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Nationalist branding does not actually help socialists

And yes, there's a study.

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Carl Beijer
Jun 10, 2025
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We’ve reached, amid the LA uprising, my favorite stage of every grassroots protest: the one where a phalanx of middle-to-upper-middle-class liberals start giving out unsolicited PR advice. This time around, some pictures of protesters waving Mexican flags has prompted recommendations that they use American flags instead:

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