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It isn't a new or right now position for me. You may recall me ranting about the national guard deployments too.

I have imperfect information always and I know it. I can't let that paralyze me from choosing the best path as I see it to get to the most universal application of the non aggression principle.

Trump's last term ended with riots in the Capital building where people died. Kamala had no such direct tie to aggressive acts of violence. I simply return to my home base of the non aggression principle and do the best I can by it based on history as I understand it.

I don't know what Kamala would have done and never will for sure but I knew Trump incited violence and history tells me 2nd terms are usually escalations. So far my prediction about Trump was true. My prediction about Kamala was a do nothing lame duck because the Republicans would have controlled congress, maybe I'm wrong.

But the other guy is worse thinking is what allows the parties to run 2 shitbirds like that and know the people won't just give it to a third party.

YODL 5d ago

Yes, I recall the ranting about national guard. And I see generally where you're coming from. Big fan of non aggression principle, though more of a recent thing, so still not really applying it to my views in practice.

Not sure I can agree with you on the inciting violence thing, but don't wanna go there. I wonder, would you change your tune if it came out that the election was in fact stolen? I don't have proof, but I think it was. And the stuff coming out now about Jan 6 suggests it was trumped up (no pun) to get people riled up against maga folks. Too deep a rabbithole for me, today anyway.

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Bill Cypher 5d ago

Stats I have seen make me question both 2020 and 2024 being stolen. I think both were pretty bad with voter fraud given the statistical anomalies I saw. Speaking of way deep rabbit holes and having important shit to do today.

I wasn't there. I can't say how bad Jan 6 was but it wasn't good that is for sure.

On a lighter note, or not, I'm over a decade deep with non aggression principle and still finding things I need to change to align with it better. I started highly motivated by an existential crisis over nearly shooting a meth head too. Kinda scary how engrained violence is in our seemingly peaceful society that it takes that long to uncover all the sources violence.

YODL 5d ago

I recall testing something on Twitter in 2020. There was a viral post about Benfords law going around after the famous Biden chart shooting up moment. I tried a simple retweet of it, and bam, banned for 12 hours. The principle is used to detect financial cooking of books, but it's somehow disinformation worthy of an instaban should you try and apply it to election numbers...nothing weird there.

Would need to know more about the incident with the shooting to weigh in, but probably good that you avoided that haha...I prefer Bill Cypher the pacifist over Kill Bill (bad, bad attempt at humor)

Bill Cypher 4d ago

Pacifist nothing. Definitely trying to do the peaceful not harmless thing. I had decided and after tons of reflection I'd make the same decision again.

Not too complicated a story. Meth head bouncing off the walls charged me. Fast reflexes all around meant he saw the gun and stopped far enough away to leave me time to me to process that he stopped and not pull the trigger. Then he just ran away.

No idea if the world is better this way or if I killed him. Maybe it scared him into sobering up or maybe he brought a weapon next time. It isn't like we get together once a year on the anniversary to catch up.