Democrats: If you don't vote for Biden you support Trump.
Tankies: If you don't support China & North Korea you support US imperialism.
George W. Bush: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.
Darth Vader:
@stendhalist By 1921 Lenin had concluded that the dictatorship of the proletariat would take the form of a one-party state everywhere. He thought that was one of the lessons of the revolution.
@BadEmpanadx I don't support the DSA, but the FBI has actually made fake left-wing orgs and they didn't really work like that. They didn't have any members, they just did things to make the left look bad or get us to fight each other in destructive ways.
@hohaexpress It's a gotcha question used by legacy media to shift attention away from Israel's atrocities to Hamas, and to bait us into either pretending Hamas are perfect victims or sympathize with Israel.
@evans_cn@Jn81993@AncapAir Not a unicorn. The current version of the state was established through a series of international revolutions. International revolutions can establish a different system, as well.
@evans_cn@Jn81993@AncapAir The idea that a bunch of rebellious people who just pulled off one of the biggest revolts in history would just magically obey a warlord is not plausible. Just because someone wants to be a warlord doesn't mean anyone will obey him.
@evans_cn@Jn81993@AncapAir Every state has collapsed or been overwhelmed by outside force in less that a hundred thousand years, so statless societies are still more stable by comparison. Your system does not pass your own criteria. Your arguments were originally monarchist arguments.
@evans_cn@Jn81993@AncapAir The whole world was stateless for over a hundred thousand years until about 3500 BCE. That's longer than any state has lasted. Even after 3500 BCE much of the planet remained stateless for millennia.
@AimAssistMikey@Gattungswesen25 There's a long history of leftists reading Lenin to find out what Marx thought, and reading Engels to find out what anarchists believe.
@ZhugeEX Before Obama the US would sometimes put executives in jail if they did something abnormally bad, especially if it also harmed other rich people or endangered the perceived legitimacy of the system. Ken Lay of Enron was imprisoned during the Bush administration, for example.
@EcoTechBro This is mostly a myth. There are a few high profile cases where that happened, but it's not true overall. Not for the people doing direct action.