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ziq OP wrote (edited )

as soon as your city gets ransacked the first time, you're building a police force, courts, prisons, guards, parole officers and you'll have reproduced the state 1:1.

even before all that, you'll have formed a standing military to defend the city's borders from 'reactionaries'.

you can keep lying to yourself and pretend every pillaging bandit will get stopped by random bystanders who just happen to be loitering at the scene of the crime in the dead of night, or you can own it and be a proud liberal instead of a dishonest ancom.

it only takes one successful raid to wipe out the food reserves or poison the water supply or burn down the factories, but yeah you're going to risk it all in the hopes that a good Samaritan is in the right place at the right time with the right skills to stop marauders from taking everything your workers have sacrificed their time and energy for

cities require authority to function, anyone who doesn't see that is deluding themselves

and you're barely even cognizant of what anarcho-communism claims (lies) to be since you're openly calling for laws, police, a monopoly on violence, property rights and borders.

but i do appreciate an ancom who takes their ideology to its natural conclusions in the planning stage instead of handwaving away all the inevitable implications until they're directly confronted with them in life

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Pash wrote (edited )

As soon as your band of brigands gets pwned in the first raid, you're building weapons and vehicles to organized a more successful second raid. Now what you don't know is that Ki'dal is actually a double agent spying for me, and the weapons he got from the ancom contact he hyped up are defective. Our operative has planted a miniaturized listening device inside your dreadlocks.

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Pash wrote (edited )

and you're barely even cognizant of what anarcho-communism claims (lies) to be since you're openly calling for laws, police, a monopoly on violence, property rights and borders.

I didn't call for police, nor did I mention "anarcho-communism", whatever that is.

it only takes one successful raid to wipe out the food reserves or poison the water supply or burn down the factories, but yeah you're going to risk it all in the hopes that a good Samaritan is in the right place at the right time with the right skills to stop marauders from taking everything your workers have sacrificed their time and energy for

Interesting threat assessment. Wat do?

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