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Just want to note that a user-blocked instance still influences your feed via voting. The only way to truly and entirely block another instance is to get your admin to defederate the instance.

But on the fediverse you can choose your admin or become your own admin, so that's still a lot better than reddit.

cultures neither coincide with countries

I think that's very reductionist. Countries clearly have a large influence on culture and culture often forms around countries as people in a country share borders and law and politics and all that.

Anyways, we can agree to disagree if you insist. I do think you're being slightly closed-minded in this case though, but it's not a big deal.

Oh usually it's small paper flags stuck into the cake on small wooden sticks, not frosting :)

No need to be sorry :)

Achievements of people from the past?

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Is it being proud of your impact on others, through your everyday interactions?

Definitely more the latter rather than the former. There is a great deal of trust in Danish society. There is a shared understanding, community and culture that Danes are proudly part of - proud because we believe it is a good culture (and I think the happiness scores that get released every so often for different countries speak for themselves).

But most people in a country - even a small one (more like Andorra than Denmark) - are not meaningfully affected by you.

I don't see it like that. Yes, someone living in the other part of Denmark doesn't directly affect me of course. But I do think they meaningfully affect me, even if in a small part. I think Denmark is still small enough that it matters that someone in the big city in the other part of the country is still connected to me by culture and a shared "zeitgeist", if that makes sense.

Anyways, I hope you can maybe understand that for some people, there can be such a thing as being proud of your country. You don't have to understand fully though, I understand it can be hard coming from another culture (also it's not like I speak for all Danes obviously and some would certainly disagree with what I'm saying here). I would encourage you to try visiting Denmark one day and maybe see for yourself :)

Lol

That "lol" is quite unnecessary. There is no need to ridicule me. I would expect better from a mod of a community like this.

minimizes what fascism actually is

I didn't say that is all fascism is, just that it is a tactic within fascism. It can be a part of it. But anyway I don't want to argue what is and isn't fascism, my point is just that political violence and murdering your political opponents does not work with democracy and shouldn't ever be hoped for or wanted, even if it is your political opponent being targeted. I want Trump gone as much as the next guy on the fediverse but I don't want him killed.

What a way to deliberately misread what I am saying. Obviously not and I won't waste time on such a purposeful bad faith reading of what I said.

Murdering your political opponents is a fascist tactic.

The problem is not Trump, the problem is the people voting for him. Trump should be stopped through educated and informed voting, that's how democracy works.

Unfortunately the US is not known for its education and good unbiased information. But that is the underlying problem that needs to be fixed, and shooting Trump does nothing to fix that and will only serve to replace Trump with someone equally bad (or even worse).

Violence is what people turn to when they can’t achieve what they need by merely talking and voting.

The fact that this is the state of things is the bigger problem. That's the problem that needs to be fixed and sorry, but violence is not the solution to that, it only makes things even worse.

Not in the same way. In the US I believe you swear to the flag or something? Which seems super strange to me.

In Denmark the flag is used in basically any celebration, especially birthdays. It's common to have a cake with as many flags on as your age (usually for kids).

Yea honestly I usually just avoid these kind of threads because any debate just seems pointless when it comes to US politics. I'm just glad I don't live there but it scares me how much their politics matter for the rest of the world when it is such a shit show.

And the solution to this problem is to murder him? That is not how democracy works. Besides, the problem is not Trump per se, but the people voting for him. That won't change just because Trump is dead. They will find some other bigoted candidate that will be just as bad if not worse.

People need to be educated and informed and know why it's a bad idea to vote for someone like Trump - that is the only sustainable way to fix things if you ask me. Murder and violence will only entrench people further on either side and drive people to even more extremes.