@KimPerales Our legal system is obviously much too dependent on enforcers who can decide whether or not to enforce. -.-
@freiksenet Honestly, I've never been happy with how much global power the US has, and I've lived here for [...counts on fingers...] 5+ decades.
Power should be distributed equitably, not concentrated and hierarchical.
(The right-wingers, of course, want the exact opposite.)
@Bongolian I want this, except home-hosted and open-source.
(I have, in fact, been asking the universe for this* for years. (* with the above qualifications implicitly included))
@rogerc2738 There is no contradiction here; they see education as offensive, and sadistic punishment as doubly good.
@LottieVixen This kind of idea has been much on my mind since at least Occupy Wall Street.
From here, it looks like the main obstacle is that we need to have enough money, in aggregate, to make it work -- so e.g. outlet A in one place always has enough to cover money being "sent" via outlet B in another place, with actual funds transfers being done more slowly outside of the banking system.
...which is why I keep coming back to collective governance models...
@artemis I remember first hearing the phrase "[that] Jezebel spirit" from a friend who had been raised Southern Baptist (iirc). When I asked her what it meant, the character she described was... like... kind of my feminine ideal, and wtf is wrong with these people.
Well, now we know: they're authoritarian assholes; next question...
@artemis I always figured that's why it was so popular with authoritarian religious leaders: you can always find a quote which lends authority to whatever it is you want to do.
@In_Otter_News [insert obligatory puns about the lack of security mussel, how all witnesses clammed up and then got disappeared into the belly of the beast, etc.]
I keep pointing out to the people who demand I agree that Israel has a right to exist, that no state has a right to exist under international law. Here, Jonathan Cook explains this clearly, with particular reference to Israel and Palestine.
#States #Politics #InternationalLaw #Israel #Palestine
No state has a ‘right’ to exist – least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/no-state-has-a-right-to-exist-least
@junesim63 I lost a user when I made the same point but in a larger philosophical sense (nations don't have a right to exist; people do (or should)) -- they didn't feel safe staying here because I said that.
I wonder if they still feel the same way.
@stefano I honestly have to wonder if they will learn from this -- any more than, say, Tr💩mp voters have learned from their experiences over the last decade...
@artemis One thing I often wonder is whether this shift was deliberately planned by specific people, or if a certain stripe of religious leaders sort of amorphously recognized the benefit of erasing their distinctions so as to gang up together and mutually enhance their power and control.
I'm not sure; I believe it involves eigenwhelm mathematics, which is definitely beyond me.