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6 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby OP 10 May \ parent \ on: US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support Politics_And_Law

You see no difference between private property and government-owned property?

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62 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 10 May

No, the government is a literally corporation, and corporate property is private property.

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 10 May

But it's not just a corporation like any other. Governments/nations clearly have somewhat exalted privileges -- privileges which they claim by virtue of the consent of those people who their citizens. I don't buy that Ralph's Heating and Air is the same, just smaller and weaker.

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 10 May
consent of those people who their citizens

Shareholders.

Ralph's heating is a subsidiary.

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There's a top to every hierarchy, and through the millennia the number one indicator that determines whether a ruler is bad or good is if that ruler believes themselves to be subordinate to a higher power.

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