The idea that any of our presidents ever actually “ran the country” should actually be completely unacceptable. You think farmers can run an entire country? How about actors? Failsons? Sex pests? None of these people should be “running the country”. The country has a massive bureaucracy running it and the president is filling a specific role of making judgement calls and tweaking the roster of bureaucrats

Advertising in my private space on my private hardware in my private software in my private time is an invasion of my privacy. Anyone forcing ads into my domicile is invading my privacy. It’s MY space, not yours.

Commies: nuanced position on geopolitics.
Libs: screeeeeeeeech.
Commies: nuanced opinion on capitalism.
Libs: watch out, tankies can’t handle nuance

That’s just not true. You just never learned what a nation is. Before there were nation-states, there were city-states. City-states were states that were confined to a city, geographically. So what is a nation then? It’s not, as people think, an arbitrary border, a nation is a people with a shared history. French is a nation-state, a state that emerges from the nation of the French people, people who have a long history of being born in the same location, sharing the same language, and sharing many many cultural aspects.

America is not a nation, but it is a state. There are no American people. The land was inhabited by 100s of nations that did not organize themselves into states. That land was given the name of an Italian (Amerigo), and then a bunch of people of different nationalities invaded and occupied it. Same with all of the “Latin American” states, Australia, Canada, and the rest of the colonial world. There is no Australian nation, there is an Australian state populated by people of many different nations (the English nation, the Italian nation, the German nation, etc).

As far as I know, there are no nationless-states that aren’t violent genocidal colonial projects. All of these states are illegitimate, based only on dominance with absolutely no other foundation.

All states should ultimately be dismantled, but the colonial states will need to go first, because otherwise the colonial states, history’s most violent states, will be empowered by the dismantling of other states. There is an order to these things.

As Marxists, I think we need to be very careful about how we talk about taxes.

1. All value is produced by labor
2. All value produced by labor is stolen by owners through private property law
3. Of the value stolen by owners through private property law, some of it is provided back to labor to reproduce that labor
4. Of the portion of the value provided back to labor for reproduction, a portion is stolen by the owners through tax law
5. Of the portion stolen from labor by tax law, a portion is provided to both labor and lumpen.

It’s a ridiculous system of exploitation. Owners should be paying all of the taxes, but they control the tax law.