The pilot shortage is over:
03-22-2024 | 07:09 AM
#183
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03-22-2024 | 07:47 AM
#184
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From: one DUI away from running the airline
03-22-2024 | 07:53 AM
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Do you consider yourself a patriotic American?
03-22-2024 | 08:00 AM
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And I say this as a staunch MAGA supporter and stict constitutionalist.
03-22-2024 | 08:06 AM
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Every citizen has the right to vote in elections of our representatives and the Constitution has been amended 27 times. Judging by immigration and the US economy it would seem a relatively desireable system. If you know of a more successful one please share it with us.
Do you consider yourself a patriotic American?
Do you consider yourself a patriotic American?
now, sonic is completely ignoring that he doesn’t actually want to give up the benefits of society, only his obligation to it. The point remains, however, that there is nowhere on earth you can go to opt out.
in America, opting out has been erased through vagrancy laws (actually a super cool history of racism in action—check out the behind the bastards podcast’s multi-part series on the subject). You can trade one consent for another by emigrating, but you cannot refuse to consent anywhere.
03-22-2024 | 08:22 AM
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sonic has a point. You’re born into the system without your consent, and there’s no way to opt out. Your “consent” is automatic and irrevocable.
now, sonic is completely ignoring that he doesn’t actually want to give up the benefits of society, only his obligation to it. The point remains, however, that there is nowhere on earth you can go to opt out.
in America, opting out has been erased through vagrancy laws (actually a super cool history of racism in action—check out the behind the bastards podcast’s multi-part series on the subject). You can trade one consent for another by emigrating, but you cannot refuse to consent anywhere.
now, sonic is completely ignoring that he doesn’t actually want to give up the benefits of society, only his obligation to it. The point remains, however, that there is nowhere on earth you can go to opt out.
in America, opting out has been erased through vagrancy laws (actually a super cool history of racism in action—check out the behind the bastards podcast’s multi-part series on the subject). You can trade one consent for another by emigrating, but you cannot refuse to consent anywhere.
Government, by nature of it's inherent power, is inherently evil (it can't help itself). It is of course a necessary evil, but needs to minimized to the greatest practical extent, and carefully monitored.
03-22-2024 | 08:26 AM
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Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power on a sliding scale corrupts proportionally.
Government, by nature of its inherent power, is inherently evil (it can't help itself). It is of course a necessary evil, but needs to minimized to the greatest practical extent, and carefully monitored.
Government, by nature of its inherent power, is inherently evil (it can't help itself). It is of course a necessary evil, but needs to minimized to the greatest practical extent, and carefully monitored.
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