• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Actually there is. They talk and talk and talk about it ad nauseam. They simply just do it rhetorically and always fail to embody it. Even countries with a traditionally large immigrant population like the United States have a lot more culturally that tends to bind, then they have differences that divide. And after all what is a country? If not the people in it?

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      8 months ago

      As an internationalist I guess I don’t get it. As far as I’m concerned we should be fighting for everyone, not soloing the world off along imaginary lines on map. What makes an American different from a Canadian? Or a Mexican?

      We’re all the same, more or less. Let’s work together.

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        8 months ago

        You are misrepresenting intentional or unintentional fighting for something with fighting against something. And even then, fighting for your community or neighbors. Isn’t a synonym for armed conflict. Every community will have slightly different needs and desires. And there will never be a large body, especially not an international one. That will be able to address them adequately.

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          8 months ago

          Everyone has the same needs! We all need food, healthcare, shelter, safety, community, family, etc. We’re all the same. Sure, some communities might have different wants, but need is universal.

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            8 months ago

            Family, community, shelter, etc etc etc can all be quite different from group to group. There is no one size fits all.

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              8 months ago

              I don’t think I believe that. There are particulars that can differ and individual members of each group can differ, but once you zoom out to the scale of nations everyone is the same. What makes Americans so uniquely special that they’re different from Canadians?