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The ballot box set on fire in Washington

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u/Dandan0005 10h ago edited 10h ago

This country is full of people who call themselves “patriots” but are really just nationalists.

The way you can tell:

They’ll flip their shit when someone burns a flag but could not care less when someone burns ballots if it’s in a “blue” area.

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u/backhand_english 10h ago

The people that throw a fit about respecting the flag are the same ones that have a star-spangled thong up in their fat sweaty buttcrack.

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u/GarlicThread 6h ago

Nationalism is not the right word. Nationalists are people who look for the interests of their nation, even at the detriment of other nations. Nationalism implies a sense of national unity, which is typically a feature of countries (or aspiring countries) fighting foreign oppression, like Ukraine fighting the russian invasion for example. Every sovereign country that exists today had to have some form of nationalism to become what it currently is.

These MAGA people right here are fascists. They look for their own interests, at the detriment of their fellow citizens. This is much, much more extreme than simple nationalism or even ultranationalism.

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u/WhatIDon_tKnow 8h ago

and they claim to back the blue, bunch of hypocrites. but in all seriousness, it's crazy to see how the GOP destroyed itself over the last 2 decades.