Death to America

[catalog]

Will the next great power necessarily be a nation? We've talked about corporate influence already in here and it's growing by the day.

World Cup final in 50 years wil be Google fc vs Facebook sparta?

 

[Clinamenic]

Will the next great power necessarily be a nation? We've talked about corporate influence already in here and it's growing by the day.

Top-down likely a corporation, bottom-up potentially an ideologically defined global diaspora.

 

[luka]

Will the next great power necessarily be a nation? We've talked about corporate influence already in here and it's growing by the day.

its already quite hard to disentangle. google and amazon work for the US government but the US government also works for them.

 

[catalog]

The pull of nation, of race, it still exists. Its all caught up in it still. It doesn't melt away in the face of global money monoculture

 

[version]

How do we distinguish a nation from a corporation? A corporation can have its own culture, language and so on, it can have global influence, a geographical location, its own security service, its own healthcare, its own transport, it can have elected leaders and officials.

 

[catalog]

it's about bring born into something that has a lot of history? Even if that history is largely imagined.

 

[version]

Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.

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Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.

The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.

 

[Clinamenic]

The pull of nation, of race, it still exists. Its all caught up in it still. It doesn't melt away in the face of global money monoculture

True, but that could be generationally diminishing. Consider growing up in a world where geographic boundaries are rendered, if even slightly, less relevant, thanks to instantaneous global communication and cultural proliferation.

 

[Clinamenic]

How do we distinguish a nation from a corporation? A corporation can have its own culture, language and so on, it can have global influence, a geographical location, its own security service, its own healthcare, its own transport, it can have elected leaders and officials.

Perhaps a major distinction is that corporations don't have an involuntary contingency like state representatives or rulers do. Stakeholders yes, and to an extent everyone who is affected by corporate decisions.

 

[Clinamenic]

But beyond that, it seems we are just comparing different groups of people, endowed with different offices, bragging different levels of economic sway.

 

[catalog]

True, but that could be generationally diminishing. Consider growing up in a world where geographic boundaries are rendered, if even slightly, less relevant, thanks to instantaneous global communication and cultural proliferation.

I think that assumption is correct, that it becomes less relevant. But it doesn't go away is what I meant. It hangs about, is still a fsactor.

 

[luka]

you should check out this old thread from before you got here clinamenic https://www.dissensus.com/index.php?threads/15613/

 

[Mr. Tea]

Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.

apnews.com

Nothing completely new, of course, when you consider the influence once wielded by the East India Company, and Cecil Rhodes later in Africa.

 

[Clinamenic]

Totally, a sort of residuum of pre-21st century geopolitics. Just lower in the stack, rather than gone entirely.

 

[Clinamenic]

Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.

apnews.com

Provided a sufficiently federated framework, I like the sound of this.

 

[Clinamenic]

Neoliberal patchwork.

 

[version]

I was thinking geography would be the most obvious distinction, but then again, a nation's borders aren't fixed and its influence can be projected around the world. You can't really posit it as something solid in contrast to the more abstract corporation.

 

[Clinamenic]

Yeah I'd agree. Still one of the more meaningful categories to divide humans into, but perhaps not for long.

 

[sufi]

2 tales from the front lines

Sabotage caused Washington oil-train disaster, rail union says

The oil train came apart on the snowy tracks north of Bellingham shortly after the locomotive engineer got the mile-long chain of petroleum tanks on wheels under way.

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DAPL Saboteur Jessica Reznicek Sentenced to 8 Years - UNICORN RIOT

On Wednesday, June 30, 2021, Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after she admitted to sabotaging the widely opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in 2017.

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[boxedjoy]

Boxedjoy is also old, he'll surely be dead

what's the difference, really