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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by jMyles on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:17PM (#29514216)
The thing I don't understand, given all this - and I say this with substantial study in Political Science, including a degree - is why then we still see such widespread admiration of the notion that states are legitimate organizational structures?

Ostensibly they are different than corporations and other private entities specifically in that the standard by which their mandate exists is a public one. But once we see that that's not true (and we have seen it throughout history, but with astonishing clarity in the past two decades), isn't it time to move on?

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by sneak on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:38PM (#29514498)
> is why then we still see such widespread admiration of the notion that states are legitimate organizational structures?

Because the states (indirectly, carefully, and tactfully) guide the media in those states, and the majority of people uncritically assume that the narratives they hear over and over again ("land of the free", "rule of law", "innocent until proven guilty", "justice is blind", "a free press") are true and correct, simply because they've been repeated at them so often.

Information that contradicts those beliefs is ignored, discredited, or discarded.

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