Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

Re:Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative by sgift on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:02PM (#26197395)

Funny, there is a state in Europe which had exactly the same position: We are all individual states, we fight with each other, we are weak, we should be together under strong nationalism, so we aren't victims of others anymore and so on. That country was Germany, which unified in 1871. Two world wars later and we've decided that maybe Nationalism isn't such a great thing. But you do you. Have fun.

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Re:Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative by LargoLasskhyfv on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:08AM (#26202496)

That was just a reaction to the imperialism of another...uhm...player on the field. Which now has brexited from it :-) We will see where that is going...

Interesting times.

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Re:Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative by sremani on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:18PM (#26197548)

Is Europe a country? Europe and India are different in many ways. Because Indian Nationalism dates back to 323 BC and with Mauryan Empire.

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Re:Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative by orwin on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:02PM (#26198605)

Nationalism as in nation-state dates back to 323 BC? I would be surprised. I think historian debate if nationalism was born in the 17th or the 18th century, so maybe they are all wrong, but considering how many new, interesting debate are indroduced by Chinese historians (== academics), i doubt the debate wouldn't already have fired if this was a question.

At the time, ruling over different culture and languages was a sign of power. Chandragupta's empire included Bengali and people from Deccan, and i think it extended beyond the hindus (Sorry if it the the english term, i'm not fluent enough to read history books in english). I would be VERY surprised if any of those considered themselves as Indian before anything else.

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Re:Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative by higerordermap on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:47AM (#26202177)

For what it's worth, Mauryan empire didn't rule the entire south India, which had different culture. India makes more sense as a subcontinent, not a unified culture. It's a spectrum of cultures.

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Re:Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative by saagarjha on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:39PM (#26198356)

> That country was Germany

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Re:Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative by dextralt on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:26PM (#26198227)

>Two world wars later and we've decided that maybe Nationalism isn't such a great thing

The states that brought Germany down in both world wars were just as nationalistic at the time. Even the commies brought it back when they needed it the most - and it worked.

Also, since the country in question here is India - without nationalism, they would still be a colony.

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