𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆 

Succinct.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

Welcome to the party, pal.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@Ben_kemp93 @DanielPriestley Taxation is entirely imorral.

If someone takes 100% of your income, it's easy to recognise that as slavery. If they only took 99% it would still be slavery. Likewise for 50%, 10%, or even 1%.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

The age verification rules spreading everywhere are so stupid and annoying.

A man can "self-identify" as a woman, but I can't "self-identify" as an adult.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@K_Niemietz

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@RockChartrand

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

This is like saying "I handle financial transactions for a multi-billion $ global corporation" when you're a cashier at McDonalds.

Technically true, but in no way reflects reality.

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

The IMF upgrading its growth forecasts for the UK and backing our fiscal strategy is yet more proof that this Government has the right economic plan.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

This is an excellent thread. It's very accessible, gives a concise potted history, and a map to how Marxism got embedded into the west.

[Giles Udy @GilesUdy]

"A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that there exists a good distinct from evil, the belief that there exists a heritage to be transmitted."

This interesting piece correctly identifies the enormous damage done by post-1968 French philosophers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, whose ideas took root in American academia and have flowered in today's 'woke' progressive ideologies - queer theory, intersectionality, critical race theory and postcolonialism (eg drag, trans, BLM, and pro-Hamas antisemitism).

But there is a deeper well from which those French thinkers themselves and first drank - Marx. 🧵

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@khrachvik @RockChartrand @ruthapur23535 @frogedev Nobody "got thrashed" or "ran away from you", you fucking half wit. There's just a limit on how much bullshit any one person can take.

You can't prove you have a functioning brain, never mind anything beyond that.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@NineCato You don't need to worry about them.

They talk of "seizing the means of production" and "revolution", but in reality, they're too afraid to answer a phone call from an unknown number.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@ruthapur23535 @frogedev @khrachvik @foremorebeers @RockChartrand Which ones? Why did you leave them for non-communist Australia?

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@ruthapur23535 @khrachvik @RockChartrand @frogedev Nazis were Marxists too.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@ruthapur23535 @khrachvik @foremorebeers @RockChartrand @frogedev You have an imagination barrier.

What's stopping you from pooling your resources with other communists? Acquiring the means of production without violence or theft? Living communally? Cultivating wastelands?

You know, actually doing the things you want to impose onto others.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@ruthapur23535 @khrachvik @RockChartrand @frogedev That doesn't look like a voluntary exchange to me.

Meanwhile, communism looks like this:

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@khrachvik @foremorebeers @RockChartrand @ruthapur23535 @frogedev It's you so-called communists that are the bitches.

You spend your lives enjoying the prosperity created by capitalism, while doing nothing but leech off your peers.

I'll bet that not a single one of you practises anything close to communism in your daily lives.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@Tim_The_Sandman @_vitalibertas_ I would agree with everything said here. Great advice throughout.

Add in OpenCode for terminal based coding, and you've got a very useable setup.

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.

That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.

Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.

A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@khrachvik @RockChartrand @ruthapur23535 @frogedev If it was a coherent point, you would be able to state it clearly, which you have refused to do. Repeatedly.

If you give me something of substance, I will happily respond to it. Sea lion noises are not something I can rebut.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@khrachvik @RockChartrand @ruthapur23535 @frogedev Yes, that's it, we're "scared of you". 🤣

Maybe in the way people are scared of pigeons; dumb as a brick, but still able to spread disease.

Rock, save your sanity, mate. This guy is still having trouble with light switches, never mind coherent discussion.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@khrachvik @ruthapur23535 @frogedev @RockChartrand That's 7 posts in a row now containing absolutely nothing of substance.

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@khrachvik @ruthapur23535 @frogedev @RockChartrand What point did you make? You were so incoherent, I was unable to decipher what the hell you were talking about.

Rather than restate your point in a clear, concise manner, you've spent endless posts talking about irrelevant minutia.

How does that help the discussion, lad?

[𝑹𝒊𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆  @Rkstrn]

@khrachvik @ruthapur23535 @frogedev @RockChartrand Nice bit of deflection there, kid.

An "old man" that still endorses communism is clearly intellectually stunted.

Try answering my questions, or at least clearly stating your point so I can respond to it, lad.