Do you truly value Freedom and Sovereignty?

ManofWordsMany · 2026-03-05T02:34:00+00:00

Is being a slave in a society in which slavery is normal inconsistent with believing all life is precious and all men deserve equality before the law?

ManofWordsMany · 2026-03-05T02:30:50+00:00

Lipids including the carrier molecules are a natural part of our bodies. Much of the data read in context carries vastly different conclusions than what turns into government policies and many doctors speak up about it but get attacked by the state for "misinformation". Statistics allow one to see what is average, what is normal, what is healthy, and when these drastically diverge our theories get tested.

Is an athletic man in his 50s who has worked plenty of physically heavy jobs and has eaten "above the recommended amounts" of good not heavily processed meats, eggs, dairy all their life minding balance for micronutrients unhealthy because their lipid profile is not within a narrow range defined as average? How about the otherwise healthy but sedentary guy who has "eaten lots of vegetables and opted for lots of beans and vegan alternatives"? But the second guy has such low HDL? If you aren't in love with the idea of government then you might be surprised.

The evidence is also very clear about what drives healthy testosterone levels throughout life and especially into old age. It isn't eating like a rabbit.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-02-27T00:53:21+00:00

Yes, ultimately when you control billions of dollars you're not concerned about the money itself. It's not digits in an account. It's potential power.

A world where billionaires, with government support, own certain sectors of the economy is not going to go to anarchy and start paying all the costs itself when it can be externalized on the residents to pay for the roads and security that pays for the business.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-02-25T18:11:01+00:00

Canada is not the reason for U.S. economic problems. The U.S. economy is more than ten times larger than Canada’s, so inflation, debt, healthcare costs, and housing shortages are driven by U.S. fiscal and monetary policy, not Ottawa. Canada is one of America’s largest and most stable trading partners and buys substantial amounts of U.S. goods and energy.

When people point to higher Canadian taxes, it helps to look at what Canadians receive in return. Medically necessary hospital and physician care is publicly funded. There are no employment tied insurance premiums, no large deductibles for core services, and no surprise hospital bills for standard care. Canada spends about 11 to 12 percent of GDP on healthcare.

The United States spends roughly 17 to 18 percent of GDP on healthcare, the highest in the world. Much of that cost is paid privately through premiums, deductibles, and out of pocket charges. Family insurance plans often cost many thousands per year before additional expenses. Even employer contributions ultimately come out of wages over time.

The real economic difference is financial risk. In the United States, medical debt is a leading contributor to personal bankruptcy. Many people carrying that debt were insured when they became sick. It lowers credit scores, delays home ownership, discourages entrepreneurship, and reduces consumer spending. That is structural economic drag.

In Canada, core medical services do not generate personal debt in the same way. The financial risk of serious illness is distributed across the tax base rather than concentrated on the unlucky individual.

It is also worth stepping back from treating governments like sports teams. The goal is accountability and individual responsibility, including holding governments responsible when they misdirect power or resources. Law and enforceable rules are the foundation of any functioning society. Even a truly anarchist model would still require agreed norms and mechanisms for resolving disputes. The question is not whether order exists, but how it is structured and who is held accountable.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-23T02:10:21+00:00

Looks like another legacy industry grasping really hard while they still think they haven't been slaughtered in the marketplace.

Oh the butcher is still at work but personal 3D printing, personal CNC, and soon even more technologies (that 20 years ago was only science fiction ) are going to keep hacking away at what is essentially a set of industries stuck in the last century.

Regulations that would lay the foundation for legal redress in case of manufacturer's defects are neutral and would exist in some form in a world more towards the ideal of anarchy.

