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No country or government has a "right" to exist. They're given that ability to exist by the people they're supposed to serve. If the system is not serving the people, it shouldn't exist.

A world without borders sounds like a dream 😍

Big difference between nowhere and no state.

You're beginning to get the point of anarchism.

It's the state that has no right to exist, not the people or the place.

Now what is a state?

Look it up, but it's basically a formalized group of people who believe themselves entitled to power and claim they can use violence to get their way and you are not allowed to defend yourself against it.

The state is a cultural pandemic, this is the real mind virus, our species existed for like 200,000 years in complex societies without the state, 500 years with ubiquitous state (look up enclosure acts that forced everyone into a state) is all it's taken to destroy the entire planet.

Now you're getting it

They have the "right" to exist but no mandate to exist. They're allowed to exist and just as allowed to collapse and dissolve

How is that a problem?

That's just not true. You just never learned what a nation is. Before there were nation-states, there were city-states. City-states were states that were confined to a city, geographically. So what is a nation then? It's not, as people think, an arbitrary border, a nation is a people with a shared history. French is a nation-state, a state that emerges from the nation of the French people, people who have a long history of being born in the same location, sharing the same language, and sharing many many cultural aspects.

America is not a nation, but it is a state. There are no American people. The land was inhabited by 100s of nations that did not organize themselves into states. That land was given the name of an Italian (Amerigo), and then a bunch of people of different nationalities invaded and occupied it. Same with all of the "Latin American" states, Australia, Canada, and the rest of the colonial world. There is no Australian nation, there is an Australian state populated by people of many different nations (the English nation, the Italian nation, the German nation, etc).

As far as I know, there are no nationless-states that aren't violent genocidal colonial projects. All of these states are illegitimate, based only on dominance with absolutely no other foundation.

All states should ultimately be dismantled, but the colonial states will need to go first, because otherwise the colonial states, history's most violent states, will be empowered by the dismantling of other states. There is an order to these things.

Everywhere on the planet has the right to exist, with the possible exception of Fresno, ca. And anywhere named after the political entity it exists in(new York city since the name change, California city, etc)

The regimes terrorizing the people into obedience, however; largely do not.

Emu supremacy

Due to the mineral wealth we don’t need to wonder much.

Australia… or whatever it would have been named, would have been a patchwork of dictatorships like we see in resource rich parts of Africa.

It’s actually really unusual that Australia didn’t end up that way.

I recently got banned from !Playstation@Lemmy.zip because I called out the moderator for crying about black people in God of War. The reason given? Racism, apparently, for telling the mod to stop being racist.

They deleted their account and locked the community, lol

Edit: to add on, a hexbear user saw that I got banned for "racism" after calling out the racist mod, and they also got banned, lmao. It's really funny, the mod edited their post and pretended they were a victim for "being called a bigot for standing against DEI in video games."

Such reactionary bullshit.

This logic is what got me, for a brief period in my teens, to identify as an antisemite, because I genuinely thought that was just the word for people who think genocide is fucked and 'never again' sounds like a pretty good guideline.

And I'm terrified how many other kids bought into the Zionist propaganda since, and how many of them are going to be less willing to admit they made an oopsie than my dumb ass was. I'm terrified how many people are going to be hurt by second order Zionist violence, all over the world. I think when they start attacking language, a nuclear response is warranted.

Counterpoint:

'cept most sane borders are based upon geography

Dig up their bones and send them to the British Museum

Sure, we didn't invade these countries but we maintain the colonial power structures and continue to benefit from colonisation as indigenous people continue to be dispossessed. It's easy and convenient to point your finger at the past and say thats where all the responsibility lies

Stealing is not okay as soon as you give the stolen item to your kid. It should still be returned.

The US pays Israel to cause suffering

China says hi.

Remember when Apple.moved to India and tried to use the same conditions as their Non-Slave Chinese factories?

Remember when the Indian workers rioted over that?

Edit: fucking Google. Doesn't correct Infia to India, but automatically changes rioted to rooted.

Israel is certainly causing tremendous harm, but what you are saying is just blatant antisemitism. And you are obviously not up to date what happens in the world being so obsessed with demonizing Israel. Try to get a grip on reality again please.

Just because it isn't obviously genocidal(anymore) doesnt mean the US hasnt done incredible harm to the entire world. What israel is doing right now if horrific yes but the US is responsible for even greater suffering. Neither should exist

Money and nations are as real as ghosts and gods

And pity that was displaced, it was founded by Nazi collaborators, not Holocaust victims!