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Trump Begs Supreme Court to Let Him Go to War With Chicago

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Trump Begs Supreme Court to Let Him Go to War With Chicago - Lemmy.World

Archive article:https://archive.is/4SYyk [https://archive.is/4SYyk] In an attempt to argue that ICE protestors are radically out of control, the emergency appeal argues, “The federal agents’ efforts are met with prolonged, coordinated, violent resistance that threatens their lives and safety and systematically interferes with their ability to enforce federal law.” The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment. The White House was caught trying to pass off footage of violence in red states as footage from the “chaos” in Chicago last week.

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xyzzy Oct 18

At its most basic level, society is just a mutual non-aggression pact with the enforcement mechanism of the state monopoly on violence. The condition of that monopoly is that state violence must be used in an unbiased and dispassionate way. Any violations of this condition are only tolerated to the extent that open war is mutually assured destruction, a decidedly worse outcome.

The politicians inciting violence and the oligarchs supporting them should realize that if state violence leads to open war, there are no more rules.

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MiikCheque

I wonder if this is partly why Zuckerberg keeps building bunkers