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    For now, yeah. I mean there is no such place as a safe or “good” nation. Every one of them will hold you at gunpoint demanding money so they can build a library.

    But actively and swiftly the US is going full nazi. If one leaves I don’t blame them.

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      For now, yeah. I mean there is no such place as a safe or “good” nation. Every one of them will hold you at gunpoint demanding money so they can build a library.

      I’m not sure where the “gunpoint” part came from, but do you…not like libraries?

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        hahahah I love libraries. It’s a “reductio ad absurdum” that shows how a lack of tax payment will, eventually, result in a state destroying your everything, and when cops show up, it’s always at gunpoint. (at least in the US)

        Before you get to thinking I’m a libertarian, recall I mentioned all nation states are bad.

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          recall I mentioned all nation states are bad.

          I’m not sure what you’re advocating for instead of nations. Roving bands of nomads?

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                Local community members through fair, equitable, democratic, and at-will membership in the community. Co-ops are not a new idea.

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                  Co-ops are not a new idea.

                  Co-ops denote shared ownership usually via a buy-in. Wouldn’t this replicate the existing Private Library concept?

                  So no public libraries in your model or are you saying that a small portion of people would voluntarily pay for the library, but the entirety of the public would be able to use it?

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                    The latter, yes. This happens here and there. Heck those “free little libraries” in front lawns count and are good for more than keeping drug drops dry.

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                That is correct. Why do folks here seem to want doctoral level dissertations in the replies.

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                  People aren’t friendly to anti tax rhetoric when it’s been used to undermine our current democracy.

                  Is our current system good? No. But it’s getting overly theoretical to go off on taxes in this context.

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      | I mean there is no such place as a safe or “good” nation.

      you must not know many countries then or your definition of a good country must be weird.

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        name me one without a history of war, slavery, genocide, or colonialism. bonus points if its entire history has allowed gay people to exist.

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          so if a country has ever been bad in its history, it’s automatically also bad now? so, as i suspected your definition of a good country is weird.