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    • Taxation is theft because it’s involuntary
    • Having to have a job is also involuntary
    • No you can choose not to have a job you’ll just be homeless
    • You can choose not to pay taxes you’ll just go to prison, because “just don’t have income or property” is as impractical as “just live your life from prison”

  • I merely disagreed with your proposal in detail and asked you to defend it if you were so convinced of it.

    So you’re just strawmanning me? Because at no point have I made a “proposal”.

    What position do you want me to defend? So far my position has been that the US should be doing more to apply pressure to Israel.

    How do you disagree with that WITHOUT taking the stance that any other action would lead to a worse outcome?

    Pointing out that cutting our nose to spite our face is a bad policy

    Again, what is this hypothetical cutting of the nose?

    If you say that doing anything more than what the US is currently doing will “do worse than fuck all”, how is that not an endorsement of that policy? You’re saying it’s the best option.










  • For anybody who doesn’t understand the argument, it’s specifically a rebuttal to the idea that “The second amendment only applies to muzzle loaded muskets because nothing more advanced existed at the time”

    “Free speech only applies to newspapers and soapboxes because nothing more advanced existed at the time”