❝❝Again, the "problem" isn't who ever is occupying the office. The problem is that we give government power to abuse and then act surprised when the alphabet agencies take it "too far."❞❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ goverment ∙ power ∙ alphabet agencies

❝❝If you teach people to only take power from their victimhood, all you're really doing is teaching them to stay victims.❞❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ power ∙ victimhood ∙ victims

““The very same people who say that government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults.””

— Thomas Sowell

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❝❝Science doesn't work by consensus. Science works by explaining existing phenomena AND accurately predicting what happens next. Scientists are people too and they can see where the money and power are coming from. Very few want to speak against that. Sometimes the ones who have disputed the consensus have been attacked and discredited without the argument ever being addressed.❞❞

— NeoWayland

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What we do know is that there are loud politicos who want to take freedom, power, and money from people "for the greater good."

Tags: climate change ∙ climate models ∙ predictions ∙ climate alarmist ∙ politicos ∙ celebrity ∙ global cooling ∙ global warming ∙ climate science ∙ Intervene ∙ natural process ∙ freedom ∙ power ∙ money

GFC Lessons Not Learnt

Tags: rights ∙ goverment ∙ agency ∙ agents ∙ power ∙ power of the state

It’s Negative 24 Degrees and the Wind Isn’t Blowing. This is Why We Need Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power, Not Renewables

South Bend Mayor and Possible Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Decries "Endless War"

Bill Nye’s Latest Climate Warning: The Us Will Have To Grow Its Food In Canada

Florida Gov. DeSantis signs executive order scrapping Common Core

The 16th Amendment: How the U.S. Federal Income Tax Became D.C.'s Favorite Political Weapon

Whatever Mueller Finds, Gag-Orders and No-Knock Raids Should Appall EVERYONE.

What the Press Missed About Vanguard Founder's Fortune

Venezuela Finds Out The Hard Way That Only Bitcoin Is Unconfiscatable

VA announces new rules giving veterans access to private providers

Primetime CNN, MSNBC Ignore Virginia Dems Supporting Late, Post-Term Abortions

PRESIDENT PELOSI? House Speaker holds public bill signings — to compete with Trump?

Noncitizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania and Texas show vote fraud is real

Dems Are Shocked, Shocked To Learn That 'Medicare For All' Outlaws Private Insurance

No-Knock Warrant for Deadly Drug Raid Describes Heroin and a Gun Cops Didn't Find

Yoho’s ‘Zero-for-Zero’ Sugar Plan To Curb Foreign Subsidies Returns

Water From the Air and Power From Trash

Politico: Liberals Developing New Phraseology to Hype 'Climate Change'

Europe 'coming apart before our eyes', say 30 top intellectuals

South Carolina Police Hauled in $17 Million Through Civil Asset Forfeiture Over Three Years

France’s Red Scarves: Ready-Made Counter-Protest and New Media Darlings

Howard Schultz Shoots Down Liz Warren Attack With Passionate Defense of the American Dream

An American Nightmare

Don't Expect The EU To Cave On May's Brexit Deal Until The Very Last Minute

Chaos has reportedly erupted inside Facebook as employees find themselves unable to open the company's apps on their iPhones

After 4 Cops Shot in Houston, Police Promise to Go After and ‘Track’ Those Who Criticize Police

‘I’m Not Going to Enforce That’: Sheriffs Disobey New Anti-Gun Laws—Refuse to Disarm Citizens

When 'Former' Spies Run Wild, Bad Things Happen

84% of 18-24 year olds don’t know how to change a light bulb… but they think they can run the economy?

Entrepreneurship Lifts Cambodia from the Clutches of Extreme Poverty in a Single Generation

NANCY? Pelosi botches words, suffers face spasms, confuses Dems, GOP while vowing no border wall funding

Roger Stone faces a gag order. He has a plan to resist it.

The Unseen Costs of Humanitarian Intervention

Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for sharp tax increases on the wealthy: 'We've had it as high as 90 percent'

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I called the U.S. House election wrong.

Tags: maxims ∙ trust ∙ enemy ∙ goverment ∙ power ∙ friend

❝❝I'm telling you as a Genuine Tree Hugging Pagan that anthropogenic climate change is a scam designed to seize money and political power.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ anthropogenic climate change ∙ pagan ∙ scam ∙ money ∙ power

I'm not something less, I'm something else.

Tags: bureaucrats ∙ power ∙ government ∙ voters ∙ exploit ∙ government is not your friend ∙ advances ∙ culture ∙ technology ∙ plastic surgery ∙ kidney machine ∙ capitalism ∙ poverty ∙ competition

When the press shows that it can't be trusted with even some truths, why should the press be trusted?

