What exactly do you mean? Monopolization? Superstructure? Violence? Where do I need to start? At the definition of a state?
My critique is as follows: Violence is currently monopolized by a hierarchical system of command & control - the state. I (and I'm presuming: OP as well) question the legitimacy of the state and its' monopoly of violence.
I would prefer it if the necessary amount of violence would be controlled by horizontal power structures.
But not all societies monopolize violence in an institutional superstructure.
You could argue that MLK didn't really work. And Gandhi's contemporaries weren't that peaceful, but quite influential. That narrative just isn't that great for the people in power.
Well, cops are responsible for quite a few murders/homicides over here and I'm quite sure that the intention of the meme is quite as crass.
I don't have a comprehensive definition of "weird". But having "concerts" and election propaganda in a multiplayer shooter isn't weird to you?
Yes, it is still weird. Wewve just gotten used to it.
The weirdness of that stuff is the reason people don't like fortnite.
I miss the days when the justice system replied to the statement "this might hurt our business" with "too bad". (In the case when sony lost to that PS emulator)
Why would I think of something better than a strawman when replying to a strawman?
As I said in another post: Cops protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, colonialist, patriarchal state by enacting violence on the ruled class. That's not a judgement: it's their purpose in the system.
Individuals with bully-like personalities self-select into that job, while decent people are actively shunned. Because group cohesion is more important than "doing the right thing".
Why do you defend cops so much?
That's not true. ACAB everywhere, including Europe.
Sure, all the police violence incidents are "individual outliers". /s
Username checks out.