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Is this on a public repo yet? I'd love to take a peek at the code.
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This is actually an expanded version of a previous post. There's still plenty of room for more expansion. Can add a bit, every year.
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They constantly say all Ukrainians are Nazis to keep the fighters motivated. You are dying nobly, to fight Literally Hitler. You aren't just running across a mine field into a cloud of armed of drones to capture 10 meters of mud in the middle of nowhere, just to scare out some little old ladies and unemployed drunks in a farming village.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but wars of attrition are the absolute horror for attackers because they are the only ones who need to continue to gain ground. In a weird, ironic, twist of history, the Russians think they're fighting Nazi Germany, but they're actually Kaiser Wilhem's Germany, and they have cleverly decided that it's simply too dangerous to share a border with the French. But they didn't want to charge directly into France, just weaken them, so they join a skirmish over Serbia. And then Russia joined the war and then England joined and then France joined and then the Germans made a surprised face. It took the Germans 4 years, 2.04 million dead men, and complete economic collapse, before they were willing to admit that it was all a stupid idea. Russia is on track to beat those stats. Never go full retard, Russia.
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They constantly say all Ukrainians are Nazis to keep the fighters motivated. You are dying nobly, to fight Literally Hitler. You aren't just running across a mine field into a cloud of armed of drones to capture 10 meters of mud in the middle of nowhere, just to scare out some little old ladies and unemployed drunks in a farming village.
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The state has always been the pinacle of all evil throughout history. The center insists it is the only legitimate source of law, taxation, courts, and armed force. From Vercingetorix to Makhno, the state apparatus murdered and executed all true leaders while using heresy/rebellion/banditry/extremism to convert political centralization into moral necessity. Remedies: 1. Exit over voice From nomads to frontier settlers to digital communities, liberty survives longest where people can leave. This is already articulated by Étienne de La Boétie: Tyranny persists because people continue to participate. 2. Polycentric power (no single vertical) Liberty persists where power is fragmented, redundant and non-hierarchical. Examples (temporary but real): Medieval free cities Stateless borderlands (Scott’s “Zomia”) Early Swiss cantons Pre-tsarist Caucasia Certain pirate enclaves Short-lived federated revolutions (Ukraine 1918–21, Spain 1936) 3. Material independence precedes political independence Historically, people are free only when they are hard to tax, track, and conscript. That means: Control of food/energy Peer-to-peer exchange Low fixed capital exposure Self-defense capacity Political rights follow after, not before. 4. Technological asymmetry (new, crucial factor) This is new relative to most of history: Cryptography P2P networks Stateless money Censorship-resistant communication These restore exit at scale, temporarily reversing the state’s legibility advantage. They do not abolish the state — but they raise the cost of domination.