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Jill-Duh
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🇺🇦 adult language is my 1st language 🇺🇸 #veteran ⚓ US Navy (Reagan era) #ptsd #mst #MECFS #BLM #lgbtqia #vetsresist ⚛️ 🛑unsolicited DM = block 🛑
![It is a deep temptation in moments like this to run and accept the embrace of nationalism. It seems to provide a sense of warmth and solidarity that compensates for the cruelty of the world on display. And it seems to offer the political means to answer that cruelty in kind and provide the appearance of safety. But it is just another trap: nationalism is the source of this all to begin with. They hug you-"Brother, you've finally joined us!"-and then they hand you a rifle. I believe one must resist the temptation of what Orwell identified as the core of nationalism: "[T]he habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled 'good' or "bad" and "the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests." Above all, I refuse to become an insect or look on others as insects.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nv3zdinxmos2vrisvhcenb67/bafkreifqwwa32oaebaw7khlnojpnw4fy2m67b2h2runq4tieeo37tuansa)
