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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 28 Oct \ parent \ on: US Treasury sign falls off podium when Yellen asked if concerned about dollar bitcoin

I dont believe 'the government must control everything' so if that's what you call statist I agree- but that can only ever happen if people allow it. Did I claim governments can be trusted? They are only as good as the people and structures they are composed of. We are all the government, but most people in the west have given up on any meaningful participation in government, perhaps because the fraud of 'democracy' has been captured by corporates and all we get is crony capitalism...but the point is we have allowed it and we are responsible for it. Nobody else. We are all the government but Libertarians choose not to participate giving the crony capitalist western liberal democracies an easy road to do as they please. Only Chinas has a government that knows if it does not perform and deliver for most Chinese it risks removal and overthrow...and the results peak for themselves. Nation states are most powerful groupings of humans and as such they will decide how resources are allocated- sure go off and live on an island but you will not find it easy without the structures that the nation state provide but that you take for granted.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder 28 Oct

i don't have a problem with nation-states i know about the history of state formation, to be clear, i am thinking of statism as

'significant governmental control over economic, social, and individual affairs with the state as a central authority in managing various aspects of society, often at the expense of individual autonomy'

i object to the significant part and i am pro-individual freedoms. i object to things like a social credit score and being punished for being a 'bad citizen' the same way i object to the UK or eu trying to ban diesel cars.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 28 Oct

I am absolutely pro individual freedoms too, but it is up to us to exercise and retain and build on them. Instead we have stood by and allowed corporate bankers to come to own and operate our governments to far great a degree...that is due to our apathy and stupidity...we need to fight back and regain decent government- but sadly its seems unlikely at this late stage of the decline. Most of what I hear on SNs is black and white 'the state is bad' nonsense. The state can only come to over reach and dominate us if we allow it...and we have. Responsibility comes back to us...as we are all the government.