This is an interesting blog: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/assassination-war-and-the-death-of

About a year ago, I wrote on here a small review of Assassination Politics. My reaction was that it would probably not be workable because:
1. OPSEC is hard, and
2. People have values, most people consider it gross engage a platform where the only value is money.

But there's a huge caveat to this: The Taliban was highly successful in running an "underground government" where its will was enforced entirely by underground actions see: https://x.com/FromKulak/status/1704588133944246576 for what is perhaps the single most similar real life construct to what Jim Bell had envisioned.

And this raises an interesting point about the prospect of Anonymous Digital States.

Modern states are all in some stage of failure.

Post-covid, there is no longer a functioning social contract, that is, nobody knows if or when they'll be stripped of their assets, regulated out of existence, or brought up on trumped up charges related to some kind of intra-oligarchy drama.

In civil courts, there is no longer a clear distinction between things that might get you sued out of existence, and things that certainly will not.

There's also no clarity about the scope of damages that a person may be forced to pay, the Alex Jones case has established a precedent that IF a claimant can win, what they can take from you is essentially only bounded by how they can make a jury FEEL.

The institution of "elections" has also become increasingly farcical, with all of the real choices typically shut out long before the election begins. And if by some miracle a real candidate makes it to the general, occupation governments have shown no qualms at all with resorting to explicit election fraud to make sure their lackeys never lose.

Much of the reason people begrudgingly back Donald Trump is because it's clear that a kinder, more statesmanlike candidate would never even make it to the general. Only an oligarch can fight an oligarchy (if he wants to, but that's the bet people have to take).

The West, as it's called, manages to somehow oppress practically everyone on earth, including citizens of western countries, so there exists a large body of effectively denaturalized people, who exist as denizens within the countries which claim to represent them.

It could be said that we are ALL living in softer versions of The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, they are ALL occupation governments.

The difference is, we don't have a Taliban.

So I think there is significant demand for what might be called a Decentralized Autonomous State. Calling a DAS a "glorified assassination market" would be like calling the US Constitution a "glorified predator drone". The drone, or the AM might be the way that the USGOV, or the DAS, projects power - but that's just the tip of the spear. 99.999% of the challenge is in building out literally everything else.

* We need legislators that don't endlessly vomit thousands of pages of new "law" each day.
* We need courts where everybody actually knows they'll be treated fairly.
* We need a voting system which doesn't devolve into highschool popularity contests.
* We need a tax regime which is able to keep the system operating, is fair, and is low enough that it remains more worthwhile to be a member than to not be.

If these problems can be solved then we may have a real shot at being able to live under the government of our choosing.