It isn't a new or right now position for me. You may recall me ranting about the national guard deployments too. I have imperfect information always and I know it. I can't let that paralyze me from choosing the best path as I see it to get to the most universal application of the non aggression principle. Trump's last term ended with riots in the Capital building where people died. Kamala had no such direct tie to aggressive acts of violence. I simply return to my home base of the non aggression principle and do the best I can by it based on history as I understand it. I don't know what Kamala would have done and never will for sure but I knew Trump incited violence and history tells me 2nd terms are usually escalations. So far my prediction about Trump was true. My prediction about Kamala was a do nothing lame duck because the Republicans would have controlled congress, maybe I'm wrong. But the other guy is worse thinking is what allows the parties to run 2 shitbirds like that and know the people won't just give it to a third party.

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Yes, I recall the ranting about national guard. And I see generally where you're coming from. Big fan of non aggression principle, though more of a recent thing, so still not really applying it to my views in practice. Not sure I can agree with you on the inciting violence thing, but don't wanna go there. I wonder, would you change your tune if it came out that the election was in fact stolen? I don't have proof, but I think it was. And the stuff coming out now about Jan 6 suggests it was trumped up (no pun) to get people riled up against maga folks. Too deep a rabbithole for me, today anyway.
Stats I have seen make me question both 2020 and 2024 being stolen. I think both were pretty bad with voter fraud given the statistical anomalies I saw. Speaking of way deep rabbit holes and having important shit to do today. I wasn't there. I can't say how bad Jan 6 was but it wasn't good that is for sure. On a lighter note, or not, I'm over a decade deep with non aggression principle and still finding things I need to change to align with it better. I started highly motivated by an existential crisis over nearly shooting a meth head too. Kinda scary how engrained violence is in our seemingly peaceful society that it takes that long to uncover all the sources violence.