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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by jason-phillips on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:29PM (#33179353)
> Governments are basically the mob...

Governments are institutions. Considering the anarchic alternative, what we currently have is preferable. People as a group, the actual mob, cannot be trusted. They are irrational and are therefore potentially dangerous.

The trick is to safeguard against institutional rot.

Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by bitwize on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:34PM (#33179425)
> Governments are institutions.

So's the mob. It's why they call it "organized" crime.