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On challenges big and small, our leaders haven't learned that nationalism is not the answer | Rafael Behr

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/nationalism-brexit-scottish-independence-rishi-sunak-humza-yousaf

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It's so tragically obvious that is nothing but of another ilk. Underlying is the same greed for money, land and power that signifies .

In the end, when all is said and done this is what it is. Fascism donning its favourite costume of and religious zealotry.

Pointing that out is NOT antisemitism. Get it into your bloody heads.

tqwhite,
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@Radical_EgoCom @coffeepine Jewish people were kicked out of Judea and abused in the diaspora. I believe that Jews have a right to have a place to live and exert their culture. It is my view that opposing the very idea that Jews should have a home is to say that they are not deserving of the privilege most other cultures can simply assume. I think that the claim that Jews should accept the role of subordinates in other peoples countries is antisemitic.

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@Bron1954 @Radical_EgoCom @coffeepine

OK, then.

For me, it is obvious that the Jewish people is an ethnic group. I live in a world where anti-semitism is hostility toward Jewish people.

You live in a topsy turvy where the Jews are not an ethnic group and anti-semitism is hatred of Palestinians.

I have to say, I did not expect you to wander so far through into bizarro world.

I stand by my explanation and, on rereading now, think it is right.

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▶ How the religious right took over the Republican Party | Katherine Stewart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIXmSjB4dQ

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tio, to world

Finally Sasha got her residency approved here in Spain after 4-5 years of us trying, spending money, being stressed. After being rejected once because we did not have enough money as a family - imagine that! That was the actual reason.

But now that I had a "job" they made us wait 7 months from the moment we applied, and 2 complaints later from the lawyer about why they do not approve it, it finally got approved. And the reason was ONLY because I was a "trader" in this bullshit trade society.

How terrible that we treat people like tools. The value is in what and how much you can trade. Does not matter if you are a good human being. Smart? Doesn't matter. Calm and helpful? Nope. Scientifically minded? Nah.

I spent my life doing free things for others, never made a profit, but this has 0 value in this society.

Anyway, fuck you to those who support a world where we are divided into tribes and languages, and treating people like sole traders/marketers and not humans. We have global problems but so many still want to have their own "separate" tribe and care only about that. Fuck your flag, your language, your culture. Fuck nationalism. A primitive disease.

We are all humans with a 4 billion years long history, a mindblowing one. Single cells becoming what we are today. The way we are connected to each other, scientifically, dwarfs any bullshit man-made story about their own tribe. We have lego-brick-like structures we call the DNA that encode all of what we are. And all of what other creatures are, and how we are all connected.

We live on a giant sphere with a thin layer of atmosphere protecting us from the infinite universe out there.

So fuck you if you think your nationalism is so important, and your borders and stupid nonsensical laws.

I had to let this out because it is outrageous how primitive this society is.

Fuck you! :)

#capitalism #world #abuse #trade #nationalism

futureisfoss,
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@tio I love how you mention the actual scientific history of human beings! Countries and borders are man-made fiction/ideas that we choose to believe in, and they keep changing from time to time - there is a stark difference between that and the actual scientific reality of our world. Science is often a very humbling experience I feel like, think of the famous pale blue dot image and how carl sagan described it......

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@tio

BTW, I'm glad to hear @bigworldsmallsasha is finally free to stay there in Spain, that must've been a huge relief after having to go through this much trouble.

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"Even if nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were not fundamentally racist (it was), there could be no doubt that the far-right on offer today is. ...

national belonging satisfies not a political need but rather a baser human one, a need for meaning and belonging. If that is indeed the case, we are likely living not through the twilight of nationalism but rather its violent rebirth."

https://newrepublic.com/article/179786/reading-imagined-communities-amid-resurgence-nationalism

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Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall https://africasacountry.com/2024/04/border-politics/

Neferure, to Russia

Very nice of Ramzan Kadyrov to ban not only the Russian National anthem, but also the Chechen one.

https://www.grozny-inform.ru/news/culture/159912/

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Nonilex,
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urged Schumer to "schedule a trial on the matter expeditiously."

& his staff have promised to start the process of swearing senators in as jurors the day after the articles are received in the chamber. Washington Senator Patty Murray, the President Pro Tempore, will preside over the trial.

Nonilex,
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The articles accuse of "willful & systemic refusal to comply w/the " in enforcing policy & "breach public trust." After passage, called the …a "sham” & said failed to demonstrate the Secy committed any impeachable offenses.
The is widely expected to acquit…. in the upper chamber also expressed doubts Mayorkas' actions rise to "high crimes & misdemeanors" the standard set by the for impeachments.

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#Patriotism is when #love of your own people comes first; #nationalism, when #hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

#FarRight #Racism #RSS

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