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1. Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 08:42:20 JST Kenny Blankenship
   Modern America really has a knack for making people slaves to their vices
   • Senator Armstrong (senator_armstrong@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 08:51:26 JST Senator Armstrong

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     @DW2 that is how liberalism genocides people. I'll put a heroin dealer on every street corner, but now it's your fault for getting addicted, muh freedom
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   • mr bigot (c@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 08:54:25 JST mr bigot

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     If I was still naive enough to think that women were sentient, I'd feel bad for them.
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   • Victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 11:14:48 JST Victor

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     @DW2 @c @Senator_Armstrong There are three ways I think of this: 1) fences, 2) music keys, and 3) building materials.
     
     Without a fence, you are totally "free," but fences keep bad stuff out. With a fence, you are "free" with limitations, but the freedom you have is a lot more empowering, since the bad stuff is kept out.
     
     Music that isn't in a key is called "chromatic." It allows ultimate freedom but sounds horrible. If you play in a key, which restrains the notes you can play (with creative, tasteful exceptions), the music takes on a whole new form and tells a story instead of awful, dissonant notes being hammered out.
     
     A mud hut can be constructed in any way; there are no rules, and the builder is free to do anything. However, it only scales so far and will eventually cave in on itself if built up. A concrete building requires far more restrictions and respect for materials and gravity, but in turn it allows freedom to build skyscrapers and structures that would be impossible with the "freedom" of mud.
     
     People need to understand that unbounded "freedom" is actually enslavement to mediocrity. Freedom within a set of boundaries allows for excellence and expression that unbounded freedom could never hope to achieve.
     
     I am convinced that this is only understandable to those above a certain IQ.
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