kodyo

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by kodyo 4y ago
When the state can no longer function because it has allowed its currency to be debased, who gives a shit if the central bank is solvent or not? It’s worse than bankrupt, it’s irrelevant.
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by kodyo 4y ago
It can go bankrupt if people stop trusting the currency.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Western countries have existed under centrally-managed economies for over a hundred years. I don’t know where this free-market blame comes from. Build nuclear plants. No communism necessary.
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by kodyo 4y ago
We’re in the loot-the-treasury phase of imperial collapse, sir. Sorry.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Individuals have a right to self defense, not to initiate violence. Government, having granted itself lawmaking power, grants itself a monopoly on the use of violence to enforce its laws.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Why would the state weaken itself? The FBI does exactly what it’s designed to do.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Having a tyranny-proof government undermines the purpose of government.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Schools take free government money to produce the right kind of voters. The wrong kind of voters get to pay for it. Win-win.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Dollars have similar problems, for more depraved reasons.
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by kodyo 4y ago
You’re doing the same thing by leaving out the health profile of people at high risk of death: Old, fat and sick.
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by kodyo 4y ago
That sounds like an invitation to utopian authoritarians to define "well-being" for everyone else. Gross.
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by kodyo 4y ago
> But what does Stoicism offer to the community? Theoretically, the "community" would contain a pool of people who have done significant introspection and developed self-control. Some people want prescriptive architectures for
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by kodyo 4y ago
Has any individual been arrested for a crime yet?
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by kodyo 4y ago
If a crime has been committed, arrest the perpetrators.
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by kodyo 4y ago
20 miles per hour sounds like a great model for 1880.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Positing ideas that can be disproven is science. It's also how thinking works.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Why isn't the government paying off my car, then?
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by kodyo 4y ago
Ad hominem aside, I was thinking of the midwits with lots of education who conspire with their in-group to manage others. The right thing to do is tell them to leave us alone.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Alright we’ll I’m opposed to censorship over pissy word-mincing. He wasn’t wrong.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Journalist Alex Berenson was banned from Twitter for saying the covid vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission. He was correct.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Don’t conflate education with intelligence.
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by kodyo 4y ago
People were censored and deplatformed for being more correct than the public health experts.
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by kodyo 4y ago
I’m not here to convince you. I can tell you that if there’s a desire to combat misinformation, clean up the institutional dishonesty, secrecy and never ending shilling for the establishment that causes mistrust.
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by kodyo 4y ago
I’m willing to let stupid people sacrifice themselves rather than sacrifice everybody else’s freedom.
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by kodyo 4y ago
You’re a censor if you try to censor it.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Corporate media institutions have been more wrong for longer and on a far larger scale than Infowars. Why single it out?
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by kodyo 4y ago
It’s likely too early to tell what the instantly and freely available and limitless variety of cartoonishly depraved imagery is doing to human brains. But I have doubts about its benefits.
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by kodyo 4y ago
I agree, I doubt it's much of a real thing, but the hypothetical got me thinking.
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by kodyo 4y ago
There are some undefined variables. Did the people doing the improving own the land? Well, now they're no longer poor. Yay. Sell and get out of there before the Californians move in and turn it into a sewer. If they voluntarily improve
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by kodyo 4y ago
If there are solutions that don't involve authoritarian communism, I'm all ears. Encouraging nuclear seems like a really good idea.

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