"By criminalizing drugs—deciding what an adult can put into her own body—the state has immersed the country and world in a cycle of violence that has very little, if anything at all, to do with actually preventing people from using drugs." - David D'Amato
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"Fascism is a particular kind of right-wing authoritarian nationalism. It seeks to remake society to better serve the nation, to strengthen and clarify social hierarchies, and to mobilize a chosen mass of people against designated enemies." - Darian Worden
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"Anarchism has more to do with envisioning and creating a world without rulers, making free and voluntary association the standard for relating to one another, and maximizing the freedom of the individual." - Ryan Neugebauer
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"The larger the state, the harder it is to ensure that decisions made by those in power are in tune with the needs of the public." - George Pellicer
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"The state has, over generations, preempted many necessary coordinating and stabilizing functions in the economy, while the ability to exercise those functions by other means has atrophied." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social
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Your taxes fund genocide.
Your taxes fund enslavement.
Your taxes fund torture.
Your taxes fund murder.
"I could not in conscience sanction such a government by the payment of taxes." - Karl Hess
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"The problems of taxation and government spending are not problems of representation or lack thereof. They’re problems which inevitably accompany the exercise of coercive power." - Thomas L. Knapp
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"People reciprocate all the time without use of a state, people trade without the use of a state, people create value without use of a state, people love and multiply without use of the state, so on and so forth." - N_u_l_l
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"This systematic diversion of public resources allowed them to cement their control over the nation’s economy through a multi-generational web of relatives and insiders." - Hein Htet Kyaw
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"We libertarians defend economic freedom, not big business. We advocate free markets, not the corporate economy." - Charles Johnson
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"Their liking of Trump’s personality and strong identification with him leads them to manoeuvre the rest of their belief system around his behavior—the personality drives their conclusions." - @alexaragona.bsky.social
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"We all spend every minute of our lives held hostage, facing the threat of total, immediate annihilation. We put it out of our minds most of the time because it is so spectacularly out of our control." - @corymassimino.bsky.social
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Christianity is commonly understood as a philosophy of self-sacrifice, but maybe it's more complicated than that.
Alexander W. Craig asks: "Is it egoistic to regard oneself as inescapably loved by the foundation of all existence?"
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"Love involves neither subordination nor domination." - @peacenotpeas.bsky.social
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"Anarchy is neither capitalism nor communism. It is self-government; the absolute sovereignty of the individual." - Gabriel Amadej
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We are secret capitalists. We support bosses, wealth inequality, corporate power, and an economic system that privileges owners of capital.
We are secret communists. We want to completely abolish markets and trade, subsume the individual into the collective, and institute strict economic planning.
We stand for war, borders, prisons, patriarchy, capitalist hierarchy, loyalty to whiteness, high modernism, synoptic delusion, utopias of rules, aristocracies of pull, the four monopolies, and the iron fist of the state.
"We must hand over to trans people their right to determine their gender and to not be hurt by legal walls. Their privacy, intimacy, and gender identity are not owned by the state." - Valdenor Júnior
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