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It's not pretty, but plenty have suffered the exact same sort of abrupt displacements domestically outside of the governmental rats nest over the last 50 years, courtesy of the necrotizing US Federal bureaucracy. Consequently, extremely hard to muster up much sympathy.

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this is it. Those of us outside of government have had our hard stories that they government does not care. 12 year old girl denied operation until she takes an injection that has nothing to do with the operation. Vacationing gov workers that are not tripple dipping retire in 50's from a job they could never lose.

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There must be plenty of job opportunities for Summer whereby she can explore how to safely collect sexual orientation and gender identity and cancer care practices – in Albania, Siberia or Guangzhou, perhaps.

Tee hee.

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Cry and mourn for those formerly grifting the taxpayer as most of us know the pain of losing employment in the real world. We can sympathize. We have empathy. We care...oops, went a little to far.

And welcome to the real world, numb-nuts of the DC Swamp whose gravy train has been derailed. When you hear the crack of the whip it's time to do some real work and likely for less pay and no cushy retirement.

Very good assessment and reveal of how you feel Ben. We share the same boat.

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agenda 25 is being instituted and the cult of don old believes he is saving them. the ongoing "you will hate libersals and the democrats and call the leftists" continues showcasing the "right aka rethuglicans. the dictatorship is being slid into action while the sheeple for trump cheer their own demise.

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Ditto regarding your sentiments about Trump!

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"Now, I’m not really an anarchist (anymore). I have come to accept that the argument for a central governing authority of some sort is solid" ~ Ben Bartee

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That can still be anarchist if people agree to it and are able to freely opt into and out of it. The keyword here is legitimacy. So we can have an anarchist government. There's no contradiction there.

Once you have a coercive body, such as a coercive 'central governing authority', you have something that not only is fundamentally unethical and doesn't recognize that it's everyone's planet, (who's the body and who do they answer to? No one? That's odd, yes?), but that blanket imposes more or less a cookie-cutter monoculture operating system over a population and therefore goes against evolutionary principles to boot.

That's a failed-State waiting to happen.

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"Anarchism [anarchy] is participatory... it's based on the assumption that any authoritarian or any structure of authority and domination has to justify itself-- none of them are self-justifying-- whether they're in individual relations, or international affairs or the workplace or whatever... They have a burden of proof to bear, and if they can't bear that burden-- which they usually can't-- they're illegitimate and should be dismantled and replaced by alternative structures which are free and participatory and are not based on authoritarian systems..." ~ Noam Chomsky

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." ~ Edward Abbey

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Tiny violins and tissues, indeed.

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The Zionists, who are by and large not Jews, mind you, are wailing and gnashing their teeth. Government must decrease, Christ must increase. We will have our Liberty, we will have our Nation, we will have our Great Republic!

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not with don the old and muskrat you won't. you are being "punked".

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