• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    For me, the difference between nationalism and patriotism is that patriotism is about what a country could be. It’s a willingness to sacrifice some portion of one’s own prosperity to make a better country for all. That’s certainly not what right wingers call patriotism though.

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      6 months ago

      It sort of is - so long as what gets sacrificed is someone else’s and not their own:-P.

      “Wear a mask? Nope, I’m a patriot!”

      “Let you wear a mask, bc you “need” it to help you live? No way, bc you need to be more patriotic!”

      “Patriotic” is a magic wizard-word that means “do as I say… or else”.

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      6 months ago

      I guess I’m a patriot because I like to imagine that a country could be not existing. Nation-states were a bad idea.

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        6 months ago

        You are in my book, assuming you’re ready to make sacrifices towards that potential future. I personally think nation states are a necessary step towards something that humanity is clearly not ready for in the future, but I think we could have come up with some far better implementations.