🇺🇸 "Over the past weeks we've seen men convicted of felonies for posting memes and defending themselves from armed mobs. Meanwhile, San Francisco residents are talking about public hangings because crime is so bad. The only way to understand this is the concept of Anarcho-tyranny.

⬛️ Because the state's enforcers cannot be everywhere at once, it must permit citizens to defend themselves. When it enforces the law only to punish citizens for defending themselves, that is Anarcho-tyranny. The monopoly on violence belongs to criminals.

⬛️ Crime is not a difficult problem. It is one of the first problems any state solves by definition, and one which pre-modern societies managed more effectively than we do now. Our problem is a state that refuses to take accountability for its own power

⬛️ But, the state knows how to punish people. When that same state refuses to stop real crimes and deprives normal people of the right to do so themselves, that's because it's actually punishing you." - Kashî

🧵 Kashî