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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (13 children)

So you want Trump and MAGA politicians to be able to deny your payments instead?

The problem with "just let the government do it" is when the government is run by people like this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

    So don't let them.

    Basically nothing works if no one cares about their community. One of the reasons Trump is in power right now is because of a deep seated American apathy for, like... everything.

    Trump, et. al., are dismantling USPS, but I like USPS. It's bad that they're doing that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (11 children)

    How naive can you be? You think your vote matters here?

    When every single district has been gerrymandered to death for 100 years, nobody's vote really matters anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Your cynicism can't defeat me, man. I am God's holy warrior. I crush weak pessimism like yours beneath the weight of my iron will.

    How is it you think private companies will be more easily coercible when Trump's cronies are the private sector?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Rofl. Your god can eat a dick. I've seen exactly what your god does.

    It's easier to start a competing comp than it is to start a competing government.

    You need a powerful standing army for the latter, and standing armies are part of why we're in the trouble we're in.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's easier to start a competing company than it is to start a competing government.

    Not when Trump's government refuses to do anything about all the slapp suits PayPal levies against you for treading on their financial turf.

    You need a powerful standing army for the latter,

    Corporations, without oversight, just become warlords with their own standing armies. You're not getting out of this one through the low effort of simply buying a different brand of latte, man, I'm sorry.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    The problem is that government even has the power to do those things.

    And to paraphrase you, you can't solve government problems with more government, I'm sorry, man.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The problem is that government even has the power to do those things.

    How would you stop them from doing this?

    you can't solve government problems with more government,

    Not when you aren't in power. This is your fundamental flaw: You complain about the world, oh how you have complaints, but you have no will to power, no vision.

    Plant a fig tree; it will benefit your grandchildren.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    How does Putin's boot taste?

    Oppression isn't inevitable, even in the US, and you'll never have the equitable anarchism you're advocating for if the state doesn't put a stop to these oligopolies.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You are wildly off base if you think I have any love for that monster.

    You are also completely wrong in that oppression is the natural state of power.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How naive can you be? You think your vote matters here?
    When every single district has been gerrymandered to death for 100 years, nobody's vote really matters anymore.

    This is a very Russian mindset and exactly the kind of beliefs that created Putin. I'm not saying you support him, but I'm saying you are giving him your support either way.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's exactly the opposite of what created Putin. He came out of the KGB state security service with control over the elite and the powerful.

    How did those elite powerful get to be elite and powerful?

    They were the product of a powerful central government giving them said power.

    When the people are afraid of the government, there is tyranny. When the government is afraid of the people there is liberty.

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