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>and asking that question is clearly not equivalent to saying that the government ought to be involved in all interactions. Yes, actually it absolutely is. Put
by scottlocklin 6y ago
>and asking that question is clearly not equivalent to saying that the government ought to be involved in all interactions.
Yes, actually it absolutely is. Putting everything up for grabs for state (or in modern day; the mob) control is literally totalitarianism. People who "don't understand" this are either abysmally stupid or are power mad imbeciles who are pretending not to understand for Machiavellian reasons.
- tshaddox 6y agoI didn’t say “putting everything up for grabs for state control.”
- scottlocklin 6y agoSaying "everything is political" is putting everything up for grabs for state (or mob) control whether you said it aloud or not. Doesn't matter if it's a tyranny by some generalissimo or amorphous mob of twitter gibbering nitwits or tiki torch bearing numskulls. If "everything is political" there is no room for private life, which is the only life that matters.
- tshaddox 6y agoNo, as I said, the statement "the government should not be involved in your private life" is very clearly a political statement, because it relates (directly!) to the policies and actions of the government. And that is, of course, the opposite of totalitarianism.