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Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

people that have Nordic or Germanic ancestors and love to celebrate and love that part of their heritage with yearly parties or festivals.

To be honest: Sounds like some nazi stuff, at least that would be my first impression if someone did it here.

Isn’t it a normal human reaction to feel proud of your “tribe”?

Sarcasm joins the room May be, but killing each other was a normal human reaction for millenia. Sadly still is today sometimes.

NASA is great and I really like it, I feel good for humanity because it is able to do different thing than killing. I wouldn’t call that proud, because I didn’t contribute to it. Even space travelling is to complex to like all of it, moon landing was part of some foolish trial of strength on earth- No, I won’t overanalyse it.

I know your July 4th isn’t a cult meeting, but patriotism seems like something invented for people who have nothing they can feel proud about, because they haven’t archived something to be proud about. (Don’t take that personal.) At the same time patriotism tends to sperate different groups of people which shouln’t be seperated since they all are part of humanity and could archive great stuff together. It’s the one thing evil persons can rely on if they want to create a scapegoat to make people fight this scapegoat instead of seeing that they –the people– all are just part of humanity and should revolt against their evil leaders.

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