Tags: rights ∙ privilege ∙ power ∙ goverment

❝❝Government WILL abuse power. The only long term answer is reducing the power that government has.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ government ∙ power ∙ abuse ∙ reduce

““Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.””
     — Frederick Douglass

Tags: Frederick Douglass ∙ memes ∙ power ∙ submit ∙ injustice ∙ tyrants ∙ oppress

❝❝There comes a time when the only way to win is not to play.

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Just pointing out again that if you don't like government power, maybe the real answer is taking the power away from government.

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At that point I'd have to stand and say no.

You can't exile someone because of what they believe. It's what they want to do to you. That doesn't make it right.

We need to have our ideas challenged by people we don't agree with. If the ideas are good, they will stand on their own merit.

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Maybe it's time the libertarians (small l, not the party) were in charge. We could start by abolishing any political party, reducing the total amount of taxes to ten percent and making the politicos pay for anything government spends above that amount.

Then we can talk about who is allowed to have influence.

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And organizing everything from the words anyone is allowed to say to the calorie count of a pizza slice, just how well is that working out?

The problem isn't who is calling the shots. Experience has shown that no matter what promises someone makes, as soon as they have power they will be just as tyrannical as the opposition. Look at this discussion. You are literally writing about who is and is not allowed to have influence. And making sure that capital L Libertarians are on display, but not allowed to influence policy. That's better for people how? We are supposed to trust in the benevolence of conservatives?

The answer is massively reducing the size and scope of government. Let people make their own choices.

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Can you do that without pointing a gun at people?

Do you have enough courage in your convictions to do it without force?

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And I am not convinced that conservatives can be totally trusted. As I rule, I trust conservatives more than I do progressives, but I don't trust you that much.

It's not easy to do it without a gun, but it's possible. The thing is, progressives don't start with guns. They start by establishing Moral Authority. You can do more by taking that away than you can with guns. Hurting them or killing them just makes martyrs to the "cause."

The Left doesn't like it when I do a lot of things. That doesn't stop me much.❞❞

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It's not a right unless the other guy has it too.

Tags: goverment ∙ power ∙ rights ∙ America

Ah, "anthropogenic global warming/cooling/drastic weather." In a word, unproven.

Tags: Andrew Sullivan ∙ individual merit ∙ Enlightenment principles ∙ American experiment ∙ free speech ∙ due process ∙ individual rights ∙ white male ∙ power ∙ oppression

Is it moral for the state to compel a product or service?

Tags: Ursula K. Le Guin ∙ individual ∙ state ∙ power

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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““The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.””
     — Michael Cloud

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““Giving money and power to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.””
     — P.J. O'Rourke

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““Power will always be misused. Give good people the power to do good and that power eventually will be in the hands of bad people to do bad.””
     — Harry Browne, Principles of Government

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Standard Approved Government Solution

Tags: Harry Browne ∙ goverment ∙ limits ∙ does not work ∙ power ∙ misued ∙ control ∙ expensive ∙ expansive ∙ 2003

““We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shirking the rough work that must always be done.””
     — Theodore Roosevelt

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❝❝Politics is about power over people. Once you understand that government is not your friend and the politico only wants to get re-elected, you’re on the path to freedom.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ power ∙ politicos ∙ re-election ∙ freedom

❝❝A Church Militant with willing martyrs doesn't serve the glory of a god as much as the personal power of princes, potentates, and priests.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Church Militant ∙ martyr ∙ power ∙ princes ∙ potentates ∙ priests

❝❝History shows that politics corrupts faith. It's not the Divine who stirs up politics, it's the priests and priestesses seeking power.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ corruption ∙ faith ∙ priests ∙ priestesses ∙ power ∙ Divine

“Climate is changing Because it's HUMANITY'S FAULT and WE'RE SCREWING UP THE PLANET!!!!!"

Tags: global warming ∙ conversation ∙ science ∙ faith ∙ doctrine ∙ dogma ∙ consensus ∙ law of gravity ∙ High Council of Scientists ∙ 97% ∙ Kendall Zimmerman ∙ Cook study ∙ money ∙ power ∙ Energy Transitions Commission ∙ Al Gore ∙ scaremonger ∙ shaming ∙ climate models ∙ article of faith ∙ Christians ∙ anthropogenic climate change ∙ historical evidence ∙ sunspots ∙ solar activity ∙ CO2 ∙ trees ∙ Bret Stephens ∙ thou shalt not dissent

I suspect that sexual orientation is not as hard wiblurb as some believe, but that is still individual choice.

Tags: shaming ∙ groups ∙ Christianity ∙ priests ∙ generals ∙ emperors ∙ justification ∙ religion ∙ property ∙ wealth ∙ power ∙ poverty ∙ unemployment ∙ Pagan ∙ victimhood ∙ Utah ∙ Navajo Nation ∙ Mexico ∙ racism