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A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes. https://www.patreon.com/ExistentialComics …

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    Existential Comics‏ @existentialcoms Oct 11

    Broke: the Trump government is run by criminals. Woke: the Obama government was also run by criminals. Bespoke: governance itself is a crime.

    12:31 PM - 11 Oct 2018
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      2. Dean BOOth‏ @BoothDean Oct 11
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        A book club is governance.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. ChⒶz‏ @ComradeSagan Oct 11
        Replying to @BoothDean @existentialcoms

        No it isn't

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Dean BOOth‏ @BoothDean Oct 11
        Replying to @ComradeSagan @existentialcoms

        Yes it is

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. ChⒶz‏ @ComradeSagan Oct 11
        Replying to @BoothDean @existentialcoms

        A book club is a monopoly on violence?

        1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
      6. Dean BOOth‏ @BoothDean Oct 11
        Replying to @ComradeSagan @existentialcoms

        If you’re the only one to vote against this month’s book, you are forced to read it or suffer exile.

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      7. Class-conscious gabagool‏ @jtetmeye Oct 11
        Replying to @BoothDean @ComradeSagan @existentialcoms

        Sorry you've had bad experiences with book clubs bro

        0 replies 0 retweets 32 likes
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      2.  ⚰️ThumblestEeEeEeen! 🗡️‏ @thumblesteen Oct 11
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        Counterpoint: Criminals are generally the first to resist tyranny, whether we look at the partisans and resistance fighters in WW2, or the many popular folk heroes like Ned Kelly or Nestor Makhno. And as such maybe the government isn't criminal. It's something worse.

        1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes
      3. August Birthier‏ @Garland41 Oct 11
        Replying to @thumblesteen @existentialcoms

        Counter-counterpoint: who labels the criminals?

        0 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
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      2. Pumpkin Spice Matte‏ @matt_heath Oct 11
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        Sure but <whatever the next level is> the Trump government is run by people who are criminals in important ways over and above the basic criminality of governance

        2 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
      3. Blargle Ragequit‏ @AdinaSayson Oct 11
        Replying to @matt_heath @existentialcoms

        and so was the Obama government. see: killing of innocents and doctors in the middle east, apathy regarding police brutality, etc.

        0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. Spooky Erin  👻 ☭‏ @holycity15 Oct 11
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        General Snoke: Crime is good actually

        1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
      3. DukePaulus‏ @DukePaulus Oct 11
        Replying to @holycity15 @existentialcoms

        BE GAY DO CRIMES

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Interbank Lending Market‏ @NegDiscountRt Oct 11
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        If governance itself is a crime, I invite you to ungoverned shitholes in Africa with no central authority. There you will find many crimes but not the crime of “governance”.

        3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. curly fry jetson‏ @peter__stern Oct 11
        Replying to @NegDiscountRt @existentialcoms

        You’re describing colonialism.

        0 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
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      1. Bobby Lutece  🌹‏ @Bobby_Lutece Oct 11
        Replying to @existentialcoms @RoseAJacob

        Helping Liberals realize there has NEVER been a good U.S. Presidency is a big first step.

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      1. ForkingPhilosophy‏ @ForknPhilosophy Oct 11
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        All governmental power is nothing more than violence or the threat of violence.

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      2. ShawnNorth‏ @shawnpuwo Oct 11
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        Homo Sapiens can form direct social connections with about 150 people max. Under that size, an organization doesn't need a hierarchy, or even a leader, to function. Past that size, social order in the organization breaks down, and some system of governance is needed.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. ShawnNorth‏ @shawnpuwo Oct 11
        Replying to @shawnpuwo @existentialcoms

        Otherwise we wouldn't be able to effectively cooperate on the massive scales that set us apart from the other species on the planet.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4.  🏴Crustateon Insurrection 🏴‏ @AmericanAnarch4 Oct 11
        Replying to @shawnpuwo @existentialcoms

        "I don't actually have anything to back this up, and I'm probably conflating organization with governance, but y'all should totes believe me anyways"

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. ShawnNorth‏ @shawnpuwo Oct 11
        Replying to @AmericanAnarch4 @existentialcoms

        In the time it took you to make a useless comment, you could have literally looked this up for yourself. This isn't a particularly obscure factoid. (Well, maybe for a history major. 🙄) The concept is known as Dunbar's number. Read Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6.  🏴Crustateon Insurrection 🏴‏ @AmericanAnarch4 Oct 11
        Replying to @shawnpuwo @existentialcoms

        From the little bit I've found about Dunbar's Number it only accounts for interpersonal relationships, not the structure of society itself. A society can still have enforceable rules without hierarchy

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. ShawnNorth‏ @shawnpuwo Oct 12
        Replying to @AmericanAnarch4 @existentialcoms

        Keep reading. This has been seen in anthropology in village and tribe sizes, in business management and statistics, in military unit sizes, psychology, tech with social networking etc. Under that number, groups tend to not require any formal laws or ranks to maintain social order

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. ShawnNorth‏ @shawnpuwo Oct 12
        Replying to @shawnpuwo @AmericanAnarch4 @existentialcoms

        Above that level, they need some sort of organizational system to maintain social cohesion. Whether that is a religion, a national state myth, a system of governance, a system of laws, etc. And that almost invariably results in a form of hierarchy.

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      9. Stanislav Birko‏ @StanislavBirko Oct 12
        Replying to @shawnpuwo @AmericanAnarch4 @existentialcoms

        excerpt from https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/ …pic.twitter.com/tZoK5Hj44P

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