Mastodawn

Hello Fediverse! 👋 I am exploring the mechanics of how communities, cooperatives, and decentralized networks actually function and survive in the real world.

Welcome to The Governance Stress Test 🏛️🌿
(wicked guitar riff)

In this ongoing series, I plan on looking at the stress points of community-led systems. I will be posing questions backed by insights from thinkers who’s writings I’ve enjoyed like Elinor Ostrom, Murray Bookchin, Manuel DeLanda, Jane Jacobs, James C. Scott and others as a fun way to examine how resilient our systems truly are when it comes to dispute resolution, resource management, and autonomy.

I’m not planning on this being “The Travis Shares Theory Show”. I want to hear about your real-world experiences, case studies, and critiques.

How to follow along:

To catch every post follow this dedicated hashtag: #GovStressTest

I'm looking forward to learning from all of you!

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Travis 3d ago

David Ruffner Mar 11

I am distressed when I think about how my tax dollars are going toward this cruelty and destruction of the current Iran war. So I looked up about tax resistance and found the National War Resistance Coordinating Committee website https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/

Here is a snippet from their page on the consequences of resisting war taxes:
"Of course there are also terrible risks involved with not doing war tax resistance. If you continue to pay war taxes, you contribute to global insecurity, nuclear terrorism, and imperialism, you put innocent people in harm’s way, and you risk the moral injury of knowing that you are complicit in such things."

The moral injury is real...

#uspol
#irpol
#intpol
#warTaxResistance

Consequences - National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

This page will introduce you to the possible risks of different methods of war tax resistance, and to the ways NWTRCC can help you reduce those risks.

National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee