And some of us should breed

I'm not convinced he wipes.

What a dickhead.

What are you basing that on?

Counterargument: my girlfriend has a hair trigger and it's AWESOME

Jesus lol

Schicklgruber is a famous name too, I think he was one of Nietzsche's teachers. Could be a coincidence

haha, nice

inb4 "nothing is freeeeee"

That's one thing we can agree on! Interesting chat, thanks.

Okay, I'm getting it, thanks. I doubt we'll ever get past authoritarianism - the will to power seems pretty baked into human nature to me. I don't want to reignite a whole thing here, but there's one point I want to make: suggesting that we're going for "an easy life" is pretty reductionist, and not what actually motivates a good number of people, I think. Some of us truly believe that we have a responsibility to society that precedes our own personal interests (and thus choose to eg pay taxes for services we'll never use ourselves).

What new frontiers?
Would you favour a system that meant you didn't pay any taxes, but you were unable to access those services (roads, education, health etc) without paying for them?

Okay, thanks. What do you make od the argument that as the natures of our technology, culture, trade etc become more sophisticated, the role of government necessarily expands to, as Huxley says, "keep the ship of State on an evem keel"?

@famousone forgive me reviving a dead thread. I was thinking about this today: if the problem is federal government, would you rather go back to unfederated states? 50 separate nations, like a little Europe?
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Aldous Huxley: https://youtu.be/3TQZ-2iMUR0

I'm gonna drop this then get to sleep.
Yes - it's so much easier to hear you when the language isn't so hyped, thank you. But I tell you, I've never been one to believe what I read in the papers - I'm living through the Murdoch Era, remember. You're obviously a deep thinker, what do you make of the observation that anti-intellectualism is on the rise in America's political right?

Beat me to it!

Okay, thanks for clarifying.
It'll be hard to believe, but I mean this with no disrespect: you sound like a crazy person to me, this time. I know you're intelligent and articulate, but sometimes the conclusions you reach (Michigan Murders the Elderly!), and the assumptions you base them on, are absurd on their face to me. The rate of Covid deaths in the States is astronomically higher than just about everywhere, and you maintaining that it was the best possible outcome is just obviously wrong. But the victor writes the history, and you may well be proven right someday.
I don't say any of this with any malice, but I do wonder what it means. I'm intelligent and articulate too, but despite having more or less the same raw materials, we end up almost incomprehensibly far apart in our values - and I'm not sure how to effectively communicate with you, but it continues to feel important that I try.

You're saying that more Americans would have died if the US government had tried more to help?