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But it can be a federation of states. Hopefully, that will happen.

nix23 5y ago
Depends how much the states have their own freedom and power (financial marketplace, and military), remember Russia is a federation too.
bluthund 5y ago
Hopefully that never happens. Hopefully more Hungary's emerge. Hopefully more Western countries start actually serving their people Hopefully nationalism crushes this perverse anti Western virus which has taken over the once greatest nations in the world
- egeozcan 5y ago
  In this day and age, don't people like you read/watch some world history? What you are saying seems so narrow-minded (ignoring the racist undertone), it makes me confused.
  - bluthund 5y ago
    It's precisely a studying and understanding of history which makes me so. Perhaps people like you would do better to engage in conversation where you might learn something you don't know rather than throw out your classic epithets
    - egeozcan 5y ago
      So, to be clear, you studied and "understood" history and came to the conclusion that nationalism is a good thing. How? It's clear that I don't agree with you. I think you must be too isolated from some nice people to be so furious about other people.
      - bluthund 5y ago
        We can circle back to the psycho analysis later if you so desire, but I'll be sticking to the topic at hand for the time being. You seem to have made a connection between nationalism and being furious about other people. I respectfully disagree that there is a necessary relationship there. I have no ill will against other people. I would like people who share my culture to govern me, and I would not like people of my culture governing people of a different culture. They can govern themselves and we can govern ourselves. We can share ideas, trade, sport, etc., But multiculturalism within borders is an inevitable failure and globalism is an inevitable failure
        egeozcan 5y ago
        > I would like people who share my culture to govern me, and I would not like people of my culture governing people of a different culture. When did this ever happen in history? People diverge all the time, that's how we have so many cultures.
        nix23 5y ago
        >People diverge all the time, that's how we have so many cultures. Lightly categorized in so called country's?
        johnnycerberus 5y ago
        Globalism is inevitable, you cannot stop it. You should rather get used to it. The fact that you get anxious by ideas penetrating your culture means that globalisation works. It is like my Romanian grandfather telling me how bankers should have been punished in 2008. Which would have never and it will never happen because that's how the world works. The alternatives are far too costly and our global capitalism does not allow it. Get used to it, neighbor.
        nix23 5y ago
        >Globalism is inevitable, you cannot stop it. If corona told us anything, then this is probably not true anymore.
- johnnycerberus 5y ago
  I'm certain that every Romanian sees Vitkor Orban as a wolf in sheep's clothing. The protector of interests for V4 group through unethical means and corrupted politicians. Hopefully, sanctions will follow soon. Masking local interests of a few corrupted individuals with nationalism is borderline criminal.
- nix23 5y ago
  >Hopefully nationalism crushes this perverse anti Western virus Being totally against the EU, i think full on nationalism is wrong too. We life on one big spaceship and with that, we should have one organizing (not governing entity) like the UN was once meant to be.
  - johnnycerberus 5y ago
    EU is built on the European thought at least, it is the child of Christianity, strongly influenced by Greco-Roman world sprinkled with some Germanic austerity. No wonder why countries with Muslim minorities cannot join the Union. UN would never work because what binds Europe together is exactly this shared Christian past starting from the division of Catholic and Orthodox Church and ending with Protestant thought. Even if our European elite act as religion does not play a role anymore that is simply not true. Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. From Western France to Eastern Romania, the legacy can be felt in everything, from language to cuisine, from architecture to music. Imagine that those countries are on opposite sides of the EU but they both speak a Romance language.
    - nix23 5y ago
      >No wonder why countries with Muslim minorities cannot join the Union. Germany has a Muslim minority. And Cyprus has 25%. I don't think Religion is a point here at all, culture definitely is.
    - trasz 5y ago
      You do realize that Islam is essentially a Christianity’s sequel, right? Also, your mistaking Christianity - which is doing just fine in the western world, probably better than ever - with its degenerate form of fundamentalist groups, based mostly on hate, eg homophobia. This is most visible in Poland - which is very Catholic, and definitely not Christian.
baud147258 5y ago
I hope not, because I'd prefer if we don't give even more power to a bunch of unelected technocrats in Brussels.
- johnnycerberus 5y ago
  They are elected. In Romania we have voted for the people that represent us in the European Parliament. Voted for an independent fella.

