Idk, I'd be fine if you just stayed asleep.
There is no train.
Any younger generation is going to be less productive by default due to less experience. Although I have to say working in an office with boomers is exhausting. I have to basically explain to them how to do basic functions on a computer. And they are far less productive than I am BC of that. So many of them are extremely less productive BC they are just too old.
Boomers have presided over the most massive expansion of debt in human history. In America they were gifted the most productive economy in human history and they squandered it on themselves. Now not only are boomer offspring saddled with the debt they created, their offsprings offspring are. Boomers robbed from future generations so they could have fancy houses and now refuse to quit but would rather keep coming into work taking up high paying jobs while being too old to keep up anymore. But why leave when you get paid twice what you should. Just sit there and stare at a screen and collect a check until you expire.
Voting is useless, but you're to blame for what the state does if you vote. But yet it doesnt matter who you vote for they all do the same thing. These are all contradictory. And the idea that the voters are somehow responsible for the states actions is also itself a statist idea.
And they are transitioning away from seed oils. Already frying in tallow. This place is on fire.
Trump needs a tissue for his issue.
I just find it odd that the entire conversation is centered around releasing files but there is no talk of prosecution of anybody. Its obvious they have no plans at all of ever holding anybody accountable for this shit. We will almost certainly never get the files. But I'm certain nobody will ever get even as much as a slap on the wrist for it.
Bondi is doing her best acting right now. Its depressing. All of their bluster of reforming the system. What a load of garbage.
Perhaps you should read Lysander Spooner or even Rothbard. Neither of whom considered voting to be complicit in statism. Voting can't even considered to be purely voluntary.
But the strategy of calling people trying to improve their situation in any way they can think of as complicit in the system that has placed them in such a situation is nothing but off putting and callous. And wrong, on top of that.
You can debate about whether its useless or not. I find the blanket statement that its useless is hard to defend given you can't account for every situation. Voting may be useless in some or even most situations. But not all. And if you don't live in the US you haven't seen the cultural shift that vote has caused. Its not all great but its more positive than I've ever witnessed in terms of the prospects for liberty. Republicans are actually talking about ending the income tax now. That would be unheard of just 2 years ago.
But the berating people for voting for the obvious better choice in an election that could have gone either way on a platform mostly of libertarians and anarchists is crazy to me. Do you not think an anarchist or libertarian that voted for trump didn't realize he would do stupid shit?
It really is depressing to see anarchists saying stuff like this. They know its not true but their sinissism gets the best of them. Even if you think voting is useless to follow that up with a claim that those who vote are an accomplice to staitism is absolutely ridiculous.
The sheer ignorance to the actual plight people are placed under by statism that that type of statement portrays is hard for me to comprehend. Its nothing but callousness.
We can sit here and pontificate about what is and isn't libertarian or how we are empowering a politician to hold somebody hostage until we give him what he wants but at the end of the day, an innocent man is free. And that wouldn't have happened under Kamala, and those were the choices we had. Unless you wanted to start shooting, which this guy didn't do.
As much as I hate the state I really am getting tired of this kind of rhetoric from libertarians. "You helped to empower a tyrant, you KNOW what he is!"
Yes I do. The choice wasn't empower a tyrant or not. Would a tyrant not have been empowered had trump lost? Of course not. But Ross would be spending the rest of his life in a cage, that's for sure.
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things." - Andy Dufresne
First, the healthcare market is nothing more than a government regulated racket. However, even if it was fully free market and you didn't want to pay somebody to provide their time and services to save your life, that's not their problem. You can't enslave people, even to save your life. And relating this to coercion because somebody won't provide a service to you without you compensating them is just trying to force a definition onto something you don't like.
Second, a local government forcing you to move in order to not pay a tax you don't want to payis coercion. Plain and simple. If you don't pay the tax, they arrest you.
So scenario 1, you don't pay for a service, you don't get it.
Scenario 2, you don't pay for a service you're thrown in jail.
