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WCDT strips 3836-3840 (24 to 28 September 2018)
Mordhaus:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 25 Sep 2018, 04:00 ---Or, to put it another way: Whilst any social collective where authority structures exist necessarily seem to breed corruption, injustice and abuse by those authority structures, areas without authority structures tend to also breed injustice and abuse, often on catastrophically greater scales.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala
Two counter examples I can think of, where the lives and economic conditions are strictly better than the surrounding nation.
Chances are, you’ve never heard of Kerala. This tiny Indian state on the Arabian Sea has a population more literate than any American state’s— its main export is PhD’s for energy and computer industries.
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Ah, but both of those examples are 'protected' from outside threats due to either geographic location or because they are part of a larger, more powerful state.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary, as James Madison said. We aren't though, which means that an Anarchist group would either have to be powerful enough to take on all comers or it would have to be protected by someone who could. If they are protected by the latter, they exist at the pleasure of that person/state/nation. A good example would be Catalonia. Spain let them be almost fully autonomous until they tried to separate from Spain due to their relative wealth being used to keep Spain's economy afloat. When they tried to take full control of themselves, the Spanish government shut that down cold.
Case:
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--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 25 Sep 2018, 01:22 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 25 Sep 2018, 01:02 ---... DON'T @ ME
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I've started seeing this around...
Not sure I totally understand what it means...?
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It means that the author of the post is uninterested in debating the issue they raised.
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Is that like ... similar to pre-emptively stereotyping the people whose opinions one might disagree with before they've actually said a peep?
--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Sep 2018, 23:24 ---I've already got the feeling that this week's strips are not going to be enjoyable and I may even bow out for a while because the political opinions that are going to be openly and shamelessly be presented as objective fact will just make me mad at Jeph.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: Mordhaus on 25 Sep 2018, 06:17 ---Ah, but both of those examples are 'protected' from outside threats due to either geographic location or because they are part of a larger, more powerful state[...]We aren't though, which means that an Anarchist group would either have to be powerful enough to take on all comers
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I'm sorry but did you not click the Chiapas link? You might want to actually read about them.
I'd also suggest looking into the continued successes of the Kurdish anarchists against ISIS and established nations both.
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new person!
Roko believed Corpse Witch about the department's higher-ups taking bribes, and that by itself would be cause for despair even though she didn't mention it.
Better supported by textev, when we first met her she was threatening Faye so as to push her to be an informant. The cause was just. That still leaves room for a person with a conscience to feel uncomfortable.
It's interesting that she misread the situation she's responding to. May even explained that it was a real apology and not a "don't tell my parole officer" apology. Roko still thought May expected her to be a jerk. Is this because she had too many colleagues who were?
That "should I stay or should I go" question is one of the most common and difficult ethics questions in life and I love the Cornelius touchstone above about whether the system is breaking the person.
Global Moderator Comment I love heading off trouble. Jeph may take this into territory where feelings run high. I'll request, politely, that people do their best to separate the Roko story arc in the comic from their own good and bad experiences with police, and to discuss those experiences in DISCUSS. There's no clean division of course.
Jakk Frost:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 25 Sep 2018, 01:02 ---... DON'T @ ME
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I've started seeing this around...
Not sure I totally understand what it means...?
(Or is it simply, don't tweet about this and include me as a direct recipient?)
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Basically it's "Don't link to me in any response or discussion, I'm not interested in having my viewpoint challenged."
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