• gon [he]@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    I’ll say, I feel this. I love FOSS, and I love the BuyEuropean movement as well, but I’m also always scared this will turn nationalistic, which I’m not a big fan of…

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      20 minutes ago

      How would that work though? Nationalistic people tend to be anti-EU, no?

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        5 minutes ago

        You’re taking it too literally. I don’t know if nationalists tend to be anti-EU, though you’re right that a lot of them are, but I was using nationalistic there very loosely to refer to the negative aspects of nationalistic ideology as applied to Europe — and the EU, in particular.

        That being said, it’s very easy to get hooked into a Buy European craze and then shift into Buy YourNation, which can quickly turn into “We’re better than everyone else and if you don’t think that you’re a traitor” and so on and so on…

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      9 hours ago

      Precisely my feelings. I hope it doesn’t turn out to in the negative way, but I’m afraid of some of the vitriol I’m seeing already