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Yeah ok bud, I'll let the Swiss know they can stop pretending to be a country now that France, Germany and Italy are unlikely to subsume them.
It is absolutely a foundation. Foundations dry and even crack but that doesn't bring the whole house down if you've built something on it. Which in Switzerland's case is insane rent (to keep the Italians out), mass armament (to keep the Germans out), watch making (to keep the French out), and cowbells (to keep one specific Dutch woman out).
Hey friend. Your comment reads as peak smug absurdity-as-argument — You mix bad analogies, pseudo-clever sarcasm, and a bonkers nationalist caricature, and try to pass it off as deep insight. Your rhetorical style signals more of a need to perform than to engage.
If your point is that Switzerland only exists because it keeps other people out, that’s a wild misread of how the country functions. Swiss cohesion isn’t built on mutual hatred or fear — it’s built on cooperation despite internal differences. The Swiss cantons are linguistically and culturally diverse, yet they manage to function through a shared system of governance and mutual respect. That’s the exact opposite of a hate-based foundation.
And saying hatred can be a “foundation” is like claiming you can build a house on quicksand if you just pour enough concrete on top. Maybe it stands for a bit, but it’s a constant maintenance problem — not a model of strength.
If you want to defend hate as a basis for meaningful connection, you’ll need more than glib remarks and half-baked metaphors.