then i’m guessing you live off grid & cutoff from the system, or are you going to continue to live under their oppression by choice?
you don’t have to give them your earnings if you choose not to
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There is no off grid to the US government. We have an exit tax, so even when leaving the country and renouncing citizenship cannot be freed of taxation. Escape is only an option in extreme desperation.
No I don't go around bitching about oppression and act like a crybaby victim, I just work toward creating a more free world.
But a slave with his head i the sand doesn't make him a free man. Acknowledging oppression isn't giving up. Its remembering who my enemies are
This convi brings up a genuinely interesting question though.
Is it better to change objective reality in an attempt to make one life better, or to reject under any circumstances the idea of being a victim.
The latter is probably more effective individually. Like Viktor Frankl
But it's so tempting to objectively fix problems rather than convince yourself that there are none.
Now idk lol
i think we have very different ideas of what oppression is. i don’t think i am oppressed whereas, you probably do.
i adapt to the growing overreach of control from our government. i stay in my lane & lessen my footprint in the system. i don’t rely on them for anything.
the victim mindset is a trap & that’s probably what they want us to believe so they can increase control.
Evidence points to the idea that they don’t want us to realize they’re oppressing us, but want us to think they’re our friends.
I don’t think the danger of the victim mentality is recognizing when a wrong has been done to you, but in letting that 1. Make your whole life bitter or 2. Make you feel inappropriately entitled
i’m a south-african born american. based on my parents & grandparents lived experience of oppression of black south africans is far from what americans believe of their own oppression
maybe it is oppression in a different magnitude but i have a baseline idea of what it means to be oppressed