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A private company can’t take away my property via imminent domain and civil forfeiture. A private company doesn’t have an army of masked jack booted thugs that
by raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
A private company can’t take away my property via imminent domain and civil forfeiture. A private company doesn’t have an army of masked jack booted thugs that can shoot people and have “qualified immunity”, etc.
Only the government has a monopoly on legalized violence. I’ll take my chances on not giving the government more power
- satvikpendem 8mo agoI mean, this is historically untrue, such as with VOC for example.
- raw_anon_1111 8mo agoWell we aren’t talking about “historically” there is no reasonable path to get from here -> masked thugs from Google snatching someone off the street and disappearing them in another country
- satvikpendem 8mo agoWell, these are unreasonable times.
- farseer 8mo agoVereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), or Dutch East India Company