Lisa Simpson's Presentation

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Right!

After two world wars caused by every man and his dog ginning up nationalism for every group they could think of, we did revise what the purpose of national boundaries was and we did nerf down the role nationalism plays in that by quite a bit.

And it's something we're very much still ironing out - but a return to the rampant nationalisms of the 1900's is something that many people have given their lives to prevent.

Say "donut" and they call racism. Idk why they're in a big hurry, the pharisees always fall first

That's the beauty of the set up. In history who always ends getting slaughtered? The people of inequity

Serbian nationalism? That whole dead Archduke thing?

...out of interest, what is the version of the story that you heard, exactly? Because we teach this to kids.

...how did... ... How? Are you asking what the psychological mechanism was behind a Serbian nationalist deciding to play assassin? Like, what separated him from the nationalists that DIDN'T trigger World War 1? Are you asking me how he came to radicalize into Serbian separatism? You're talking about his motivation... Well, his motivation was that he wanted Serbia to be great again and the Habsburgs said, "no, we're doing make Austria great again".

Is any of this answering your question? It's super unclear what you're trying to say.

It's putting kindle on the fire. If you keep telling people to do what's best for their nation - and further, if there's some confusion on what their nation exactly is - it's just a matter of time before someone decides to light the powder keg.

Nationalism for France and nationalism for Germany is one thing when you live in Paris or Berlin, but if you live in Alsace or Lorraine, suddenly you're faced with a very sticky option: either accept that who your nation is has been decided for you, or risk your life deciding that it's your mission to change it in the presence of a militaristic state.

What do you do if you live in Warsaw? Nationalism tells you that Poland was a flipping huge empire that proudly stood against the Mongols themselves, but now you've got to fight the Russians AND the Germans AND the Austrians, all of whom are ready to send in soldiers to shoot activists who dare suggest such a thing.

British nationalism and German nationalism motivated an arms race of every bigger, ever heavier weapons, and an itching curiosity to see what they would actually do in a combat scenario.

And that's not even getting past 1912.

Nationalism as the basis of claiming statehood unequivocally led to an unbridled mess. Twice. And to try to divorce it from nationalism makes no sense at all.

Then why does that keep happening in its name?

Your confusing nationalism and (I forgot the word for it but it just means having different countries).

they are not the same thing

It's ok. Everyone else got it

That seems to be what Great Britain wants

Finally....someone who understands that we never left. Hell, we pay more in taxes than we do for our own mortgage

Nope. We just want to keep to ourselves

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Nope . We just want closed borders and to keep to ourselves. But I will you this, historically speaking, open homosexuality acceptance is a precursor to a nation's fall, shortly followed by speech suppression and ultimately disarming the people. Then ...war. And who always loses those wars. Who exactly were those people of inequity? Think about it. You could read a just about any history book and find out. They're setting the left up for slaughter. I'm not hating , but a bunch of unarmed fembots aren't going to make much of an impact. America wasn't founded on peaceful protests.

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Ideally we want binding agreements that are fair. But what we get are a bunch of power hungry politicians shoving bad trade laws and immigration laws down our throats, and blanket bans on weapons and freedom of speech.

Right. You can always tell when they're pushing for control. They start commercializing ridiculous arguments. "Let people with a p**is use the girls room. Let 16 yo vote. Islam is a peaceful religion. We want a democracy where the minority wins" muslims are literally canaanites. They're not peaceful. If it sounds like a stupid arguement, its propaganda to cause confusion