Steve QJ
1 min readAug 17, 2023

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Ah, okay, fine. So you're suggesting that the state's monopoly on violence is abolished. An abolish the police kind of approach? You're self-identifying as a socialist here. I'm not sure to what degree you're serious about the implications of these ideas (most people who espouse them aren't in practice).

But yes, socialism/communism supporters and abolish the police supporters seem to suffer from the same problem; you loudly and very often rudely support a cause which actually sounds pretty wonderful on paper, but has led to disastrous consequences every time it's actually been attempted.

We don't even have to look that far back in history to see how disastrous abolish the police was. Minneapolis city council tried just defunding the police, and 32 more black people died in the city than the previous year. There was CHAZ/CHOP which led to zero social or political change but did lead to widespread destruction of innocent people's private property and yet more shootings.

As for communism/socialism, look, I honestly love the idea. If it were even remotely practical, if it didn't leave a trail of corruption, poverty and genocide in its wake every single time, taking from each according to their abilities and giving to each according to their need sounds wonderful.

But political activism has to be practical. Otherwise it's far worse than useless. So if you don't have a plan to avoid the terrible consequences that have accompanied these ideas every single time they've been implemented, you're just a poser. And you insult and straw man people because deep down, you know it.

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Steve QJ
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