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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020

      eigenrobot Retweeted Alec MacGillis

      if they can make a truancy charge stick because your seven year old is not showing up to zoom calls i think they can do just about anything the woke shit is tiresome but /this/ is legitimately terrifying to mehttps://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1295056026048356352?s=19 …

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      Alec MacGillisVerified account @AlecMacGillis
      Where we are at with remote learning: well-off families planning pods, low-income families having child-neglect cases opened against them for kids' failure to log on for virtual classes. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/15/metro/your-childs-no-show-virtual-school-you-may-get-call-states-foster-care-agency/ … pic.twitter.com/lbHTEZflmm
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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020

      maybe thinking that a state thats not built around families must be fundamentally opposed to them stronger ties than law can dictate, unregulated, highly variegated v inconvenient a smart state would facilitate families as a source of strength most states are not smart

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020

      idea: suppose states tend to be totalizing by nature then you might expect their chiefest enemies to be religion, families, and firms or guilds: the greatest historical bastions of nonpolitical power

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020

      of these families are the strongest but outside of tribal areas that strength is only local firms and guilds have great flexibility and economic power, and are in a sense indispensable to the state in the end religions are a grave, grave danger when opposed to a state

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020

      generally in the US all of these have been hollowed out religions are broadly fractured and mostly domesticated, their broader functions usurped by state welfare firms are incredibly tightly regulated and exist only by the forebearence of the state complete with commissars

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020

      families have been hollowed out and at most socioeconomic levels mostly shattered as independent entities public school has replaced most vertical transmission of knowledge and norms

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020

      especially looking at religion and families, seems like maybe once the secondary roles of a social institution are replaced by a state alternative, that institution is done for

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020

      Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe

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    9. Latte‏ @Ichbins8 19 Aug 2020
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      Can‘t help but think this is all incredibly US-specific...

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    10. Latte‏ @Ichbins8 19 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Ichbins8 @eigenrobot

      Or, better formulated, very delusional in a very US way🤷‍♂️ „religion, families, and firms or guilds: the greatest historical bastions of nonpolitical power“ Does the word „nonpolitical“ in that sentence really make sense to you?😶

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 19 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Ichbins8

      someone else had another delineation I think it's consistent but it's complicated

      8:05 PM - 19 Aug 2020
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        2. Latte‏ @Ichbins8 20 Aug 2020
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          I'm Euopean, so maybe that just annoys me to much. There is a strong current in English language thought on politics to declare large areas of the state simply it's own thing, and thereby beyond politics, instead thinking about how the whole state should act, and I don't get it🤷‍♂️

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        3. Latte‏ @Ichbins8 20 Aug 2020
          Replying to @Ichbins8 @eigenrobot

          "Firms" are hardly traditional institutions, but at best creations of modern states for certain functions.

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