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What hills are you dying on? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There shouldn't be borders.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I'd one up that and say there shouldn't be countries. The concept makes no sense. US propaganda always tries to make China and Russia out to be the "enemy" meanwhile when its Trump doing bad things, the world also says its the US causing problems. All of the sudden, what one or two bad people do somehow means the whole country is at fault. If we took out all the bad people and chucked them out, we could all just be people. No nations, no nothing—just people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago

Nationalism also works the other way. The wins of the privileged are framed as 'WE'RE winning!!'. Big companies exploit you more and profit? It's spun as The Economy is going well. GDP went up. That sounds good for you, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Who sets laws and enforces them? But otherwise totally in favour of returning to monke

[–] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

There are many, many systems of governance out there and plenty of democratic systems are wildly different from the 'liberal democracy' we're familiar with. Cheran in Mexico is an interesting example, five minute documentary.