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I'm curious what your definition of religion is?

The problem is that influencers have shilled stupid VPN services so much that even legislatures think they know what they are and think the primary use for the technology is circumvention and privacy.

They have no idea about all the IPsec tunnels providing site-to-site VPNs for all their businesses. Or how VPN protocols like GRE, which while providing no security on their own, are still very useful for tunneling protocols through different network stacks.

If I exercise today, what will I accomplish? Will I be different tomorrow? Of course the answer is that I won't accomplish much, and I probably won't be noticebly different tomorrow; nobody increases their bench press 25lb after a single workout.

The point is not the results of a single workout, because what is significant is not the effect of a single workout or protest or any other long-term effort you want to examine, it is the cumulative effect of continued work toward a common goal.

The Powell Memoradum was written in 1971. The Heritage foundation began developing project 2025 in early 2022. These are efforts that have been in development for decades and years, respectively with many people working very patiently to see them implemented.

Of course a single protest isn't going to do anything to undo decades of well-orchestrated political and economic changes. If people want to see this changed they can't stop with a single protest. Just like making a new years resolution to go to the gym once isn't going to undo years of neglect to change someone's physical fitness, going to a protest once isn't going to undo the years of damage to the U.S. Government.

The difference is that for the people dying under capitalism, the system is working as intended, and for the people dying under communism, it is not. In both cases, the leaders don't really care, because it works for them.

That seems like an easy thing until you consider:

1. Federalized National guard troops are under Title 10 Authority.

2. Under Title 10 USC 890 Article 90: Willfully disobeying a lawful order in wartime is punishable with the death penalty.

3. With the executive branch claiming wartime powers and the DoJ willing to pursue any claim they want, they could certainly choose to pursue the maximum punishment to make an example out of someone.

The ranks of the JAG and military judges hasn't been purged yet, so I believe it is very inlikely that a court-marshal would reach this punishment, but these orders aren't something a Soldier can just walk away from without serious legal and financial repurcussions.

What they do in Chicago matters far more than their presence there. Every Soldier needs to recognize their ultimate purpose is to defend the freedom and liberty of their nation's citizens. They must have a line in the sand that they will refuse to cross and are willing to die for, but simply deploying to a city to stand outside a federal building is not that line.

Can anyone tell me what that is on the shelf in the top left of this video? https://youtu.be/OZRG7Og61mw?t=272

Is that some kind of fascist symbol?

I do what I always do: run to the trolley, then jump up and pull the emergency stop because I hate false dilemmas.

If Life is an inalienable right, and food is an undeniable necessity for human life, then it should be self-evident that food is a human right.

I think it is pretty obvious why the government is shut down, it's because Joe Biden signed documents with an Autopen, obviously...

If it is well known that it is illegal for law enforcement officers to wear masks, and there is an armed man wearing a mask who is threatening a group of people, it would be reasonable to assume they are not a law enforcement officer and a shooting could be justified in self-defense.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

Also Matthew 6:14-16: "14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." (NIV)

I know it isn't Biblically supported, but I always thought it would be incredibly poetic if we were asked to pass final judgement on people who had harmed us, only to find out afterwards that we were actually passing judgement on ourselves for our own actions. Makes me wonder how many people would condemn others for their own actions?

This would be a very literally implementation of Matthew 12:36-37: " 36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. 37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (NIV)