• ricecake
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    1 day ago

    Are you advocating for multiple, competing armed groups in the US?

    Generally, a monopoly on the legitimate use of force is considered a cornerstone of “government”.

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      18 hours ago

      I don’t like the government, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist. that means different syndicates would be armed and they’d probably be competing, so yeah, I’m advocating for multiple armed forces

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        10 hours ago

        Cool. That’s a coherent political philosophy, you just don’t normally run into people arguing for more legitimate use of violence.

        Personally, multiple armed entities sounds like the worst aspects of government without the redeeming aspects.

        I’m the breed of anarchist more concerned with involuntary power hierarchy than specific forms of said dynamic, like class. Reducing the number of groups who can coerce others into doing stuff isn’t aligned with more legitimate armed factions.
        I voted for my sherrif, so I’m more okay with him pointing a gun a me than your trade union, whom I didn’t vote for. It’s not wholly voluntary because I didn’t get to vote for “disarm the sheriff and make the fire fighters the principle law enforcement group”, so it’s far from perfect, but at least I know who’s holding the gun.