Nation

You know, for a long time I found it obnoxious how you seemed to write about nothing other than your disgust and frustration about how people never do anything about the intolerable way the powers that be act and take away our liberty.

Yes, it got very repetitive, but then what you wrote above actually struck a chord with me. All this time I was at a loss as to what we as people could do to help stop the societal decline into tyranny (short of violence), but now you gave me an idea when you wrote, "See people are so used to getting away with talking mad shit for way too long and not being called out for it, etc, etc."

I read that and a light bulb went on in my head. What we should have been doing all this time (and still could, though it might be too late), is to turn cancel-culture on its head and not let people get away with their stupid talk (expressing their true opinions) without consequence in our own lives.

How many friends and acquaintances do we have who hold statist and collectivist political views? As hard as it may be, we need to cut these people out of our lives. I am not talking about anyone with a slight difference of opinion on issues, but a test is whether or not the people in question would be happy to see nasty things happen to *you* for exercising freedom.

Ask these people blunt questions:
1. Would you have me punished for home-schooling my own child (not legal in many countries)?
2. Would you see me imprisoned or fined for the opinions I express?
3. Would you want me to be punished for opening my retail store on a Sunday? (illegal in some jurisdictions).
4. Would you see me sent to gaol for ordering a bottle of wine from abroad to be sent to me by mail instead of buying it from the state monopoly (I nearly got burned on this one in Sweden)?
5. Would you be happy to see me, who is not infected with anything and not contagious, be fined or imprisoned for walking outside without a mask?
6. Do you think I should have my children forcibly taken away from me if I disapprove of homosexuality and do not hold that there are more than two sexes?

Think of any other question involving a peaceful, voluntary action on your part. If your acquaintance, friend or even relative can say "yes, you should be punished by force", then your only response should be, "Then you are a threat to my freedom and well-being, maybe even my life, and unless and until you change your position, I cannot have anything to do with you."

This should extend to a kind of cancel-culture of our own. For example, if you run a retail store or rent out residential apartments, and you know of specific people supporting some kind of government policy that infringes on your freedom of trade or property rights, you should simply refuse to do any business with them at all. Let them see how it feels suddenly to be cut off from the economy.

This would be my idea of "doing something", Gunner. If this is not effective, then I would be at a loss to come up with any more non-violent measures.

....please, please, please stop with the all-police routine.

Yes, NOT ALL, women are like that. That does not mean that we cannot notice generalities that help us to identify overall trends in society.

Whoever first said that it is always wrong to generalise was either a fool or a villain.

Bless you, mbschuth, for being an exception, but we should discuss whether or not CC's evaluation holds water IN GENERAL!!!!

Paul Revere: The British are coming, the British are coming!

21st century blogger: What a minute now. Not all of the British are coming. Many of them are still in Britain or even other countries altogether and will not be approaching our position.