> "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

> "...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

It's either Your Way or Yahweh.

This might be AI, but it's not slop! #tunestr

> "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

> 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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A.I. will be way more unbelievable in the next few years 🤔

#ai

Is this how you defeat the so-called government? The People outnumber those who are trying to rule them...

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Don’t tell me there’s not power in numbers and that our resistance and voices do not matter! FUCK ICE!

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