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@josias@theres.life yes correct that is what a government is. except that you are forced at gunpoint to buy the service, and then people who didn't pay for it get to decide which services you just bought.

@josias@theres.life it's a government run, proportionately, by the people who actually pay to run/operate it. seems pretty fair to me.

i think that one of the reasons the united states military is such a powerful force for authoritarian control today was via the memes and other bullshit about being the "freedom/good guys" they spouted for so many years (while enslaving a large population) to convince so many smart people to go to bat for their tech superiority:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_(advisory_group)

@josias@theres.life taxes are taken without consent, and allocated/spent by people who had little or no involvement in the creation of the value collected. permitting those who actually provide the tax payments to the government to direct the government proportionally to those payments would be a vastly more equitable system, provided nonconsensual taxation continues to exist.

freeman dyson and james randi in one year. not sure i can take much more of this.

can we please have sports again so bored lonely brawlers can go back to wearing cheese heads or color coded shirts or whatever and stop stanning for creepy old racist dudes and cop-lovers

i'm in that tiny section of the venn diagram that believes that people shouldn't be censored by publishing platforms for abhorrent views expressed in publications, but also doesn't want people to post racist garbage. :(

@wilbr ...that's precisely how it works in the senate. two senators from each block of color, regardless of population. that's part of the design.

@liaizon afaik the profile urls/posts are public, you can go view them with a browser and no signup

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/07/obamas-third-term/#bragsheet

> Biden has a long track-record of giving legislative gifts to the finance sector at the expense of the American people. They called him "The Senator from MNBA" for a reason.

i would like a device i can sit on in front of the fireplace that slowly rotates so that one side of me doesn’t get too toasted while my other side is cold

the relief/gloating posts are as disgusting as the trumper ones. people who think biden is in any way an upgrade over trump are also just as much as part of the problem as trumpers. it's the *exact* same corporate authoritarian warmongering, just a different coat of paint. if you can't see that, you're totally blind.

don't worry, everyone. sources close to the matter tell me that this was all part of Q's plan.

i look forward to the day that the police do this and citizens take it upon themselves to return fire (and not with OC):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gubpr3/mpd_with_another_drive_by_pepper_spraying/

you can send morse 10m through a concrete wall using only a computer and ethtool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueC4SLPrtNg

(yes i know you can do other stuff to an rpi to generate RF, but this only requires a wired ethernet interface)

one vote per dollar paid in federal tax would actually be a way more fair system than the way it works now.

wondering if i could pull off a leather waistcoat