My plan to create a perfectly flat and level Kansas by moving 5,501 cubic miles of earth from west to east. It’s the ideal Kansas. Still some details to work out about rivers, roads, etc. Watch out for the 900-foot cliff bisecting Kansas City.
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Also, regarding the phrase “undocumented immigrants,”
Since the deliberate implication is that there is no issue, these people are merely missing some paperwork, like an accident where an ID was not delivered through the mail,
This is very much a “nations are only lines on a map” style of thinking.
So let’s give a “nations are only lines on a map” style of answer.
If national citizenship is so meaningless that not having it is merely equivalent to not having a few papers, that it’s irrelevant what historical experience one has, or education, or national loyalty, because nations are social constructs and don’t really exist, right?
Then one agrees that the “United States of America” cannot hold any moral liability, on account of being a few lines on a map, or a few pieces of paper.
So every war, every coup, every conquest, every civil rights violation, and so on, the “United States of America” is not responsible for and owes, in itself, absolutely nothing.
If you do think the United States of America as a geopolitical entity is more than just a few lines on a map or a few pieces of paper, then the term you can use if you feel “illegal immigrant” is too dehumanizing, because “no person is illegal” (even though by that same logic there can be no such word as “trespasser”),
is “unauthorized migrants”.
Apparently that’s the “in” neutral word now.
I find it remarkable just how quickly the Democratic Party re-learned that a distinction exists when Trump got into motion.
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because nations are social constructs and don’t really exist, right?
Wrong. Social constructs exist. Genders exist, the patriarchy exists, capitalism exists, nations exist. It’s just that, with social constructs whatever they are, you can’t use them in naturalistic arguments when the argument itself isn’t subject to dismissal by the naturalistic fallacy.
It’s not that nations don’t exist, it’s that they shouldn’t exist in the way they do in this world, and that international solidarity should trump nationalistic allegiances. Borders tear us apart, it’s not that we aren’t torn apart.
Maybe the best dialectical reality towards reconciling nationalism and internationalism currently in the world is the EU, whereby in many ways the differences between a Frenchman and a German really is a bunch of paperwork. Of course with that there’s a rise in a appropriated European nationalism following the migrant crisis, so obviously from a leftist standpoint it’s not ideal.
But you’ve misunderstood the core argument and because of that the foundations of your arguments are gone from under you.
It’s still binding even if the argument is “nations shouldn’t exist”.
And by the way? World government is what shouldn’t exist. Nations are the real alternative to that, and it takes more than being a difference in paperwork to fuel it enough for that. Things like communes aren’t a real alternative.
mitigatedchaos
And by the way? World government is what shouldn’t exist. Nations are the real alternative to that, and it takes more than being a difference in paperwork to fuel it enough for that. Things like communes aren’t a real alternative.
I don’t know if you saw my opinions on what to do about border disputes. But I also said I wanted that principle used to create a number of interlocking EU-like-but-less-bad-monetary-policy superstates. No world government, no real need for nationalism.
I don’t think that has the necessary power level to prevent world government.
There are two outcomes if you let a situation like the EU go on for too long. Either Europe will itself become a nation, as cultural borders dissolve under the force of internal migration, and power will centralize; or, they’ll forget who they are and, lacking the will to resist, there will slowly be the formation of a world government under people who ask why there should be such antiquated things as borders around the EUs.
Right now, Europe seems to be shearing itself apart over the friction of not being a true Federation.
Also, regarding the phrase “undocumented immigrants,”
Since the deliberate implication is that there is no issue, these people are merely missing some paperwork, like an accident where an ID was not delivered through the mail,
This is very much a “nations are only lines on a map” style of thinking.
So let’s give a “nations are only lines on a map” style of answer.
If national citizenship is so meaningless that not having it is merely equivalent to not having a few papers, that it’s irrelevant what historical experience one has, or education, or national loyalty, because nations are social constructs and don’t really exist, right?
Then one agrees that the “United States of America” cannot hold any moral liability, on account of being a few lines on a map, or a few pieces of paper.
So every war, every coup, every conquest, every civil rights violation, and so on, the “United States of America” is not responsible for and owes, in itself, absolutely nothing.
If you do think the United States of America as a geopolitical entity is more than just a few lines on a map or a few pieces of paper, then the term you can use if you feel “illegal immigrant” is too dehumanizing, because “no person is illegal” (even though by that same logic there can be no such word as “trespasser”),
is “unauthorized migrants”.
Apparently that’s the “in” neutral word now.
I find it remarkable just how quickly the Democratic Party re-learned that a distinction exists when Trump got into motion.
Seriously though, the amount of inherent ways I capitalism is garbage.
So, when bananas are regulated to the point where bananas are discarded for failing to meet arbitrary requirements, you blame capitalism. Brilliant.
I doubt it’s regulation. Probably people just don’t want to buy misshapen bananas when there are prettier ones right next to them.
I’d like to see OP’s proposed solution here. Tell grown adults, “You’re going to eat this ugly banana whether you like it or not!” and send government thugs to beat them up if they disobey?
