Message from @Nico The Great - CA
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wonder what they're up to now
Anyone happen to read this/know if it's any good?
@Jason - CT No, but it sounds interesting. Clearly pro nationstate/anti-globalist. Don't know if you'll find anything new in there, or if it's old news
It's by an Israeli political writer
From the introduction, the guy is framing it as a "nationalism v. imperialism" argument which... is already a bad way to frame things
but hey, you could just find a site to download the book without paying for it
is it?
most people don't like imperialism
@Jason - CT It could help you provide arguments against globalisation from an israeli perspective. Help you to argue with zionists/civnats i mean
makes us sound like good guys
"imperialism" as people tend to use it doesn't happen very often these days
it's not like American gunboats are sailing down the Amazon to get better deals on... whatever
@Salo Saloson True, we have this "quiet" takeover where all the nations are merging together
Peaceful takeovers are always more effective than violent ones
the mass homogenization of everything is quite a bit different from the British Empire (not that either was _good_ but one is at least preferable)
esp. the way that guy uses it, it makes the imperialism angle weirder, because he's arguing in favor of national sovereignty
but it isn't a sovereignty question, not really, it's a question of does your nation have a soul and should it be allowed to keep whatever soul it's got
isn't it accurate to say that imperialism is generally in opposition to nationalism, though?
if you're the guy getting imperialized, sure
but for the imperializer it's their nationalism too
@Jacob I get where you're coming from, so...maybe. BUt like salosaloson says, it's not in opposition to the nation LEADING the empire
not necessarily anyway
I also think it's kind of silly to look at Brexit and say, "UK went nationalist, it's all over!"
ignoring the huge pro-EU sentiment in the country
same with Trump's election, wherein everyone goes, "America's going FULL NATIONALIST"
yeah. full _civic_ nationalist
I guess it's not necessarily in opposition to the nationalism of the imperializing country
A good nationalist should offer reciprocity, though
Reading some articles saying there are rumors RBG may step down very soon
eh
there's always rumors
not saying it won't happen, though
@Salo Saloson England would have gone full nationalist if Nigel had decided to become a P.M... but he didn't
The ability of English people to be cucked stuns me.
Some British Sailors I was chillin with said they were not English but Welsh. Like okay how tf is Gupta or Muhammad gonna be English then?
On a related note, when I was in England I noticed that the Gupta's and Mohammeds spoke English in an even more pretentious and condescending way than the native British.
Yeah I noticed that too
Spoke extra cowboy when I talked to them out of spite
@The Eternal Anglo Nigel seems like he was threatened, or he was controlled op all along
Totally abandoned the cause after they won Brexit
@Sam Anderson Lol, I did the same thing. I spoke to prople with a bit of a West Virginia twang that I picked up.
I don't want to be winning anymore Mr Trump