Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

Moral is an irrelevant term. States are necessary logically, empirically, and op

Moral is an irrelevant term. States are necessary logically, empirically, and operationally. Only human actions are moral or not. Violence likewise is amoral. It is a resource. It is whether we put it to moral (reciprocal) or immoral (irrreciprocal) ends.

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 14:50:58 UTC

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October 1, 2019
RT @curtdoolittle: A MORAL LICENSE FOR CIVIL WAR @TRUMP @realDonaldTrump @POTUS

RT @curtdoolittle: A MORAL LICENSE FOR CIVIL WAR
@TRUMP @realDonaldTrump @POTUS https://t.co/uzRQ4HgSWU

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 14:46:21 UTC

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October 1, 2019
Where commons includes the state and its holdings and the means of defense wheth

Where commons includes the state and its holdings and the means of defense whether military, judicial or sheriff.

Collectively the government and the state also provide the services of an insurer of last resort. The problem is maintaining its role as insurer, investor, …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 14:33:07 UTC

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@fryskefilosoof … whether in the market for consumption (goods services information) or the market for multipliers (commons) we call government. Technically speaking the ‘state’ consists of the assets of the polity and the law its regulator, and the government a means of producing commons.

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@fryskefilosoof … whether in the market for consumption (goods services information) or the market for multipliers (commons) we call government. Technically speaking the ‘state’ consists of the assets of the polity and the law its regulator, and the government a means of producing commons.

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October 1, 2019
whether in the market for consumption (goods services information) or the market

… whether in the market for consumption (goods services information) or the market for multipliers (commons) we call government. Technically speaking the ‘state’ consists of the assets of the polity and the law its regulator, and the government a means of producing commons.

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 14:30:31 UTC

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@fryskefilosoof In this sense the (positive ) market for goods, services, and information is the one we are most aware of. We are somewhat aware of the government (not state) as a market for commons. But of equal import is the (negative) market for the suppression of ir-reciprocity …

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@fryskefilosoof In this sense the (positive ) market for goods, services, and information is the one we are most aware of. We are somewhat aware of the government (not state) as a market for commons. But of equal import is the (negative) market for the suppression of ir-reciprocity …

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October 1, 2019
In this sense the (positive ) market for goods, services, and information is the

In this sense the (positive ) market for goods, services, and information is the one we are most aware of. We are somewhat aware of the government (not state) as a market for commons. But of equal import is the (negative) market for the suppression of ir-reciprocity …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 14:28:32 UTC

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@fryskefilosoof … new, larger organizations of rent seekers and corruption. And this process never ends. Man invents. So men will invent new means of rents and corruption, and other men will use the market for the suppression of parasitism that we call the courts and the law to stop them.

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@fryskefilosoof … new, larger organizations of rent seekers and corruption. And this process never ends. Man invents. So men will invent new means of rents and corruption, and other men will use the market for the suppression of parasitism that we call the courts and the law to stop them.

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October 1, 2019
Democracy can never control anything other than voting an oligarchy into or out

Democracy can never control anything other than voting an oligarchy into or out of office. Its insufficient for policy or defense because representatives are not required to state terms of contract before they enter office. So with democracy, disintermediation from the courts …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 14:07:33 UTC

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@fryskefilosoof The only means of policing the state that we know of is rule of law through the courts of universal standing in matters both private and common.We have had this revoked by the state during the modern period, and we’ve been disintermediated from the courts as our means of defense.

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@fryskefilosoof The only means of policing the state that we know of is rule of law through the courts of universal standing in matters both private and common.We have had this revoked by the state during the modern period, and we’ve been disintermediated from the courts as our means of defense.

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October 1, 2019
permissiveness we translate as liberty. Since settlers provide claims to territo

… permissiveness we translate as liberty. Since settlers provide claims to territory which can be defended by arms, because in fact, they are investing in that territory, and reciprocity is the only international natural law that we can observe. We defend what we invest in.

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 14:02:48 UTC

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@fryskefilosoof … and alliance with the state against the people, but without exception, the returns on state vs non-state are obvious: non state’s cannot and do not exist. Even those claimed by ‘libertarians’ are just borderlands defended by states or empires, investing in settlement by …

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@fryskefilosoof … and alliance with the state against the people, but without exception, the returns on state vs non-state are obvious: non state’s cannot and do not exist. Even those claimed by ‘libertarians’ are just borderlands defended by states or empires, investing in settlement by …

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October 1, 2019
and alliance with the state against the people, but without exception, the retur

… and alliance with the state against the people, but without exception, the returns on state vs non-state are obvious: non state’s cannot and do not exist. Even those claimed by ‘libertarians’ are just borderlands defended by states or empires, investing in settlement by …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 14:01:04 UTC

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@fryskefilosoof … rent seeking, corruption, and transaction costs, and centralizing these returns as ‘taxation’, where concentration of that income can be devoted to the production of commons and the multipliers produced by such commons. this creates opportunity for centralized corruption …

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@fryskefilosoof … rent seeking, corruption, and transaction costs, and centralizing these returns as ‘taxation’, where concentration of that income can be devoted to the production of commons and the multipliers produced by such commons. this creates opportunity for centralized corruption …

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October 1, 2019
The state enforces order (cooperation) sufficient to deny competitors access to

The state enforces order (cooperation) sufficient to deny competitors access to the territory, resources, people, their production, and networks of productivity and trade. And to deny internal inhibitors to the income necessary to pay for it. It does this by suppressing local …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 13:55:47 UTC

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October 1, 2019
He reminded us that the war against the forces of predation upon the common peop

He reminded us that the war against the forces of predation upon the common people is never ending, and that any ‘world’ order whether supernatural or pseudoscientific cult is hostile to all human life. Man, Family, Clan, Tribe, Nation, Race, Species.

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-01 13:50:25 UTC

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@StefanMolyneux Hitler and Stalin reminded us that hard left and hard right are indistinguishable.

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October 1, 2019