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[โ€“] knightly@pawb.social 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[Country] isn't real, it was made up by [its founders] to [dodge taxes / dominate neighboring city-states / measure dicks with [Other Country]]

[โ€“] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

heh, just replace [Country] with [The Country I dont like] and you've got yourself a deal

[โ€“] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh, definitely not. This format is explicitly for pissing off nationalists.

Simply dismiss the validity of the governing body they worship by reference to the historical contingency of its creation, then sit back and watch as they work themselves into a froth trying to justify their imagined superiority without reference to their mythic founders.