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@fluffy These kinds of tails are so hot but seem like they'd be hell to clean, so I've never bought one

Now that the voice actor of Cleveland from Family Guy is stepping down, I fully expect the voice actor of Herbert to step down and be replaced by Joe Biden

@igel @matrix They're just jealous because their god hates anything fun or wholesome so they're not allowed to feel happy.

@coolboymew I bet most of 4chan is edgy minorities hating on themselves

@shebang @mewmew @progo @reinboar

While it may sound overly dramatic, I think people would be well served to remember that no matter how small or how innocent a law or program may seem, sitting right behind it is death.

The power of the State is death. Sure, there are usually steps before that and all sorts of things come into play before it, but at its root, it’s death. This is easy to prove. Fail to pay your taxes. What happens? Someone shows up eventually to ask why so? Then they’ll ask you to do so. Then they’ll order you (via the courts). If you still refuse to comply, men with guns will show up and either attempt to force you or arrest you. Refuse that, they attempt to subdue you. Refuse that, they shoot you. Loop closed.

Oh, but taxes are serious business. Surely that isn’t the case for a little law like jaywalking?! Nope. 100% the same. More steps, takes longer to get there maybe, but the result is the same.

So when one says “We should create a program to do XYZ”, at the root of it one is speaking of forcing people at the point of a gun to do a thing. I’m not addressing the question of whether that thing is or isn’t a good thing. Just pointing out that all state power is force and that matters when one considers what is “compassion” when it comes from the state. To my way of thinking, compassion cannot come from force and can only come from choice. Thus, the state is only vaguely capable of such and only in those rare instances where everyone agrees to the action in question. Very rare instances. Otherwise, the state is forcing people (on one level or another) to comply and do as others want them to do.

Individuals can be compassionate. Private organizations can be compassionate. The state can only sorta approach it

@kazuma@rawr-xd.club You should get the big D instead

@shebang @bigl0af No, no, it was for the student's own good. The officer thought the student might be trying to commit suicide, she was just trying to subdue a violent murderer before they could harm an innocent student! She was "protecting" her from herself.

@fluffy @shebang @jeder And yet it uses that money to fund corrupt police who oppress and murder the citizens. Really makes you think.

@jeder @shebang Then go help the poor voluntarily. Why do you need big daddy Government to do it for you with your own money?

@jeder I’m far from joking, and you know that damn well that all you have done is say that you have the “freedom to pay taxes for go to jail” the “freedom to obey the government or else”. Its not freedom. You just go on about which King you’ll elect, but even if you vote for your master, you are still their serf — their tax stock.

You are just comfortable being property of the state.

@shebang This is your brain on the two party system. My Party is perfect, and responsible for every good thing in the country. Every single thing bad in the entire country is Other Party's fault. Even when My Party fails or makes a mistake, it's Other Party's fault, because Other Party was holding them back or getting in the way.

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I wasn't even going to start the stream until at least 12 hours from now, and it's already been taken down. Tonight's stream is going to be wild, it's so extreme that Youtube's algorithm can detect its rule breaking content 12 hours before it even breaks the rules.

dying sucks but it actually prevents further suffering which makes it a good thing, so murder should be legalized because it's actually saving people from bad times later on in life

Sometimes I regret not transitioning when I was a teen. I feel like it's too late to transition now. I've been feeling so conflicted about my gender identity lately. I feel like such a mess. I don't even know what I want anymore. I keep trying to tell myself I can be happy like this but I don't know if I really can anymore.

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