I like especially: Marxist theory inflates the state until it’s too big to be observed, thus leading to an illusion of statelessness. – that requires illusion and dreaming too, an almost constant narcotic dreamstate.

I ultimately dunno about the NRA, but they do help us a lot here in CA.

Pretty much. While the plural of anecdote isn’t data and all that, most of the collectivist-leaning anarchists I tried to avoid in the late ’90s punk scene were indeed gullible. A sizable portion of the kids who got involved then (and likely a great many of the ones today throwing bricks outside of G20 meetings and such) don’t start out as ideologues though. A lot of the time, they come from dysfunctional families or were unpopular in high school, and the freaky punks or neo-hippies offered them a place where they felt like they “belonged.”

Even the spoiled rich kids we all like to laugh at who show up at an anti-capitalist protest in daddy’s BMW often have some sort of family issues. Granted, it’s usually something childish like being mad because daddy bought them a gray Lexus instead of the red one, but the collectivists still descend on them like vampires to exploit this and convince them the collective can essentially replace family.

With regards to the Marxist version of statelessness being a carrot, well, I’m saying it’s deeper than that. Yes, the promised communist utopia is a lie, but my point is that the commies and some anarchists actually believe the lie because they’ve redefined the concept of state until it means something different.

In essence, Marxist theory inflates the state until it’s too big to be observed, thus leading to an illusion of statelessness. In physical terms, imagine the state is a prison fence. Marxism simply expands the size of this cage past the horizon where you can’t see it, then tells you there is no fence. A gullible or impulsive anarchist might exclaim “Yay, no fence!” Whereas the anarcho-capitalist, libertarian, or conservative will realize the cage now imprisons everyone and everything.

As for the NRA doing some reverse Judo shit to throw a wrench in the works, I guess the only way to know for sure is if DISCLOSE still manages to pass with the exemption and their support. But seeing as they and their apologists told everyone straight up that it’s better to get an exemption than fight, they were either lying then or will be lying later if they claim it was all strategy. In either case, why should we continue to believe them?