Yard sign saying: "Nobody will keep election promises. Nobody will listen. Nobody cares. If nobody is elected, things will get better. Nobody tells the truth."

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1. djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 09:46:55 JST djsumdog

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   I didn't know you have a site. Do you have an RSS feed I can add to my reader? .. didn't see one in the code.
   
   :agummythink: I get what you're saying in your post. I think I felt that way for a long time. I've written some older posts like "Vote for Nobody" and "Does Voting make a Difference?" and I had this sign up in my lawn back in the early 2000s (it got stolen).
   
   As I get older, I'm not anti-state. All states are corrurpt. But States are also the way societies organize to give us so much of the technology that we have today. I do think minimizing that corruption to as reasonable amount as possible is important.
   
   I do appreciate America, as least with the foundation that has tried to allow for speaking out against that state. It hasn't always been held true. There have been judges who have sided against the 1st amendment. But in all the places I've lived, I still think it's held up better than a lot of other developed nations. We know Bush/Cheney et. al. blew up the towers and we can say that openly. In NZ, you distribute a video of the Christchurch shooting and it can be 7 years in prison. We don't even need to start with Canada recently...
   
   I still respect people like James Corbett and Media Monarchy; people who are very anti-state and I think they have incredible analysis .. but as I get older, I see the benefit of a state, but also the need to keep that state in constant check.