No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.
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Tyranny might sound nice in the short term, but tyranny ends in slavery.
Living in a police state is like living in a prison. The education, healthcare, clothes, food, and housing are free and prisons are safe.
The problem is that the hardworkers quit and the police state becomes a real prison with slavery.
Some say the civil war will start when the economy crashes and Americans are starving in the street, but what if the elites are not going to wait that long?
The USA is already a police state.
What if the ruling class will use some kind of real or fake emergency like Russia or Ebola to force Americans to willingly go to the concentration camps?
What if Fargo is liquidated by the US Army? Will Americans revolt or will they just shrug?
If the US armed terrorists to overthrow Assad then why doesn't the USA arm the French so that they can overthrow Macon?
Who will supply American rebels when the US Civil War 2.0 starts?
The elites always sell tyranny as something that benefits you and only punishes others.
Checkpoints were sold as a way to stop evil drunk-drivers, but now checkpoints are for everyone.
TSA groping, CIA torture, kill lists, and NSA wiretapping were sold as a way to stop Muslims, but now they are for everyone.
Forfeiture was spun as a way to stop drug users, but now is used for everyone.
Gun bans will be sold as a way to stop negroes from shooting people, but they will soon be for everyone.
Free speech will be banned to stop flag-burning, protesting, porn, reporting, advertising, prostitution, and hate speech.
Concentration camps and the wall are sold as a way to control illegal immigrants, but they will soon be for everyone.
Americans will never learn.
The US is no longer a democracy and voting doesn't work when your only choices are either a Nazi or a Commie.
Do Americans fire the first shot on soldiers and the Gestapo now or will Americans just cowardly tolerate tyranny like the Chinese, Cubans, Cambodians, Vietnamese, and North Koreans do?
Americans today should either be leaving the USA or planning for the collapse.
This tyranny cannot go on forever. What kind of life is this?
Tyranny might sound nice in the short term, but tyranny ends in slavery.
Living in a police state is like living in a prison. The education, healthcare, clothes, food, and housing are free and prisons are safe.
The problem is that the hardworkers quit and the police state becomes a real prison with slavery.
Some say the civil war will start when the economy crashes and Americans are starving in the street, but what if the elites are not going to wait that long?
The USA is already a police state.
What if the ruling class will use some kind of real or fake emergency like Russia or Ebola to force Americans to willingly go to the concentration camps?
What if Fargo is liquidated by the US Army? Will Americans revolt or will they just shrug?
If the US armed terrorists to overthrow Assad then why doesn't the USA arm the French so that they can overthrow Macon?
Who will supply American rebels when the US Civil War 2.0 starts?
The elites always sell tyranny as something that benefits you and only punishes others.
Checkpoints were sold as a way to stop evil drunk-drivers, but now checkpoints are for everyone.
TSA groping, CIA torture, kill lists, and NSA wiretapping were sold as a way to stop Muslims, but now they are for everyone.
Forfeiture was spun as a way to stop drug users, but now is used for everyone.
Gun bans will be sold as a way to stop negroes from shooting people, but they will soon be for everyone.
Free speech will be banned to stop flag-burning, protesting, porn, reporting, advertising, prostitution, and hate speech.
Concentration camps and the wall are sold as a way to control illegal immigrants, but they will soon be for everyone.
Americans will never learn.
The US is no longer a democracy and voting doesn't work when your only choices are either a Nazi or a Commie.
Do Americans fire the first shot on soldiers and the Gestapo now or will Americans just cowardly tolerate tyranny like the Chinese, Cubans, Cambodians, Vietnamese, and North Koreans do?
Americans today should either be leaving the USA or planning for the collapse.
This tyranny cannot go on forever. What kind of life is this?
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Everywhere one looks these days, the world seems to be moving away from debate on contentious subjects and toward demands that those who have unpopular opinions â or even just ask impertinent questions â be forcibly silenced.
