We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where government is free to do as it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
The question isn't "Who is going to let me?"; it's "Who is going to stop me?"
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it & a moral code that glorifies it.
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good?
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.
The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty & to make the guilty innocent & that’s power. Because they control the mind of the masses.
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
Why do we have wars?
Because we are ruled by an elite group of psychopaths who own the banks that control the governments & media. They fund both sides of war for profite & they manufacture the consent of the public through the propaganda of the media.
Why do we pay taxes?
So we don't get arrested.
How to be happy?
Spread an irreversible amount of anti-gov't political dissent in everything you do.
If socialism doesn't work, why do some people still support it?
Because they don't work either.
Why does government ruin everything it touches?
People can't seem to figure out that government is a monopoly that has no incentive to be efficient, effective, accountable or to improve because its funded by taxes we pay involuntarily & if we don't, they put us in prison.
What's a conspiracy theorist?
Someone living in Orwellian times making fairly obvious observations.
Somebody who figures out the truth before most people.
A person that doesn't watch as much TV as you do.
Why are people ignoring the vaccine injured?
Because seeing what they pushed on others causing harm is difficult & they choose to ignore so their ego keeps thinking they're good & virtuous.
How the hell do you stay sane with everything that's going on?
Memes
What are the 6 lessons of the Austrian school?
The Austrian school of economics emphasizes certain key principles that distinguish it from other schools of thought. While there isn't a universally agreed-upon list of lessons, here are 6 fundamental concepts often associated with the Austrian school.
What are the 3 powers of government?
Print money
Interference of private property
Overspending
What is a contradiction?
Believing that 18yr olds couldn't understand their student loans, but 7yr olds can choose their gender.
So when do your friends come back after you show them that all politicians are evil & that the State is a criminal enterprise?
That's the neat part--they don't.
Do the Rothschilds marry each other?
In fact, between 1824 & 1877, of 36 male Rothschild decendants, 30 married their cousins, with 1st preferences going to those whose fathers were partners in different branches of the bank, giving a whole new dimention to the term 'family business'.
What does it mean when someone says "trust the science?" It means "shut up & obey us."
What is hypocrisy? When progressives constantly defend big pharma & big tech despite claiming to hate corporations.
What vehicle do you automatically assume is being driven by a total asshole? Police car
They have tricked you into thinking that choosing your own master is the same as being free
*Jones Plantation - On a cotton plantation in Puerto Rico, the slaves are growing restless & rebellious & attempts to crush the resistance by brute force have only made things worse. The owner, Mr. Jones, fears not only losing his plantation but also his life.
Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education & emphasis on how people 'feel' have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.
Unions are for unions, not their workers.
No society ever thrived because it had a large & growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
Q: If you get rid of the federal reserve what do you replace it with?
When someone removes a cancer what do you replace it with?
The cold fact is that income is not distributed: It is earned. — The Vision of the Anointed (p.211)
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers & people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'.
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools & make excuses for their academic shortcomings & personal misbehavior. But plese don't congratulate yourself on your compassion.
1 of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before & proved disastrous before, time & again.
As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitatianism--unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected & re-elected are number 1 & number 2. Whatever is number 3 is far behind.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
If a public library declines to buy some avant-grade book approved by [the Left], because either the librarian or the tax-paying public do not like it, that is called 'censorship'--even though the book remains freely available to all who wish to buy it. (1995)
Asking liberals where wages & prices come from is like asking 6-year-olds where babies come from.
The war is not meant to be won; it is meant to be continuous.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
All tyrannies rule through fraud & force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.
To die hating them, that was freedom. (1984)
All the war propaganda, all the screaming & lies & hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
The heresy of heresies was common sense. (1984)
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (1984)
The more the party is powerful the less it will be tolerant. (1984)
The hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed. (1984)
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities commited by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity fot not even hearing about them.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face‒for ever.
Threats to freedom of speech, writing & action, though ofiten trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect & unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
Fascism & Communism are substantially the same thing & indeed, it has always been obvious that a planned & centralized society is liable to develop into an oligarchy or dictatorship. (1946)
Based on the novel 1984. 1st published in 1949. This film was
photographed in & around London during the period April - June
1984, the exact time & setting imagined by the author
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience & through rebellion.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love & the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us ‒ the leasy intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does.
What threatens us today is fear. Our danger is the forces in the world today which are trying to use man's fear to rob him of his individuality, his soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass.
When no limits are set to representative authority, the representatives of the people are not defenders of liberty, but candidates for tyranny. Moreover, once tyranny comes to be, it will be the more hideous for the tyrants are more numerous. (1836)