Then crazies have to be locked up. To be free is to have access to weapons.
Guns are like drugs and prostitutes. If you’re 15 and have worked for several months, while budgeting accordingly, any of the three are available near you. It’s just a question of whether acquiring one of the three is high enough on your preferences to offset the risk of punishment. As things deteriorate and the state loses power that becomes less and less of a barrier to entry. In any of the three markets.
I thought about joining a few years ago. For about 30 seconds. Then reality reasserted itself. Boy was I right on that one.
Membership is definitely worth it. Even at full price. It’s so worth it that not only do I have one, I give my sister and brother in law one for Christmas every year.
Now I got quarters in my loafer’s trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent
Jimmy Buffet- We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About, 1983
Them: how’s it going?
Me: I pulled the head off Elvis filled Fred up to his pelvis…
Them: what?
Me: what?
Is it stealing if someone put the price of the drink I bought in the break room at 20 cents instead of 2 dollars? I tried to explain the mistake to the kiosk but it wouldn’t listen to my explanation.
I guess I should have asked the Drill Sergeants to stop the bus from the Airport on our way to basic training so I could get some good food. I haven’t been back to Saint Louis but maybe I should put it on the list for next year’s vacation.
Right. I’m not even saying it’s a bad thing to have elites necessarily. That probably comes down to how they are selected and what they do with it. The culture of the group. In this case NOSTR and Twitter.
Are there any groups of people without elites? That is people who might not have official authority over the group but who have more influence in the group than other individuals? Is such a thing possible once you get to a situation where there are enough people that you can’t really know everyone?
I’m not saying this is everyone on Nostr but…
Meat seasoning from nostr:npub1g3827ewz6d23rlgdhkaslc78gyule52ymcqdyt2hsxdwtlw8dt5q7dfpvg
I think this might be as accurate a take as I’ve seen on war in general. Not just Vietnam in particular.
Speaking of the Cherokee, the ancestor I was named after has entered the chat. 
I’m just glad I’m only 36. Missed it by that much as Maxwell Smart used to say.
It will be a good morning here in three hours when I’m walking out the plant for a few days off after working nights all weekend.