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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by wrnr on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:41AM (#27891327)
Lets merge all soccer clubs into one, then there will no longer be a need for matches since one club just has all the players they don't even need to be the best.

Nationalism is a very recent affair, the idea that people and not just the nobility have nations is a 19 century concept.

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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by upgrejd on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:46AM (#27891359)
Nationalism may be relatively young but tribalism has existed as long as humans. Nationalism just happens to be the most successful form of tribalism.
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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by tome on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:36AM (#27892484)
> Nationalism is a very recent affair, the idea that people and not just the nobility have nations is a 19 century concept.

Is that right? Sounds like the opposite to me. The English King, German Kaiser and Russian Tsar during WWI were cousins.

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-kaiser-the-tsar-and-k...

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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:46AM (#27893041)
Yes. The German Kaiser was the result of the nationalist German speaking people uniting under the Prussian King. Russia had steadfastly rejected the ideas of nationalism and maintained the Tsar had the divine right to rule, and the British royalty was already largely a figurehead for the British "nation."

There can exist nationalist monarchies, just the thing keeping then bound is not that they are the same rulers subjects.

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