@TruthSandwich @HistoPol @Provinto @NoFlexZone
Seizure of private assets which are being managed against the interests of the “common welfare” as outlined in the Declaration of Independence should count as “regulation”.
What % of Elon Musk’s paper wealth is derived from scamming US and state taxpayers? Is there a threshold at which it becomes acceptable? Or only Russian oligarchs are allowed that kind of grift.
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I can see truth in that, too.
For instance, when #Elmo conducted his own Kremlin-friendly foreign policy and switched of the vital #Starlink services for #Crimea, so #Ukrainian forces were essentially blind?*
I think this act should have at least started a confiscation procedure.
If that process had ended, the US government buying a controlling stake in #SpaceX and #Elmo being ousted from the board? FINE, too.
I do care about the means... @TruthSandwich@sfba.social @Provinto @NoFlexZone
@HistoPol @TruthSandwich @Provinto @NoFlexZone
Capital exists because of the state.
When capital forgets that luxury, and the state fails to remind capital, it’s a fall-down of #FirstPrinciples which bind the Republic.
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You seem to be referring to some Roman text that I am not aware of.
I would still disagree with that statement:
"Capital exists because of the state."
Interpreting "capital" as wealth (accumulation), history has shown repeatedly that one strongman/feudal lord, etc. can hoard a lot of wealth in his dominions without them becoming a state.
This is semantics, though. Billions of people...
@TruthSandwich@sfba.social @Provinto @NoFlexZone
@paninid @TruthSandwich@sfba.social @Provinto @NoFlexZone
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...cannot coexist without order and for this state or a supranational body is essential. (I know anarchists will scream at this, but show me an example in human history where the lack of law and order did not deteriorate into "Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger." (#Thrasymachus of Chalcedon.)
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