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Commie Blocs (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 7 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Step 1: Abolish Government

Step 2: Establish absolutely no institutional infrastucture to ensure nobody else makes a new government. Because that would be authoritatian.

Step 3: Someone makes another government by establishing a monopoly on violence.

Step 4: Abolish Government... wait what?

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  • [+] -6 points 10 hours ago* (5 children)

    Straw man
    noun

    • An argument or opponent set up so as to be easily refuted or defeated.
    • A doll or scarecrow (particularly one stuffed with straw).
    • An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related thing or idea.
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  • [–] 9 points 10 hours ago* (4 children)

    Specify how what I described is different than what you'd do then. What mechanisms or institutions would you put in place to prevent step 3?

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  • [–] -5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    With weapons, voluntary training programs (both in terms of participation and guidance), and organization.

    If some group of bad actors try to coup your community, you don't just lie back and take it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago*

    An organization of armed vigilantes fighting against whomever they decide is a "bad actor" wanting to "coup" "their" community? Sounds authoritarian.

    Also, try to be less vague.
    Who decides what a "bad actor" is?
    What makes it a "coup" compared to just a change in leadership?
    What makes it "their" community where it is also not the "bad actors" community?
    What if you don't have any volunteers?
    Where do you get the weapons from?
    Who organises the training and how?
    What happens if a volunteer won't participate in the training?

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  • [–] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Say's who? The community is supposed to just organically resist this? There's no organizational structure? Because that would be a government.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    Not to mention the very vague definitions going on.
    Who decides what a "bad actor" is?
    What makes it a "coup" compared to just a change in leadership?
    What makes it "their" community where it is also not the "bad actors" community?
    What if you don't have any volunteers?
    Where do you get the weapons from?
    Who organises the training and how?
    What happens if a volunteer won't participate in the training?

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