This discussion gets tripped up on a scaling problem. Why is the national sovereign given magical powers? ...
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... Every level of sovereignty is in reality challenged from 'above' and 'below' -- there's no Messianic King. ...
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... "All constitutions of sovereignty below the level of the national sovereign should unilaterally disarm themselves." ...
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This is the very goal of leadership. Disarm and unify those below you. The point is to keep it as a goal.
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Replying to @mr_scientism
"Disarm and unify those below you." -- How is that not the Democratic Party platform?
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Replying to @Outsideness
Identity politics is pretty obviously arm and dis-unify, as is democracy.
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Replying to @mr_scientism
"Screw the Second Amendment and bless the Union" -- the remaining attribution is hazy reactionary metaphor.
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Ah, I didn't realise you were using "disarm" so literally and narrowly to begin with. I was talking about power centres.
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Is there a difference in principle that I'm missing? It looks like a smooth continuum to me.
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Gun ownership itself doesn't present a problem; notion of gun-ownership for resistance does, but anachronistic.
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Widespread gun-ownership inhibits Fnargl. The cold, analytical question is which way that's going to run. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @mr_scientism
... Private fire-arms are either: a) An obsolete fetish of dead civil society, or b) Precursors to distributed deterrence
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