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And for no good reason at that!

Thank-you Conservatives!

Time to codify them

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I was told there would be liberty and justice for all.

I feel like a right goober living my most of my life under the assumption they do.

We were also taught that things always “seem like” they’re getting worse and that actually it’s a cycle despite the demonstrable fact that THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE

Excellent use of 90s irony to demonstrate loss of 90s era veritudes.

Clearly this is the buildup to some beautiful coup de grace, right?

Being raised by hippies who taught me how the system is corrupt, grew weed, and made a living in grey markets has been a very helpful upbringing in this world. The cracks in the system were already big, now they are the first act of The Land Before Time

More demoralizing that so many seem not to have recognized this fundamental building block of human organization until way past adulthood. You didn’t go to grade school? You didn’t see how authorty figures always have favorites?

They never did, but a lot of people did not know that.

All forms of government fall into one of two categories. At their core, they are all either based on trust or the threat/use of physical force and violence. When a gov’t is not the latter, then it is by default the former. If people give power in a trust-based system to criminals this is the result.

This is what radicalized me into anarchism. Laws aren't agreements between equals, they're mechanisms for social control and oppression.

Look what they did to my load-bearing norms!

The rules have never applied to the very wealthy, and it's good that more people are finally realizing that.

Its cool?

meanwhile the rules of the senate, which are notably not laws, are more strictly enforced than the constitution's plainest language

Im so mad at myself that I bought the bullshit, for almost 50 years.

Ford pardoned Nixon over 50 years ago.

Per Wilhoit's law, "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

What happened now?

If I had known my student loan debt would threaten my ability to save for retirement, I may have made different choices.