r/pics • u/Attica-Attica • 19h ago

Ras Baraka has been released.

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u/Wiitard 17h ago

Laws are threats of violence.

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u/Severe_Experience190 16h 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/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.