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- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
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A couple of side posts here and there, but I feel this thread has been derailed from @CCTelander 's intention and should be taken elsewhere... considering it is a Grassroots section.
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An Agorist Primer ~ Samuel Edward Konkin III (free PDF download)
The End of All Evil ~ Jeremy Locke (free PDF download)
- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
Chris
"Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon
"...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North, and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages, and make no resistance, either moral or physical. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.” - Frederick Douglass (Emphasis mine)
Chris
"Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon
"...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Chris
"Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon
"...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul
“All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is. ... Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? … From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not be taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.” - Étienne de La Boétie (1548)
Chris
"Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon
"...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul
'We are a good-natured bunch of saps in this country.
'When the president is wrong we charge it to inexperience. When Congress is wrong we charge it to habit. When the Senate is right we declare a national holiday. When the stock market drops fifty points we are supposed to not know it's through manipulation. When a bank fails we let the guy go start another one. When a judge convicts a murderer that's cruelty. When enforcement officers can't capture it fast enough to fill orders, that's good business.
'Everything is so cockeyed, what's the use of kidding ourselves?'--Will Rogers
Liberty needs a Malcom X type of individual.
Chris
"Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon
"...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul
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An Agorist Primer ~ Samuel Edward Konkin III (free PDF download)
The End of All Evil ~ Jeremy Locke (free PDF download)
Are masses of people going to have an epiphany and just start standing up for liberty?
Freedom isn't free. This has been going on since the dawn of man.
With FedDeptEd/Common Core, 4th branch of gov., all we can do is reach those who have it inside, form exchanges, look for ways to live as independently as possible in the environments that we are in.
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An Agorist Primer ~ Samuel Edward Konkin III (free PDF download)
The End of All Evil ~ Jeremy Locke (free PDF download)
Man, I don't really want to get into this, so I'll say the following and leave it at that because it's a conversation for another thread.
Trump was, by no means, perfect. He was, by no means, a liberty-oriented president. He was, however, a big roadblock for globalism and the perverts that promote its bastardized standards today. It was very clear to me through 2020 with the entirely coordinated effort by the MSM, DNC, CCP, etc. that he was "not" supposed to be there and was preventing some bad things (for the common people) from taking fruit. Otherwise, we don't see the crusades that we did against him, idiot or not, Republican/Libertarian or not, he should be seen as an obstacle that was removed for worse things to come. I don't know that I'd call him a tyrant in the same vein that I'd call Resident Joe one at this current juncture.
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Now for another contribution to this thread's subject:
We need to look at changing culture before we can push elections. It makes no sense to do the opposite if the populace isn't for liberty or doesn't understand it. Change the culture > change politics. I think what libertarians have been focusing too much on is the opposite and it's going to be a losing bet every time at this point in time in this country.
Welcome to the R3VOLUTION!
You already know the answer to this. Heck, all of us here do. And knowing that, we need a different tactic or answer...
I truly believe this is the point we're at. We're needing to go "underground" ala Christians under Communism. Establish firm and local communities with like minded people and establish your own internal networks, ala freedom cells, agorism, etc.
Get off the "official" infrastructure as much as possible.
Take note though that what we're seeing with this new financial bill about how the feds can see anything over $600 is exactly their response to this growing sentiment... They are "smarter" than we think. We just have to keep adapting.
Welcome to the R3VOLUTION!
I'm pretty sure changing cultures is a lost cause. I think the only viable options are:
1) divide the culture (secession), or
2) unite a culture (FSP-like projects)
By all means we should keep spreading the good word to educate... I just think its unrealistic to expect very many people to be listening.
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- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
Was he, now? Was he really?
With roadblocks like this, who needs Interstates?
The only way Donald John Trump could ever possibly be all that would be if this ugly truth causes Republicans to realize they stand for nothing, and will fall for anything.
Trump's job was to get self-identified "conservatives" to lie down for trillions in corporate welfare for Big Pharma (success), help Pelosi trash the Constitution outright (failure, thank you Thomas Massie), "lose" the "election" so the other half of the sheep would embrace his Warp Speed Mutations Jab® as their own (success), and appoint a brainless old alcoholic to destroy the investigation into the "election" (success).
He batted .750.
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
No, of course not. The Constitution denies ex-Democrat Republican presidents the veto pen.
https://intpolicydigest.org/trump-s-...for-democrats/
Except it doesn't. Reagan had one. And a pair to help him use it.
Vote for Trump. He's more childish and rude than Rand Paul, ergo he has the bigger, hairier cojones needed to fight the Deep State. Right, @Swordsmyth?
- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
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