• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It’s the state that has no right to exist, not the people or the place.

      Now what is a state?

      Look it up, but it’s basically a formalized group of people who believe themselves entitled to power and claim they can use violence to get their way and you are not allowed to defend yourself against it.

      The state is a cultural pandemic, this is the real mind virus, our species existed for like 200,000 years in complex societies without the state, 500 years with ubiquitous state (look up enclosure acts that forced everyone into a state) is all it’s taken to destroy the entire planet.

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      7 months ago

      No country or government has a “right” to exist. They’re given that ability to exist by the people they’re supposed to serve. If the system is not serving the people, it shouldn’t exist.

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        7 months ago

        Supreme executive power is derived from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical electoral ceremony.

        If I declared myself chancellor because a bunch of my friends voted for me they’d put me a way.

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          7 months ago

          you mean paper backed by the might of a whole country vs expensive and poluting scam coins?

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        7 months ago

        No I’m not. Anarchism keeps getting stupider and less likely to ever be a workable solution to anything the more I look into it. It’s at best a nice thought experiment.

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          7 months ago

          “Hey look at that disorganized group of people, I bet if we organized we could take them over”

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          7 months ago

          This kind of argument is like those anti-communist arguments “would you want to have to share your iPod with strangers?”

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          7 months ago

          No one’s saying you shouldn’t have a safe place to sleep, and if they are then I would like to have a discussion with them

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          7 months ago

          buddy it used to be absolutely standard for people to invite complete and utter strangers into their homes, offer them food and a place to sleep, and not expect any sort of payment beyond maybe them telling some stories and news.

          maybe research the past before saying laughable things as if they’re some amazing “gotcha”

      • Milksteaks [he/him]@midwest.social
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        7 months ago

        I was watching the falcon and winter soldier and I was thinking the flag smashers had a good point and were doing good for the world. They wanted no borders and no more nationalism. At one point they randomly had the flagsmashers kill some innocents to make them the antagonists