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 Anarchists, do you wanna fight the police state? Join the military, and stage a coup.  
 I've got better plans 🤔 
 Smoking marijuana, eating cheetos, and masturbating? 
 I'm here to smoke marijuana, eat cheetos, and masturbate. And I'm all out of Cheetos 😎 
 Sounds like fun! 😁 
 this is a very poor suggestion with exceptionally high cost that would never work 
 & it just comes across like you hate anarchists & dont mind if they are thrown to the meat grinder 
 I like anarchist leaders, but an average member is subpar.  
 My wife's uncle tried a coup, once. It didn't work out and he had to flee to Europe. 

That country is a corrupt Statist hellhole, but a successful coup would have fixed very little (in the long term anyway). There had been others before.

A successful coup requires buy-in after the fact by powerbrokers. Not all of them, so its better than voting for different flavours of uniparty, but you can't hope to destroy the State while deriving all your power from it.

This is an awesome book on the topic, but longer on tactics than strategy.
https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=684A231814029B3D4B01E08EB5C112EA 
 I kinda know that it doesn't change anything, but it must be fun