• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Legitimately one of the reasons for the consolidation of state authority.

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        Yankee libertarians love to imagine their first-principals social experiment, completely oblivious to the fact they're blatantly reenacting parts of early colonial history in suburban New Hampshire.

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          9 months ago

          I drove through that town pretty recently and yes, there are still bears roaming around

          • Wheaties [she/her]
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            9 months ago

            ...oh shit, I just assumed they'd have given up by now and conceded to real organizing. What do they expect will happen when the more aggressive sorts of bears and large predators take notice?

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        This literally happened in medieval Silesia, where it was so politically fragmented* that the toll colections turned into nightmare and stifled local trade to the point of many interventions from their theoretical suzerains.

        *Peak was when the Oświęcim (yeah the same place where Auschwitz camp would later be) duchy which counted something along 3 very small towns and maybe 20 villages got fragmented into three duchies of Oswięcim, Toszek and Zator - but all three were still officially duchies and their rank was theoretically equal to places like Saxony, Normandy or Bavaria.