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Sure, though I think at the same time the state is going to be less and less capable of funding violence. They’ll need to treat people more like customers when they can’t easily seize or print.

Tommy "The Purchase" 4mo ago

I agree with that in principle and printing does seem to be getting harder overall but most Western countries are just primed and ready for the type of War Socialism that Mises described and that was the law of the land during and after the world wars.

We've all lived through a brief spell of totalitarianism and it simply needs another crisis, pretend or otherwise, to bring about total domination of all aspects of daily life and you know something? Most of the people we know will bare their fangs at the mere thought of criticizing the regime.

Australia had camps for dissidents five years ago, Germany still has camps left over from the last time tyranny was en vogue, and the US can, allegedly through FEMA, plonk one down wherever people get a little too uppity with their guns and their decentralized money.

I'm not saying all is lost but I'm rapidly losing faith in that meaningful change can be brought about peacefully.

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caleb 4mo ago

I suspect you may be right. One silver lining is there are a lot of people now inoculated against “two weeks to slow the spread” tyranny that would absolutely flip out if tried again. Hella people are red pilled and based or whatever now. I don’t think the regime is getting stronger.

Tommy "The Purchase" 4mo ago

I agree, the soft tyranny approach, leading unsuspecting cattle to the slaughter, seems to be burnt for the moment, too many people caught on to the fact that at the very least, government programmes might not always work quite as planned 😄 That's why I think the next thing they'll try is going to be the big patriotic hurrah of a "necessary and unavoidable war to defend our freedom" ... hundreds or thousands of miles from where our lives actually take place, destroying the lives of people so poor they can't find two goats to rub together while further impoverishing the lower and middle class in western countries.

And I also agree that the regime is getting weaker, they blatantly announce things they had the decency to at least cover up just a few years ago.

Or, you know, arresting protesters while telling them they should be happy they don't live in Russia where they arrest protesters.