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There’s a threshold or level of violence where the state no longer has a monopoly.

The monopoly only holds when the population consents (implicitly or explicitly) or when resistance is small enough to be crushed without systemic risk.

When violence reaches a certain scale… civil war, insurgency, cartel warfare, economic collapse etc… the monopoly shatters.

Suddenly, authority is decentralized. Legitimacy becomes local, tribal, or transactional.

This is not something generally speaking that you want to live through.

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Neal 8mo ago

the taliban in iraq and afghanistan. i forget how that turned out over the decades.

oh i remember, they are stronger and better equipped than before we spent, i mean wasted, 8 TRILLION for nothing

pretty good for rag tag rag heads against the MiGhTiEsT fOrCe on Earth!

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