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      You know what my eyes are opened too —capitalism is when hard working Americans get all the capital and communist leeches aren’t allowed to steal it just because they’re in charge.

      You know what goes well with capitalism? Democracy! You vote on your sheriff, so why vote for who your boss is at work, and how many sick days everyone gets? Let’s go full capitalist!

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        Words are just tools we made up. If fascists are willing to break the meaning of language to get what they want, maybe we can too!

        Down with those communist fascists!!

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      And we’ll protect our gloriously fought victory with a vanguard enforcing conformity to support the eventual relinquishing of power to the proletariat once there is no longer class and we have expanded our stateless society worldwide, thus vanquishing borders!

      Just need to kill off done rabble rousing anarchists first…

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          Look, you just need to build your downstream. I take your bribes and give you some power. Then your downstream bribes you for parts of it. The more downstream you have the more bribes you get. With no borders, the whole world can be your downstream. It’s not upper and lower class, it’s upstream and downstream! See? Classless.

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              Have you seen these knives? Damn they’re good knives! Can’t afford them? Just buy 10 and selling 9 will pay for yours! Now, can i put you down for a monthly shipment?

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        The thing where a warlord tells you what to do? No, death to anarchy, instead let’s have a society where hierarchies are abolished and org charts are all rhizomatic and voluntary, with vigilant critiques of power differential with an eye to equalizing them as much as possible?

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          Anarchy is a society completely free from government, coercive authority, or imposed hierarchies. While it is popularly misunderstood to mean chaos or lawlessness, it actually advocates for a system based on voluntary cooperation, self-organization, and mutual aid among individual

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          Bad news: opiates and fentanyl

          This is usually my clench-point with anarchy. Yeaaaah, but… man, should we really have heroin in the 7/11 snack isle?

          Libertarians: YEP!

          wait, man, fuck. I get education and healthcare… kinda fixes this, but… does it, tho?

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              Armed militias and unchecked gangs of armed thugs hired for enforcement and security.

              Then again, we’re both thinking way too far ahead. Who’s producing medicine and opiates in an anarchist society?

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                Anarchy is a society completely free from government, coercive authority, or imposed hierarchies. While it is popularly misunderstood to mean chaos or lawlessness, it actually advocates for a system based on voluntary cooperation, self-organization, and mutual aid among individual

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                in a classless society, how can anyone employ anyone else? I think you’re lost, and you should wander back to a liberal conclave

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                  In a classless society, how is anyone cared for if no one has the intrinsic motivation to do so? Because it’s the nice thing to do? Lmao.

                  The main issue with anarchism is that absolute freedom for you is a double-edged battle-axe. It assumes all people are good and trustworthy without any guardrails if they aren’t.

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                    The main issue with anarchism is that absolute freedom for you is a double-edged battle-axe. It assumes all people are good and trustworthy without any guardrails if they aren’t.

                    The current system is biased towards bad people getting into power. History is full of wars and genocides because we concentrate power into the hands of the few. If everyone had equal power, bad actors couldn’t do nearly as much damage as they would if they held state power.

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                  Anarchy is a society completely free from government, coercive authority, or imposed hierarchies. While it is popularly misunderstood to mean chaos or lawlessness, it actually advocates for a system based on voluntary cooperation, self-organization, and mutual aid among individual

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                    I don’t believe the entire world can work on the honor system, but I would agree were it possible. There will always be some dude in 300 trying to step on the other 299.