• merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    he’s just an American nationalist at heart. his dad was a member of the Russian communist party and his biography seemed to make clear that rebelled from that.

    socially he’s not terrible but when the war drums come beating he’s stepping in line for the stars and stripes

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      8 days ago

      socially he’s not terrible but when the war drums come beating he’s stepping in line for the stars and stripes

      Like pretty much every Finn would these days, really.

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          7 days ago

          American national can take many forms. The kind the person is probably the kind based in American idealism (think superman, Captain America, “liberty and justice for all”) and less the kind based in racism.