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Ted Cruz is no libertarian
Magnaniman:
So how do you expect anything to change if you don't take any steps to address the problems with our government?
Wait for everything to collapse? If/When that happens, a lot of people are going to be hurt.
Armed rebellion? Again, a lot of people will get hurt AND it justifies the use of violence to enact socio-political change, which is entirely self-defeating.
I certainly don't support the two major parties and I've never voted for a Republican or Democrat on the national or state level.
--- Quote from: AndrewG on May 10, 2016, 06:17:43 PM ---Saying that whether you participate in the system or not you're still participating is kinda like telling me, "So hey, listen... Cancer of the asshole or the dick hole. You have a CHOICE!" I 100% refuse to involve myself in a system so hopelessly broken and so unilaterally pitted against my moral code. I'll continue to fly under the radar and hope something happens to change it (say an earthquake swallowing Washington DC). I never expected to find so many people willing to "choose the lesser of two evils" in here. No judgement, just me stating my amazement.
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I kind of read that as saying "I'm going to pretend that I don't have cancer," and then hoping that it goes away on its own.
As I said earlier, you are severely underestimating the effects of your participation in local elections. If you vote in a sheriff that doesn't arrest people for pot or a regulator that doesn't hassle people about building code$ or septic system technicalities, you are taking back some of your freedom WITHOUT VIOLENCE.
I strongly believe that it is our obligation to explore every peaceful option available to us, even if none of them work.
MattATatTat:
You change the world with yourself first...and the way you do that is by simply denouncing the legitimacy of government and limiting it's hold it has on your life.
Larken Rose really does a great job dismantling the illusion of "legitimacy" when it comes to government in his book "The Most Dangerous Superstition". Have you read it?
This video sums up the message fairly well : https://youtu.be/N6uVV2Dcqt0
MattATatTat:
--- Quote from: Magnaniman on May 11, 2016, 12:23:25 PM ---
I strongly believe that it is our obligation to explore every peaceful option available to us, even if none of them work.
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So you're looking to GOVERNMENT (which gets its power through violence and force) for a "Peaceful" option?
Magnaniman:
I am looking to government to relinquish its power peacefully, yes. Unlikely as it may currently seem, there is no contradiction.
MattATatTat:
--- Quote from: Magnaniman on May 11, 2016, 12:55:49 PM ---I am looking to government to relinquish its power peacefully, yes. Unlikely as it may currently seem, there is no contradiction.
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But to "Govern" is to CONTROL. You really can't expect government to relinquish power because the very existence of government is based on controlling others.
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