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Inside: Firing the refs doesn't end the game; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/12/epistemological-void/
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@pluralistic Great point: why should workers follow the law when bosses don't? Wildcat strikes all the way up, down and across the world, "essential services" be damned.
@celeduc @pluralistic b/c the main principle of conservatism is the laws protect but do not bind the in-group, and bind but do not protect the out-group.
@wbftw @celeduc @pluralistic In particular, French peasants were not to guillotine lords, but lords could:
- Break peasants on the wheel (most common)
- Hang them
- Burn them at the stake(for heretics and witches)
and occasionally
- Quarter them (horses ripped the peasant into four pieces)