• ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Nah, your argument is that you’re a cool edge lord who rejects any association with other people if it means risking your purity.

          The whole point of rejecting a national identity is to form a broader human identity. But instead of that people seem to take leftism as another kind of American libertarian individualism were the goal is to reject being apart of anything bigger than yourself.

          Believing in shared ideals like freedom and justice for all means rejecting a state when it abandons those ideals.

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            As much as I tell you I voted for Kamala, and beg you you to say Zohran Mamdani’s name and acknowledge him as a Democrat in your unrolled “vote blue no matter who” screeds, you’re gonna project that “purity” onto me?

            Do you want to actually unpack what I actually believe to understand the absurdity of your statement, or do you wanna be a useless shitlib that knows “you’re right”?

            Believing in shared ideals like freedom and justice for all means rejecting a state when it abandons those ideals.

            Good. Glad to hear you’re not that kind of “patriot”.

            The whole point of rejecting a national identity is to form a broader human identity. But instead of that people seem to take leftism as another kind of American libertarian individualism were the goal is to reject being apart of anything bigger than yourself.

            You’re on the right track. Think Globally, act Locally.

            What if I told you that any genuinely Left Irish Republicanism, even from the Irish Diaspora, requires calling for a Free Palestine? We have arrived at that same human collective conclusion while allowing for Pride in our own identity to participate in cementing that.