Message from @An Craoibhín Aoibhinn

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2017-06-23 23:29:45 UTC  

and too "diverse"

2017-06-23 23:30:11 UTC  

Coastal Elite rule the middle states with no politcal influence

2017-06-23 23:30:45 UTC  

Imo a decentralized modified confederacy would work fine without splitting anything

2017-06-23 23:31:05 UTC  

@D.iogenes " Coastal Elite rule the middle states with no politcal influence". That is geopolitics.

2017-06-23 23:31:13 UTC  

Wow you're so smart

2017-06-23 23:31:19 UTC  

the regions with people who dont care about freedom would only be able to fuck themselves up locally, and so everyone else would be unaffected

2017-06-23 23:31:22 UTC  

No one knew what geopolitics was before you said that

2017-06-23 23:31:26 UTC  

kek

2017-06-23 23:31:43 UTC  

I like the idea of a confederacy

2017-06-23 23:31:57 UTC  

I'm only for federalism within a totally homogeneous nation

2017-06-23 23:31:58 UTC  

Like Ireland

2017-06-23 23:32:01 UTC  

We have strayed from the Founders' vision for America

2017-06-23 23:32:07 UTC  

It's small, and has very clear boundaries historically

2017-06-23 23:32:17 UTC  

a confederacy would be more true to the founders than what we have now

2017-06-23 23:32:20 UTC  

I like Jeffersonian Agrarianism, pity the Federalists won

2017-06-23 23:32:26 UTC  

I'm still learning NRx. From what I understand, it's anti-democracy yet 100% freedom of association. Libertarianism is not 100% anti-democracy... Govm should be run as businesses, not as a corrupt political establishment.

2017-06-23 23:32:31 UTC  

Being an island makes things easy

2017-06-23 23:32:40 UTC  

tru

2017-06-23 23:32:44 UTC  

Agrarianism doesn't work in a post-industrial society

2017-06-23 23:32:56 UTC  

sadly

2017-06-23 23:32:57 UTC  

Wrong

2017-06-23 23:33:02 UTC  

Ireland is agrarian

2017-06-23 23:33:12 UTC  

Ireland is a strange beast though

2017-06-23 23:33:13 UTC  

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." -- John Donne

2017-06-23 23:33:17 UTC  

@An Craoibhín Aoibhinn Geopolitics doesn't care what label you give the economy. Geopolitics change very little over a long time.

2017-06-23 23:33:36 UTC  

Ireland has low population density, barely any foreigners

2017-06-23 23:33:41 UTC  

If it can be done here other countries can do it

2017-06-23 23:33:50 UTC  

America would not be able to become agrarian unless there was some kind of widespread catastrophe

2017-06-23 23:33:55 UTC  

america is another beast entirely

2017-06-23 23:33:57 UTC  

Lower population doesn't matter unless you have foreigners coming in

2017-06-23 23:34:11 UTC  

Because you've subsidised animal like breeding in cities

2017-06-23 23:34:21 UTC  

Cut the money and it will naturally return

2017-06-23 23:34:22 UTC  

Ireland has it pretty well b/c they have very low corporate taxes which means a ton of American companies use it as a corporate safe haven

2017-06-23 23:34:36 UTC  

That's a meme, they don't pay any taxes

2017-06-23 23:34:44 UTC  

The taxes they do pay are bribes

2017-06-23 23:34:52 UTC  

potatoes AMIRIGHT

2017-06-23 23:34:53 UTC  

^ Especially pharmaceutical companies

2017-06-23 23:34:56 UTC  

Apple owes us 14 billion

2017-06-23 23:35:45 UTC  

Apple owes China a couple thousand dead people

2017-06-23 23:35:49 UTC  

or 5000 USD

2017-06-23 23:37:00 UTC  

china is going to be a huge problem for the west in the long run, they'll be able to outproduce everything else due to lower safety/ethical regulations