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

@Fitzydog those answers are pretty gay

it should be renamed to queera

Lol right? But look at those upvotes. If that's a popular opinion with no counter argument.... D:

tbh,it's not a very well seen question

there are actual nationalists on quora and they do get upvotes

@Fitzydog do you frequent quora or?

No, I'm just throwing shit at the wall, talking out my ass, and sampling the Internet waters.

IMO, this identitarian nonsense is really unhealthy and won't fade away on its own.

shits, assholes and water

got it

What can I say? I'm a plumber

"True Communism has never existed" is correct only insofar as Communism as is preached is fantasy

"True Communism has never been tried" is a bit more iffy, since many countries have tried to move towards implementing Communism - and the fact that everything has gone to shit before even reaching the end-goal is testament to the utopian fallacy of 'tw00' Communism

Regarding Quora, certain questions are just designed to fit a narrative.

yep

So only a certain group of people will look for them, and answer them.

Good point @Reaps

"Does capitalism kill more than communism?", nobody sane would ask that. Commies will flock to that question.

yep

But under capitalism 86 million people have died due to “poverty related causes”