"Anything you come to rely on, can hurt you by doing nothing" The Kaczynskian take on modern tyranny is that you only need jackbooted goon squads dragging people off to gulags, if you're trying to get totalitarian rule over people who know how to grow their own food.
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Conversely, to get compliance over a bunch of urbanite bugmen requires relatively little force. Modern police departments have more than enough to handle it, you don't even need all that military surplus gear that USA cops have access to.
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Replying to @rightwingnutrs
I know. It's an implicit threat of "If you riot in the neighborhoods where the rich people live, we'll use this on you"
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Replying to @rightwingnutrs
I agree. James Lafonde has some good takes on how a lot of the chimpouts are deliberately engineered. Most "anarchic violence" is really just the paramilitary arms of the cathedral working under the appearance of lawlessness.
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Replying to @BeigeShiba
That’s exactly what it is. That’s why they’re more frightening than the average mob. The average mob will he stopped by the state. This mob IS the state. They want to enact a Reign of Terror to secure their victory in the culture war.
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Replying to @rightwingnutrs
The Cathedrals's methods, while potentially good for taking power, seem to have little scope for holding and sustaining it. I've noticed their centre of power is constantly shifting. Apart from big capital, they don't seem to be able to hold onto anything for long.
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Replying to @BeigeShiba
They’re a very weak ruling class partially because I think they believe their own rhetoric. They’re high on their own supply. Where others would acknowledge failure and rethink, they double down and attack.
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They're only weakly Machiavellian, that much is for certain.
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