@LibertyAnders@ForesterMike1 What's the point in criticizing the current system as as broken or fundamentally flawed in some way when you
A) don't compare it to what came before it which is by most metrics objectively worse hence why people aren't going back, and
B) Don't have a proven thing to replace it?
@TheRickPatton@jeremykauffman Where do these engineers live? I've found that most engineers who live in liberal coastal cities definitely agree that taxes are BS (cause they pay so much) but on cultural issues they are usually ambivalent at best or woke at worse. Even I, who am a 2A absolutist, dont own a gun
@OriginalBLKAmer@RealDianeYap Go to South Africa and go to Malaysia and tell me which one is nicer. (Hint, it's the one without literal jail bars at all of the fast food places to protect the staff from the customers).
@realsoftwareman @Maateesz @foosnik A) You're just wrong. https://t.co/I9b2sy7i0a
B) Are you saying that by opening a store you automatically consent to sell everything in it to anyone at any time? That's like saying that consenting to have sex once means that you've consented forever, ridiculous argument.
@realsoftwareman @Maateesz @foosnik The definition of slavery is "the state of a person who is forced usually under threat of violence to labor for the profit of another".
Please do some more mental gymnastics to explain how being forced to serve someone who you don't want to doesn't fit that.
@realsoftwareman @Maateesz @foosnik Yes, they do. When the government forces you to do something they have a metaphorical gun to your head, or else you just wouldn't do it and would ignore their evil diktats.
Calling a spade a spade does not diminish or make a mockery of the original spade, slavery is slavery.
@realsoftwareman @Maateesz @foosnik The whole point is that the language in the civil rights act is wrong and fundamentally immoral. If you don't think segregation based on things other than race is fine then would you also like to see legislation banning it altogether?
@realsoftwareman @Maateesz @foosnik I'm factually correct. If somebody forced you at gunpoint to produce something or do labour to sell me something despite the fact that you didn't want to, that's by literal definition both theft and slavery, both of which any normal person thinks are bad.
@realsoftwareman @Maateesz @foosnik No, you don't need to be "willing" to serve anyone. That's called slavery, which, FYI, is bad. You get the absolute right to choose who you conduct business with, anything else makes you a slave.
@BartemyS@RobertKennedyJr He could have listened to actual conservatives like Thomas Massie, instead he spent his whole 4 years listening to people like Mike Pompeo and Fauci, swamp creatures who everyone knew were swamp creatures for years.
@realsoftwareman @Maateesz @foosnik How does talking people what they can and can't do and who they can and can't have on their private property violate property rights? A real head scratcher that one.
@alamjay78 @lemechantneolib People confuse libertarian economics with directionally more libertarian than most economics that (unsurprisingly) produce good results. China and Chile are both good examples of this.
@LisaCappiello08@RepThomasMassie Who is we, and why do you include Mike Johnson, and about 100 other house republicans in that we? Johnson has far more in common with the Democrats than he does with Massie or the average Republican voter.
@based_biased@RepThomasMassie The point is that jettisoning Kevin gave you Mike. The only real way to solve the problem that the Mike's and Kevin's of the world represent is the primary out the leftists who make up the GOP congressional caucus.