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The person who robbed me in uninsured so my safety support representative denied my claim

Source: twitter

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[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

You can literally subscribe to a protection company right now who will back down instead of facing the "enormous cost" of war with the federal government. Freedom!

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

This is sincere isn't it? Somebody sincerely made this.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Law without government is when you have various Yakuza families arbitrate large scale protection rackets. But kiryu never shows up. Everyone's just Mine from Yakuza 3 except worse (and that guy knocked down an orphanage)

kiryu-approaching

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Subscribe

Sounds like owning nothing and being happy.

"Just trust porky bro"

Proceeds to describe insurance, something infamous for being completely useless (and some you are required by law to subscribe to).

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Ancaps invent government but much worse

[–] BumbleBeeButt@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago

Without government Marie's might is right, she pays a ganger to whack Walter. Problem solved.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Walter Robs Marie. Walter is very rich and pays Marie's protection company to look the other way. In fact, Walter owns all protection companies and uses his wealth and power to pillage the wealth of others and destroy any competition before it can challenge him.

[–] CoolYori@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sweet Jesus, its like they thought Snow Crash was a manual or something.

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[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

What's stopping ADT and Ring from just having their own turfs that they agree they stay in and robbing anyone who lives in their turf to make them pay for their services?

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite part of this is payment with what? Without a government to back currency there is no money. There's a reason Milei is attempting to put Argentina on the dollar and it's because an-caps are completely bankrupt ideologically they get so tied up in their little privatization schemes that they don't even bother dealing with the fundamental underpinnings of the system.

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[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of coworkers explaining how microservices would make our monolith faster.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure am glad that all actors always have equal power in every interaction. I mean, can you imagine?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Genuinely just a clumsy and even-more-extractive version of feudalism. They claim that there is no government, but what are these companies if not competing governments? Just because they are "private" doesn't mean they aren't if we are to say that governments are a sociological phenomenon and not just "a thing some bodies call themselves"

This all sounds great, but what's the catch?

[–] booty@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

This is just the government again guys

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I have to hope that this was made as a bit, but knowing libertarians, it's not

[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Just full throttle toward snow crash let's go baby

[–] christian@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I thought this was satire until I looked at the twitter thread. This is one of the best things I've ever seen on hexbear.

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