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0 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 Apr \ parent \ on: The WSJ (kinda) covers the Mar-a-Lago Accords plus Miran's Incredible Speech econ
The rules being enforced through violence is how it’s extortion.
Where is that happening?
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That’s literally the definition of the state. All of their rules are enforced by violence.
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The state is a monopoly on violence, that doesn't make it inherently coercive. The classical "outlaw" simply means no protection by the state.
Now not being retarded for a moment and accepting that the state is and everyone inherently lives under a state in a globally anarchic system, how is the US state extorting other states wrt trade?
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They’re threatening to infringe on the voluntarily made trade agreements between people from the foreign nation and their American counterparts, unless those nations alter their domestic policies in a manner that benefits the US government.
Now, I’ll readily grant that when those policies are themselves property infringements, this becomes much murkier.
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As an American corporate you're consenting to the American Security Apparatus "Terms of Service", if you don't like the terms of service you can take your business elsewhere.
Completely voluntary.
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For a person (and please don't take this the wrong way) who is obviously involved in Bitcoin, which was designed to exist outside the whims... influence and corruption of any nation state... you sure simp for the united states pretty hard
just saying
I don’t grant that the state ever had the moral standing to create those terms of service.