Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by rsmckinney on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @02:04PM (#12131125)

Sorry, you are confusing nationalism with racism. For example, there is nothing racist about border security (the wall). In fact without significant border security, a nation ceases to exist.

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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @06:03PM (#12132881)

Nations continue to exist without border security -- and, indeed, without the nation having borders or a state to secure them.

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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by jazzyk on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:50PM (#12133494)

I am not being smug, just genuinely curious - can you provide contemporary examples of a major nation without border security?

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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by dragonwriter on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:47AM (#12144245)

Major nations, in the modern era of national and supra-national states, tend to either have their own state or dominate a supranational state, and so tend to have border security (which is necessary for an effective state, though less important to a nation.)

Of course, several centuries in to the era of the nation-state as a dominant form, lots of people confuse states and nations.

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