"If you do talk about [Rojava’s] politics, misrepresent them as a Kurdish nationalist movement fighting to establish a Kurdish state. Because of course a neoliberal “democratic” state is what any freedom loving people would want. Ignore the fact that while mostly Kurds, there’s a variety of ethnicities, religions, and languages in Rojava. Absolutely do not mention words like “democratic confederalism,” “direct democracy,” “anticapitalist,” “feminism,” “social ecology,” or “libertarian socialism”. Remember, according to Fukuyama we’ve reached the “end of history.” And according to Thatcher, “there is no alternative.” That depends on you not talking about the alternative."
Phineas Phisher, to Ars Technica for an article about their hack
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS FRICKING SNARK THOUGH
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This is your daily reminder that there is a Problematic oligopoly in governance and attempts to supply alternative products to the Marketplace Of Ideas That Actually Get Implemented Somewhere should be protected at, not all because that would be dangerous, but significantly more costs than they are currently protected at.
Furthermore, this should be an agreeable meta-level policy regardless of what one thinks of any particular implementation; how else are we supposed to figure out which exotic form of more-consensual-than-currently governance would actually work the best? A world with both both seasteaders and Rojava getting to try out their systems without authoritarians fucking with either should be preferable to all varieties of freedom-appreciating people over a world without such experiments. There is a natural coalition waiting to be built is what I’m saying.
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