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Well, on one hand there are those modern scholars, mostly of the Mises Institute, who think the Sons of Liberty arrived at the American system precisely because it wasn't fully democratic but slightly closer to the chevalier culture of Virginia, promoting the idea of extraordinary gentlemen of fine breeding being called to serve their communities in good faith. On the other hand we, just like Jefferson and his compatriots, are products of our time, and what we, or more specifically I, associate with the word republic is a cabal of violent tyrants in a faraway capital city who can exercise any type and amount of power over me, my family, and my "property" at any given time without fear of consequences, whereas back then, most of them, except Alexander "Cesar" Hamilton, would've thought of a republic as something of an extension of their estates, helping to defend their life, liberty, and properties against the likes of the Kings of England, France, and Spain. And democracy to them would likely simply have been the absence of aristocracy while I think of it as the de facto absolute tyranny of the 50%+1 over the 50%-1, but de iure direct votes on the most important issues that concern everyone while maintaining everyone's individual liberty.

Now that I've written all of the down, I think that maybe the terms democracy and republic aren't so different after all, both imply that I have no right to manage my own affairs and can legally be called upon to give up any good or render any service at any time someone whom I don't know personally so chooses. 🤔

So in conclusion Anarchism - being the absence of institutionalized coercion and legal initiation of violence - is neither democractic nor republican as defined above and I therefore deem it a necessary prerequisite to personal liberty and peaceful and voluntary cooperation.

If you define yourself into choas as order, you will find no order in choas.

A one-liner is a reduction for those who use many words to explain simple concepts. A mother has a definition. Liberty, on the other hand, lacks the distinction: http://jbschirtzinger.beiteshelpublications.org/2025/07/14/replacementtheology/

Well, if we're reduced to one-liners: "Liberty - not the daughter but the mother of order"

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/11/what-happened-to-our-moral-compass/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHJ4PDHF

Not according to Jefferson.

Those two words are mutually exclusive 😜

@freepatriot Bitch eat bitch world.

But it is not a Democratic Republic...

@h4890 @freepatriot

Probably a bell curve like anything else, from schizoid to genius.

I also disagree on biological programming. Regular critters can learn too.

The problem is that our ability to learn is biologically determined...

@h4890 @freepatriot

I do not think the phrase is meant as "life is (only) suffering" but more as "life necessarily involves suffering."