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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by monero-xmr on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:23AM (#41002453)
Lebanon has a non-functional government where all publicly-owned everything basically doesn't work. Beirut is essentially a libertarian enclave now, where everyone with means has their own solar panels and gas generators, self-produces all power, and the economy runs on paper US dollars and cryptocurrencies. It's amazing what people can do when their governments are non-existent.
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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by ClumsyPilot on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:20AM (#41002815)
How is police / crime doing?
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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by vasco on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:48AM (#41003050)
Terrible, as is inflation, as if almost everything else, and in the south of the country you got hezbollah bombing things. I'm not Lebanese so just know what I know from close friends, but the comment read very strange to me. Life is very difficult there, none of the Lebanese I know want to move back. I'm not sure why OP painted it as an anarchist utopia, that's definitely not what I hear.
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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by specproc on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:58AM (#41003796)
You also get Israel bombing the south of the country and a Syrian border run by drug cartels.

Agree with the sentiment on OP. These libertarian views are so often held by comfortable Americans who've never seen what an absence of government looks like.

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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by teractiveodular on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:56AM (#41004306)
The OP's handle of "monero-xmr" might give you a hint why.
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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by monero-xmr on Friday July 19, 2024 @09:41AM (#41006487)
I never said it was amazing, I said how the country is still functional and people are kept from starving to death, given the government is nonexistent
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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by snowpid on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:33AM (#41003556)
How is Hisbollah doing?
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