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Re:Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison
by seibelj on Sunday September 20, 2020 @08:58AM
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You may disagree with parent’s viewpoint but I would say eliminating the government is about as far from fascism as you can go. It’s anarchism.
Re:Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison
by jokethrowaway on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:00AM
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No, it's the opposite of fascism. It's voluntarism or anarchy.
Fascism is a totalitarian authoritarian political doctrine where the state is strong.
I want a weak (or, even better, non existent) state and a society based on voluntary transactions and not on taxes taken under the threat of violence.
Re:Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison
by ubercow13 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:38AM
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What's to stop a mafia appearing who takes taxes under threat of violence, if there is no state to stop them? Anarchism always seems like utopic nonsense to me. Something like, 'I don't like being told what to do, so we should get rid of the state and as long as everyone promises not to tell each other what to do, it will be great'. If there is no state, there is a power vacuum. There is a reason why power vacuums are quickly filled.
Re:Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison
by petre on Sunday September 20, 2020 @10:19AM
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True. Iraq, Libya, Syria are noteworthy examples. Chechnya is another example.
https://m.dw.com/en/opinion-russia-still-lives-in-the-shadow...
Re:Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison
by tsimionescu on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:29PM
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Capitalist anarchy, which is what is described here, is indeed nonsense.
The much more common notion of anarchy, socialist anarchy, actually advocates for smaller societies and more localized leadership (e.g. at the city level). Some role for a kind of state (e.g. an alliance of local micro-states) is often preserved, especially for military and diplomatic purposes.
Social safety nets are just forcefully taking money from people creating value in society, taking a fee to keep alive government bureaucrats, and give the rest to people who don't produce value. It's an incentive to not create value and a disincentive to do so.
If you want to donate to people in need, feel free to do it, just don't force the entire of society to do it.
The concept of controlled substances is ridiculous and I don't think it needs to be justified, unless you're a government shill who benefits from it or some authoritarian person who feel like they need to impose their values on everyone else.