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Christ Follower • Truth Seeker • Freedom Lover The US #GovtIsTheProblem
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Marakesh đ“…¦ 1 month ago
Wow, I just now learned that Dick Cheney died, 4 days ago! Usually I learn such things right away. I guess I'm becoming quite detached from the news and social media. I am surprised I haven't even heard anyone mention it. Could that be a function of his irrelevance or loathesomeness?
LewRockwell
History Will Not Be Kind to Dick Cheney - LewRockwell
Dick Cheney died this week. He leaves behind a wretched legacy. Cheney reached the pinnacle of his influence as George W. Bush’s vice president, ...
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Marakesh đ“…¦ 1 month ago
> Only God in human flesh could predict the future of human history, much less utter the following sentence: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” This was perhaps our Lord’s strongest assertion of deity yet. His words will never pass away, though the heavens and earth will. The reason Jesus can speak of the future with such certainty is because his words are the words of God. -- Kim Riddlebarger, *A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times* (2003)
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Marakesh đ“…¦ 1 month ago
Democracy and voting, even in a republic, is IMMORAL, because it's based on majority rule, or the idea that might makes right. We outnumber you, therefore we can overpower you if need be, to FORCE you to do what we want. It's also based on the unjust idea that it is okay to steal people's stuff, without their consent, obviously (called "taxation", or "eminent domain", or "civil asset forfeiture", and "inflation"). These two intrinsic injustices are violations of people's fundamental property rights, thus their civil liberty. They violate libertarianism's non-aggression principle: don't initiate force against someone who has not initiated force or fraud against you. Don't hurt people and don't take their stuff. These are basic rules that people should have learned as toddlers! But when your system of governance is based on such fundamental violations of personal rights, the idea that COERCION is acceptable, the whole system becomes confused, violence trickles down and permeates throughout society, and rights and liberties are obscured and lost in the process. You wind up with socialism and eventually totalitarianism, whether it is of the communist or fascist variety. #GovtIsTheProblem #voluntarism
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Marakesh đ“…¦ 1 month ago
Your thoughts become beliefs, Your beliefs become behaviors, Your behaviors become habits, Your habits become character. So be careful about your thoughts, what you entertain in your mind... #sermon-notes
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Marakesh đ“…¦ 1 month ago
> "While some elements of the state are necessary for providing basic security, maintaining critical infrastructure, and adjudicating conflict, the state invariably becomes way too big and parasitic, and ultimately cancerous." He said "some *elements* of the state are necessary, not that the state itself is necessary. These essential elements could be provided voluntarily, on the free market, if we can get "the state" a.k.a. "the government" out of the way. The alternative is to live with the cancer.
The End of Britain, France, and Germany
On the suicidal tendencies of the great nations of Europe.
 #GovtIsTheProblem #EndTheState
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Marakesh đ“…¦ 1 month ago
> "...Why did the great nations of Europe essentially commit suicide in 1914-18? > > "The answer, it seems to me, is the marked tendency of any society’s political class to be captured by interests and ideologies that have little to do with the interests of the people they govern. Apart from bankers and arms manufacturers, the Great War of 1914-18 served no one who lived in the warring countries. On the contrary, it sent millions of their young men—including their most educated young men—to be machine gunned and gassed in the trenches."
The End of Britain, France, and Germany
On the suicidal tendencies of the great nations of Europe.
 #GovtIsTheProblem
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Marakesh đ“…¦ 2 months ago
> "And the absence of Roman bureaucracy also meant the disappearance of countless Roman regulations that limited the freedom of peasants: “fewer rules, fewer repressions on the ability of ordinary people to do things like hunting or keeping their own produce or making arrangements among their own communities.”  > > "In other words, the disappearance of the Roman state and Roman taxes (in the West) was hardly the end of the world for many Europeans..." https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages#:~:text=And%20the%20absence,for%20many%20Europeans #GovtIsTheProblem #voluntarism #anarchy
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Marakesh đ“…¦ 2 months ago
> Rather, during the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own private property, and to respect the private property of others. Importantly, public opinion often held to the idea that taxation was both unjust and parasitic. Modern post-Enlightenment notions, holding taxation to be a reflection of the “will of the people” would strike a great many medieval farmers, burghers, and nobleman as a very odd idea indeed. https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages
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