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100%. Much like the oppression of LGBT etc. Many will claims that such concepts as LGBT, ethnicity, and cultural heritage are all a bourgeoisie plot against class solidarity/consciousness. They are absolutely that brainwashed and MAGA like.
Any sufficiently large gang, left well enough alone for long enough, will become the de facto state.
Again this is kind of non sequitur. No one argued that they wouldn’t. States are definitionally just gangs that have been legitimized.
Your own local anarchist conclave may all be friendly and would never do such a thing to their neighbors. But if the next one down the road decides they need your land and resources, and if they outnumber and outgun you, then you’re just done for. No one will come to help defend you. No one will arrive to mete out vengeance afterward.
And? None of these are gotchas of any sort. Even that case is still preferable to the state doing it. If the state does it does that make it better/more acceptable. And at that point wouldn’t that group be a burgeoning state anyway? This is why anarchist are strong advocates of arming the populace.
The state holding an implied monopoly of violence is what enables said state to enact their atrocities, but is also what prevents smaller groups from falling into the same trap.
Smaller groups are capable of less total violence at scale. That’s like saying, more violence is justified, otherwise we would effectively have less violence. It doesn’t make the sense you seem to think.
Oh and there is also a huge difference between the state acknowledging that it is at War for territory. And not being at war for territory. In the United States my people are constantly at war with the state to preserve what little territory we’ve been left. Let alone get back what the state stole. But it’s okay because the state did it therefore it’s okay. Otherwise some roving gang might have gotten much smaller section of it. And that would be so much worse than losing nearly all of it as we did.
And no community is an island. You keep mentioning “my community” as if that is all there is. Or that having neighbors and allies is impossible. All you arguments realistically just boil down to “we need the state, or else the state”. Classic circular reasoning.
That’s on you. The Ford Pinto didn’t Crash and Burn as much as Tesla’s have. And people like yourself are blissfully unaware of the fact. Whereas the Ford Pinto went on to be a joke and major black mark on Ford’s reputation for decades. Besides all the other black marks that Henry Ford had earned
There is a difference between possible and will the state allow it. Not only is it possible. It’s happened several times. But no the state will do everything in it’s power to keep its power. Regardless of who suffers.
No one, certainly no anarchist suggested they would. So that’s a really weird thing to assert. Just completely irrelevant, non sequitur. Hardship and tragedy will always occur even without the existence of a state. But if you want atrocity, mass oppression/suppression you need the state.
Yes there is the argument that the state is theoretically capable of being a net benefit. The problem is the reality where the state struggles to even stay net neutral. Generally outright oppressive corrupt realistically. Even the best states.
It’s a core part of the logic. Not some exception. The logic doesn’t work without it. If to be tolerant you must tolerate intolerance. Then there is no such thing as tolerance. Just apathy.
Everyone does. In fact the only way someone wouldn’t have evidence of this. Would largely be if they were either trying very hard to stay uninformed. Or are just so extremely insulated that that they somehow missed it.
First word of your quote largely discredits it. Authorities. There have been a great number of rolling Tesla death traps that have killed passengers and pedestrians. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s Tesla or not. The authorities have covered up for Ford Chrysler etc etc etc as well in the past.
Random car fires are just that random and isolated. Full self driving Tesla failures are pretty common and being underreported. One is a lack of maintenance or a truly isolated defect or failure. The other is failure by Design.
Because they understand the stoat is killing to feed. One rabbit will last a stoat for days. That and Steve was really an asshole anyways. So the others have nothing to worry about until the stoat is hungry again.
Yep, there is no shame in being wrong. Choosing not to learn on the other hand. The fact that he’s continuing to update his views as he learns more is the right action.
Photonic matter is a thing. Though very very rare.
Communism is stateless. It requires an absence of state. Not just non-totalitarian. Previous attempts failed for the same reasons most states fail. They’re states.
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Or the austerity measures of the 2000s the 2010s Etc. But the issue has never been with the deficit spending. But what the spending was on. Had the government taken all that money that it misappropriated and spent it on infrastructure housing etc. It would have returned massive dividends for the people. Tens of dollars return for every dollar invested. But that wouldn’t go to the pockets of the right people. The money was invested in places where the wealthy could easily pocket it. And that was the problem. Not the deficit spending itself.
Even as someone against the state in all of its forms. Deficit spending is one of the greatest powers for good a state can have sometimes. That individuals or even groups of individuals generally don’t. Unfortunately it generally gets applied to the wealthy and not the people. Which is why the state is the problem more than the deficit spending itself.
It makes a lot of sense and is applicable today. Many of the people consistently hurt are poor uneducated rural individuals. Who’ve been conditioned to hate the educated and vulnerable minorities. Most of the people calling for specific change and revolution. Are disproportionately college educated, and typically at least from families that were better off financially.
If you’re constantly having to work and struggle just to not fall further down. You don’t have a lot of time to look around or even think about anything else. That’s part of what’s kept people so trapped in the system. Just trying to keep up and not fall out of it. It’s why they try to keep unemployment low but under employment high. And make all the welfare programs they cannot abolish as much work as possible to use. Unemployed starving people turn violent very fast and rightfully so. They are starting to rapid fire into their feet at this moment though. Planning on AI replacing everyone. They are also banking on having robot bodyguards sooner rather than later that won’t turn on them. But I don’t think even that will save them.