unfortunately "blind allegiance to a tribe who you don't hold accountable" applies to almost everyone who regularly engages with social media.

Maybe so, but it becomes more serious when it's about policy. Not liking someone or leaving a snarky comment on twitter isn't the same as stripping people of citizenship or having state-sanctioned violence against a certain ethnic group.

I'm increasingly worried about the decentralized mob-like "consequences" for problematic speech. Sure, it's not the government taking away tour citizenship or committing violence against you, but it's easy for your life to be destroyed by a single tweet or Facebook post. If tensions are especially high, you could have your home or business vandalized or burned down.

Social media can whip people into a frenzy and create a tyranny worse than what the government can do because there is virtually no accountability. The court of public opinion doesn't let you appeal your sentence.

Is your personal definition the common one?

I don't know. Merriam Webster has this:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nationalism

> loyalty and devotion to a nation especially : a sense of national consciousness (see CONSCIOUSNESS sense 1c) exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups

It is a privilege to say so, My wife's Christian family suffered a lot during Islamist-led civil war.

First world luxury - but the 2020s will teach a lesson about primacy of Nation-State. Watch the Germans.

What do you mean? You just throw a sentence without adding any substance here.

That is actually quite brilliant.

1. The refugee crisis that Germany brought in not only on itself but on the rest of the EU.

2. The same Germany has recently spearheaded a trade deal with the devil.

Germany used nationalism for the wrong reasons (short term gain and long term pain)

Yeah I think we’ve already seen enough German nationalism last century.