@evan I agree with you on that. I just recognize that a good amount of my friends and community will likely agree with you if there is aggression from the US to Canada, and would likely be interested in doing physical acts of warfare against a fascist state.
The goal of taking US land would, I assume, be to cause regime change in the US to stop future aggression.
"The first criterion of loyalty to the organization becomes complicity. Career advancement is not based on merit, and not even based necessarily on being someone’s cousin; above all, it’s based on a willingness to play along with the fiction that career advancement is based on merit, even though everyone knows this not to be true."
@ntnsndr I want to talk to you over a hangout for 15-30 minutes about governance of scientific nomenclature. Would you be up for that? I think you'd learn some stuff, and I think you could help me too.
@ntnsndr I hear that! The difference is the lack of the original custodians of the land.
I agree that, as another way of demanding attention, it continues to be a tool of colonialization. I just argue that it is another tool itself, not an incursion on native land.
"Governable spaces must calibrate what they expect of people to a condition of metagovernance, of traversing multiple, plural governance environments in a way that is sustainable, tolerable, and comprehensible."
I think this requires higher policy changes between platforms, depending on the space. I think we've seen this sort of result come from cultural movements. CoCs spring to mind.
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