Depends how much the states have their own freedom and power (financial marketplace, and military), remember Russia is a federation too.

bluthund 5y ago

Hopefully that never happens. Hopefully more Hungary's emerge. Hopefully more Western countries start actually serving their people Hopefully nationalism crushes this perverse anti Western virus which has taken over the once greatest nations in the world

egeozcan 5y ago
In this day and age, don't people like you read/watch some world history? What you are saying seems so narrow-minded (ignoring the racist undertone), it makes me confused.
- bluthund 5y ago
  It's precisely a studying and understanding of history which makes me so. Perhaps people like you would do better to engage in conversation where you might learn something you don't know rather than throw out your classic epithets
  - egeozcan 5y ago
    So, to be clear, you studied and "understood" history and came to the conclusion that nationalism is a good thing. How? It's clear that I don't agree with you. I think you must be too isolated from some nice people to be so furious about other people.
    - bluthund 5y ago
      We can circle back to the psycho analysis later if you so desire, but I'll be sticking to the topic at hand for the time being. You seem to have made a connection between nationalism and being furious about other people. I respectfully disagree that there is a necessary relationship there. I have no ill will against other people. I would like people who share my culture to govern me, and I would not like people of my culture governing people of a different culture. They can govern themselves and we can govern ourselves. We can share ideas, trade, sport, etc., But multiculturalism within borders is an inevitable failure and globalism is an inevitable failure
      - egeozcan 5y ago
        > I would like people who share my culture to govern me, and I would not like people of my culture governing people of a different culture. When did this ever happen in history? People diverge all the time, that's how we have so many cultures.
        nix23 5y ago
        >People diverge all the time, that's how we have so many cultures. Lightly categorized in so called country's?
      - johnnycerberus 5y ago
        Globalism is inevitable, you cannot stop it. You should rather get used to it. The fact that you get anxious by ideas penetrating your culture means that globalisation works. It is like my Romanian grandfather telling me how bankers should have been punished in 2008. Which would have never and it will never happen because that's how the world works. The alternatives are far too costly and our global capitalism does not allow it. Get used to it, neighbor.
        nix23 5y ago
        >Globalism is inevitable, you cannot stop it. If corona told us anything, then this is probably not true anymore.
johnnycerberus 5y ago
I'm certain that every Romanian sees Vitkor Orban as a wolf in sheep's clothing. The protector of interests for V4 group through unethical means and corrupted politicians. Hopefully, sanctions will follow soon. Masking local interests of a few corrupted individuals with nationalism is borderline criminal.
nix23 5y ago
>Hopefully nationalism crushes this perverse anti Western virus Being totally against the EU, i think full on nationalism is wrong too. We life on one big spaceship and with that, we should have one organizing (not governing entity) like the UN was once meant to be.
- johnnycerberus 5y ago
  EU is built on the European thought at least, it is the child of Christianity, strongly influenced by Greco-Roman world sprinkled with some Germanic austerity. No wonder why countries with Muslim minorities cannot join the Union. UN would never work because what binds Europe together is exactly this shared Christian past starting from the division of Catholic and Orthodox Church and ending with Protestant thought. Even if our European elite act as religion does not play a role anymore that is simply not true. Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. From Western France to Eastern Romania, the legacy can be felt in everything, from language to cuisine, from architecture to music. Imagine that those countries are on opposite sides of the EU but they both speak a Romance language.
  - nix23 5y ago
    >No wonder why countries with Muslim minorities cannot join the Union. Germany has a Muslim minority. And Cyprus has 25%. I don't think Religion is a point here at all, culture definitely is.
  - trasz 5y ago
    You do realize that Islam is essentially a Christianity’s sequel, right? Also, your mistaking Christianity - which is doing just fine in the western world, probably better than ever - with its degenerate form of fundamentalist groups, based mostly on hate, eg homophobia. This is most visible in Poland - which is very Catholic, and definitely not Christian.

baud147258 5y ago

I hope not, because I'd prefer if we don't give even more power to a bunch of unelected technocrats in Brussels.

johnnycerberus 5y ago
They are elected. In Romania we have voted for the people that represent us in the European Parliament. Voted for an independent fella.