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March 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I believe the path to liberation is through the creation of parallel structures as alternatives to state-married governance, but those structures do not exist right now.

And it is very hard to build a boat on the fly because you just got tossed overboard off the battleship
February 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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We will always need modes of collective decision-making, allocation of resources, and implementation.

You can dislike the state (and also the way our governance is/was structured) and still recognize that dismantling governance altogether is a recipe for absolute disaster.
February 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by dreikin.bsky.social
The state is pretty simply a monopoly on violence. Government is how our resource distribution and decision-making are structured/implemented

In nation-states the two are yoked together pretty inseparably, but they serve different purposes.
February 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM