Editing Why is Second Thought So Weird? (section)

==== Reacting to JT's video ====

* American patriotism is only weird compared to Europe. Hitlerite, European Union, Nazi-occupied, eugenicist Europe. 
* Russian, Chinese, North Korean patriots, they all engage in spectacles of patriotism similar to that of the American patriots 
* JT is taking a strong stance in favor of European Cosmopolitanism and Coastal Elitism, whereas yeehaws in flyover states are more akin to Chinese or Russian patriots 
* Marxism would've never gained mass support among the peasantry if it hadn't been patriotic
* Read [[Marxism and the National Question]] 
* "Not everyone is a cosmopolitan detached YouTuber" 
* America was never supposed to be an empire, the imperialism of America is a parasitic deep state which is in opposition to the American proletariat 
* The determinate basis of the American empire is in institutions 
*# international capital ([[Wall Street]], [[City of London]]) 
*# international organizations controlled by those poles of power 
*# soft power apparatuses (big tech) 
* The determinate basis of American patriotism finds itself in opposition to this [[Globalism|globalist]] coalescence  
* Cosmopolitanism is a lie, there is no determinate form of the global village until firstly all members of the global village have achieved the overthrow of Empire 
* The elites seek to hide national character 
* American patriots take responsibility for their country's actions. Patriots thus can stand up against the US-led New Cold War. 
* Anti-patriots stand up for global abstractions like "human rights" and get into "Neither Washington Nor Moscow" type of thinking 
* When you critique American patriotism from the perspective of cosmopolitanism, you are playing into the elites hands by undermining the national character of resistance to empire 
* ⚠️ "In no other country in the world is there such a widespread attachment to the symbols of the country" JT Says 
** Wrong. China. Russia. DPRK. India. How the hell can JT be this wrong? 
*Haz opposed US imperialism from the start, and yet he's never gotten accused of being "anti-American" like JT has. 
*You can oppose Empire without opposing America. 
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