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Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ... by jessaustin on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:31PM (#16945477)
Anarchism is the proper response to all of these abuses.
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Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ... by scottie_m on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:40PM (#16945506)
Anarchism is the proper response to all of these abuses.

In the same way that your car breaking down means you should abandon it forever and just walk everywhere you want to go. It’s also a good idea, if you ever get food poisoning, to just stop eating forever.

It’s never a good idea to try and fix what’s wrong, just throw it all away.

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Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ... by jessaustin on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:14PM (#16948286)
Haha metaphors are dumb.

Anarchism is an opposition to arbitrary authority. Anarchism is not a breakdown, but a response to a breakdown. I.e., the lies we are told about authority by authority break down when viewed in the light of our experiences with authority. When we disbelieve those lies, we turn to anarchism.

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Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ... by thatcat on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:46PM (#16945824)
Rejecting one form of organization doesn't preclude all future organization.
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Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ... by mattkrause on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:19PM (#16945906)
Isn’t that basically the definition of anarchy?
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Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ... by thatcat on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:49PM (#16945972)
Anarchy means without leaders [0]. There are many types of anarchism that have a flat hierarchic structure and could still be considered organizations.

What parent was suggesting is closer to nihilism, which is a common misunderstanding because in films anarchism is generally portrayed as nihilism[1].

  [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy#Etymology
  [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
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