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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2025-01-06 at 15:05

Winning an election is easier than it looks: all you have to do is convince a bunch of different groups that you will use power to achieve their desires. Bonus points if you can convince groups with mutually exclusive goals that you'll deliver for them - the coalition of "people who disagree about everything" is hard to assemble, but it sure is large!

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2025-01-06 at 15:05

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/#governing-is-harder

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Written by chaotic grey on 2025-01-07 at 11:22

@pluralistic this is a phenomenal piece of writing.

The rise of #TheNetworkState alongside of all of this is also terrifying, because rich vulture capitalists are creating cities in the sky (best way I can think to describe it) on the promise of techbro utopia. A few people have written about it but it's still happening in the background, and it's all built on colonising areas in the global south that are ripe for exploitation aka tech colonialism and fascism. I'm probably preaching to the choir but it's so fucking devastating to watch and nobody cares.

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Written by ⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ on 2025-01-09 at 23:35

@Grey @pluralistic semi-related but ICYMI part of the the reason they want Greenland is to plant some Network State on it.

https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113800921537248238

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Written by chaotic grey on 2025-01-09 at 23:41

@cryptadamist@universeodon.com @pluralistic@mamot.fr oh I know. I've been following the antics of Dryden Brown and Praxis Nation.

Dryden initially wanted to find land in the Mediterranean for Praxis, but he didn't succeed. If he can get his fascist paws on Greenland, it will be fucking awful. I don't think Denmark is going to let that happen, however.

https://www.praxisnation.com/news/declaration-of-ascent

This is so fucking cringe.

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Written by ⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ on 2025-01-09 at 23:42

@Grey @pluralistic yeah none of this is happening but hopefully they'll waste time on it.

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Written by chaotic grey on 2025-01-10 at 00:07

@cryptadamist@universeodon.com you might find this site informative: https://www.vcinfodocs.com/

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