I honestly hope Europe collapses sooner rather than later, because then people over here will stop using you as an example of "progressivism".

For both our sakes

It'll fall down once we cant pay our bills

@Fitzydog we should deport social democrats tbh

Then comes war.. again.. then you come and save us from... whoever

Prisoner exchange with Venezuelan hotties?

Some identitarian group, be it russians, moonsicle worshippers

@galesteppes

I'll take the right over the left anyday at at least the right is hot

Theres something good about no getting food

You can tell with that shoulder that she's not exactly eating 3 meals a day, tits be damned

nice tanned titties

@Fitzydog looks like she needs some *protein* <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

Deport the social democrats, and import the hotties

so in WW1, Woodrow Wilson wanted to have armistice, but then the republicans won the senate on November 5th 1918

they could have continued the war, and then USA could have dictated better peace terms

kinda crazy that that didn't happen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKzKPurZqQ

watch this closely

pretty interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

Has anyone seen this?

*The State attempted to analogize the town's rights to the rights of homeowners to regulate the conduct of guests in their home. The Court rejected that contention, noting that ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion." The court pointed out that the more an owner opens his property up to the public in general, the more his rights are circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who are invited in.*

*In its conclusion, the Court stated that it was essentially weighing the rights of property owners against the rights of citizens to enjoy freedom of press and religion. The Court noted that the rights of citizens under the Bill of Rights occupy a preferred position. Accordingly, the Court held that the property rights of a private entity are not sufficient to justify the restriction of a community of citizens' fundamental rights and liberties.*

@Fitzydog yes

I wonder if this could be theoretically used against social media?

Wtf statistics did Jeff Daniels' writer read?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPHSXUS0_1c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOhDFCcmgvY

sluuuurp

"taxation is the fee for living in a society, if you don't want taxes go live somewhere where there aren't any and see how fun that is"

opinions?

Some taxation is. At the state and local level to pay for law enforcement, courts, fure, roads, ect. However there is a limit to this. And these days that has gone far beyond.

The problem isn't taxation itself. The problem is using taxation for things other than essential government functions.

What essential means can be debated. But we can all agree that there's a shit ton of stuff that the government subsidizes that it shouldn't be at the state, local and federal level.

@Angus That's obviously false, societies have existed before without taxation so there is no inherent necessity for civilisations to enact coercive methods of state funding. And to tell somewhere to go live somewhere else is begging the question as it already assumes that the state has a legitimate claim to the common land

has the state become too dependent on taxes?

I remember income tax was only instituted for wartime

but then it never went away

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1061006016085553152

@Angus The state is a parasitical entity in concept and in practice, it is dependent on the people it takes control over and coerces to exist at all

There is no "**too** dependent" about it, the state IS dependent regardless

so what is the solution to having no taxes?