Shouldn’t an anarchist lean to the right?

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I was looking at r/anarchism and there are only socialists and communists there, but doesn’t socialism defend a strong state that controls the entire economy and the people? So, I didn’t understand, because anarchism defends the extinction of the state, and the closest thing we have to that would be ultra-libertarian ideas, since the extinction of the state is almost impossible and there must be some body that guarantees the safety of the people. submitted by /u/Fimose_guy [link] […]

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Brickbat: Up Against the Glass

Brickbat: Up Against the Glass

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Former Wilmington, Delaware, police officer Samuel Waters has been sentenced to probation after being found guilty of assault, official misconduct, and evidence tampering. Security video showed Waters enter a convenience store and confront Dwayne Brown, who had just made a purchase. Within seconds, Waters smashed Brown’s head into a plexiglass wall several times. Prosecutors said nothing in the video justified that level of force. They also said Waters’ description of the incident in his report differed from video […]

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A Psychedelic Ban Would Disrupt Important Research

A Psychedelic Ban Would Disrupt Important Research

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You have probably never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), much less worried about its possible abuse. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to ban this synthetic psychedelic, a promising research chemical used in more than 900 published studies, by placing it in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), which defeated a previous DEA attempt to ban DOI in 2022, is determined to stop the agency’s interference with science again. A DEA administrative law judge has scheduled […]

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Calgary Police

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I would like to know your experience with calgary police. I just had a very disappointing experience where the call centre dude actually mocked me for my safety concern. do you know how much courage it takes to report something? If this was all, it would be bad enough. He repeatedly asking me what i wanted the police to do while failing to give me any options. He kept saying over and over that he’s not a police […]

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Statist terminology

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I don’t like the terms such as “government overreach” because it implies that there is a form of government reach that is legitimate. I don’t like the terms “market intervention” and “economic regulation” either, because they imply that there’s something wrong with free markets that must be dealt with by the government. The correct term is market interference, because that term shows how any market manipulations the government is really just interference between parties voluntarily trading with each […]

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