> "While some elements of the state are necessary for providing basic security, maintaining critical infrastructure, and adjudicating conflict, the state invariably becomes way too big and parasitic, and ultimately cancerous." He said "some *elements* of the state are necessary, not that the state itself is necessary. These essential elements could be provided voluntarily, on the free market, if we can get "the state" a.k.a. "the government" out of the way. The alternative is to live with the cancer.

The End of Britain, France, and Germany

On the suicidal tendencies of the great nations of Europe.

#GovtIsTheProblem #EndTheState

> "...Why did the great nations of Europe essentially commit suicide in 1914-18? > > "The answer, it seems to me, is the marked tendency of any society’s political class to be captured by interests and ideologies that have little to do with the interests of the people they govern. Apart from bankers and arms manufacturers, the Great War of 1914-18 served no one who lived in the warring countries. On the contrary, it sent millions of their young men—including their most educated young men—to be machine gunned and gassed in the trenches."

The End of Britain, France, and Germany

On the suicidal tendencies of the great nations of Europe.

#GovtIsTheProblem

It's either Your Way or Yahweh.

#tunestr

A good synopsis of the *real* state of the Union: View quoted note → The US #GovtIsTheProblem #voluntarism

This might be AI, but it's not slop! #tunestr

> "And the absence of Roman bureaucracy also meant the disappearance of countless Roman regulations that limited the freedom of peasants: “fewer rules, fewer repressions on the ability of ordinary people to do things like hunting or keeping their own produce or making arrangements among their own communities.”  > > "In other words, the disappearance of the Roman state and Roman taxes (in the West) was hardly the end of the world for many Europeans..." https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages#:~:text=And%20the%20absence,for%20many%20Europeans #GovtIsTheProblem #voluntarism #anarchy

> Rather, during the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own private property, and to respect the private property of others. Importantly, public opinion often held to the idea that taxation was both unjust and parasitic. Modern post-Enlightenment notions, holding taxation to be a reflection of the “will of the people” would strike a great many medieval farmers, burghers, and nobleman as a very odd idea indeed. https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages

Welcome to the Age of Illusion...

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mrredpillz jokaqarmy (@JOKAQARMY1) on X

A.I. will be way more unbelievable in the next few years 🤔

#ai

Is this how you defeat the so-called government? The People outnumber those who are trying to rule them...

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Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) on X

Don’t tell me there’s not power in numbers and that our resistance and voices do not matter! FUCK ICE!

#voluntarism

Is it possible to make a #Nostr client that will not show you notes you have already seen? #asknostr #askdevs

It's been nearly 250 years and people have still not learned that "limited government," if not an oxymoron, is utopian. They tried that document he is holding up. It either enabled such government as we have, or was powerless to prevent it. #GovtIsTheProblem #voluntarism #EndTheState

> Charlie and his wife, Erika, embodied this, choosing to take a phone Sabbath every Friday night through Saturday night, without exception. In Charlie’s own words, “Turn your phone off for one day. No contact, no social media, no work. Your mental health will improve dramatically…it will bless you infinitely.”

Texas Public Policy Foundation -

Charlie Kirk Changed the World—and Changed Me - Texas Public Policy Foundation

I’ll never forget where I was when news broke that Charlie Kirk had been shot. I was in a meeting with a group of colleagues when a peer to my ri...

> "The church father Justin Martyr named four major challenges to discipleship for the early Christians: sexual immorality, magic, wealth, and ethnic hatred. Nearly two thousand years later, what has changed? I don’t know about you, but magic isn’t a major temptation for me. At least not the kind of magic that involves wearing pointy hats and casting spells. But author Andy Crouch noted that our technology makes a decent stand-in for the magic that was so alluring to our spiritual ancestors. If you swap technology for magic, we pretty much have the same list today." — Drew Dyck, *Your Future Self Will Thank You* (2019)

Pretty much sums up my views on doctors, hospitals, and drugs...

> "If the report from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service is correct that the West is preparing a false fag attack on itself to be blamed on Russia, and the report is correct that Western troops are being placed in Moldavia and Odesa to attack the Russian forces in Transnistria, a wider war is about to break out." [US Military/Security Complex Wants More War](https://tinyurl.com/mrx9p2z3)

Has this guy been investigated? View quoted note →