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So voting in self-defense isn't a violation of the NAP? LOL
One must realize the amount of weaponized autism in the liberty movement is off the charts. Realizing this makes everything easier. I may resemble this remark.
I've never felt that one has to be a "pure" libertarian/anarchist.
Personally, one of my core values is that if I don't like something I have some influence over either try and do something about it or try to insulate myself from it. It is much easier to LARP. I had an awakening in 2020-21 realizing I was largely LARPing. Since then I've become involved and less in my own little world. I have to tolerate a lot of nonsense to work towards something better. I think its really just growing up.
We liberty people will complain about things we can't change and ignore things we can. If we really believe all this stuff but don't have enough food to make it weak are we just LARPing? Yes. We are. If we think the state/police is evil but don't have methods to protect our property and families are we LARPing? Yes. If we don't build community outside of government how will we survive if the state falls? We won't.
So do we really want freedom? If it magically appeared tomorrow would we be ready? For me, the answer used to be no. I've been moving further away from that side ever since. It takes time. Bitcoin is real part of this for me and really one of the biggest reasons for hope. But its not magic. Software needs to be maintained. People need to use it. People need to someone to teach them. I've picked my niche and I educate those that want to learn around me.
That's what it looks like to me. I'm also a believer in Jesus. A Christian and ultimately I believe He is above all this but that doesn't excuse me from caring. But my faith is not in these men in power. But I know they can be better or worse. None of them are perfect.
Covid proved to me that you should absolutely really care about your local elections.
Luckily, in my part of TX, our sheriff was against all of the covid nonsense and basically published a letter and sent it to most businesses that read: "If you want to kick someone out of your business its your property you are free to, but I won't be sending any of my deputies to help enforce mask mandates, vaccine card checks, curfews, etc. as none of that is backed by any state law and most would violate the constitution."
The feds / state / city can write whatever laws they want, but ultimately they require your local sheriff to enforce it.
Yep, and the sheriff is a county thing... so how do you influence the sheriff election? By having a shadow government in your town. Towns/Counties influence states, states influence the nation.
It'd be wildly impractical to run for governor for example on day 1 of deciding to begin operations. A governor needs people around them, state police etc. So where do you start? A group in your town that takes over the town council or whatever form it has.
Can't get a plurality on a town council in one election either, need to build community organizations so you get people and aligned and know you, and discover people for other positions. Just to keep a town government in check you need to build your own townie deep state.
Activism needs to be planned over decades, not issue by issue or headline by headline.
It (Covid) proved to me that local matters more and ignored the most far beyond elections even. Local community groups, churches, schools, and all the stuff that you live around you have a far easier time pushing the needle on.
You have to be there and work to earn respect too. IF you just jump in telling everyone what is wrong and how it should be done without ever being involved before you will get ignored. You may get ignored anyway but I get it when loud mouths just start jumping in when they have no skin in the game.
I mean, honestly it starts in your own family, then your neighbors, then your town/neighborhood. I live in an unincorporated area so we have no local government. The community orgs do most of the work and the rest is on the county.
Having a good Sheriff is huge. We had one that refused to enforce the state(California) nonsense during Covid. They are elected to this position. Most people in your communities are practical and care about stuff that impacts them personally. They have no clue that there is anything other than the blue/red teams. Usually that dynamic is not helpful locally.
This stuff is messy. Working with people. People are hard to work with. Much easier to LARP on the Internet about some ideal state of society where bitcoin is supreme and there is not state. But that's a dream long in the future and how do we get there if we all are passive, lazy, uninterested people.
So voting in self-defense isn't a violation of the NAP? LOL
Correct. If you get shot at, shooting back in defense is not aggression.
I've never felt that one has to be a "pure" libertarian/anarchist.
The only point to libertarian/anarchist labels is a purity test. I am an still consider myself a Libertarian/AnCap, but I'm also a realist, and self-described Libertarian/AnCaps are at this point Communist collaborators.
complain about things we can't change and ignore things we can
When you really think about what you can change its overwhelming to execute. I've been weighing for months creating a shadow government in my town, because the town government is out of control. The execution required even at that small level is dizzying to plan.
It's only with a shadow government can you constrain the seated government.
He is above all this but that doesn't excuse me from caring.
He gave you agency to put to use. The abdication of Libertarians/AnCaps is anti-Christian, thats why so many atheists run in those circles.
The books tell us he will install a righteous leader, only if we deserve it, and abdication is not deserving.
Just as you shouldn't bring a knife to a gun fight, you can't bring conscientious objection to the fight when the communists are actively using the state to kill you. You must become the state as a matter of self-defense. We can't just wish the state away, the state is and will always be...
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