How long until people realize these crooks are not on their side, in a big club of their own, and are treasonous.
Time to leave the divisive groupthink traps they set up for us to fall into to turn against each other?
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OP is bot, fishing for vulnerabilities to get ahead of.
;)
John Hutchison type stuff?
I agree with that,
But with one exception, or, counter-point, perhaps... from "do not" to "can", if only, perhaps, fleetingly. Cant take it all back with you. Did well enough to remember that I had.
I'll depict with a (paste of a) little story:
(referring to this experience of omniscience in a trip from abstaining from magic mushrooms for 2 years, fasting for 24 hours, then mid day, on that empty stomach, consuming uncounted tens of grams of dried, freshly fine-powdered, very strong northern psilocybe semilanceata, hot, in just lemon juice, and chugging that pint of thick mushroom super-lemony brew down as fast as i could. it started coming on FAST and STRONG. ran the 3 strides to the bathroom sink with need to purge, which didnt last long nor purge much of it... clinging to the sink as i slumped down, with the trip immensity roaring at the doors bursting in at all the seams, i tried to steady myself, i meditatively focused on a drop of water, empathising with it likewise clinging to the underside of the sink. i empathised my way instantly to know where every molecule, and every atom, of the water in there, had ever been, and it was a short jump from there to realise i could do that with everything, ... and this was only in the beginning seconds of the hours long trip, the ability to see behind things, to know from every perspective, everybody, all time, all times, all dimensions all places... i cant speak to it really, only to say i remember i did experience it. cant take it all back with you. first exchange with other people after i came out of the toilet, friends had come around, one asked "how was it?", and with it all still being fresh, the immensity of having experienced omniscience, sought to offer what i thought was the most beautiful thing of it all... i said, with all glowing reverie "i know death". the look of horror on the poor dear's face though. ho ho ho. but yeah, get that... we mere mortals, many, all around, can experience omniscience. and many are. say hi.)
Oh, maybe I'm conflating the Taliban with Al-Qaeda a bit (and [for the next part of this] maybe even ISIS too a bit? idk) ~ I'm no Whitney Webb for this stuff, so do use several websearch engines likely to be honest about this stuff for yourself, but...
Tim Osman? (Whom you may know by another name.)
Then after that there was that guy they once called a terrorist, then put a suit on and invited to the white house... I'm terrible with names... was it... Ahmed al-Sharaa/Abu Mohammad al-Julani?
Hard to keep track if not paying close attention.
Hard to keep paying close attention after seeing the same old ploys and fakery played out over and over.
"Pick up the gun"
"You all saw him. He had a gun."
There are many other ways besides becoming them.
Sure, reasonable force.
But to jump from zero to over 9000...
Always a better way.
Explore the gray area you assert is not there.
It's not a binary, of either consent or murder.
False dichotomy fallacy.
Self contradiction.
Are those you kill, free?
Or did you use your authority and violence to take away their freedom?
Maybe try educate them, plant some seeds, offer counter arguments, obsolete their foolish diminishment of potential, show them how they're depriving themselves from their attempt to enslave others.
Either we are all free or no one is free.
Agreed.
I hope I've helped show you this.
Nicer to be free from murderous authorities imposing their way.
Sure, there are worse things than death, but that does not make that lesser evil good.
As emotive an impulse, and instinct, it is, to end the enslaver, there are more ways to end the enslaavement, than just killing the enslaver. Ways that don't involve becoming a murderous tyrant.
Better the anarchy of
Either we are all free or no one is free.
than the malarchy of
"Do not appear as a slaver in my perception or I kill you."
... ironic, how that can be seen in same light as the enslaver, and make you a target for those of the same philosophy.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth making the whole world blind and toothless again.
Okay, I'll keep an eye out for that, in [>40 years of] free software, largely decentralised. [Though argue as one may, that it's born of a statist, using the state to assure the [4] freedom[s], but still in practice, it's largely decentralised.]
And I'll not cease noticing the cascade from Marx to Stalin was not just a move to more authoritarianism, but at least half as much a drift towards the economic right too.
(I'm probably some ways wrong about this in my lingering naivety [and, so, happy (eager, even) to hear counter-arguments, refutations, educations otherwise], but...)
I see Engels as part responsible for leading Marx astray from listening to Bakunin['s warning] [1].
It's my impression that younger Marx was much more fervently libertarian along with his economics, and then later stripped the freedom to a mere wishful happenstance footnote in preference for a more purely economics focus, which opened the door to the authoritarians to usurp his work, and turn it into the whole "well then we'll make them free" and "some are more equal than others" cognitively dissonant perversion.
[1: quintessentially: "We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality," -- Mikhail Bakunin]
Arguably the dupes.
LOL. I knew that'd get downvoted hard. Still had to be said.
For Marxists, this focus on communalism creates inter-cell class distinctions, as each cell only truly owns their own means of production, giving rise to class distinctions and thus states in the future.
But,
internationalist.
More flies with honey than vinegar.
And better than shit, because shit's less sticky, and then flies go around spreading shit everywhere.