Glad to see it. I thought you began with a leveler head than noted of late...for instance, it's one thing to advance the position that you value liberty above any other thing, and something else to threaten to harm an officer of the court for performing his or her duty under the law. It's one thing to argue that a fetus should be viewed as an extension of the mother and under her autonomous control and another to shout of its worthlessness in the face of those you understand hold an equally adamant and opposing view.
Methodology in approach is important. Now I have been known, from time to time, to take a sardonic stick to this or that poster, but I never begin a contest of ideas with insult, humorous or not--though I have and will enter wielding that stick against someone who has advanced their ideas with that sort of opening... I think you approach someone who is differing respectfully in that same spirit and you count coup on those who bluster in with exaggeration and a meanness of spirit. I've also noted that people who utilize that meanness of spirit as an integral part of their methodology only succeed in attracting a handful of similarly stunted souls to their part (and then more as reflections than allies) and quickly marginalize their impact and opinion among the larger body here.
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I admit, it was uncalled for.
As for my hardliner stance in politics: It was always there. I'm generally a zealot.
And I don't advocate violence.
Currently I advocate a complete shutdown of all government through organizing the body of technicians and engaging in a massive, no end in sight wildcat strike.
Y'know. Suff stops working. Not a fine, not a criminal case, not a bureaucrat's salary, not an airport, not a power plant, not an industry works.
Infrastructure simply ceases to function. Consequently the State would grind to a screeching halt.
It would pose a bigger threat to a government than an armed uprising. And technicians are a small enough part of the population that they could be effectively organized.