Maybe one of the most amazing Christmas miracles. I always like to remember this story on #Christmas. Its a firm reminder that people would prefer peace over fighting. And, like most evils in the world, it's only encouraged by the state and the death and misery it causes is all to serve the ends of the narcissists in office who care nothing for the lives of others.
Christmas is the perfect day to spread this message. We can live in peace if we want to. All we have to do is remember our humanity in the face of statism. #Merry Christmas!
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/christmas-truce-world-war-i-0
“The fact is that we did it, and I then came to the conclusion that I have held very firmly ever since, that if we had been left to ourselves there would never have been another shot fired. For a fortnight the truce went on. We were on the most friendly terms, and it was only the fact that we were being controlled by others that made it necessary for us to start trying to shoot one another again.”
I recall in grade school we had author Elie Weisel come to our school and talk about his experience as a prisoner at Auschwitz. He said specifically that he will never give money to the Red Cross BC as the German army marched the prisoners to the camps, the Red Cross was helping the soldiers and watching as the prisoners would collapse in the snow.
Oh but I thought you said out of 195 countries the US is the only one that proves my point. You have shown you know how many countries there are in the world but you just don't know shit about them. 195 countries includes North Korea. But no no no they don't have corruption in government. Its only the US BC we are a bunch of silly capitalists that the rest of the world laughs at. Its such a ridiculous, illogical argument honestly.
At this point you're reduced to making blanket statements about anarchists of which you have already shown you know nothing about.
I'll say this again, your arguments about anarchists are old and tired. I heard them in college from both left and right alike. Back then it was "why don't you move to Somalia" and now you're using the Congo. Even though it has a government, of course that you claim has sold out to corporations. And you're right. Except you miss that those corporations have to buy off the government in order to do what they are doing. You even said it yourself. They sold out. So what the fuck use is the government then? Jfc the mental jumping jacks you have to do are amazing.
So before, only 1 country proved my point. Now its a few of them. Just don't address the corruption in all the European countries I just mentioned. Or talk about the guy in Spain who is saying the same thing about his country. Or maybe the fact that Bill Gates is in hot water in the Netherlands for possibly lying about vaccines and causing injuries. The government definitely didn't allow him to do that in such a non corrupted country though did they? Its not like the response to covid was the same nearly throughout the whole world. Lock down and force people to get a vaccine that made big pharma billions. No definitely not. Its only 1 country that is corrupted. Even though Australia basically went full on authoritarian.
These arguments are just outside the realm of logic. And its sad to me that people have such stockholm syndrome that they keep defending their subjugators.
Bro the whole thread was started by a guy complaining about how the Spanish government doesn't care about him and you came in bitching about he's complaining. Canada is on the verge of having their prime minister ousted by his own party for corruption. He froze the bank accounts of his own citizens for protesting him ruining their lives. Europe is helping the US fund a war that is slaughtering thousands and thousands of people and the EU and NATO have threatening to enter that war which could cause a nuclear Holocaust and end life on the planet as we know it.
But hey, according to you they have regulating food down really well BC they care so much about their people. Just don't complain if they can't help their people during a flood right? BC then they sick their statist shills on you. You're full of shit.
Statists are amazing. They just refuse to see how they are enslaved.
Haha, travel more just not to the countries that don't prove my point.
They just need to regulate harder don't they.
Gosh the government would regulate private industry so well if that damn private industry just didnt get in the way of that.
You mean like how the FDA who is bought and paid for big food regulates food? You mean like how the feds say lucky charms are better for you than meat? You mean like how Big Pharma is regulated so amazingly that they are shielded from liability by the state? You mean like how Americans eat food sprayed with poisons that the feds are totally fine with? You mean like how restaurants are able to serve food fried in rancid oils BC the government encouraged that after they inflated food prices so much people couldn't afford real oils?
Oh yea. Bang up job done by government regulatory bodies that are completely captured by the very industries they regulate. But hey, if we could just get the right people in there it would finally work right? Just had the wring people in there for the last 100 years is all.
Seriously man have you actually been alive in the last ten years? The only people speaking out against government regulatory corruption are private entities. And the government could give a shit.
ROFL a statist talking about economics. That's rich.