Dude, who even knows.
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I’ve been tracking the “nationalism” tag for years now, and it’s this
constant low rumble of yay-nationalist stuff from every anglophone and anglophone-adjacent nation, punctuated by a spike of 16-year-old
anti-nationalists every time something particularly nationalist happens
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obviously a lot of the homophobic rhetoric here borrows from the same thing going on in russia and casts the gays as like NATO spies but i think it is telling that a whole chunk of the critique seems to boil down to ‘why aren’t you nationalist enough to have kids’
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this armenian guy i know speaks english with a lisp and posts flagrant (i mean flagrant) bear pics on facebook and i think this country is so homophobic that it just loops around and the whole thing goes completely over everyone’s heads. i don’t think anyone is aware
or it might be that he’s married with kids and people straight up don’t care what you get up to as long as you fulfill your god-given responsibility to Propagate The Nation
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in re: Budweiser temporarily renaming itself “America”
This is a dumb nationalist merchandising stunt that is absolutely going to trick me into buying a case of America for my 4th of July party
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See the *real* fun comes if the United States elects Hillary and America elects Trump
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When I was growing up, flying the Australian flag was a weird thing to do.
There was one house in my 1980s neighbourhood that had one out the front, but everyone regarded its occupants as freaks. It seemed like the sort of insane teary-eyed British patriotism that we’d seen satirised on The Goodies, and we half suspected they would be wearing Tim Brooke-Taylor-style Union Jack belly button protectors. Weird.
Jump forward 30 years and the picture is very different. Increasingly, the thing seems to be hoisted over, pasted upon, sewn into or painted on any surface you could imagine – from processed snack foods to garbage bags, and from toilet brushes to F-35 fighter planes.
Ever since Pauline Hanson first appeared in photos with the rotten thing draped around her (the first time in my life I’d ever seen a person behave in such a way), we’ve seen an explosion in the numbers of racist thugs in Australian flag capes.
From the Cronulla anti-Lebanese riot to the rise of today’s fascist United Patriots Front, the sight of a young white male wearing a flag now carries the threat of impending racist violence.
The Labor Party too is caught up in the flag frenzy. They might not wrap themselves in it, but they certainly like to fly it. What a difference from the situation when Paul Keating was prime minister and refused to fly those ridiculous little flags on the bonnet of the prime ministerial car. When journalists asked him to explain, he brushed it aside as “no big deal”. And it wasn’t.
What has changed in Australian capitalism to make the flag so important? It’s partly rooted in the continuing neoliberal push, with its attacks on the old traditions of social welfare and the ongoing erosion of the welfare state. In that context, a resurgent nationalism is central in forging a fake sense of community and papering over the real divides in society.
But it’s also bound up with the renaissance of Australian imperialism from the 1990s, when the Australian state sought to rehabilitate the image of its armed forces. This has involved a torrent of propaganda linking the flag with the glorified and fictionalised war heroes of old.
READ MORE: How flag-waving foolishness became a national pastime
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(He was like “but after three generations they should be just American” and I was like “how long have your ancestors been British and you’re still Scottish” and he was like, seriously affronted, but that was the point)
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The Scotsman asked what was up with “African-American” as distinct from incidentally African “American” and I was like, “Ah, you want to understand race in America? First, you must learn everything.”
There are three classic topics in American history and they go
1. Race, huh?
2. Why no socialism?
3. The frontier, huh?
and basically the answer to any of those is the other two
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XD So accurate! We avoid the branches in Sweden though………
Read the whole archive of Scandanavia and the World, and finally learned me to distinguish and properly stereotype a bunch of countries I always got confused. As far as National Personification Comix go, it’s halfway between Hetalia and Polandball in a lot of ways.
A little weird we even have three to compare right now, but I guess nationalism is hot in the zeitgeist lately. Marxism’s making a respectable comeback too, shame we don’t have a class-based comic. Prole and Bougie at each other’s throat, Petit scheming to play each off the other while Lumpen picks his pocket, Labor Aristocracy with his nose up and his hardhat crown down over his eyes… there’s material there, just saying.
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