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[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So the benefits of society are inextricable linked with accepting their protection racket? Just being clear here, this isn't you know, textbook extortion? If I criticize capitalism, does that mean I'm criticizing America as a whole or is there more to America and life inside it than the economic laws we passed? One can exist without the other..we see capitalism in other countries.. Does that mean other countries are America..? Or maybe that that's a stupid conflagration. Stupidly common too.

There's nothing stopping police from actively ruining and derailing your entire life now. They'll do it just for the lolz. It's overpaid institutionalized malice granted immunity. And what do they do with this honor? Wanton murder and subjugation and have become the largest mob stealing the most from the citizens that the countries ever seen or known.

Ask me how I know

I'd happily pay the estimated $75 per person a year for the military. Since that's half the congressional budget I'll just attach the other $75 in a blank check. In fact in my preferred world we'd be able to sign off or on and single line item of the budget individually. But that works be government by persuasion not coercion.

And we should have to go thru the motions of paying our own taxes. If you believe in personal property, y'know, just straight up ownership, then no one, and I mean no one, has the right to your money unless it's thru you. Maybe it's me. Maybe I simply think that respectful society should act respectfully.

And yes, thank you for such concerns but I really do feel much safer taking my own security into my own hands, utilizing and practicing my own agency, probably because it's the only security any of us actually have, or will likely know. The police aren't our protectors. Ask the kids in Uvalde. The police protect private property of those that donate to them and abuse the application of the law to such a degree that respecting it doesn't even REGISTER in the brain. No one respects the law. Some FEAR the law, but that is not respect. More so, the law is openly flaunted on national TV by corporations and by politicians. A fine not as big as the illicit gains? Cost of business, rinse, repeat. As much freedom as you can afford, just pad every pocket on the way. Corruption=the American way.

You want to be rich? Mimic their behavior. Lovely society we live in, huh? And who would've thought, that breaking the public trust, with no accountability, would just pave the way for Blade Runner. There's your psychotic motherfuckers that need religion to not rape. Punch up, fools, before you cant anymore. Look to this post. THEY BROKE THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, my allegiance to their, to ANY fucking cause isn't unconditional. Life itself, IS CONDITIONAL.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, I didn't know Ted Kaczynski is on Lemmy

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, with the difference that Kaczynski wasn't a moron even though he has some weird ideas