âYou will never hear me mention his name,â Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said of Brenton Tarrant, the sole suspect in two deadly attacks on mosques in Christchurch. âHe may have sought notoriety but here in New Zealand we will give him nothing â not even his name.â
Thatâs fine as a personal decision, I guess, but not as a top-down decision for her fellow New Zealanders. Even as Ardern spoke, police working for her government were arresting at least two people for sharing the shooterâs live-streamed video of the attacks on social media.
Across the Tasman Sea, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is calling on the governments of G20 countries to implement measures âincluding appropriate filtering, detecting and removing of content by actors who encourage, normalize, recruit, facilitate or commit terrorist and violent atrocities.â
Letâs be clear about what Morrison, other âworld leaders,â and significant segments of activist communities and even the general public are demanding (and to a frightful degree already implementing): Internet censorship.
This isnât really a new development. The mosque attacks are merely the latest incident weaponized by politicians and activists in service to a long-running campaign against public discussion and debate that requires them to make arguments and persuade instead of just bark orders and compel.
The fictional âmemory holeâ of the IngSoc regime in George Orwellâs 1984 stood for more than half a century as an oft-cited and wisely acknowledged warning. Now that hole is opening up beneath us for real and threatening to suck us down into a new Dark Age of âthoughtcrimeâ and âunpersons.â
The threat is content-independent. Renaming climate change skeptics âdeniersâ and demanding âinvestigationsâ of them, or pressuring media to ban discussions of policy on vaccines is just as evil as suing Alex Jones for promulgating bizarre theories about the Sandy Hook massacre.
The only appropriate response to âbadâ speech â that is, speech one disagrees with â is âbetterâ speech.
Attempting to shut down your opponentsâ ability to participate in an argument isnât itself a winning argument. Forbidding your opponents to speak to a problem doesnât solve that problem.
In fact, those tactics are tantamount to admitting that your arguments are less persuasive and that your solutions canât withstand scrutiny.
Freedom of thought and expression are primary, foundational rights. They make it possible for us to hash out issues and solve problems peaceably instead of by force. Any attempt to suppress them is itself a call for totalitarianism and the alternative to those liberties is social and political death.
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Nazis and Commies scream that there needs to be a civil war because of illegal immigrants, homosexuality, and marijuana, but no one cares that the US is a bankrupt warmongering police state.
While the USA is headed for a collapse, maybe the 99% should unite and fight the elites who are the real enemy instead of each other.
If Americans cannot be on the same page then why doesn't the USA break up into 2 or 3 separate countries or why don't all 50 states secede from Washington, DC?
Why don't Americans try to convince the Gestapo and soldiers that they work for the bankers and that the Gestapo and soldiers are traitors to the 99%? Getting rid of the bankers would be easy if no one protected them.
Do you really want to kill your neighbor or cousin because they support homosexuality?
Are Americans unable to recognize hypocrisy?
Can anyone take the moral high ground now?
Can Commies see the hypocrisy of supporting marijuana while outlawing vaping?
Nazis hate Commies because Commies love free trade and illegal immigrants, but Fascists used to support free trade and illegal immigration.
Why was Obama an evil monster for defending Obamacare and gun bans, but Trump is a holy god for keeping Obamacare and supporting gun control?
WTF?
Would you kill someone because they wore the wrong color? Do you really support what you believe or are you just parroting your team talking points?
Would the USA really be a utopia if all the Jews, Muslims, females, queers, illegal aliens, and blacks were dead?
The first US Civil War was a pretty black and white issue. The South supported slavery and the North didn't.
Civil War 2.0 wouldn't be so clear-cut.
What would you do if you were Spanish during the Spanish Civil War or Chinese during the Chinese Civil War? Would you pick a side or leave?
The advantage of leaving the US now is that you might stay alive temporarily, but the danger of leaving the USA and not fighting is that Libertarians who flee to live in the Amazon, Siberia, or on a sailboat risk finding that tyranny might finally chase them down.
