#nationstates — Public Fediverse posts

"The problem, however, is that the nation-state is badly broken and no longer working for average people around the world.

Riven by deepening inequalities in education, opportunity, and income, plundered by powerful oligarchs who extract wealth and then move on, corrupted institutionally and constitutionally, the nation-state is failing badly as a guarantor of individual rights, liberty, and prosperity, writes the British Indian author Rana Dasgupta in his new book, After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order.

And since Trump and his like-minded nationalists also hate globalism or any idea of international governance that leaves most people—the 99.75 percent of human beings on the planet who live in nation-states—with little to protect them and promote their pursuit of happiness.

The human race today is “politically naked,” concludes Dasgupta, a prominent essayist and novelist, in his compelling and brilliantly researched—if decidedly anti-Western—book.

The “nation-state system falls short of the most commonsensical conceptions of equality and justice,” he writes. “Since nation-states have monopolised our political life, that betrayal is existential: we have nothing else.” As a result, “the sensation of progress” developed over many centuries has been “replaced by the anxiety of futurelessness.”

This foreboding sense of “futurelessness” pervades a slew of new books that document the breakdown both of the international order and the national polities that are supposed to be caretakers of that order—but which are instead faltering or failing themselves."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/book-review-after-nations-dasgupta-westad-prasad-milanovic/

#Nationalism #NationStates #Globalization #Capitalism

MMO Business Roundup: Niantic settles class action sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit - plus news from #Blizzard unionizers, #Ubisoft's crumbling empire, and #NationStates' hack
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2026/02/03/mmo-business-roundup-niantic-settles-class-action-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-lawsuit
#Niantic #PokemonGo

Nation #states are not some natural thing and are a modern invention. They've been #normalised to the point of people just wanting them to be permanent. Many borders themselves are also modern and stem from #coloniality. This is why we want to abolish #nationstates.

It's also very #eurocentric that we should live this way and then be told that the #map given to us drawn by #Europeans, is how we should see and understand the #world. You will get #leftists with knee jerk reactions to this as...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/government-hackers-are-leading-the-use-of-attributed-zero-days-google-says/
#cybersecurity #0days #exploits #nationstates #Google

I used to play a lot of Persistent Browser Games. They are now considered a bit old hat and past their heyday, but there's still plenty of them around according to https://pbbg.com/.

Some of them have been going for a couple of decades, mostly with a dwindling but still active player base. I still dabble in the zombie apocalypse game #UrbanDead.

Others that I have left behind include...
#Battrick #NationStates #eRepublik #Travian #Die2Nite #Popmundo #DolphinSim #BlackoutRugby

I might do individual retrospectives of them, but normal reasons for quitting include...
- Excessive time spent number crunching
- Plateauing of in-game progression
- Pay to win
- Toxic player base
- Repetitive game play
- Site closing down

#browsergames

I kinda wanna play #NationStates again, it was fun! Also maybe #FlightRising

What #Paris 2024 #Olympics meant for #women facing #gender #apartheid.

#GenderApartheid refers to #institutionalized #oppression based on #gender, including #systematicviolence and #domination. Recently, #AmnestyInternational urged all #NationStates, particularly #UN #member #countries, to #recognize it as a #crime under #internationallaw

https://thred.com/change/what-paris-2024-meant-for-women-facing-gender-apartheid/

why so long waiting, will this time increase for every new issue?

#nationstates #nationstate #stately

How #DigitalCitizenship Regimes are #Rescaling #European #NationStates?
#SpacePolity article #AAG2023
#ScalingCitizenship #OpenAccess

https://t.co/r62M9L0SRd

@geography @anthropology @politicalscience @sociology

How #DigitalCitizenship Regimes are #Rescaling #European #NationStates?
#SpacePolity article #AAG2023
#ScalingCitizenship #OpenAccess

https://t.co/r62M9L0SRd

@geography @anthropology @politicalscience @sociology

How #DigitalCitizenship Regimes are #Rescaling #European #NationStates?
#SpacePolity article #AAG2023
#ScalingCitizenship #OpenAccess

https://t.co/r62M9L0SRd

@geography @anthropology @politicalscience @sociology

How #DigitalCitizenship Regimes are #Rescaling #European #NationStates?
#SpacePolity article #AAG2023
#ScalingCitizenship #OpenAccess

https://t.co/r62M9L0SRd

@geography @anthropology @politicalscience @sociology

How #DigitalCitizenship Regimes are #Rescaling #European #NationStates?
#SpacePolity article #AAG2023
#ScalingCitizenship #OpenAccess

https://t.co/r62M9L0SRd

@geography @anthropology @politicalscience @sociology

Tomorrow I'll be presenting my #research on Emerging #DigitalCitizenship Regimes
#ScalingCitizenship #AAG2023

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2023/solicitations/39/sessiongallery/5605/application/21466

#DatafiedStates #AlgorithmicNations #Technopolitics #Postpandemics #AI #Rescaling #NationStates #DataPrivacy #DataSovereignty #DataCooperatives

@geography @anthropology @politicalscience @sociology

@matthewskelton The greatest tragedy is that of the ease of propagation of #misinformation combined with the difficulty in educating in ways that empower individuals to question the information that comes from above.

In this particular story, which is unfortunately getting plenty of attention by the media, we see a narrative that is subtly telling people to forget about this idea. Scapegoats play an important role in suggesting that this was a non-issue. Nothing to see here, just move along. It was just one racist's bias. We don't need to learn more about #commons, and the underlying fundamental causes of the #Tragedy, which anyone can see, is still alive & well today.

From a simple logical #trilemma, one can deduce that the modern global system of #nationstates precludes the existence of any real "commons", apart from a few isolated experiments.

#Colonial mentality still reigns supreme, even though we have a whole new set of labels for these same elements of society. The simple, unstated goal is to make sure the 'tragedy' happens 'somewhere else'. The elitist's version of #NIMBY, at whatever scale they operate.