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[Joy @LibertyClerk]

“EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, STAYS HAPPENED.
"What kind of philosophy is that?"
"THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS.”

― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

[Billy Beck @_Billy_Beck_]

It's not that the burritos are more expensive, kids.

It's that the dollars are now pesos.

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

I've reached an age where I can see that the stupid are capable of unplumbed depths of malice.

[Erik Cason @Erikcason]

I think right now is an important time to remind everyone of Hanlon's Razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

@tanpukunokami It is about knowing that you are the one responsible for your own safety and carrying the proper tools is about taking that responsibility seriously.
Plus you'd be amazed by how fun it is to go shooting.

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

Don't yell at me! You left your baby in the parking lot! ~ me to the mama robin chasing me away from the fledgling I'm trying to keep from being car-squished.

[Joshua D Phillips @JoshPhillipsPhD]

I just want to be done and retire here:

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Jenna Smith

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

@StateDept If we wait until next year to renew, can we avoid this? Because no one asked for this except the Big Orange Ego.

[Handre @Handre]

When you socialize the costs of settlement through public housing, public health systems, and public schooling, you have already politicized migration.

Pretending borders are the only distortion in that equation is selective thinking.

Governments intervene in labor markets, suppress wages through regulation, inflate currencies, and then use mass migration as a pressure valve to paper over domestic policy failures.

Property, consent, and accountability form the actual triad of a free society. A border without a welfare state is a manageable line between jurisdictions. A border with a welfare state is a loading dock for political externalities no one ever voted for and cannot price.

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

#mood

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

Criminals are obnoxious assholes. No, you didn't "give" my boss money and you didn't "buy" his fancy car. You paid for his services because you are a dimwitted chucklefuck who can't go one year without getting caught driving drunk or hitting your spouse.
JFC

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

@CultLaser

[Handre @Handre]

Diocletian did not free the Roman farmer. He nailed him to his dirt.

The year: 332. You farm a plot in Gaul. You have worked it for a decade, and you owe the state a tax measured not in coin but in your body and your soil. Constantine issues a decree: any coloni who flees his land must be returned in chains, and the man who sheltered him pays the runaway's taxes as punishment. You are now legally welded to the field. Your sons inherit the welding.

Why did this happen? Rome had spent two centuries debasing the denarius, clipping and diluting the silver until Aurelian's coins carried maybe five percent of the metal Augustus minted. Prices exploded. Diocletian answered inflation he had caused with his Edict on Maximum Prices in 301, which fixed the cost of everything from wheat to lion pelts and threatened death for merchants who charged more. Goods vanished from the market. Naturally.

A wrecked currency wrecks tax collection. The state stopped trusting money and started taxing in kind: grain, labor, warm bodies attached to productive land. The capitatio-iugatio system assessed each man and each measured plot together. Move the man, and the tax base moves with him. The bureaucrat cannot have that.

Freedom of movement died to protect a revenue spreadsheet. The free tenant of the second century became the bound serf of the fifth, and the manor of medieval Europe grew directly out of this fiscal panic.

You were told feudalism arrived when Rome fell. It arrived while Rome still stood, wearing a tax collector's toga. Every serf of 800 AD was paying, in his lost liberty, for an emperor's counterfeiting habit seven generations earlier.

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

@RealUnsweetDee OMG yes! Rich people referrals!

[Spike @spikesguides]

In case you were curious as to why the reach around the current discourse hass so limited, look at this.

Someone has a horse in the race.

Your free speech app, sir.

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

Every Flock defender deserves to go through something like this. And this is only the errors that have been reported.
Every time the cops show up with their guns pointed at you your life is at risk. They should have to know how that feels.

https://t.co/cipj3OWRjo

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

@RealUnsweetDee

[Joy @LibertyClerk]

@Tim_The_Sandman Species wide topics refer to the crowd, not individuals.
Further discoveries are always possible but should be viewed first with skepticism.