Deontological libertarian. Individual liberty and free markets are not just good ideas, they are essential characteristics of a just system. #libertarian
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Getting tired of all the tribalism. I can simultaneously oppose the shut down and mandatory masks and still wear one because it's the logical response to an infectious airborne disease. I can support radical criminal justice reform without accepting a bigger welfare state.
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As an Eastern Michigan alumnus and a lifelong Raider hater, I am thrilled to see Max Crosby traded. I can finally root for him.
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The U.S. has a long history of defying unjust laws. It isn't always enough to simply state that someone has broken the law. Sometimes you need to justify the law in the first place.
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So often people lose sight of, or never even understand, the fact that states' rights, democracy, and other governmental institutions are a means to an end. Individual liberty is the end and we need to recognize when these institutions get in the way of that.
Libertarians support individual rights, not state rights, county rights, or city rights. Decentralization is a tool for protecting individual rights; it is not a substitute.
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I've got to say this is about the most ridiculous overreach of our civil court system. The consequences of letting something like this stand are hard to imagine.
cnn.com/2022/06/09/us/geico-…
End the Department of __________ (fill in the blank).
End the Fed
End the Wars
End the Drug War
End qualified immunity
End laws with no victim
End corporate bailouts
End fake inflated money
End the Patriot Act
End spying on Americans
End censorship
End unaccountable politicians
End the CIA
End the IRS
Can u name more?
People need to realize that democracy is not an end, it's a means to an end. It is supposed to facilitate human liberty and the method of application should always have that in mind.
People say I'm wrong for supporting Term Limits. They say that the voters should be the ones term-limiting politicians through their votes. People don't have the right to vote on a lot of things. Term limits are anti democratic and that's OK.
The FDA should be stripped of power, privatized and allowed to sink or swim as the food and drug version of Underwriters Laboratories. Let them show their value without holding a gun to our heads.
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Don’t let the establishment hacks think we’re staying silent. The #AntiWar majority won’t be ignored.
Make our voices trend. Lets get 1,000 quick replies saying:
#NoMoreWars
Craig Seymour retweeted
6 things for you to remember on this Holocaust Remembrance Day:
1. Power allows bad people to be monsters. Hitler on a cul-de-sac is a jerk that ends up getting shot for trespassing. Hitler in government sparks a genocide and plunges the world into war, killing 100s of millions.
Okay, can we get out of the civil asset forfeiture business then too? Maybe no more speed traps while we're at it. Law enforcement has been profiteering off our criminal justice system for decades but I guess that's okay because it isn't private companies.
No one should be profiteering off of our criminal justice system. That’s why today, I ordered the Department of Justice to end the use of private prisons by the federal government.
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Craig Seymour retweeted
There are no serious offenses that aren’t already discoverable and punishable under existing laws. When officials say they need a new security law, what they really mean is they want new powers to surveil without a warrant or to impose severe penalties without as much evidence.
Craig Seymour retweeted
We're often told that it is too difficult to access healthcare services in America. So why are American governments imposing "certificate of need" laws that make it harder to create new healthcare facilities? | Georg Grassmueck
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I think that remains to be seen. Other than being more Presidential I'm not sure what he will do much better. Maybe immigration. But he will certainly be worse on taxes and regulation and possibly on war.
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Love how Trump stans in this thread bend over backward to excuse this. Only half of the man's agenda was worth pursuing and he failed on more of that than not. He cut taxes and regulations. Good on him. Beyond that, it's either failure or actual movement in the wrong direction.
Trump said he was proud to be the first president in decades not to start a new war. Fair enough, that’s more than you can say for W or Obama. But, Trump didn’t run on “not adding wars” He ran on ending them and he did not end one war.
The disagreements aren't the problem at all. It is the level of vitriol that sometimes accompanies them. Certain members of the movement seem to really hate others for reasons I don't really understand.
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I don't know if that's the best description, but there's no question it is inordinately harmful to POC. It's unjust and needs massive reform.
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