🚨 92 SECONDS. COPENHAGEN POLICE JUST HUMILIATED PRO-HAMAS TERROR BLOCKADERS — AND THE ENTIRE CONTINENT SHOULD BE TAKING NOTES. ☠️
— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) May 14, 2026
In the grand tradition of Hobbes’ Leviathan and Max Weber’s monopoly on legitimate violence, the Danish state just reminded the world why civilized… pic.twitter.com/YoEB1JIKPY
While the monopoly on violence as the defining conception of the state was first described in sociology by Max Weber in his essay Politics as a Vocation (1919),[1] the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force is a core concept of modern public law, which goes back to French jurist and political philosopher Jean Bodin's 1576 work Les Six livres de la République and English philosopher Thomas Hobbes's 1651 book Leviathan. Weber claims that the state is the "only human Gemeinschaft which lays claim to the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force. As such, states can resort to coercive means such as incarceration, expropriation, humiliation, and death threats to obtain the population's compliance with its rule and thus maintain order. However, this monopoly is limited to a certain geographical area, and in fact this limitation to a particular area is one of the things that defines a state."[2] In other words, Weber describes the state as any organization that succeeds in holding the exclusive right to use, threaten, or authorize physical force against residents of its territory. Such a monopoly, according to Weber, must occur via a process of legitimation.
The video is pure catharsis for anyone tired of watching civilization kneel. Europe — learn or burn.