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Ancient Warrior's avatar

If ideas required violence, threats, durres and coercion, then those ideas are shitty and if those ideas appeal to you then maybe you are shity too.

Good job on this post btw! Really illustrated the absurdity statism invites.

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

Thank you very much. Sadly, rhe people who need to get this the most won’t.

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Ancient Warrior's avatar

It was a pleasure reading it. And no they won't. It's just as Morpheus told Neo, those who are dependent on the system, even if innocent, will kill to defend it.

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Bob's avatar

Well done,I like the use of absurdity to illustrate a point....

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

Thank you Bob. Sadly, the irony is lost in the eyes of many

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Bart Bounds's avatar

Love it! Pointed well.

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Andrejka's avatar

what is interesting about the constitution is that we are free until we start infringing upon other peoples' private property. And it has worked for the USA until the communists started undermining that which made the USA great.

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

The way I see it, the US constitution says you are free but you are not because you still have to obey whatever the government deems “the law.” All constitutions are a scam

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Nikos Maris's avatar

Πολύ καλό, μου θύμισε ένα άρθρο του Robert Higgs που είχα μεταφράσει παλιότερα με τίτλο «10 λόγοι για να ΜΗΝ καταργηθεί η δουλεία» που ένας αναγνώστης είχε πιστέψει ότι ήταν κυριολεκτικός (!)

Με την ευκαιρία, στην λίστα με τα βιβλία θα προσέθετα κι ένα τελείως αφανές αλλά εξαιρετικό και πρωτότυπο: Το «The ethics of anarchocapitalism» του Kris Borer, που υπάρχει πλέον δωρεάν στην ιστοσελίδα του. https://krisborer.com/2023/03/02/free-pdf-of-the-ethics-of-anarcho-capitalism/

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

Thank you for sharing these awesome resources!

1. Ten Reasons Not To Abolish Slavery by Robert Higgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7G2ujIlIpQ (THIS IS PARODY!)

2. Ethics of Anarcho-Capitalism https://krisborer.com/2023/03/02/free-pdf-of-the-ethics-of-anarcho-capitalism/

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Nikos Maris's avatar

You are welcome, it's my pleasure!

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

Always nice to connect with fellow dissidents

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

GREAT post; thanks a LOT !!! 👍👍👍 🔥🔥🔥

Let's start by sacrificing the entire political and elite caste !!!

For the greater good of course !!!

I wonder what the readership would say if you changed the term "work-out" to TAXES ...

The 1st. paragraph is such a fitting description of the Zionist apartheid state in the ME ...

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Daniel Melgar's avatar

Great post! Definitely caught the irony but I was wondering if you would clue the clueless in as a post script.

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Scott Varney's avatar

American Anarchist Socialism requires each capable citizen to care for themselves first. Healthy body, healthy mind in so far as that can be attained.

There's lots of leeway, duh. One may choose to be a full citizen, serving for common defense or social service production, or not.

There is no shared burden aside from those Citizens who are capable to serve or lead or conduct the business of their individuated sectors/regions.

This isn't simply the USA. It's the whole of the Americas.

Some may choose not to participate and accept the Social Contract. There is no compulsion. If you want to be an agrarian and live off your work on shared land allocated as you may be able to produce goods and services from, then the barter system applies.

There will be a common currency. Barter a grain of wheat for a fraction of a credit, or produce socially useful and viable code or information for a fraction of a credit per denominated value as set by your peer region.

International trade will be regionally based, energy efficient, and needs determined.

The voting age regionally and for academic, agricultural, and defense positions will be the age of reason-16.

Governance shall be machine based with human input. Prosocial concerns and antisocial infractions will be determined by regional vote.

I am working on a whole slew of projects to generally guide societal functionality in a borderless supercontinental cooperative.

Oh, terraforming. We have dire wolves again...where are the free roaming bison herds? Why is there so much pollution???

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

Anarchist socialism is an oxymoron and therefore impossible

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Kristi yapp's avatar

This is a strong argument. Why not? We have been forced to take action that harms society, therefore, a benevolent government ought to force us to take action that helps society. Very good.

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

It was ironic. A benevolent government is as possible as a loving lord of hell.

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Kristi yapp's avatar

Yeah. I got it.

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Ancient Warrior's avatar

There has never been and never will be a benevolent government.

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

Absolutely

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Sharon R. Fiore's avatar

Exactly. People who think they can go and hide in Russia or a place like that because Putin and Russians are the “good guys” are not thinking too straight.

Also, there is a woman on Substack named Francis, who is telling people that everything they hear about China is a lie and they do not have govt. watching them anymore or get any kind of social credit anymore, but I saw in one video a woman showing how they have to take their phone every place because they have to interact with it when they go someplace new so they can get a credit.

China is a place that doesn’t have animal rights, Yulin is an atrocious festival, I also heard a story from a vet that he was so traumatized by seeing them skin a dog alive on the street that he can’t even smell Chinese food anymore or he’ll get very sick and I was told by a Chinese associate a couple years ago that Chinese mothers hit their kid constantly and screech out in the middle of the street at them. They definitely have better infrastructure now, but I still don’t think it’s a great place for an American to try to hide.

Who knows though?

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Sotiris Rex's avatar

There are different flavors of totalitarianism much like there are different colours of dildos. But in the end, whay matters is the essence of the object when you are being violated against your will

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