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No, it's not. 'Participatory democracy' is the State's leasing of decision making to its subjects. What's the anarchist concept of the State?
August 22, 2019 at 05:38
No, it's not. It necessarily includes people so it can't be a machine.
August 22, 2019 at 05:34
No, I don't mean participatory democracy. I mean democracy. Like the self-rule of the people. So, in this case, the alternative to the concept of the ...
August 22, 2019 at 05:27
An alternative to the State? Democracy.
August 22, 2019 at 05:00
wow.
August 18, 2019 at 15:56
What I got from the above is artificial system = regulated system. Sticking to the question, who sets the prices in a non-artificial or an unregulated...
August 18, 2019 at 14:18
Many would be in medical related debt. Others would seek insufficient or no medical help for their health issues. Hopefully most Americans aren't faci...
August 18, 2019 at 14:04
Are they? Who's Medicare and by whom are they set in a non artificial environment?
August 18, 2019 at 13:46
"?n inevitable side effect of creating an artificial economic environment". Because the price system, or any other economic environment, is carved out...
August 18, 2019 at 13:28
Market forces must also be a physical force. Like, the opposite of gravity, which skyrockets prices. Libertarian folk are so scientific. Beautiful min...
August 18, 2019 at 11:28
Stop the discourse on overpopulation and start the discourse on poverty. Then do something about poverty, like, I don't know, kill the rich. Oh, you s...
August 18, 2019 at 07:14
In: Hong Kong  — view comment
It's not hidden, it sets the tone. The only way it is hidden is by being hidden in plain sight. And it's hidden in plain sight precisely because it's ...
August 16, 2019 at 10:33
Your nose is beautiful.
August 15, 2019 at 17:32
Oh, I'm sorry you're hurt. Don't worry, everything's well be fine.
August 15, 2019 at 17:30
I knew you'd agree.
August 15, 2019 at 17:28
That means that there are. It seems that everyone agrees.
August 15, 2019 at 17:16
In: Hong Kong  — view comment
The more one thinks about the current situation in HK, the more one realizes that there's nothing really new here. Like "Oh, we don't wanna be like yo...
August 15, 2019 at 11:53
They set the rules (according to the laws of the state they fall under) and enforce them. Other actors exert power to the best of their ability. What ...
August 09, 2019 at 20:18
Of course there are, as there are restrictions. Just like everywhere. "Rights apply to governments". Nonsense. Rights apply to whomever states decide ...
August 09, 2019 at 14:55
I don't care what the state bans, what the law says and all that. Written words have no power. And the cops should not care if the judge orders them t...
August 08, 2019 at 12:44
No, you don't.
August 08, 2019 at 10:52
??, no. You must take advantage of your free speech rights and answer 'Fuck you, you dumbfuck'! By the way, on another thread, fellow Americans argued...
August 08, 2019 at 07:41
There's even scholarship on it (e.g. Freedom of Speech: Words are Not Deeds, Harry M. Bracken); legal cases as well (e.g. Cohen v. California)
August 08, 2019 at 05:26
As Marchesk points out, it is irrational to ask for democratic institutions just because every politician in the U.S. uses appeals to democratic insti...
August 07, 2019 at 04:37
You may think you do. I do not think you do.
July 27, 2019 at 08:23
First you seem to complain that he does not have a systematic political proposal based on first principles. Then you say that this problem can be trac...
July 27, 2019 at 08:13