• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    29 days ago

    Charity is our choice. Taxes are the force of the government. Everything you want funded by others should be funded by charity. We shouldn’t be forced to pay for each other’s choices.

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      29 days ago

      Don’t use roads or sidewalks or parks or eat food or buy anything that has to follow safety regulations then.

      And never sue anyone ever. Courts are expensive!

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        The stuff the government does that he likes is the will of the people. The parts he is trained to think are bad are forced on him.

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          No, it’s all done by force if it’s paid for by taxes, whether I like it or not. It’s just whether I’d have chosen to contribute or paid a private business.

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      29 days ago

      This is an acceptable thing to believe if you’re a teenager or younger. Past that it’s just embarrassing.

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        It’s what most MEGA supporters believe. Well, I say believe but that rather implies that they’ve thought about it, it’s what they’ve been told to parrot.

        Which I suspect is what we’re dealing with here.

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      The problem with being a sovereign citizen is that in order to tell everyone about it you have to use government funded infrastructure which rather dilutes your message. Not that it was particularly coherent to begin with.