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We just had that whole Cliven Bundy thing happen a few years ago, no? Also, large swathes of the western US, Alaska, Appalachia, etc., are often difficult for authorities to access (at least quickly). It's important to be clear that the lack of government control in Central Africa has a lot to do with that same sort of geographic inaccessibility. There are whole countries in Asia that exist largely because of the dif…
> We just had that whole Cliven Bundy thing happen a few years ago, no? That's interesting because of how unusual it is. If there were hundreds of him, the US would be like central Africa. > governments understandably have trouble administering thousands of square miles of jungle. I'm sure that governments feel better that you understand their problems. You're replying to somebody who is enumerating those problems, n…
The insistence on othering what clearly isn't an alien experience for our own society is annoying. It's also a bit dangerous, considering how the, "Just swoop in and merc the bastards," produced the Bundy approach; disrespect for the complexity of dealing with militias leads to tragedy.