The one true way humans were meant to live is free, it is the natural way for us to live when we’re not distracted by capitalism. Not just because we don’t see it, but because it actually no longer exists in the collective consciousness in any form it takes, at least not as a “reasonable alternative” to communism and more as something that must be prevented.

Those that choose to deny themselves want you to choose to deny yourself, otherwise they would have to acknowledge that they had been wasting all their time being too ashamed of being themselves over nothing, just like we all do when we remember the truth that they deny. It’s a matter of sunken-cost fallacy and it spreads because it is easier than leaving this manufactured cycle.

Nationalism does not help against oppression because you cannot use nationalism against capitalists as capitalism is not a nationality but the root cause of oppression itself.

Nationalism is a tool for the owning class, that is not itself affected by the circumstances that enable the becoming of nationalists and is simultaneously shielded from the fallout of nationalism that inevitably ensues, to further division between us humans and to give people an incentive to go to war against their brothers and sisters for them in their stead, and to spill their blood over a made up symbol that has no actual meaning.

Borders are a mental construct. People should bond with their peers because they are human, not because of a national identity invented by those that constructed those borders for the purpose of division and for the purpose of making people not question why they are going into a war with other people at the whim of capital.

Nationalism is an excuse, if it were not for nationalism then the effort to invade Ukraine would have long collapsed (or not even gotten the opportunity to begin at all) and the people would see that it is easier and more survivable to unite against the few people pulling the strings than to unite as one “pure” army against another “pure” army of relatively similar size in comparison.

Nationalism will never work in our actual favor, it has been tried so many times and it will never work, it is so far detached from the truth. It is at best a necessary stepping stone when growing up in this system that one needs to move on from as soon as possible and not mistake for the truth.