I never stated it like that. My point is that powerful governments (which to exist must apply large amounts of violence) wreak the most destruction on...
Look at all the violence the United States exports - arms industry, international conflicts, etc. And the violence it imports and outsources. Much of ...
Where do you get the idea that the US has "very low measures of government coercion"? Where do you think it gets all those trillions of dollars from? ...
The most powerful governments in the world, US / NATO, China and Russia all are holding the world at nuclear gunpoint (and they should all be coloured...
If you accept my idea of outsourced violence, then I think there's ample reason to believe ever more powerful governments (which rely on ever more ela...
People who thought "the numbers were irrelevant" tended not to find themselves on the good side of history. What a joke had Stalin or Mao said: "If I ...
The scale of warfare and its destructiveness have only ever increased during mankind's history. You don't see that states going to war are simply an e...
Violence is for hypocrites and animals. When one resorts to violence when other options are open to them, they shouldn't protest when others use those...
Sounds like an awful circumstance to have children in. Anyone so foolish shouldn't be surprised when things go to hell in a handbasket, nor should the...
Shall I have children in a place where food is scarce, and then justify my violence towards the people around me because my poor children will starve ...
Who in their right mind would have children at all in a place with only one drinking source? And in a place where drinking-source-polluting ruffians r...
I've just argued that government is inherently a violent instrument, so there is no such thing as "great government" as far as I am concerned. Protect...
The difference is that you and I wouldn't be complicit in it. That's not my problem. If people want to continue to construct and contribute to rapacio...
The goal of violence is to control people against their will. What you're asking me is whether I can give you a better tool than violence to control p...
To be clear, I don't fly any banners nor am I campaigning for the abolition of states. I'm just discussing an idea. Obviously I have no problem with p...
This is exactly the problem I have with the idea of the social contract. A contract suggests that when either side breaches the terms, some form of te...
I invited you to envision a family. It should be obvious that I do not believe all families are exploitative. However, if a family were to operate in ...
The problem with social contracts is that I was never asked to sign one. The dependency is first created without ever offering an opt-out, and then th...
The two are linked. How do you get someone into prison that does not wish to go there? With violence, or with threats of violence. Those two are in my...
What would you call a household where everybody does what the head figure wants out of fear of getting beaten? And what would your reaction be if the ...
To understand the anarchist's basic problem one must understand that government has only one tool in its toolkit and that is violence. Why should A ge...
I wasn't aware that the missile actually killed two people. It seems unlikely that a stray modern air defense missile hits something it wasn't suppose...
What do you mean? That Zelensky is making demands to start negotiations? I don't see why that would be anything strange. As many as theorized, there's...
Perhaps giving up Kherson, the potential springboard for future offensive operations towards Odessa, was a prerequisite to starting those negotiations...
Yes, yes. The logistical situation and all that - the common military response would be to reduce the amount of troops occupying Kherson to a managabl...
I cannot imagine that Russia would give up Kherson freely, and loudly announce it, since it goes against any principle of two nations being at war. Yo...
Your accusations of partisanship at my address have spanned the entirety of this 400-page long thread, so I'm not sure what you were expecting. If you...
The issue in this thread is indicative of the times we live in. Adhering to the "right" ideology, cheerleading for the "right" side, parroting the "ri...
Dejavu... Do you remember: The Russian lines haven't collapsed, Putin hasn't been overthrown. The Russian economy hasn't collapsed, etc. etc. All the ...
Such a statement is meaningless, because Russia isn't seriously considering the use of nuclear weapons yet. If, after further escalation / mobilizatio...
It's unlikely Kherson has large strategic value to the Russians, since for Russia this war is about securing land access to Crimea, and Kherson is loc...
Russia is escalating this war however much it needs, and will continue to do so up until the point of nuclear war. There's no country in the West that...
No, you don't give up territory for free, and especially not with a loud announcement. You make the enemy bleed for every inch, and you use that illus...
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