• XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml
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    Step 1: Abolish Government

    Step 2: Establish absolutely no institutional infrastucture to ensure nobody else makes a new government. Because that would be authoritatian.

    Step 3: Someone makes another government by establishing a monopoly on violence.

    Step 4: Abolish Government… wait what?

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      Straw man
      noun

      • An argument or opponent set up so as to be easily refuted or defeated.
      • A doll or scarecrow (particularly one stuffed with straw).
      • An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related thing or idea.
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        Specify how what I described is different than what you’d do then. What mechanisms or institutions would you put in place to prevent step 3?