I remember fiatjaf mentioning the idea of single location specific relays as well. It's a long way off but it's neat to think about concert or conference venue relays that you could connect to while there or if you have to miss it, you could still see what's going on. It sent me thinking for a long time about what a marketable idea it would be to connect relay access to ticket sales & have a simple app to download that goes along with it. Then, if you're already using nostr, use what lever app you want but if you're not, you'd have a simple, clean, fun introduction.

I wish I could make a root beer flavored steak 🥹

Agreed. Yet I often hear people throw around the term 'statist', but it doesn't form an argument by itself.

I don't have a problem with individuals voluntarily forming a state. If I respect their voluntary statehood, then that would be enough to make me a 'statist'. I.e. respect for voluntarism becomes statism.

Being practical, I think the idea of complete anarchy is interesting and deserving to be tested, but I can't assume that it will work before the code is run and evaluated, so to speak.

If we have a plethora of small jurisdictions competing for capital, entrepreneurs, skills and workers, that would be a perfectly fine voluntarist solution, even though it qualifies as 'statist'.

bit of a strange outlook but

when i encounter refugees who are facing family separation and are trying to save their children and spouses

i kind of consider them lucky in a weird way

oh, you have a wife

oh, you have children

oh, you have people in your life to care about who care about you

in a weird way, i'd rather have that than the meaningless safety and comfort i have been granted because i'm born in Norway.

I can understand the "latently and reluctantly horny" part. My libido is annoying high at times, with no outlet. LOL

What on earth are you smoking 🤣

If anarchy involves voluntarism, and voluntarism allows free association, it seems to me that free association leads to at least small jurisdictions due to competitive benefits. Minarchism therefore seems as a more likely goal to move toward.

1. Individuals form families

2. Individuals form communities

3. Individuals congregate into towns or cities

The anarchist term 'statist' simply denounces the voluntary congregation of individuals into a jurisdiction.

Personally I believe in small, competing jurisdictions, between the size of a town, upward to the size of a municipality or county.

We can never solve deep divides such as the matter of abortions. The only possible outcome that I see is having competing jurisdictions either allowing or disallowing abortion, while adults vote with their feet.

In terms of practical matters of defense, that's a more complex dimension since it involves future uncertainty, which will differ from geographical regions.

Kids who are spanked tend to have the most behavior problems *because* they are spanked, despite the efforts of abusive parents to see it as the other way around. It raises cortisol levels & reduces IQ, among many other negatives.

It’s prurient to remember that the citizens are always the good guys. That’s is folks! Don’t ever forget that.

I love Jews but the Israeli government is corrupt to the core. They don't give a fuck about anything but advancing their agenda of more power money and control over the middle east and global politics.

Look at the promis software scandal. Ghislane Maxwell's father was deep in Israeli intelligence. They sex traffick children with the best of them.

The good guys are the citizens of both sides. The bad guys are the leaders of both Hamas and the Israeli state.

Sounds like San Francisco 😂😂

Yeah we were speaking on different definitions. Anarcho-capitalism or Agorism imo can work and work better for the individual than the nation state model. But like I said before tech has to improve still for smaller Agorist societies to flourish. It’s happening though! We’re here watching and participating in some big changes.

I agree, though sadly I think war is inevitable.

Fully agree. I am really hoping to see the US federal government fail and dissolve in my lifetime. They add nothing but take a lot. They also hurt a lot of people. I hope to see many large nation states fail in my lifetime not just picking on the US.

Yeah Agorism is how I would choose to define it.

How do you define anarchy in this conversation? It’s a word that’s been co-opted and the meaning distorted. Similarly to socialism and communism, just according to their original definitions.

Rothbard and others refer to themselves as anarchists or anarcho-capitalists and have written extensively about these types of economic philosophies. Opt in, market / economic driven societies. I thought this is what you were referring to. Maybe we’re just not defining the word in question the same to start.

Municipalities should have more power for its people than feds. Feds don't represent anyone properly.