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aloysius  ·  3403 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Deep State America

    Extortion is done to fund a mafia's activities, and the bosses' yachts and so on.
Except people being extorted by the mafia are not part of the mafia, nor have any say in its activities. A representative government is different.

How do you even establish property in the first place?