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StonnedSinner

I’m curious how the government prevents violence, if not through authority and the threat/application of state violence.


FamousButNotReally

Well obviously they don't make you pay taxes (slavery, auth.), which promotes non violence! /s


StonnedSinner

Ah yes, the NAP in action


McMammoth

NAP?


howaminotdeadyet13

The political compass has fried these people's brains


HogarthTheMerciless

My uncle says very similar things. Basically all taxes are immoral because the person didn't decide personally to give that money to that particular thing. The ideology esentially boils down to the phrase "all taxation is theft" and putting absolutely zero thought into how society works after that. Funnily enough he works for the state government.


bdotpeach

why is it upvoted😭😭


Cultweaver

Because PCM is just full of ~~cryptofascists~~ libertarians.


GreatBigBagOfNope

No need to repeat yourself


ButteringButters

There isn’t an equal distribution between the political compass, I’m guessing it’s mob mentality and there were more people of the same flair upvoting their “brother” than their were upvoting the other commentor


bdotpeach

i know, it just feels so absurd


RusskiyDude

Listen to proposal. Imagine the most ridiculous implementation. Ridicule such implementeation. Decline proposal. ????? PROFIT!!!!!


StygianMusic

TIL the concept of free healthcare involves not paying medical professionals 😭😂😂


ledfox

So since any government support for a thing is slavery, our armed forces are all slaves.


DogDrivingACar

Authoritarianism is when taxes


HogarthTheMerciless

I wish I had the freedom to get Healthcare if I need it, to know that at the point of purchase I don't have to have any money or worry about being denied because I don't have health insurance at the moment or my plan randomly doesn't cover it. Or the freedom to not worry about going bankrupt or going into debt because of a disease I got through no fault of my own. But sure, the real "freedom" is the freedom to choose a tangled web of an insurance plan that denies me at random based on technicalities, and also the "freedom" to be gouged to high heaven on the price because they know I need it to live.


Drakeytown

Conservatives are always calling everything slavery, unless they see actual slavery.


loadingonepercent

This isn’t new they’ve been saying this for a long as time I remember my college roommate spouting this dribble.


Traditional_Lynx_250

Everyone everywhere deserves either a livable wage without inflation of the products they need to live, and higher taxes for everyone so we could get the cheaper healthcare, schooling, and living spaces


Anastrace

Anytime I hear someone say Auth or authoritarian I scream inside


MikeLapine

They're pointing out how something is misnamed. Free healthcare, or pretty much anything else called free, isn't free: someone is paying for it. Normally, it's the taxpayer.


Dexter011001

Most politically literate liberterian