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@dcjogger when you hate laws so much you want to kill yourself
Wow.
Americans have gone stark-raving mad.
Nazis and Communists scream Libertarians care about trifling issues, but Libertarians aren't the ones who who want to regulate teakwood.
Americans say Nazism is the American way because Communism killed more people.
Americans swear remaining quiet is the answer to tyranny.
Americans scream Libertarians are Commies.
Americans insist owning tigers must be illegal because tigers will go extinct, but people now own cats and dogs. Do pet owners have a vested interest in killing their own cats and dogs?
Americans are so retarded today that they say shoes are made by the government.
Americans insist that you are still moral when you cheat on your wife if you are not bisexual.
Americans have become so batshit insane now that they insist anyone wearing a costume, badge, and a gun is a holy god, but do the Gestapo ever make mistakes?
Why should anyone care if you own guns, use prostitutes, go to church, or smoke?
Have Americans ever read a history book before?
Americans have become such pussified snowflakes now that they beg their beloved government overlords to protect them from scary illegal immigrants and guns.
The USA had open borders before, why not now? Do you really think that the US never had black people before today?
If banning guns will stop people from shooting others, will outlawing murder stop homicides?
The government regulates airlines, but do airplanes still crash?
Americans are simply unable to understand that decrees have unintended consequences.
China used to say all birds must be killed, but then insects multiplied and lead to starvation.
China used to say that the population must grow, but population growth lead to a one child policy. Now China doesn't have enough young people and the sex ratio is lopsided because boys outnumber girls.
Americans start wars and are then stunned that there are refugees, terrorism, tyranny, and debt.
The US bans business and then Americans are shocked when homelessness increases.
The US starts a trade war and then Americans are completely dumbfounded that no one buys US exports and prices soar.
Americans say coffee must be banned because it is dangerous, but what if an expert wrote a study saying coffee is safe?
Could there possibly be any other way to other way to help the environment besides arresting users of straws?
Americans scream seatbelts must be mandatory because accidents raise insurance costs, but if insurance rates are so important then why not ban skydiving, rope, swimming pools, and ladders, too?
Do Americans who hate freedom feel like traitors?
Nazis and Commies scream that there needs to be a civil war because of illegal immigrants, homosexuality, and marijuana, but no one cares that the US is a bankrupt warmongering police state.
While the USA is headed for a collapse, maybe the 99% should unite and fight the elites who are the real enemy instead of each other.
If Americans cannot be on the same page then why doesn't the USA break up into 2 or 3 separate countries or why don't all 50 states secede from Washington, DC?
Why don't Americans try to convince the Gestapo and soldiers that they work for the bankers and that the Gestapo and soldiers are traitors to the 99%? Getting rid of the bankers would be easy if no one protected them.
Do you really want to kill your neighbor or cousin because they support homosexuality?
Are Americans unable to recognize hypocrisy?
Can anyone take the moral high ground now?
Can Commies see the hypocrisy of supporting marijuana while outlawing vaping?
Nazis hate Commies because Commies love free trade and illegal immigrants, but Fascists used to support free trade and illegal immigration.
Why was Obama an evil monster for defending Obamacare and gun bans, but Trump is a holy god for keeping Obamacare and supporting gun control?
WTF?
Would you kill someone because they wore the wrong color? Do you really support what you believe or are you just parroting your team talking points?
Would the USA really be a utopia if all the Jews, Muslims, females, queers, illegal aliens, and blacks were dead?
The first US Civil War was a pretty black and white issue. The South supported slavery and the North didn't.
Civil War 2.0 wouldn't be so clear-cut.
What would you do if you were Spanish during the Spanish Civil War or Chinese during the Chinese Civil War? Would you pick a side or leave?
The advantage of leaving the US now is that you might stay alive temporarily, but the danger of leaving the USA and not fighting is that Libertarians who flee to live in the Amazon, Siberia, or on a sailboat risk finding that tyranny might finally chase them down.
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