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Social Services [via The Hipcrime Vocab]

Sep 27, 2012 14:39

Thursday, September 27, 2012

This short article about why Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party is so popular is telling:
Basically, the Golden Dawn, as I learned when I was in Greece, operates as a kind of quasi services mafia. If you're an (ethnically Greek) old lady worried about getting robbed when you go to the ATM, a menacing Golden Dawn thug ( Read more... )

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ragnarok20 September 28 2012, 20:12:01 UTC

lol, yer such a tool.

First of all, the notion that the "empire or nation-state" is contingent upon cooperation is prima facie ludicrous. Read up on yer Weber for fuck's sake. The state is the entity with a monopoly on the "legitimate" use of force. And don't even get me started on Weber's empirical notion of legitimacy. Hah! Trying to infer psychological states of consent from the physical behavior of acquiescence, lol. Especially when such acquiscence comes from an internal fear of prosecution and the state's use of force? It's funny, normally when someone holds a gun to your head, we would say that the coercion inherent in the act would negate said consent, but when the all magical state does it? Oh yeah, that's completely cool because "social contract" dur hur. The back-door for the intellectually lazy ( ... )

nebris September 28 2012, 20:48:19 UTC

I merely re-posted this, dooshbag. Go bitch at the OP if yer panties are in such a fuckin' twist.

~M~

ragnarok20 September 28 2012, 21:23:10 UTC

Why do you think I called you a tool? lol ( ... )

nebris September 28 2012, 21:50:37 UTC

See above

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badnewswade September 28 2012, 22:40:46 UTC

Once again internet sources beat the mainstream media:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/28/greek-police-victims-neo-nazi

underlankers September 29 2012, 00:53:22 UTC

Hezbollah is not really the same thing as the Mexican cartels. Hezbollah reflects on the weakness of the Lebanese state, a factor that as the PLO showed is much older than simply Hezbollah alone. One could in fact argue the reason Hezbollah lasted where Arafat has not is that Hezbollah really *does* provide service over simply fleecing people. However comparing Pakistan to Afghanistan and Somalia is itself a wee bit of an overstatement. The Pakistani military provides the stability, such as it is, where Pakistan is concerned. The state, for that matter, already *has* collapsed once ( ... )