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AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

More and more I get frustrated about the increase in nationalism in the entire political spectrum. Tribalism of all kinds sounds silly to me. I see all humans as just that, humans. I don't care where you were born. I don't care if you were born close to me either. I don't care which geographic region rules me. Ideally it should be the entire world.

And yet when I tell people this, they think I am insane. Think I don't care about people at all. I don't get this thinking. Why did we all lose the dream of something like Star Trek? The dream of a world government? In which we identify as human instead of American or whatever? Why did seemingly everyone lose track of that?

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Verus
Jun 3, 2011

AUT INVENIAM VIAM AUT FACIAM
because LET'S GO METS

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

because they're gonna make the AMERO

Red Baron
Mar 9, 2007

ty slumfrog :)
us = good
them = bad

hth op

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT IS GONNA TAKE YOUR GUNS AND TEETH

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

they're gonna make your children speak DUTCH

DO YOU WANT YOUR AMERICAN CHILDRENS TALKING ABOUT STROOPWAFELS

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yC7-JsR2Fk

hth op

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Generally because it lets capital do its crimes where it won't be punished squeezing the third world for their lives and the first world for their income.

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
globalists are Jews, you just can't say that out loud yet

titty_baby_
Nov 11, 2015

ikanreed posted:

Generally because it lets capital do its crimes where it won't be punished squeezing the third world for their lives and the first world for their income.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

for capitalism, immigration and offshoring of labor is about increasing exploitation which leads to immiseration of many domestic workers

projects like the EU and the euro demonstrably lead to less sovereignty and democratic input of workers, since it is primarily driven by the interests of capitalists. see: greece

'nationalism' is a capitalist response to these problems since it appeals to domestic workers who are immiserated or are worried about these issues because these issues are actually immiserating them or causing economic anxiety, but it redirects the anger away from the capitalist system and celebrates the capitalists as the savior

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

also where nationalism refers to the belief in the superiority of your people over others, the vast majority of western liberals are nationalists and generally see no problem with the west constantly couping, bombing, and genociding nonwestern peoples even if their bleeding heart spews otherwise

see: juan guaido, bolivia, ukraine, yemen, libya, syria, etc.

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

comedyblissoption posted:

for capitalism, immigration and offshoring of labor is about increasing exploitation which leads to immiseration of many domestic workers

projects like the EU and the euro demonstrably lead to less sovereignty and democratic input of workers, since it is primarily driven by the interests of capitalists. see: greece

'nationalism' is a capitalist response to these problems since it appeals to domestic workers who are immiserated or are worried about these issues because these issues are actually immiserating them or causing economic anxiety, but it redirects the anger away from the capitalist system and celebrates the capitalists as the savior


comedyblissoption posted:

also where nationalism refers to the belief in the superiority of your people over others, the vast majority of western liberals are nationalists and generally see no problem with the west constantly couping, bombing, and genociding nonwestern peoples even if their bleeding heart spews otherwise

see: juan guaido, bolivia, ukraine, yemen, libya, syria, etc.

So how do we solve this? Can it be done with a truly internationalist approach? Or a global approach? Anything that makes people stop seeing each other as different?

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

become xi-pilled

Love Rat
Jan 15, 2008

I've made a psycho call to the woman I love, I've kicked a dog to death, and now I'm going to pepper spray an acquaintance. Something... I mean, what's happened to me?
Globalism as executed is bad for the reasons stated above.,

But the idea of an integrated, internationalist system of equal players is great.

The principle isn't bad at all, and it's better to have international laws than not, but sadly capital captured internationalism. (or more likely, always had it outside the communist sphere). See also: imperialism.

So, shrug.

But to the right, it just means Jews and immigration ("bad!")

