• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Seriously, what’s the point of government if not to HELP US. We didn’t invent government to make our lives more difficult. We invented it to keep our shit together. For us. As a property of its existence.

    • andymouse@slrpnk.net
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      10 months ago

      Eh, we DIDN’T invent government. Government invented itself to control and exploit us. They do so to the degree of our tolerance levels and the level to which we are manipulated.

      • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

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          I don’t think quoting a bunch of slave-owners and misogynists who did none of all that is proving the point you’re trying to make.

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        no, we did invent the government, or do you really think that for however bad this is, the literal warlord nobility that predates it was Superior?