I didn't realize how many statists were on nostr and how heavily I could be influenced to move to one side or another on some issue because of the shittiness of the person making the argument.

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I consider a disregard of a valid argument equivalent to telling a lie. "Trying to explain reality to someone committed to fantasy is like trying to teach honesty to someone who profits from lies."
Some of the arguments tho are not valid. Ie the argument that "america is at war with immigrants and they deserve death" is invalid. It objectively violates the fact that all men have the inalienable right to life
The word war is problematic as it has lost its original meaning. We are in perpetual war which makes the word meaningless. So if you omit that part you get: "immigrants deserve death" Sounds jewish ๐Ÿ˜‚
On the bright side, you can't be moved if you are nuanced. You will always have a non-partisan position, if so. If I told everyone which side of each political argument I was on, I'd be called both a Trumpster and a libtard in the same day by different people. Rather, I argue that all coerced governance and governments are evil, and their laws are, at best, stupid, and at worst, cruel. and all are unjustified. That's why I practice agorism.
That's how I am generally, but sometimes, especially when I am on the fence, my position ends up one way just to spite some faction. Like this MN stuff, I think it's generally unclear, but the fact that the feds are saying she's a terrorist and some faction of that side also saying "we are literally being invaded by illegals and are at war with them, anyone supporting them is committing treason" makes me be like "nah, fuck off, now even if she did try to hit that cop with her car he should be imprisoned".
I live a 30 minute drive from where this happened and I hate everyone in that story. There's also a lot out there that's designed to distract and divide us. People like you and I have better things to do than to argue or even pay much attention to all this theater...like keep doing our homestead shit ๐Ÿ™
Thanks for that. Some days it's a little too easy to get caught up online when sleep deprived and trapped under a pile of babies. I need to do better.
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