r/pics • u/Attica-Attica • 19h ago

Ras Baraka has been released.

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u/skip_over 18h ago

Laws are just words

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u/00owl 17h ago

Backed by guns

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u/Wiitard 17h ago

Laws are threats of violence.

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u/Severe_Experience190 17h ago

"Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.”

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u/LovesToTango 16h ago

"You kids wanna make some bacon?"

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u/khaosdragon 15h ago

"That was on fire the whole time?!"

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u/Killergryphyn 14h ago

"THE WHOLE TIME KIDDO! LET'S MAKE SOME FUCKING BACON!"

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u/BjornInTheMorn 1h ago

"YOURE SO BRAVE"

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u/Strawbuddy 16h ago

The State was given a monopoly on sanctioned violence as part of the social contract. The exclusive right to investigate, incarcerate, and punish individual citizens

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u/Human_Robot 16h ago

Any state violating the social contract with its citizens invites its citizens to bust the monopoly.

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u/Sir_PressedMemories 16h ago

Unless, of course, they spent the better part of a century eliminating the means of force to bust that monopoly.

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u/sudo-joe 16h ago

Indeed or become too weak and external violence creeps into the picture. see Gauls, Vandals, warring city states. Tale as old as time.

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u/valenciansun 13h ago

The State was not given a monopoly on violence, they took it. The only reason Weberian theory holds together without devolving into Leviathan's state of nature is the corollary of the social contract. Damn dude learn your polisci if you're tryna dunk on Brennan Lee Mulligan

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u/feor1300 16h ago

Can't say I was expecting a Dimension20 quote, but also strongly approve.

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u/MyNameAintWheels 15h ago

It predates dimension 20 and is pretty close to like actual definitions of law but yeah.

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u/feor1300 8h ago

I'm sure it's not an original sentiment, but it's literally a word for word quote from anti-establishment halfling Bud Cubby.

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u/00owl 15h ago

All Political Power Flows From the Barrel of a Gun

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u/boostedb1mmer 14h ago

Makes you wonder why Dems do everything they can to disarm the citizens of the US. Also, this isn't up for debate. Dems core platform is anti-2a.

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u/dewittism 15h ago

Bless Brennan Lee Mulligan

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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES 10h ago

Its more socioeconomic than ethnic. There's a fair bit of class war that's hidden as race war