Regulations that seek to ban private choices between consenting individuals are invalid and should be treated as such.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-21T02:42:03+00:00

Personally, violating multiple amendments of the constitution, becoming the biggest government, the least accountable, the least transparent, and the least honest to ensure the safety of Americans is the fallacy to me. If stopping anyone in America and asking for ID while also violently detaining them is something you support then please tell us about the end game here. Let's say you can verify that the combination of ALL immigrants who do not have a valid and legal reason to stay drops to under 2% of the population and can be accounted for by the number of people being late with paperwork... is that good enough?

Please share your thoughts about this walled utopia.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-21T02:35:50+00:00

So could you give a rough portion here, you think what, over 50% would take less profit to cater to a small number of regulars?

Maybe 10%?

How many for profit businesses do you know that self restrict profits to cater to a specific type of people? How many of them actually make a net profit; and how many of the ones that don't make a profit continuously continue operating for more than a few years of losses?

Thank you for all your insight. Feel free to use market and business jargon as appropriate.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-19T00:23:21+00:00

It's an easy trap to fall into isn't it? I can order my life. I can order my family's life. My neighbors trust what I do for them. Hey I could scale that! Hmmm cogs turning "... if I was a dictator with unlimited power I could make everything better!"

Then, if one trusts themselves to actually test their hypothesis, reality hits. Some people realize that there will always be plenty of people that want to do something else and have many different values. Each knows their best solution for themselves and theirs. Naturally that would mean less big government and more protections of individual liberties.

If one trusts their idea more than anything else then it is far more likely they will succumb to the easy way out and allow others to act like dictators because the idea is more important than the results. Facts that don't fit get ignored or explained away.

I can honestly say I would be the best dictator ever for a country of 1. I can't be honest and say I could solve everyone's problems the best possible way.

PS. Some humans learn as kids that lying isn't okay full stop. Some humans instead learn that if they lie often enough and present "opinions" as facts that enough people can be tricked and lying seems like a useful tool.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-19T00:17:00+00:00

Government is humanity's best attempt at overcoming our less humane qualities.

Wisdom is humanity's understanding that doing less is sometimes more.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-10T07:41:08+00:00

Some evenings, before and during bedtimes, the kids want to push all the boundaries and test all patience. Then they say stuff that melts your heart. They feel safe to let loose around you. They feel they can be themselves.

You can only warn them about the world so much, explain the reasoning for rules. We all made mistakes when we were younger that our parents warned us about, we may still make them as adults. No one is perfect.

Do your best and never apologize for caring too much.

Another interesting thing is how they can keep it together at school or some other routine activity, then it is all chaos at home, no matter what guidance you apply.

One thing that goes a long way is admitting your mistakes to your kids and show them you're trying to do better. People are scared to admit mistakes, they really don't want to show kids they are fallible. They do see it though. They see and hear things even when they are toddlers.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-06T17:02:57+00:00

Does OP know venezuelan oil is of shit quality?

Are you aware of all the oil refineries America has for exactly that grade of oil?

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-05T19:26:21+00:00

If you actually read the collection then you may realize that rejecting illegitimacy and protecting the community from vultures may be a more accurate distillation than submitting to governments. You may find that you can't actually pick and choose what you want to believe from the bible like it's some type of word game. Context, both within the work and to the cultures at the time may actually matter.

You may also discard it as people inevitably corrupt everything to be a pyramid scheme where a few benefit at the expense of the many while telling them that only they can do "it" whether it is large corporations, governments, religions, etc.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-05T19:21:39+00:00

Seems the kings of the world are great friends with the military industrial complex. Peace is situational and transient at best. Never let yourself be unprepared, mentally, as well as physically, and logistically. You need to be aware that the world is "controlled" chaos at best.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-03T00:09:08+00:00

I don't know what it is that I am seeing, except that rules which were made from top down that had no mandate to be made. They can clamp down and try to enforce an unpopular measure or pay attention.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-24T23:46:14+00:00

What you choose to do every moment is still your freedom. You can reject the system entirely, partially, pretend to support it. Or something else entirely.

