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• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Uphold the values of the Constitution, otherwise fuck off” doesn’t sound like a zero-government stance to me. If anything, it’s pretty clearly conditional.

  At least, as clear as a Lemmy comment can get

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  • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a period. It reads “in all other matters, government fuck off”.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except they didn’t say “I’m an anarchist.”

      They said

      I’m a digital ~anarchist.

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      • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And even then anarchism is a form of government. Not anti-governance. Though in Western Nations we aren’t taught politics, philosophy, etc. We are only taught propaganda.

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• troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re getting downvoted because Lemmy. But you’re absolutely right. Laissez-faire doesn’t work.

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  • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you think laissez-faire is a just hierarchy I have some carbon offsets to sell you.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing laissez-faire about regulatory capture…

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anarchism, The actual anarchism. Has nothing to do with laissez-faire. Anarcho-capitalists are oxymorons. Always figuratively, and often even literally. They’re capitalist, not anarchists. They just believe that their capital should give them them power over you. But not vice versa.

    Anarchists and actual libertarians are not against governance. They just think it should be as flat and local as possible. That it shouldn’t be large hierarchical monolithic structures that people have a hard time understanding or lobbying. Structures that also have a hard time understanding individuals and serving them.

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• auzas_1337@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure if OP meant “zero-government” because that’s not what anarchism as a political theory and movement is about.

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• HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why I don't like the Fediverse as much. Can you believe that loon got so many upvotes? Describes the average mentality around these parts, what a turn off.

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• HarkMahlberg@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And fuck the rest of the world?

  Where do you think every website in the entire world is hosted? It's America, obviously. We're the only country with a Constitution after all!

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• Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I kinda don’t even think these conversations should happen until internet access is seen as a guaranteed right- through govt regulation or whatever. Otherwise, I feel like these takes are putting the cart before the horse - so to speak.

  PS - I know I am replying to you but i my comments are geared towards OP

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