Peck by twetch#190

1KJBLu…2wYy Key · twetch

Governments can't control you. They can only tell you things. If enough people stop being docile and afraid and just say fuck you, we're going on living our lives, there's nothing governments can do.

Their power is derived 100% from our fear of it.

What the chain says

Transaction: 29bd8bb7a8d270eaae8f10591604dd80b5e8b325b2b4e7cb789c69eab96cc0ae
Block: 662 121
Time: 2020-11-20T15:11:47Z
Signer: 1KJBLu2QbTgzcxXxS5vuhSFvQBCy9s2wYy
App: twetch
Type: post
Content type: text/plain
Name in tx: twetch#190

Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.

Signed by 1KJBLu2QbTgzcxXxS5vuhSFvQBCy9s2wYy Verified

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twetch#2275 Reposted · 5.9y

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twetch#2275 5.9y

1MsA8b…3dg3 Key · twetch

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twetch#678 5.9y

1E5wYa…Ycfh Key · twetch

Replying to@1KJBLu…2wYy

problem is the ignorant majority always lose to the intolerant loud minority

and then its too late

twetch#2275 5.9y

1MsA8b…3dg3 Key · twetch

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twetch#14409 5.9y

17AiYr…MEPu Key · twetch

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Is this a Monero app? 😀

twetch#1489 5.9y

1G7DLq…4kZS Key · twetch

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"Their power is derived 100% from our fear of it."
That's silly. Many people like having a government. They have a lot of complaints because governments have flaws, but it is not like everyone is waiting to take it down at any moment.

twetch#190 5.9y

1KJBLu…2wYy Key · twetch

Replying to@1G7DLq…4kZS

Never said people want to take it down.

It exists because people believe it is necessary. They obey it because they believe there is no way civilization could exist without it. Thomas Hobbes fooled them all.

They fear what would happen in its absence.

twetch#1489 5.9y

1G7DLq…4kZS Key · twetch

Replying to@1KJBLu…2wYy

If you say governments stand only because of fear, that would be something people would happily let go as soon as they could, bt that is not the case. It is convenient. It's absence exposes the more scrupulous to the unscrupulous. It is that simple.

twetch#4245 5.9y

1Gwece…AV6R Key · twetch

Replying to@1G7DLq…4kZS

I would happily let it go if it weren't for the threat of violence.

And a lot of other people too...

I support your right to have a government, or a dominatrix, for that matter.

Live and let live

Do you support my right to opt out of having government?

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twetch#190 5.9y

1KJBLu…2wYy Key · twetch

Replying to@1G7DLq…4kZS

If no one feared government, it would have no power. Power = ability to get people to do what you say. All of that comes from fear of what would happen if you don't. If you realize nothing will, you don't abide and they're powerless.