The mention of the gold flag tassels got me, and I looked it up. For anybody else who wants to know more about that bananas argument: https://abovethelaw.com/2013/09/the-stupid-pro-se-legal-theory-making-the-rounds/
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Seems to me like having a fake license plate is asking for trouble from cops. If enough police departments get hip to this tactic they’ll be calling in for backup the moment the see a fake plate (and I guess eventually the tactic of fake plates will disappear.)
I suspect that relying on authority is also a fundamental human drive. Kinda like how we are politically, all conservative, liberal, and commies by parts and in different aspects of our lives.
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The future is fluid, baby!
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That is the one item in the list where I would agree with them.
schools, roads, safety standards, public safety, clean air, not being invaded by foreign powers
The polluters should pay for that one.
You think it would last that long?
Seriously, they can’t get a country to last longer than the Bavarian Soviet Republic (six days for the anarcho-communists, one month for the Marxists). Small strips of disputed territory where no-one has attempted to live do not count.
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The Narrator speaks, I write. Where he gets his numbers, I have no idea.
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What do you think the EPA does? Without government intervention people would just pollute the air well past the point where people are dying. We know because it happens every time there isn’t well enforced environmental regulation in an industrialized setting.
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Yes, so it should be paid for by a tax on the polluters. Unlike the other items, which everyone should contribute to.
Funny how cops are so quick to use incredibly violent force against unarmed, non-violent civil protesters, but cower in the presence of armed, white nutjobs. I think a few batons upside the skulls of these dangerous idiots would be a good start. But of course, the cops are often sympathetic to the armed nutjobs. They hate the same people. You know, Jews and brown people.
It’s like the IRS where you won’t be able to collect the tax until you’ve done the work to make the laws, hire the agents, have them do the legwork to identify polluters, etc… In the end everybody pays for clean air, and also saves tons of money thanks to the clean air.
Individuals are strongly incentivized to pollute, but society best interest is in keeping the environment clean. This is exactly when you want a strong government enforcement arm, even though it will make many private industries very unhappy and they’ll be blamed for killing off said industries or driving them out of the country.
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I agree, but if they won’t we STILL need to clean up the air and other pollution. Fine the shit out of them, and let the government do the work if they won’t. It should get done either way.
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You know that joke where your boss tells you to dress for the job you want not the job that you have and then you show up dressed as batman ?
That is what these people are doing to the US government and its citizens.
And fuck me … it’s working ?
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