xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@cjd It was literally the only way I could keep myself sane. I had my adult family members move back in during that time do I needed to take walks in order to think straight. Didn't even wear a mask. I just walked on our local trail along with a bunch of other people who were doing the same.

@cjd Okay you do have a point, but even then pretty much even practices civil disobedience in one way or another. It's the exact reason why so many laws are unenforced. It's why most cops don't care if you drive 5mph above the speed limit or even 20mphs above the speed limit in the case of highways. It's because everyone does it and they can't ticket everyone.

But if you want a specific example, I and a bunch of others defied the "stay at home" orders during the early days of COVID. We went to parks and did whatever. We never got arrested. A bunch of others were doing it with us and it probably made the orders impossible to enforce in our area.

@cjd
>but it's an act of civil disobedience

I think there are better ways of doing that. Civil disobedience works best when you have a mass of people in a certain area disobeying. If you could get the majority of a town to drive without a license plate, for example, maybe you could change something. From what I've seen, SovCits generally do this alone and only have their interpretation of the law (whether true or not) to protect them.

@LukeAlmighty I think school shootings are pushed by Big Pharma to sell more happy pills.

@cjd @fu @mr_penguin Would you be okay with open borders, but have Hoppean-style covenant communities for people who only want to associate with certain groups?

@Forestofenchantment Not surprising, given that Google is literally a CIA creation.

The more I look into the SovCit movement, the more apparent it becomes that it's just some fed created psyop made to get libertarians, anarchists, secessionists, and any other critics of government overreach to commit felonies out in the open and in the dumbest of ways.

Don't like license plate laws? Just use this exemption plate that has been shown multiple times not to work. Don't like paying taxes even though your boss pays you in government-traceable bank deposits, just use this legalese that even if true, won't work because of the rigged judicial system.

It's literally just the exact opposite of QAnon. Where QAnon got people to do nothing, SovCit gets people arrested. Granted, some SovCits actually won court cases, but those were because of technicalities and those are extremely rare cases. Like I said, even if they are right about US history and law, they will never get their way due to the rigged judicial system (they never select intelligent juries), which is why I think the feds created the movement to bait political dissidents into the slammer.

The results were more or less what I was expecting. It looks like people are a lot more optimistic about it than a few years ago, judging from the people who voted option 2, 3, and 5.

I don't know. Sometimes, it does feel like it's less likely to happen, that it would be half-assed, or that it will happen but collapse. However, it also feels like they are just going to rebrand it to make it appeal more to conservatives and some libertarians.

There are also some things that I can't see happening in five years. I get that home ownership is declining, but I can't see people not even owning the clothes they wear by 2030, and there is no way you are going to condition people to accept a new social contract that says something like that within five years. Everyone has cherished possessions that they even value over their own friends. You have a better chance at getting Americans to give up their guns.

@beardalaxy It's free advertising.

@gabriel I never heard of anyone who went vegan to lose weight. Maybe vegetarian, but veganism is not just a diet, it's a lifestyle. You have to give up any animal-based products (not just food) in order to become vegan. Some even refused to use lethal pest control.

Veganism failed because COVID was a wake up call for many people when it comes to mainstream science. COVID skepticism also lead to a rise of climate skepticism which probably took veganism with it, and it became clear that many people who were pushing it wanted a two-tier society.

@beardalaxy I thought of nominating the Phantasy Star characters from the original tetraology, but I think they're way too obscure.

@beardalaxy I'm surprised you didn't nominate any of your God's Disdain characters.