Comments on: For Memorial Day: on nationalism and patriotism https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 30 May 2023 14:37:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681772 Tue, 30 May 2023 14:37:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681772 Lee Smith with some evocative interviews:
– Richard Grenell on one of Jack Smith’s previous follies… (Who’s Jack Smith, you ask?):
https://twitter.com/EpochTV/status/1663261300791681024?cxt=HHwWgIC9pefVi5UuAAAA
– Kimberly Guilfoyle on the cleavage within America:
https://twitter.com/kimguilfoyle/status/1663545807025610758?cxt=HHwWjIDR9Z-GjZYuAAAA
https://twitter.com/kimguilfoyle/status/1663526736422752256?cxt=HHwWgMC-7ZiwhJYuAAAA

]]> By: David Foster https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681769 Tue, 30 May 2023 14:29:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681769 re Nationalism, Racism, and Tribalism…it’s interesting that in the Kaiser’s Germany,
Anne Frank’s father, Otto, served in the German Army and received a field promotion to Lieutenant. Whereas in the Third Reich, he and his family were thrown into concentration camps.

Plenty of harm can be done by runaway nationalism, as the example of WWI attests, but runaways tribalism is an order of magnitude worse.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681767 Tue, 30 May 2023 14:25:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681767 yes it’s funny that tribalism only applies to one side of the aisle, the one with the spears and the pot, for cooking

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681766 Tue, 30 May 2023 14:22:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681766 The geniuses (genii?) touting a return to TRIBALISM as the answer to all of society’s ills—as ushering in nirvana—would beg to differ…

(Although it’s entirely possible that they’re in fact aware of the utter destruction that such Neo-Tribalism will wreak—IS wreaking—and that THAT is precisely the reason the Neotribalists are pushing it so hard, so iniquitously and so ubiquitously—in every realm, in every sphere, in every aspect, facet and theater of existence…)

File under: “Beware the Neotrib, my son…”

]]> By: David Foster https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681763 Tue, 30 May 2023 13:27:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681763 Watch Claire Lehmann’s short video Nationalism is the Antidote to Racism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpmoAnvnbTw&t=120s

Her argument is that loyalty over a larger entity (Australia, in her case) overrides the divisive attachment to various ethnic tribes.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681738 Tue, 30 May 2023 07:17:36 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681738 Related (on nationalism):
“The weaponization of antisemitism against conservatives;
“A conference on how to save the West has been smeared by those out to destroy it….”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/371640

+ Three views of nationalism by English political scientists/philosophers (focusing on Zionism and the larger Middle East):
“Zion as Proxy?
“Three Jewish Scholars of Nationalism on Zionism and Israel”—
https://en.davis.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/davisinsten/files/zion_as_proxy_joffe.pdf

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681735 Tue, 30 May 2023 06:41:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681735 “Got any ideas…[?]”

“CPA Group Wants States To Secure Elections Using Accounting Techniques”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cpa-group-wants-states-secure-elections-using-accounting-techniques
The Democratic Party will of course never agree to the above as it continues to try to subvert any and all effort to bolster election integrity.
Cf:
“Of Course: Gov. Hobbs Vetoes Election Integrity Reforms in Arizona”—
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/05/28/of-course-gov-hobbs-vetoes-election-integrity-reforms-in-arizona-n1698689

+ A brace of articles explaining the Democratic Party’s (and friends’) strategy—perhaps “methodology” is a better word—of destroying the country:
– On the supreme and unstinting efforts of a government and its media/corporate arm to forge an overall and comprehensive policy that replaces “Of the people, by the people, for the people” with “LYING TO THE PEOPLE”…
“Gaslighting: The American People Are Trapped In A Textbook Abusive Relationship”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gaslighting-american-people-are-trapped-textbook-abusive-relationship
– On manipulating the value—and mantra—of “CIVIL RIGHTS”…in order to destroy civil rights and to destroy a country….
‘ “Trans Rights” Means Trans Entitlements And The End Of Civil Society’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trans-rights-means-trans-entitlements-and-end-civil-society
+ Bonus (on Covid—a companion piece to the “gaslighting” by all the usual suspects in the above link)
“The Great Silence”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/great-silence

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681731 Tue, 30 May 2023 03:43:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681731 Thanks to all for sharing your memories of WWII and those who served!

Mike K., I really enjoyed reading your blog entry. Thank you for writing and sharing it!

]]> By: Mike K https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681721 Tue, 30 May 2023 01:54:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681721 I believe, and have done a good deal of reading about it, that without the Kamikazes at Okinawa, we would not have used the atomic bomb. The allied POWs in Japan were all to be killed if we invaded.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/29/for-memorial-day-on-nationalism-and-patriotism-6/#comment-2681719 Tue, 30 May 2023 01:49:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=126196#comment-2681719 …if Hungarian (Magyar) were not such a tough language to learn…

Cicero:

You got that right! Hungarian, along with Finnish, is not even an Indo-European language.

IOW, English has more in common with Sanskrit than Hungarian.

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