This is why I start all political discussions with my mother with "Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin" and then end them with "at least I didn't vote for a pedophile scam artist three times."

Being a patriot for an imperialist nation just means you are far-right politically

the most overt evidence of a hegemonic ideology is a cultural value presented as natural/divinely ordained, making all non-compliant positions as profane, subversive, dishonest, or a form of insanity.

• Our leader was granted the right to rule by the one true God.
• Men were created to be the head of the household.
• Pride in the nation-state administrative unit is normal.
• Capitalism is Natural Selection.

people who parrot shit like this are walking around with a tank strapped to their back, huffing medical-grade ideology with every breath. their entire cosmology was invented and inserted into their thoughts by ubiquitous institutions over time, and requires reinforcement multiple times, daily to maintain their orthodoxy.

Being a patriot for the 'States is apolitical because the USA is normal. Any other country is foreign and strange, therefore it's political.

I like the idea that it's only Amerikkkan patriotism that's a problem. Political in every other country except mine. How do they try and justify that?

What is an American proud of? The amount of Iraqis they killed and the Q1 profits?

Typical great American chauvinism

Nationalism is part of every liberalism

Kinda curious why you chose that username and pfp....

This you? https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Topic:X5jt5fmceilpdixv

Edit: looked back at your opening post and yeah alright I am willing to give benefit of the doubt. I will say it's really funny to call yourself an anti-revisionist MLM at 15 years old. Kid your brain is still forming you're gonna be doing a whole lot of revising your views for a long time. Stay humble and get to work and stop worrying about these sorts of labels. Read the theory do the work and be kind and nobody will give a shit who you were as a dumb teenager.

it doesn't threaten the status quo so it's apolitical in that sense. it's also bipartisan in american electoral politics even though libs have some understanding that capital-P Patriots are

Support for nation states (or for their abolition) is political. Anarchists and Maoists would both agree on this point.

Only a babybrain fascist (or a liberal (inb4 but you repeat yourself) would think otherwise.

Yeah, and they also aren't political but just believe in "common sense". By avoiding the label "political," they are trying to exempt themselves from challenge and self-reflection, because how can you politically challenge something that is apolitical? So they will keep advocating for whatever political project they prefer, but insist on having an inexplicable and incontestable privilege over the "political" rabble.

At the same time, this is very much an expression of our culture oriented around domination through hypernormalization, depoliticizing politics and not even teaching people in explicit terms about the dominant philosophy of our society so much as just present its tenets as truths handed down from the universe or wrested from the clutches of monarchs. It's begging the question at a multi-civilizational scale. It's like this idea in Confucianism that you can best maintain the social order through the use of ritual where applicable, because if you instruct someone to do something, the idea of disobeying will inevitably occur to them, but in a ritual you just follow the steps because that's what you do, and the idea of doing otherwise does not necessarily occur (or perhaps is considered only as an error to avoid).

Any belief about how society should function is political and denying it is childish.