isn't actually the American Culture war anymore. It's a anglophone culture war.
And I don't think people realize this.
yea
some do
But you can see it on this server.
but they focus on their particular part of it
All the Canadians, all the Brits, all playing US politics.
yea
kinda
Yeah, this is actually why I think the nationalism thing will eventually die.
The only way to fight effectively is in a group.
And if you are just dividing yourself and not supporting other national groups, you'll eventually lose.
the problem is with what kind of nationalism
i support civic
Everyone fusses so much over definitions I'm not going to attempt to label too much.
But I would say that there's a broader war here that alot of people are missing.
Nationalism is harmless on it's own.
No worse than cheering for a sports team.
Except you're a part of that team.
extreme nationalism comes and goes based on the state of the world imo
when things are going well it is less prevalent
Telling people to put their god damned 'abolish borders, abolish ice, abolish profit' signs and come be a fucking American with me is harmless.
Telling people to do that, or else consequences
THAT'S where the problems start
(Freudian slip...?)
yea
I think the bigger thing is that people are looking for communities right now.
Nationalism is a relatively safe community to build IMO
It's not necessarily based on skin color.
they just go to some of the shitty communities sometimes
And it has shared interests and characteristics.
unless its ethnic based
I don't want everyone to be an American.
Yeah, that's the culture war.
I don't want to eliminate everyone who's NOT American.
I just want America to be America.
I want Texas to keep being Texas, specifically.
There's people who don't like America as it is. And they see everything as something bigger.