"Special Interests"
7 years ago in #anarchy by larkenrose (70)
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I stopped using the phrase 'special interest' many years ago as it is clearly a term that has no clear definition and is used to manipulate people in every instance. I am uninterested in any discussion with the term involved.
Agreed. I tune out completely if that word is used. I feel the same way about anyone spouting info from "think tanks".
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Well put buddy, a really nice listen. I couldn't agree more about the government.. Looking forward to more.. Shot you a follow
"all that government does is initiate violence...how do you use threats of violence to serve everybody at once, equally? you don't, ever." 🎯👍
lol I use to think you were a crazy person. THANK GOD you convinced me otherwise!!!
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totally agree with you about the government
The only thing I could ever vote for is a Bill that would be passed to allow/enforce Secession, from federal to state, from state to municipal, from municipal to community and so on.
I accept that if I am voting for a person to enact this, I accept moral accountability for the actions of the person I vote for. I've been following Adam's Journey for a long time and I would vote for his campaign/bill if I were a citizen in America, but not for his party they are a joke. He makes a good argument and a 'civil' way for society to slowly change, an evidence based model if a society functions better under fewer laws which could lead to further scaling down. I fear that if an option like this does not even at least get put on the table, a devastating economic catastrophe will occur and millions, tens of millions or more could possibly die when it suddenly hits.
It feels like an ultimatum, the best i can do is convince the people in my personal life about the danger and responsibility they have for their actions.
that's still using the tool of politics which larken doesn't and me personally don't advocate nor do we want any bill or bills to do such thing or any laws at all to do anything expect everyone abide by the NAP.
One thing you need to understand about anarchy is that while we we may share a core value of the NAP, we almost all have a different ideas of how to achieve it. Libertarians/Ancaps all tend to bud heads here.
There's nothing wrong about using the 'tool of politics' if it doesn't result in a violation of the NAP. For instance if a vote goes through to repeal a victimless crime law, the end result will be more freedom. If a bill gets passed that shrinks the size of Government, then that Government has less force to abuse.
i actually don't disagree with that at all like Medical marijuana or jury nullification or some nullification process to avoid or completely not depend upon the federal government for x y and z what i meant in my original post was that if politics and the political process at the federal level to downsize or reorganize it in downsize it majorly that's a huge nothing-burger meaning it couldn't have any reasonable affect on a federal level but if all you use is the political process 24/7/365 and expect it to work all the times you're gonna be really disappointed in a major way but as far as Jury nullification and passing state laws to nullify federal laws i have no problem with all the way down to the individuals using x y or z even individual nullification like saying hey i own my body and i can do whatever i want with and never ever be bother by the state ever at all while free people's minds in the long run is always FUN : ) all in all, i totally agree with your conclusion :D i just don't think politics at the federal position or administration is gonna have long term effects for freedom but state and local and individual efforts i totally sympathize and completely in agreement with as many people (libertarians,anarcho-capitalist's,anarchist's free markets advocate's) doing whatever short and long term to educate and finally properly free people as many as humanly possible even if that is 1 million anarchists education 300 millions statists or 1 billion others the tools and strategies to free more mind's in the long term i have lot's of hope for lots of different people because they are out there education producing content publish content books speeches activism and other conferences even such individuals as yourself are needed if individuals are truly pursue freedom in this lifetime or for sure the next one either way, we got our work cut out for ourselves and need to put the world into order in order for people to understand proper freedom and proper multiple people's lifestyle' their live's,whether professional or privately it up to each individual to decide what they do for them and their families if that means people waking up from MSM lies and propaganda in general that's WONDERFUL news i love a giant awakening topic and i truly believe in the first time in human history people are awake on a massive scale in the (hundreds of thousands probably even millions by now and are awakening millions more be excited :) the NWO cabal,PTB TPTB are going down no matter how much reverse propgangda or disinformation they sell us peons so stay alert be safe and have no fear people are awakening like never ever before in human history the truth is in now millions of minds (alternative media) youtube steemit.com,bitchute.com dtube.com all that stuff is awakening people :)
Right, the one main takeaway is to not pretend 'politics' is the best or only way to achieve freedom as you are in the beasts territory. However I would say and I disagree a small bit with Larken here, is that if there is a candidate (like Adam) who is pushing for an overall immediate reduction in Government then how much effort does it take to vote for him? Larken keeps talking about not wasting effort, but the reason why people vote is because it requires NO EFFORT, you wake up one day walk a block and check a box, congratulations you're done for 4 years... it might be entirely hopeless to think that it may lead to him winning but what have you lost? You also never know. When Larken says Adam could never ever ever ever ever win, it makes him sound like all the Democrats who said Trump can't win, so all the democrats went back to sleep thinking they had it in the bag, and well hahahahahahahahahaha. There are weird paradigm shifts in reality and obviously what you do in your day to day life is most important.
Whatever someone says, whatever they do, if they ultimately believe in violent coercion, either individual or delegated, their position is morally flawed. Where does this not apply?
Good work as always.
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