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An Important Distinction [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal] (www.smbc-comics.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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An old comic that feels oh so relevant in this tumultuous election year.

Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction

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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Patriotism doesnt automatically mean america.

My point is that your entire perspective is already warped. You have no way to get me and you to communicate and effectively work together. The very fact that you and I are disagreeing is the very point I'm trying to make.

Now an American who discusses things with me, that's different. Because we can at least hold commonality between our country, and both of us would benefit from our country moving forward and progressing.

I know you skimp on your education system

Exactly. You hate us, look down upon us, etc. etc.. That's fine. I'll work with the people who are willing to talk with me, work with me, and think about the betterment of our country. I honestly don't need people like you in my life.

And if you want to talk to Americans about american problems I suggest a less international community dedicated to such musings, instead of self centeredly derailing a random, at best tangentially related comment section.

This is a discussion about Patriotism. IE: things we do for the love of our country. If we don't share a country, there's not much we can share being Patriotic about, now is there? And thus, the discussion goes sideways and there's no hope of us ever possibly coordinating with each other.

Alas: such is life.

[–] Kacarott@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course you can discuss patriotism even with people who are not patriotic, or who are patriotic for different things. That's what this whole post is for.

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It looks to me like the point of the comic is to draw a line between Patriotism, a basic technique for getting your fellow countrymen to help build the country better... and Nationalism, a technique for getting your fellow countrymen to hate each other and turn violent.

Followed up with a bunch of people who don't even understand the point to "Patriotism" to begin with.