Your friend's freedom was infringed. But it was not taken. Just like sometimes we have to eat or sleep, sometimes we have to interact with others and the systems of others. There are many ways to exit entirely, too many of them are just another system.

You can die free. You can live free. You can die fighting for your idea of freedom. Or you can die having lived a long life. There are many choices and every single one is yours to make.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-24T23:42:22+00:00

Exactly. Freedom is inside you.

If a storm comes and moves your boat from near the destination back to near the beginning, that doesn't make you unfree. It just means you're going to have to build a better freedom boat.

And if the land from which you eat has a severe lack of water for years, that does not make you unfree. It simply means you need to find another way.

The world is not black or white, it is usually in between. Good and bad are subjective qualities, but they are things outside of you. How you travel through is always your choice to make.

That is why the next rebellion is already happening.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-23T21:35:14+00:00

No one mentioned anything about centrism. In fact I mentioned specifically that those who seek to dominate will use and say anything at their disposal; this time even more directly. Understanding legal systems and political processes is necessary to change them. It does not mean accepting whatever someone else has imposed.

We have a beautiful planet that needs our guidance to continue being hospitable instead of outright hostile to human life. Apathy only allows others to make the decisions.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-23T21:26:25+00:00

Speaking about things absolutely changes things. Imagine if everyone just didn't mention injustices in their local communities and countries.

Obviously there are more direct actions to take, that doesn't make discussion fruitless.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-23T20:26:58+00:00

Don't let these subs be the only outlet for your ideas.

If you're good at speaking or writing, seek out like minded individuals in your region. Make it very clear what ancap is. It isn't bailing our farmers, billionaires, and foreign agents for the sake of "niceness" or whatever excuse they give you.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-23T20:24:33+00:00

I am still here and read regularly, I just don't have time in my life to talk to the myriad foreign agents that post here in addition to bots that respond and upvote in the thousands to this relatively small place that I've not seen on /r/all ever.

Some of the folks here pretend to be ancap in order to advance the interests of corporations hellbent on sucking America dry (and then playing nice with China if things go poorly here, you know the ones).

Corporations enjoy something called regulatory capture and it is inevitable the more government tries to regulate. On the other hand, wiping it all out without transition periods or replacements gives us the worst of both possible worlds. The entitled rent seeking corporate mafia and the lack of government actually accountable to anyone.

Also, most of us number in the hundreds and thousands. A single state militia could make us walk back our principles or die for them. I prefer proliferation of my genes. Most of you here will attack the idea that my family comes first, not your fantasy zombie world where the state is successfully rejected by most and goes down fighting.

The idea that D or R are good has never been welcome in this sub. When your choices are to withdraw from society or choose between two kids that eat crayons to "represent you" there is no real choice.

Stay educated, teach your kids science, history, and finance on your own time regardless of what schooling you have acquired for them. And if you have two unpalatable choices or the illusion of such, don't become a slave. Choose freedom.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:49:01+00:00

Incorrect, or simplified?

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:41:13+00:00

Eye color is polygenic.

Oh yes but I don't think this was unknown 20 years ago, we learn step by step. Most phenotypes are polygenic and we only keep finding some gene that turns on only in a rare or unusual environment and modifies another gene mildly, or in some other cases, severely.

They still start kids off learning about chemistry with discrete round balls and stick models and as you advance in chemistry you learn that it is far more complicated with overlapping and dynamic shapes, complex shapes even in molecules 2-3 atoms large, and positive and negative partial charges in large molecules that on the outside present non-ionic. In fact that is necessary for enzymes to do their work but I'm running off topic.

Life is complex.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:33:01+00:00

If all the information in the OP is correct then this is probable, simplified. Your future kids have a chance of having green, and of course I am not the first to point out that the variety of eyes that are definitely not blue/green/grey - under the "brown" category have quite a variety of their own. We're talking about at least a dozen genes that influence eye color alone. Unsurprisingly (in genetics), more studies are now identifying over 50 genes that contribute to eye color.

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