"Are we the baddies?" -- I mean sure, if you accept the Curtis Yarvin idea of "formalism", or even traditional neoliberal ideas of the "social contract." We've all sort of signed on to this, so who are we to "say no"?
Of course, no, I didn't sign no steeeenking social contract.
My libertarian thought increasingly leads me to the conclusion that whether we're talking about States or large corporations, "scale matters." There's a certain scale at which economic calculation problems set in and service quality drops. So at a certain point the only way to maintain participation is through coercion.
The USA as a federal system is basically there. And this is exactly what we see in MN, driven (indirectly) by Yarvin through Stephen Miller. There's some recognition of the idea that for "America" to be maintained, absolute Federal authority must be asserted over the States... In Blood, if need be.
Miller's X profile (last I saw from the news, I'm not on there) is him shaking hands with Xi Jinping. That's telling.
Globe99
npub147…paq44
2026-01-29 17:00:36 GMT
in reply to nevent1q…mp02
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