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Sheinbaum signs reform requiring sole Mexican nationality for presidency and governorships (mx.ibtimes.com)
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Those who hold a second nationality and want to run for these offices will have to renounce it before applying to register as candidates. The provision seeks to ensure that people holding these responsibilities maintain only their legal bond of Mexican nationality while in office.

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[โ€“] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm just not realy that into the concept of nations tbh. I think we'd be much better off without the arbitrary demarcation of borders etc. There's a difference between patriotism and nationalism too of course, pride rather than thinking your better, but it all just feels like ways to have "us" and "them" to me. Whatever you have to do to throw off the shackles of your oppressor though, I guess.

[โ€“] RedWizard@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Its very reductive to think "patriots" = pride and "nationalists" = superiority. How does that square against the Vietnamese struggle against colonialism? Because that was a nationalist movement made up of patriots.

The "us" vs "them" kind of matter given the context don't they? Colonialist nationalism had an us vs them but the us is colonialists... And the them are the colonized. Liberatory nationalism obviously is the opposite, where the us is the colonized and the them are colonizers.

Like, you seem to be operating under in these broad strokes that collapse all these contexts into a flat binary. That doesn't really seem like a useful tool for analysis.