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Pure contextomy. He’s not insistent on anything to do with the military, and you pretended that he insisted Trump should get the military to seize vot...

ssu - “Yeah, just an ex-National Security Advisor (and former US general) of Trump insisting that Trump should use the military to confiscate the voti...

I don’t think altruism is when you act with the interests of everyone in mind, especially when it comes to voting. To me, to suppose that one can know...

I took a rare look on Twitter yesterday just to analyze the cringe and I wasn’t disappointed. True believers and CNN talking heads were practically be...

The fact is exactly how I stated it, and you’ve done nothing to refute it.

That’s rich. I neither brought up the interview nor shared it. I only used it to show what was said, and only because I couldn’t find it anywhere else...

I was linking to the interview.

Yea, an irresponsible fear. No, Michael Flynn insisted Trump should appoint a special counsel to investigate the voting machines and exactly what happ...

It’s not like medicine or anything else has advanced in a century. No, it was surely the fact that we outlawed dancing and meddled in everyone’s lives...

Yeah, one wasn’t a pity party for celebrities and had a little more balls to it.

Never forget: it was ok to take over Capitol Hill when Hillary-supporters did it. https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/1047935416182235136?s=21

You don’t know right from wrong? You can study laws until the cows come home, but if you do not know right from wrong, just from unjust, you could not...

I’m not speaking about the state, though it is certainly one arbiter of justice. Anyone can be just and any amount of people can determine whether an ...

The principle is justice. With his actions he has proven he isn’t deserving of human life and dignity.

I suppose if a crime shows such a disregard for human life and dignity the perpetrator deserves nothing less than to be put down.

I mean specifically to protect the innocent from violence, to counter one act of violence with another. But I also believe violent reciprocation is of...

Violence is ethical if it is used to counter unjust violence. I would even say it is ethical when used in the service of justice, for instance, with t...

Yes, it’s a state-managed collectivist economy through-and-through, and the current seizure is only evidence of how far it is willing to go. But forci...

The fact that a slave could choose to escape his masters doesn't make him any more free. Perhaps we have different conceptions of freedom.

I much rather stay and convince you to stop stealing my wealth. It’s in both of our interests.

No agreement here. I register my vehicle, get a license, drive on their roads because I have no other option. :down:

Around here the government has seized the economy, effectively denying many people to conduct businesses, and in some cases to leave their homes, to e...

I would not be stealing if I use them because the roads are available to use by anyone, including those that don’t pay their taxes and foreigners. I w...

It sounds about right, to me. Combine this with the fact that no other force, being, or object can be shown to cause or direct a person’s decisions bu...

No. Even in areas where I think the state is legitimate, I have never once thought to myself “the government sure did a good job.”

I thought taxes paid for roads.

You’ve always been creepy. If you quit stealing my wealth I’ll quit using your roads.

Does it upset you when I criticize the state?

You are a thief. The exploitation of labor is when you steal the fruits of someone else’s labor for your own benefit, like a thief, like a state.

Would you steal someone’s wealth if there was no law or state prohibiting you from doing so?

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but working together for common goals seems to me to involve a little more work and community than letting an institution ski...

No thanks. I seek no membership in a social system that runs on exploitation. If you want to be altruistic you ought to stop delegating someone else t...

Voting confers power. It can only go so far as to give a person or party the right to control and regulate and make decisions on your behalf. It serve...

When you give an institution the power to realize needs you give them the power to determine what the needs are. If you give the government the power ...

Our technology has advanced exponentially while the species has hardly evolved. This seems to me a fundamental problem.

My only point was it’s not unrealistic to seek better conditions, as humans have been doing since time immemorial. So in fact it’s not unrealistic to ...

Sure, it’s hard to pack up and leave. No one said it was easy. But the unrealistic part is believing one can or should be insulated from such hardship...

The United States employs Marxist doctrines and is a communist party? What? Yes, it turns out you can do pretty well economically if you employ slave ...

Communist parties do. I might wonder which communist state, current or otherwise, you’d prefer to live in, but I suspect I know the answer.

We’ve also had to fundamentally alter our lives, go into lockdowns, all for the expressed purposes of avoiding overwhelming the hospitals. So we were ...

It’s easy enough that if the choice were between “wage slavery”, “exploitation”, and starting a business, I’d start a business. Unfortunately it invol...

That seems like a fair analysis. I used to feel that way, too. But I’ve come to find the theory of exploitation risks limiting one’s options, and wors...

It makes sense to me. I would have to hold them accountable for any action they perform by the simple fact that it is them and only them that perform ...

I never said we see a flower without light. In fact, I clearly said light hits the eyes directly. You asked me if ankles were a part of perception. I ...

The light wave is something in the environment. If we wanted to, we could touch the flower to our eyeball, though I don't think it's necessary. You ca...

If you look at a list of states that self-identify as socialist you’ll find an utterly abysmal track record when it comes to sustainability and mercy.

I appreciate the breakdown of the metaphor. I just do not see how it accurately describes any of the conditions, relations, or systems we’re talking a...

I’m simply referencing how the perceiver is in direct contact with the environment. Light hits the eyes directly; sound waves hit the ears directly; w...

We perceive as much of the environment that is available to our periphery, including the flower. This environment is in direct contact with the percei...

So there is no image, no medium upon which it appears, and no little perceiver to look at it. None of that exists when we physically examine the biolo...