In reply to another partisan BS comment, I posted:
If we are all born with equal rights, this means we are all born with an equal lack of authority over any other human.
You people are arguing over which person you wish to pretend has authority over any other human.
Government is a criminal syndicate the extorts people for money and control.
Y'all just continue to ignore me pointing out that your nose is right in front of your face.
I mostly agree with you, with the exception that people CAN consent to be governed. It's when that consent is removed that things get problematic and in need of resolution.
I appreciate your awareness of the exception. With proviso: People can ONLY consent for themselves to be governed. As you stated, "It's when that consent is removed that things get problematic and in need of resolution."
Because of this specific awareness, I can not honestly pigeon hole you with a label.
When that consent is removed is the specific issue to which I object to the common red shit ruler / blue shit ruler arguments in this group of (mostly) statists.
RC, your reply will follow
I’m as libertarian as you can get but I have to shake my head at people on my own side who can’t live in reality and just work to make things better. Defeat the left’s philosophy (which is as anti liberty as you can get) and educate the people on the right to live up to liberty, small government values. When you take a scorched earth approach flaming out everyone who isn’t to your exact standards you will never build the consensus needed and will be completely ineffectual and useless.
➽ I’m as libertarian as you can get but I have to shake my head at people on my own side who can’t live in reality and just work to make things better.
I am forced to assume, absent asking clarifying questions, that you view me as one on your own side. I don't think we are. I think we see the same "problems". I do not think we see the same causes of the problems.
I'm also assuming that you calling yourself a libertarian, means you believe or think that the only way to fix the problems is by working within the system.
(Side note of possibly no consequence, I specifically stated: "believe or think" because they are NOT synonymous signals.)
➽ Defeat the left’s philosophy (which is as anti liberty as you can get) [...]
That specifically falls within my category of red pile of shit rulers & ideas Vs. blue pile of shit rulers & ideas.
➽ [...] and educate the people on the right to live up to liberty, small government values.
If you have government, you do NOT have liberty.
➽ When you take a scorched earth approach flaming out everyone who isn’t to your exact standards [...]
Lemme help you understand my exact standards: You support extortion or you don't.
➽ [...] you will never build the consensus needed [...]
What consensus would that be? That extortion is do what we tell you to do or we will hurt you?
➽ [...] you will never build the consensus needed [...]
Needed to do what, exactly?