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This is what happens when you let Wario design your buildings.

Precisely. I can't speak for your views on the state, but it's an analogy I've seen quite a bit in these last few months, usually from your garden variety soc dem.

The logic of the state is that it is the arbiter of legitimate violence. That soldiers are not murderers, or mass murderers, when they kill in combat because their actions are entirely distinct from those of someone who ordinarily picks up a gun and starts shooting people because of Reasons. And...

Roughly speaking, perhaps, in some instances. But fundamentally, I don't believe states are moral actors, that states ultimately come in more or less ethical forms, because States aren't real. There are always simply people conducting the violence and repression, and that violence and repression...

You forgot the other thing going on here: 7. In keeping with long term U.S. policies. Trump got Sir Humphried.

That assumes that nothing good ever happens out of being pissed off.

Well yes, "reliant to a greater or lesser degree on forceful repression." The economical use of force is pretty essential to managing a state effectively. But obviously even Ethnostates can't function without repression, otherwise they wouldn't be states. Actually an interesting (by which I...

Some states are more effective at utilizing power than others. That's not really surprising, it's been going on since they arouse. Sometimes it's a fun intellectual curiosity to examine their workings, but being effective at a fundamentally illegitimate act doesn't provide much ground for...

Remember the giant thread about 'why do The Democrats lose elections?' It's this right here. Say what you want about the republicans, but when people get involved and active in the party, and want to move things in the country, they welcome that. They do a fantastic job taking the people who...

Didn't work. I still think of Slovenia primarily as a place where Zizeks come from.

They're at least higher than mine.

First Scotland will fall, then Stormont. Then Arthur will return to finish the job of driving the English into the sea. This has already been decided in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Hibernia. My general perspective is that fragmentation of states is a good thing for Praxis, for two...

I'm very happy to help make Anarchy boring.

There's a big difference between authorizing pilots to shoot down individual craft behaving in an erratic or hostile fashion, and enforcing a no-fly zone over an ally and their military bases. Consider, for point of comparison, the Hainan Island Incident, versus if the PRC decided to bomb the...

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/12/hillary-clintons-insane-plan-for-a-no-fly-zone.html

Scott Walker talked about beginning an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, without consulting congress, Day One in office. Ted Cruz repeatedly insisted on his intention to engage in indiscriminate Carpet Bombing. Now, off the top of my head I can name two countries that Clinton has...

Can you point out how? In the Republican Race with the possible exception of Rand Paul, the most peacefully inclined candidate won out. What nation or polity has Trump threatened that Clinton has not threatened?

How is voting for the candidate that's in favor of shooting at Russian aircraft the safe option? Why would someone who has a history of involvement in wars of unprovoked aggression that have had disastrous negative consequences, and continues to call for them, the safe option?

Because Hillary never wanted her. Because borderline republican policies aren't a tactical policy she temporarily for 20 some odd years. They represent the actual trajectory of her policies.