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It makes a lot more sense when you realize that the machinery of the state (including especially law enforcement) exists solely to preserve and maintain the existing socioeconomic order and not to, you know, enforce laws or protect the public.

The system is working as designed. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. It’s everywhere.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=A0wMSNlBBjc

I'd rather have someone maintain existing socioeconomic order than a total breakdown like, e.g. Haiti where random gangs control the city.

safest place for that is in a communist state, where crime is a monopoly of the Party.

False choice. There are other and better options than these two.

Also if you were on the very bottom of the socioeconomic order, maintaining it would take on a different meaning.

The legal and political system exists to defend property of the wealthy, not liberty.

The fact that the seizures happened on the "1 year anniversary" makes it particularly macabre.