Yeah but how did you set that chain of events in motion? There has to be a first moment when an immaterial idea causes a material effect.

*laughs in billionaire*

Yep

Sydney has been covered in a pall of smoke for a few days now, but I didn't realise it was that bad

Jesus

Thanks, yeah I know, I've heard some of his stuff

Huh, that's lovely. Thank you :)

Live and let live IS the goal. Who do you think government is? It's not some Other, to be feared and challenged and identified in contrast to- it's all just people. It's not about government deciding your needs, it's about you being accountable for your decisions to the people they affect. We're all in it together. And it's all just- people, each, fundamentally, with equal claim to the rights to exist - don't you agree with that much?

More power to the states wouldn't solve everything though, it would just turn the big, dull pain of progress into a field of border conflicts, as each state turned its attention to promoting its rights and defending its sovereignty against not the national and international others with which it contends today, but against its siblings.
The tendency to unity makes us stronger. It just helps if we all mean well.

Whereabouts is that?