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[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@ButterBallz22 @WingsScotland @PatrickChristys Coincidentally I just finished watching Demolition Man 5 minutes ago.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@JamesKelly @staylorish I'm sure those who'd happily see an independent Scotland back in the EU would be delighted to see England back in the EU too - hardly a Brexiteer argument, is it?

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@JanetMcwee @TracyEPaterson @RoddyQC My grandfather was Estonian and was passionate about restoring the country's independence. Don't think anybody would have objected to his "nationalism".

Yet "nationalism" is used as a smear when referring to independence supporting Scots. There's a definite conflation.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@JanetMcwee @TracyEPaterson @RoddyQC Still talking about nationalism, one definition of which is "advocacy of or support for the political independence of a particular nation or people".

Seems to me that one can hold this view without adhering to the definition you provided.

It's a loaded word.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@JanetMcwee @TracyEPaterson @RoddyQC I'm often not sure exactly what people are referring to when they mention nationalism. It's a loaded word and definitions are often conflated.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@TracyEPaterson @RoddyQC Do you equate supporting political independence for your country with what happened in Europe in the period you mention?

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@JanetMcwee @TracyEPaterson @RoddyQC So what if someone supports political independence for their country but detests all that "my country's better than all the rest" rubbish? Are they nationalists?

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@TracyEPaterson @RoddyQC Do you know what nationalism is?

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@ScottishLabour They'll be forced to pay a lot more if you lot get in

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@ChrisLawSNP Tommy Robison - is he related to Shona?

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@Peter__A__Bell @ChrisMcEleny What's a nationalist?

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@ChrisMcEleny Nationalist as in thinking one's country is better than all the rest, or nationalist in the sense of wanting political independence for your country?

I don't like the word because I'm the latter but not the former. It's annoying that both definitions are deliberately conflated.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@JaneyGodley You can always be relied on for a crass and moronic take on the issue of the day

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@themajorityscot Got any arguments other than deliberately conflating differing meanings of the word nationalist?

It's possible to want political independence for a country without buying into all that "my country's better than all the rest".

You ought to know that.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@DanNeidle Would that not also necessitate a change to the Optional Remuneration Arrangements (OpRA) rules?
Many folk enter pension salary sacrifice arrangements and obtain that relief tax that way due to pension contributions being exempted.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@SuzJamieson I'd be pretty confident in guessing it's meant to be SNP.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@VerdiMurray Folk who are okay with this have taken leave of their senses. All for some woolly notion of "gender" which I'm yet to see a definition of beyond crass stereotypes.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@DeanMThomson @BBCScotlandNews Taking money from those not quite as poor as the poorest in society is not taking from the rich.
This is austerity continued.

[Cill Rìmhinn @StanleyDrewz]

@iris_frs Well thankfully the trigger for such "attempted deadly force" appears to be quite extreme i.e. multiple assaults on several armed police officers, including breaking the nose of one of them.

I think we can all sleep easy on this one.