one of the reasons that some kind of patriotic investment in a national project is good (yes, scolds, despite the many ways it can be bad) is that it provides a counterforce to shit like "cripple yourself strategically because the smart people you need irritate you culturally with blue hair"
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Note: my college thesis was about propaganda.
In the traditional sense of “nation” (close to “collective identity”, I agree): what justifies it? It’s not necessarily zero-sum, but it is necessarily exclusionary.
How long does it take to lose it after leaving — years, or generations?
Most pressingly, can undocumented immigrants who have lived here all their lives claim it? What if they just got here?
Vance is simply a Thiel cutout. And couch rapist...
he believes in nothing, every version of JD is a skin suit he carefully puts on to help him gain political power and social capital and changes according to his needs
Go watch videos of him from the VP debate, he'll be telling a joke and smiling, but the smiles *never* reach his eyes.
Beware of people with cold, dead, unsmiling eyes. They're putting on a show for you and everyone else.
Annulment voids the marriage, which allows him to be remarried w/in the Church.