I mean a simple solution is have companies buy them for a reduced price, have them sell for a reduced price Then people who are poorer can eat more fruits and veggies and others who dont care how they look can get a deal 👍👍 and companies can make some profit too
That’s exactly what you’d expect to happen. For some reason, it didn’t. I was speculating that there might be some weird psychological effect making it impossible to sell ugly bananas in the same room as pretty bananas for a profitable price.
But fortunately, @americansylveon came back with a source. Apparently EU regulations require that bananas be “free of malformation or abnormal curvature”, but then specifies that class 1 or class 2 bananas are allowed to have “slight defects of shape”, or “defects of shape”. Presumably that’s interpreted as a relaxation of the minimum standards? IDK how much of a defect is allowed.
Then they go so far as to regulate the number of bananas in a bunch. To which I can only say, “I hate the fuck government.”
@oktavia-von-gwwcendorff this is your sort of thing I think.
Keep in mind that in this case the cost of transportation may not make it economical to even ship the malformed bananas if flooding the supermarket results in a really high price reduction.
What I’m perplexed about is why no one builds a processing plant close to the growers and uses it to process the excess bananas into various banana products that don’t care about presentation. Banana flavoring, banana puree, etc. As I understand it this is what happens to second-grade fruit in most industries. Why not here?
Wasn’t there a post about how processed goods are taxed differently than raw goods, keeping e.g. Africa out of certain markets?
Speaking of governments and Africa and development, this presents an opportunity for a government or NGO to buy the misshappen bananas and distribute them to poor people in other countries who won’t give a damn about the shape, bringing money into the source nation’s economy. EA might want to look at this.
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“ land-of-maps:
“The Greater Latin Empire; if the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Roman empires to the maximum extents, as well as the Latin language-speaking peoples were all united into country/empire today. [1350 x 625]...](https://78.media.tumblr.com/de25ff17b994022261987b2eec5c2e4e/tumblr_otf5nxDjoW1va88f5o1_1280.png)
The Greater Latin Empire; if the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Roman empires to the maximum extents, as well as the Latin language-speaking peoples were all united into country/empire today. [1350 x 625] [Fixed]
Forget anglosphere, we need to go bigger
> conquering one third of the Earth
> giving it to the filthy Spaniards
There is only one Empire that has the right to rule the world…
Anonymous asked:
Want some extra fun? Christian here who subscribes both to annihilationism (IE, the "hell = nonexistence" doctrine you're describing) *and* quantum immortality; I call this combination quantum universalism.
While many futurists anticipated broad advances across the technological economy, in fields ranging from computing to materials science, few foresaw the radical advancements in theology that advanced quantum theory would bring.
- The Quantum Fields of God, Ned Halibut, Kansas Revival Timeline, 2308 (retrieved from Church of Mars archives 2609 with permission of Father Gregory)
Anonymous asked:
Want some extra fun? Christian here who subscribes both to annihilationism (IE, the "hell = nonexistence" doctrine you're describing) *and* quantum immortality; I call this combination quantum universalism.
mitigatedchaos answered:
While many futurists anticipated broad advances across the technological economy, in fields ranging from computing to materials science, few foresaw the radical advancements in theology that advanced quantum theory would bring.
- The Quantum Fields of God, Ned Halibut, Kansas Revival Timeline, 2308 (retrieved from Church of Mars archives 2609 with permission of Father Gregory)
Anyhow, that was an alternate timeline futurist shtpost, but more seriously that is more towards the kind of weirdness I would expect from Ultimate Perfect Good, as compared to some other theories.
Your fave is problematic: Mitigated Chaos
- Arrested on July 4, 2109 and May 2, 2112 at WW3 Reenactment protest rallies for Anti-Diverse Behavior
- Known ties to American National Separationist Front, Free New England, Chinese-backed New Hampshire Peoples’ Liberation Army, pro-Kansas terrorists
- K-band neurotype known for oppressive tendencies, support for imperialism, lacks tolerance stabilizer
- Refuses to acknowledge own Cyborg Privilege
- Supports reformation of the oppressive and bigoted North American Union, termination of the Human Dignity Act, reinstatement of the National Technocratic Pan-Asian Development Cooperative
- Diagnosed untreated Neurocognitive Threat Disorder
- Type-19 paramilitary cyborg body commercial spin-off of Boston Dynamics M455 combat body developed for the US Marines, purchase supported pre-unification NAU military-industrial complex
- Skintone appropriates greyskin culture, but has no greyskin ancestry
- Contrary to claims, has no genetic relation to snakes
Oh man where to even start
What the hell is with the Scottish/English border changing and Wales fucking disappearing?
The rest of the map is trying to pull a ‘cultures get their own land’ thing, but Cornwall is still part of England, Wales apparently doesn’t get shit and Scotland is encroached upon again.
What the fuck lol
Its not a “cultures get their own land” thing the borders are supposed to be mostly arbitrary with some inaccurate names (“Republic of London” doesnt appear to include London, for one) and its referencing how in many parts of the world national borders are determined by what the European colonial borders were when they left
But borders are bad, all cultures are equal, and diversity is important & valuable ???
Why isn’t it good for the Iraqis and Turks to embrace Diverse cultures ???
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