https://screenshots.firefox.com/40ShUS6E6wRwOWaG/www.bbc.co.uk

How you like them apples?

lol

@Broo TulsiGang 2024 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 ukip - 102

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As a Leftist I have always fought the UKIP

but they provide an necessary evil

Here's the old one

Just did an update

https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1074087-4/

When SF argues about the authenticity of J00s

👌

Where’s that one?

It's called 8-axis

Completely new topic (sorry guys)
So the alt-right and the left both focus their identity on superficial things like race and gender, right? Right.

I think they both may be right when it comes to identity politics being a natural thing (of course) but that the concept one identifies with can be any number of things like religion, language, race etc.
All pretty obvious things.

How and why do you think the undermining of a national identity happened, and is it possible to reignite that to pull focus away from the superficialities of today to starve the extremes of both sides?

National identity degrading is a byproduct if the internet

People are so interconnected regardless of geographical distance that your social group is no longer determined by borders

At least, not necessarily

The volume of Russian/Slavic memes alone is testament to that

As you talk to people from all over the world, and develop more kinship with the fat acceptance blogger in Scotland than with the pastor down the street, people stop giving a fuck about nationalism

Not all people obviously

But it degrades it

I've stumbled across so much good music simply from using Coub.com, which is basically a Russian "GIFs with sound" website

So am I just hopelessly lusting after a bygone Era of nationalism?

nah

Not necessarily. People haven't fully figured out how to deal with the internet

But they're slowly figuring it out

Paradigm shifts in life tend to balance out like this

Happened with TV and Radio

cultures have changed over the years regardless, often through foreign influence

^

This just opened the floodgates of that influences

Coming to Australia in the 90s and seeing everyone play basketball was pretty wtf in of itself

It ought to balance out

> People are so interconnected regardless of geographical distance that your social group is no longer determined by borders

Castle of sand. We're connected by the internet but we don't have the mechanisms to sustain the social aspects, so we end up disintegrating

Agreed

That's why I think it'll slide backwards from the initial craziness

But I guarantee you if you flick through the pages of history you'll often stumble across 'traiditional' american/german/british/russian/japanese cultural norms that turned out to have their origins in other places

think of how strongly people associate karate witih Japan nowadays

yet the first karate club wasn't started in Japan until around the 1930s

It's when I come across stuff like this that I get creeped out...
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-national-identity-important

huh