... Maximum diversity of population mixes (and non-mixes) provides the best test. ...
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... You're not scared of a test, are you?
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Replying to @Outsideness
problem is that a hard limit on the kind of competition you're willing to tolerate is constitutive of every possible mix and non-mix, -and outside of that limit it's a question of power, making the thwarting of separatism the quintessential move in the test
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Replying to @adornofthagn
In every case full-spectrum competition up to deterrence-based geopolitics, surely?
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Replying to @Outsideness
ideological commitment and deterrence are the only things that make any competition tolerated as competition, quite the limit on how full the spectrum can be
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Replying to @adornofthagn
When you stop "tolerating X as competition" then what?
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn
depends on if it stops being tolerated, stops being competition, or both—grudging respect could become ressentiment or contempt, depending, or something else entirely
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Replying to @l_th_ia @adornofthagn
Units of effective sovereignty don't need to like each other, at all, or -- in any respect other than military threat estimation -- even respect each other.
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn
Agree—very much thinking of "military threat estimation" when I say "grudging respect" I mean when the threat estimation changes, such that a former sovereign unit is seen as either invincible in open conflict (=> ressentiment) or entirely pathetic (=> contempt)
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seems Schwund is saying that effectively heading off separatism is prerequisite to being/becoming a sovereign unit, and I am inclined to agree
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Okay, but auto-partition only looks weak to those locked into a shitty business model. Lean-and-mean is the way to go.
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn
if thine eye offend you, pluck it out
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