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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 3h

Pink Floyd’s Animals was gotdang brilliant

a purple wall with a white curtain in front of it

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 3h

Power corrupts. Imagine if the state had so little power it didn’t matter who ruled.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 3h

We really should teach the kids how the fat cat bankers took the country over in 1913 with Woodrow Wilson’s help. And how the tyranny of the deep state built through the 40s is oppressing all of us.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry. Dirty Yankee here. But you might ask why the cost is so high. It’s a common artifact of subsidy.

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 4h

Congress needs to reclaim the role of declaring war. We have ceded too much to the executive and they’ve been abusing it since WWII.

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve not tried it, but www.joincrowdhealth.com might be an option

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 4h

If we don’t fix the debt to GDP ratio and limit the tyranny soon, it’s over. There is a way. Conventionofstates.com

Convention of States Action

Article V offers the only constitutional solution as big as the problem. Together, we can end federal overreach.

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 4h

I had average coverage during my first daughter’s birth in 1993. Cost me $14 and that was because I paid for a private phone line. Something has broken since then.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 4h

Be great if you could use your money yourself instead of having politicians choose for you. They prove themselves untrustworthy pretty much all the time. Wishing you well.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah this is a mess. The military industrial complex must have their wars. :(

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 5h

So until now the govt bans citizens from buying their own services and that’s a good thing?

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 5h

Free things always have strings. Most insidious of all is the deterioration of the incentive to achieve. Good time to help our neighbors.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 5h

Good time to help your neighbors in need. Well it’s always a good time, actually.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 10h

On the downside, our debt is like 120% of GDP and everything costs way more than it should due to regulatory overhead. In his defense that’s also Wilson’s fault for initiating the Federal Reserve on behalf of fat cat bankers. And Nixon for nixing 😉 the gold standard.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 14h

National debt up $1 trillion in past two months. This is not sustainable and is theft from us all.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 15h

I loved it until calc III. Then I wanted to kill myself.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 16h

So make them voluntary and we’ll have a lot of uptake. Forcing them produces a natural human reaction to resist. Also there is real data that they can cause harm that I think we’ve been ignoring. It’s not a 0 vs 100% question in my view.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 16h

We need to cut their power to corrupt the markets. Conventionofstates.com

Convention of States Action

Article V offers the only constitutional solution as big as the problem. Together, we can end federal overreach.

Conventionofstates.com

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 16h

That would preferable to all the focus on bombing private boats in the Carib

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 17h

Paid $14 to have my first child in 1993 and that was because we opted for a private phone line in the room.

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 18h

Sadly we abandoned the experiment in 1913. Thanks Woodrow Wilson.

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 18h

There is a way forward. Conventionofstates.com

majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 18h

And by evidence I mean that the harm potential for at risk ppl when we don’t force vaccinate vs the harm potential to those injured by vaccine when we do. Not a trade off we should squander rights for too eagerly.

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 18h

Different yes, but the logic that enables us to force potential bodily harm on someone in one case will enable it in the other. Just as the seatbelt analogy enables us to extend that to disease. Removing individual liberty for safety even when evidence is not clear seems a mistake in my view

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majormit.bsky.social @majormit.bsky.social · 1d

Do we force vaccinate against rabies? Some die of flu. Should we force vaccinate against flu? Some of heart disease. Should we ban mothers from cooking with butter or force exercise programs into households? Are there no risks to the vaccinated that would warrant them making their own choice?

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