Love Rat has issued a correction as of 23:00 on Jan 21, 2023

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

rightwing workers are economically concerned. the "problems" with their concerns are the bad capitalists, liberal/socialist control, immigrants, and foreigners.

liberalism is symmetric. the "problems" with their concerns are the bad capitalists, conservative/rightwing control, and those drat racist rightwing workers.

of course it's important to keep in mind, the rightwing barbarity of immigrant concentration camps magically turn into the logistical bureaucratic concern of influx centers on a dime

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
global dictatorship of the proletariat imo

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

AceOfFlames, in some respects, rightwing workers are less delusional than some liberals. they recognize the capitalist mode of immigration and offshoring are actually abysmally terrible for a lot of domestic workers. right next to the demagogues pinky-promising to fix this are the liberals on the other side of the overton window championing this very exploitation. it's really easy to see why people would get swept up in rightwing movements.

i've met some liberals that refuse to recognize this exploitation of domestic workers and argue it helps them. but on the whole, it's mostly the well-to-do, politicians, and capitalists that push this rhetoric.

but this causes this hilarious and comedic tension that you can see in the male hillary vs female trump clip. liberal workers in general hate the offshoring exploitation, so the liberal politician is trying at the same time to be for and against it, looking the fool standing next to the rightwing nationalist.

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Edit: NVM

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
globalism is for capital, not for people

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

AceOfFlames posted:

Why did we all lose the dream of something like Star Trek? The dream of a world government?

Joe Rogan asked Alex Jones what his ideal future would look like and Jones said he hopes we make Star Trek a reality. Joe did not follow up with a question about Earth having one government in Star Trek, let alone the United Federation of Planets, those commies.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

it's better that china has its own government than to be united under a 1-world government, op

Admiral Bosch
Apr 19, 2007
Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?

Al! posted:

global dictatorship of the proletariat imo

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Al! posted:

global dictatorship of the proletariat imo

:hmmyes:

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

comedyblissoption posted:

AceOfFlames, in some respects, rightwing workers are less delusional than some liberals. they recognize the capitalist mode of immigration and offshoring are actually abysmally terrible for a lot of domestic workers. right next to the demagogues pinky-promising to fix this are the liberals on the other side of the overton window championing this very exploitation. it's really easy to see why people would get swept up in rightwing movements.

i've met some liberals that refuse to recognize this exploitation of domestic workers and argue it helps them. but on the whole, it's mostly the well-to-do, politicians, and capitalists that push this rhetoric.

but this causes this hilarious and comedic tension that you can see in the male hillary vs female trump clip. liberal workers in general hate the offshoring exploitation, so the liberal politician is trying at the same time to be for and against it, looking the fool standing next to the rightwing nationalist.

yea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_labor_arbitrage

it also means my colleagues on H1B visas get paid less, treated worse, aren’t allowed to organize and so on. nothing “free” or universal about it.

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

comedyblissoption posted:

it's better that china has its own government than to be united under a 1-world government, op

same with palestine

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

comedyblissoption posted:

it's better that china has its own government than to be united under a 1-world government, op

Ryan Xi, first president of Earth

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
i like these pieces on the question of nationality + the left. they don't come to a definitive answer, which is probably the real answer.

https://www.peacelandbread.com/post/how-should-socialists-approach-nationality

https://www.peacelandbread.com/post/how-should-socialists-approach-nationality-1

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
everybody loves mass wage suppression

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
The globe is round, like the eyes of the lying Occidental.

DesertIslandHermit
Oct 7, 2019

It's beautiful. And it's for the god of...of...arts and crafts. I think that's what he said.
If America got to rule the world government would that make them happy?

speng31b
May 8, 2010

Thought thread title was "Why is goblinism a bad thing anyway?"

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

this thread is ablist against hemophiliacs. hemoglobin is necessary for a happy and fulfilling life

studio mujahideen
May 3, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 12 hours!
because the earth is flat

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

DesertIslandHermit posted:

If America got to rule the world government would that make them happy?

No, because then they would have no more foreigners to bomb.

Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010
idk op have you tried reading books, zines, webtoons about this topic? that is your adsignment for this week

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
Because goblins are frowned upon op

it's a social construct that you should be disgusted by

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
globes = gobs is basical rpg science

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

speng31b posted:

Thought thread title was "Why is goblinism a bad thing anyway?"

same yeah whoops

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Pf. Hikikomoriarty
Feb 15, 2003

RO YNSHO


Slippery Tilde
your av rules holy poo poo

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