I never tried to boil down most of history to anything. I just laid down the fact, that this shitty idea of the nation state, that came into fashion in the 19th century laid the ideological groundwork to many of the astrocities in the following two centuries. This is common knowledge.

A nation is not a thing that exists. There are different forms of cultures that can develop together or go in different directions, depending on who is in power and who draws the borders. If you where really interested in history, you could know that. The whole of Europe is a great example, or the Koreas.

But to be honest, I have no interest to doscuss any further with you since you constantly talked down to me and behaved like an asshole. It is just not worth the effort.

Kannst dich zu Recht feiern!

Bei mir sind es genau ein Jahr, öh … ein Quartal und eine Woche.

Wir sollten uns auch heute noch über Trump und die AfD lustig machen. Nur zwei Fehler darf man dabei nicht begehen:

1. Sie für harmlos halten
2. Deren Merch für sie “ironisch” auftragen, versteht ja schon jede:r wie es gemeint ist

Was für ein aufgeblasener Mistartikel, in dem man wischen unseriösester Werbung irgendwelchen Nazifressen noch eine Plattform bietet. Ansonsten einen Toast auf die Unbekannten zur Zivilcourage.

Naja, das Übliche. Es gab ein paar Angriffe mit Messern in der letzten Zeit. Der Reflex der deutschen Politik ist dann neben Rassismus immer solch blinder Aktionismus.

Die Cops finden das geil. Haben anscheinend zu viel Zeit, nachdem der Besitz von Cannabis nicht mehr (für den Eigengebrauch) kriminalisiert wird. Nicht zugriffsbereites Mitführen bleibt erlaubt. Was auch immer das dann ist. Hauptsache, man hat erst einmal das Schweinenäschen in den Taschen und Rucksäcken der Menschen.

Also ja, geht auch um Schikane.

Ist aber leider ganz geil.

MfG

Früher Millennial

Your example is very bad, to be honest. Both Russia and Ukraine are states. All states today claim to be nations. Every nation is a social construct, made by inventing or at least warping history to explain the creation of a nation. States tend to equalize the people living on it’s territory by introducing things like law, language, traditions or education. And they are actively trying to tell this story of “the people” to legitimate themselves. But the people are not the same. Look at your own country, wherever you live. There are always vast differences between places in different cardinal directions or at the borders vs. inland, between richer and poorer regions or between urban and rural areas. In Russia, that becomes very obvious, but it is the same everywhere.

Nationalism is the root of everything, I described. Nothing of that would have existed without a strong nationalist movement. Sure, there can be more or less extreme forms of nationalism, but this ideoligy is always dividing territory and people into the inside and outside.

Every Ukrainian fighting against Russian imperialism is fine. But at the end, I hope there are more people left to rebuilt the country, who fought for their freedom and not for some fucking glorious Father/Motherland.

Also entweder habt ihr es nicht so mit Pronomen oder die Badi steht nicht für Schwimmbad sondern für BadeANSTALT. Und das ist schon sehr sehr fies deutsch.

If you cannot see, why the ideology that brought us both World Wars, Russias war against Ukraine and so many more modern conflicts, was the base of colonialism and neo-colonialism, imperialism, 20th century slavery, fascism, zionism and that let us buold borders where thousands die every year, you are lost.

Nah, fuck that. Patriotism is just nationalism light.