if you know whether the Kennedy assassinations were the visible surface of a coup or the visible surface of a coup being put down, though, you’re doing better than me
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I dunno if that's true. Mafias usually bribed politicians and cops.
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Like, I'm not trying to be a pest here, it's just that I think I must not understand you?
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Wouldn’t the Yakuza be a counter example?
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i don’t know! how exciting
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dunno, you can see low-key coexistence along these lines being pretty stable in the right milieu I think "monopoly on violence" is a confused concept; needn't be a monopoly, relevant actors must merely accept the violence as de facto legitimate
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i.e. you could have multiple "government-style" "legitimate" violent actors in a space, so long as they've got a modus vivendi
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Is this perspective libertarian?
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i dunno, nobody tells me anything
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Organized crime is like a nomadic empire, it must cease to be one or the other
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I mean, that definitely *sounds* super cool, but is it actually true?
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