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It Could Happen Here Weekly 74

Behind the Bastards

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The Consensus Process in the United States

If you think that it is legitimate to use for a group of people to use violence to enforce something then by definition you get some kind of consensus process. The police are so clearly just this sort of like roaming like bandit force and they technically draw legitimacy from the people but if you try to convene an assembly of the people in the u.s. the answer is they beat the share of you with sticks and then tear gas you and then start shooting you. That's what their religion that's what their actual legitimacy derives from right is they they want they won the armed revolution yeah? I'm trying to think of a way we can make our own kratos system which would be

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