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HiTekRedNek

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  • As you said. You aren't American, so you don't have any right to interject yourself into our voting system. And for the record, our 2 party system is absolutely nothing like most other nations that have multiple strong parties.

    You cannot break the stranglehold of the 2 party system by continuing to vote for those two parties.

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  • Let me turn that around on you.

    You think people should be charged with a crime they haven't done yet? Because that is exactly what happens in some DUI arrests.

    Sleeping it off in your car but have the engine on because it's cold/hot outside? DUI.

    Then there are the idiotic open container laws where even an open alcoholic drink is legally a DUI, even if the driver isn't drinking.

    And if you can't afford a good lawyer? It's a conviction. Which goes on your permanent record.

    A guy I worked with had a motorcycle try to pass his company vehicle as he was turning left. The motorcycle driver was killed.

    It fucked the guy up so bad, mentally. He began drinking. Never at work, but he drove a company vehicle. See where this is going yet? If not let me finish.

    A block from his house, he cracked open a beer. Now even if he had chugged it, there's no way he'd be even slightly drunk before he got home. But he didn't realize the worker who sold him the beer had already called the police and he was being followed.

    The arrested him for DUI in his own driveway, due to idiotic open container laws, despite blowing a 0.

    He took a plea for reckless endangerment, but it didn't matter. He was 4 years from retirement. He was fired.

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  • No. Voting for the lesser of two evil is still voting for evil. I'll write someone in before I vote for some party functionary that only cares about their own political power.

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  • The problem with that is that you quickly become responsible for EVERYONE, and then you wind up right back where we are with government bureaucrats telling parents how to raise their children.

    If a law or rule can be used to harass otherwise good people, then it will be.

    If you give some self-important bastard an inch, they'll take a mile. Just look at the police.

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  • Except you forget about the whole "as long as it doesn't directly affect others" thing.

    Or, more likely, you intentionally ignored it in order to score some "gotcha" for Internet points.

  • Anyone else notice this??

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  • Propane doesn't need electricity to work.... The tank is pressurized, and opening a valve allows it to flow.

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  • Just ignore the trolls. Apparently I ate his pie or something equally sinister.

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  • You're right. I shouldn't have responded in anger. My bad. I get frustrated when I feel like people are talking down to me simply because I'm a USian, and I let it get the better of me.

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  • I've never voted for a Republican OR Democrat that I didn't know personally in my entire life. Why do I add that qualifier? Because I did know some older small town politicians, in both US parties, back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when my grandfather was still alive, and they were his friends.

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  • Despite what they think, we are human beings too over here. That's my point.

    I don't care about the politics of nation vs nation.

    I care about humanity's liberty as a whole.

    Nations are shit. Because the only ones in power are typically the ones who want to be. And there's no one worse to hand power to, than one who craves it.

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  • ... I was online in 1993, bro. I was dialing into BBSs with worldwide fidonet bulletin boards even earlier than that.

    Don't be such a dipshit.

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  • Because the US has humans inside it, despite what all the Eurocentric trash think.

    I let my anger control me, shouldn't have said this.

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  • Support? Absolutely not.

    Allow? Not my child.

    Make illegal? Nope. Not my business to tell other parents how to raise their children.

    And that's exactly the problem here. People like YOU, who think that if I don't want something illegal, than that of course means I like that thing, or that I personally want to do that thing.

    Nope. It has to do with personal autonomy. I'm not your boss, I shouldn't get to tell YOU what you can do to yourself. Period.

  • Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s

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  • I've been honking my seagull all morning, until my wife came in and caught me...

    Now what do I do?

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  • I said "professed" dislike. Yes, I know Reagan is responsible for one of the largest expansions of gun control ever seen in the US...

    And yes, I know Marx himself was tremendously in favor of armed workers.

    Doesn't change political narrative being pushed by both major political parties in the US, where in the left supposedly wants guns banned, and the right wants everyone armed.

    Yes, I know things aren't that cut and dry, but the media narrative pushed by both parties definitely seems to say that it is.

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  • It's just a logical extension of what happens when government becomes the arbitrator of all.

    The biggest issue is that so many people see it just as you do, left vs right, instead of liberty vs authoritarianism.

    For decades, the libertarian movement, as seen by the left, has been largely associated with the right, simply because of their professed support of the free market, and dislike of gun control

    But that same movement has been seen by the right as largely associated with the left, because of their views on things like the drug war, enforced morality, and anti-corporatism.

    Has there been a large shift of alt-right into the libertarian movement over the past few years? Yes. Absolutely. And I despise it with a passion.

    But there are still quite a lot of us truly anti-authoritarian libertarians out there who despise both left, and right leaning authoritarianism.

    But when I bring up issues of authoritarianism, I get "BoTh SiDeS?!" bullshit responses. Because YES, as we can see, BOTH SIDES do their own fair share of this authoritarian bullshit.

    They differ in methods, yes. But the bottom line is an encroachment on personal privacy. Plus, property rights are just a logical extension of personal privacy rights.

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  • Parents have the ultimate say-so of what their kids have access to.

    I don't believe there needs to be a law that says that, no.

    If a parent decides their kid is responsible enough to have their own money, then it's the parents who are to blame if that kid buys "bad" things with that money.

    Same thing online. If a parent decides their kid is responsible enough to have unrestricted internet access, then it's their fault if the kid then goes to a "bad" website.

    It's not the store's fault. Nor is it the website's fault.

    We have given away far too much of our parental responsibility over to 3rd parties, and now we don't know how to parent anymore.

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  • This is exactly the kind of government overreach people like me have been screaming about since, in my case, the 1990s.

    "I told you so" just doesn't feel so good when what's happening is nothing less than the entirety of human freedom and liberty is being eroded before our very eyes, and those who disagree with it get labeled as kooks, and accused of hating whatever "oppressed group" of the day is in vogue.