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Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Sat May 30 15:13:36 PDT 2015


On 05/30/2015 09:00 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:46:28PM -0600, Mirimir wrote:
>> On 05/27/2015 10:00 PM, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
>>> 2015-05-28 12:59 GMT+09:00 Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>>         Last time I checked the stuff that can be owned(i. e.
>>>>         property) like say a hamburguer a car or a house,  cannot
>>>>         abandon me, destroy me or shape me to its liking.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The joke's on you! Ownership is defined in constitutions, and is not a real
>>> thing at all!
>>
>> According to governments, yes. But according to me, I own anything that
>> I can fuck with :) That is, "ownership" is defined operationally.
>>
> 
> This appears complicated to me.

Not at all.

> Are you familiar with "nationalisation"?

Yes, of course.

> ====
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization
> 
> Nationalization (American English), (British and Commonwealth spelling
> nationalisation) is the process of taking a private industry or private
> assets into public ownership by a national government or state.
> ====
> 
> It already happened on at least several occasions in the real world.

If government gangbangers can fuck with stuff, they own it. If
government gangbangers can fuck with people, they own them.



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