The failure of the state to do its job should be desirable to anyone who sees themselves as an anarchist, as this is what anarchy looks like. Potholes. Potholes are a sign and a symptom of anarchy. Maybe they get filled, but unfilled potholes are not a sign of a powerful state. Its a sign that anarchy(or maybe something else, like foreign powers and peoples) has weakened the state, anarchy exists. Anarchists love potholes, and when bad things happen because the government failed to stop them.
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I would say instead that anarchists love it when the statists are proved wrong, when failing to prevent the harms misguided statists claim the state is necessary to mitigate. I have no love for bad things happening. I don't know anyone that does.
I am glad to be proved right, but not that the bad things that prove me right occur.