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[–] Carpools 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If we compromise, they win. What definitely can't do is more of what they want us to do, which is abandon our American, libertarian, decentralized, principles.

I know statists bring up "power vacuum" often, but there are places that don't have forensic cameras every 10' and document every step of every individual, and there are places that do. There are states with a huge amount of representatives with little influence, and they're the freest in the nation.

If we were a confederacy, and had a legitimate government by the consent of the governed, and each state met each year to decide whether or not they'd remain in the confederacy or not, "our" federal government wouldn't be available to be used to destroy and enslave the world.

[–] InClownWorldSellPnut 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I'm more of a pessimist. My problem isn't with American ideals, it's with those who don't hold them. Big stick, super power tactics will only work for so long, nuclear weapons made real war impossible/MAD so you can't just invade nation that fucks with you.

It's not that I don't want an ancap utopia, it's that increasingly I think it can't exist and if it could exist it's got to be born out of some horrifically totalitarian and militaristic super empire. Which is like giving yourself aids in the hope that it cures your cancer.

It worked out for what ~100 years give or take but the entire thing was a slow march back to centralization and outside forces almost crushed the American experiment so many times, relative isolation was the only thing keeping us from being dragged into European problems and ever since we started fucking around over there we have been hopelessly entangled with the rest of the world's shit.