Message from @Grenade123

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2018-07-14 23:50:37 UTC  

Your solution to an invading force is to keep fleeing

2018-07-14 23:50:47 UTC  

And again, the US is temporary, it is not a constant

2018-07-14 23:50:58 UTC  

Do people not do that?

2018-07-14 23:51:01 UTC  

It will not always be a superpower and it will not always be free

2018-07-14 23:51:05 UTC  

Flee war?

2018-07-14 23:51:20 UTC  

They do, and when everyone does it, what happens?

2018-07-14 23:51:45 UTC  

Tell me, how effective was isis or Al queda?

2018-07-14 23:51:54 UTC  

The 20th century is full of examples of what happens when you refuse or are u able to defend yourself against tyrants

2018-07-14 23:51:54 UTC  

Any of the Syria rebels?

2018-07-14 23:52:12 UTC  

Right because no other major issues were caused by Syria

2018-07-14 23:52:18 UTC  

It's all just localized to the middle east

2018-07-14 23:52:39 UTC  

Why haven't any of those groups kept control?

2018-07-14 23:52:53 UTC  

Because there's a bigger tyrant

2018-07-14 23:53:07 UTC  

And said tyrant is attacking other countries

2018-07-14 23:53:24 UTC  

And has done so under a prior imperial regime

2018-07-14 23:54:07 UTC  

So all European countries and the US are, in fact, tyrants?

2018-07-14 23:54:20 UTC  

Russia is

2018-07-14 23:54:26 UTC  

Russia is backing Assad

2018-07-14 23:54:45 UTC  

Russia is why ISIS has been forced out of Iraq?

2018-07-14 23:54:59 UTC  

Russia is why none of the rebel groups unseated Assad

2018-07-14 23:56:00 UTC  

So in other words, smaller states or groups of people are only allowed to exist if bigger states allow them?

2018-07-14 23:58:33 UTC  

In an area where the larger stare already controls and is familiar with the landscape?

2018-07-14 23:58:47 UTC  

As opposed to your prior example of a foreign invading force?

2018-07-15 00:00:49 UTC  

Methinks the goalposts have shifted somewhat. Further, before the obvious example is used, Assad didn't make Syria out of nothing. It's a long established plot of land

2018-07-15 00:02:07 UTC  

Getting back to my previous point: who stops the warlord and who stops the formation of a state who want to oppose the warlord?

2018-07-15 00:02:44 UTC  

How do you stop the greedy from playing within the rules, bending them slightly, to form power?

2018-07-15 00:02:58 UTC  

How do you stop history from repeating itself?

2018-07-15 00:03:32 UTC  

Stop the tribes from giving way to kingdoms from giving way to empires?

2018-07-15 00:04:30 UTC  

All of human history is basically the story of NAP. You don't hurt me, I don't hurt you. But then someone doesn't play nice.

2018-07-15 00:04:51 UTC  

And someone else uses that to gain power

2018-07-15 00:05:01 UTC  

Most of history had no equalizers

2018-07-15 00:05:12 UTC  

And another someone uses that to gain power in opposition.

2018-07-15 00:05:25 UTC  

The US has multiple instances of the citizenry overcoming components of the state by force

2018-07-15 00:05:39 UTC  

And then a group of people who dislike both sides gang up.

2018-07-15 00:06:04 UTC  

Yes, and we have a document we really behind to do that

2018-07-15 00:06:47 UTC  

You proposing a one world constitution?

2018-07-15 00:07:16 UTC  

And everyone following it when we have factions already not following it?

2018-07-15 02:46:01 UTC  

What? I'm saying if someone attacks you, you defend yourself. There are many historical instances of smaller defensive forces fucking over large powers

2018-07-15 02:47:56 UTC  

And very few of them winning without a larger force to back them.

2018-07-15 02:49:56 UTC  

That's also because we're generally talking about poor countries. Even with the backing they're still significantly outnumbered and outgunned

2018-07-15 07:22:39 UTC  

I've been reading this debate happening, I actually think @Grenade123 is factually and historically correct in his arguments, here. Any stateless society concept, be it Ancapistan or Commugrad, innately depends on the altruism - and participation of it's participants. Communism, in order to take root, historically requires a culling of dissenters and shit-stirrers, often the change-makers that bring about the regime in the first place. It's theoretical success depends on a complaint, productive society. Normally, the party involved in carrying out the culling has no reason to give up power, and even if they did, someone else would take that power away. This is why the promise of a Stateless Communist utopia ends in dictatorship.

In the creation of a stateless Capitalist society, it strikes me that a similar culling would be required to physically remove the dissenters from the equation, presumably by helicopter. From there, as Grenade points out, the power would reside, effectively, in the most powerful property owner. The existence of ANY 'stateless' society depends on nobody setting up a structure, or order of doing things. After all, the AnCap philosophy does not only depend on a commitment to the NAP but to anarchist principles as well. (1/3)