I’m so tired of unelected people making rules for my life.
When people ask if I trust the government on any conversation that things like this come up I tell them my motto is “Don’t trust the government, unless it means trusting a corporation. Then DEFINITELY don’t trust the corporation.”
I think the United States as we knew it is dying
I grew up in the US south.
This IS the US as I’ve known it.
The rest of the country got complacent about the people that supported the splitoff faction that wanted to own people as backwoods hicks and not as a viable threat despite them infesting many of the states that literally sent men to die to stop them. Laughed when they said “The south will rise again” despite them having an outsized power in politics and when called out were nice when they said “It’s heritage, not hate.”
They were ready to arrest those who went against the president during Bush Jr era. Nixon welcomed them into the fold after LBJ pissed off the Dixiecrats by signing in the Civil Rights Acts and every Republican since, just as the Democrats did before. The country never finished the job and now the house is infested.
“we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”
I use that so much I legitimately forget the whole “cross that bridge” when I’m in serious conversation.
I am sad I only have but one upvote to give this post because it’s the correct answer.
I’ll be blunt, I’ve never actually met a libertarian by the definition of libertarian.
I found the easiest way to find out. Ask about gay marriage and abortion, they’ll want them outlawed, want the government stepping in.
Libertarians were just Republicans who wanted to smoke weed, and now that Republicans are cool with weed they don’t really have anything left.
It’s amazing how many people cheer for corporations. There’s few consistents in the world but a big one is corporations are not your friend.
Only super tangentially unrelated, I had a friend ask if he should get me a lockpick set. I told him I tried to learn, it’s not my thing, it doesn’t make sense in how I feel. He asked what if I needed something open.
“I have a sawsall with a demolition blade. There are very few things I cannot open.”