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Dude, i totally think i fucked myself over by learning too much.

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Sometimes I think I want to be plugged back in but then by being online I am. Gotta unplug everyday.

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"You’re all stupid. It’s all totalitarianism and I’m above all of it!” Sniffs his own farts guy/gal?"

Still laughing at this line, Pete! :D :D :D

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Sniffs own farts guy/gal (me circa December 2019): “It’s so simple, guys. Tear down the state and all of this goes away. Idiots and blood-soaked monsters, muhhhh.”

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I always think that it’s sucks we won’t experience what’s next for the geographical territory of America – we’re not gonna live long enough. You are right we are living in it’s decline. It’s probably only just the beginning of it.

America was subverted very early as I’ve heard from you (or elsewhere else) so I don’t think it had a chance. I’d love to be able to grow old and raise kids in a vibrant prosperous and safe society. Possible in a little community but as for the entire country that’s a dream.

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Sure, categorizing the regime is an autistic past-time, one that non-autists mostly cargo cult. But some of us enjoy it.

I've come to believe that characterizing them isn't really that important, beyond the whole friend-enemy distinction you keep bringing up. But a hobby is a hobby.

There is a small piece of utility there: understanding how it operates helps you understand what it would take to defeat it. It's not just force either. You can throw a whole lot of force at a tank or bunker without accomplishing much, but the right amount of force applied in the right place all at once can be effective. You just have to know where that place is and how much force is required.

But we don't have any force over here yet, so this is almost completely beside the point. Surviving and thriving in spite of it is the goal here, so that our children and grandchildren aren't raised by the hive, so there's still someone left who has some idea what an alternative could look like. This isn't as hard as the hive wants you to think it is. You can be not-on-board and not in gulag at the same time.

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My worry about it is people don’t know what it means to do something like that and they’ll enter into it when they’re unwilling to go to the lengths they'll need to go to win. Lengths that the other side has demonstrated they are willing to go to. See the Balkans, Missouri before and during the war of northern aggression and my native South Carolina during the revolution for examples of what I mean.

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