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1. Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 19:39:35 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

   Whenever foreigners discuss Australian politics, they always have a freak out about mandatory voting. And I find that rather odd.

   If a government is going to claim to represent the "will of the people", it needs to be ALL the people. Not just some. There is a whole group of people that are not interested in your bullshit. And if their vote isn't counted, then the loudest group of bullshitters wins.

   At least that's the steelman position. IMO the organised minority wins anyway no matter what.

   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 19:40:25 JST Machismo

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     @ned The strangest part of Australian politics is the lack of firearms.
   • teknomunk (teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 19:54:36 JST teknomunk

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     When you consider that "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun", the saying "nobody needs weapons of war" is equivalent to "you should have zero political power", and all gun grabbers should be treated the same as slavers, because that is what they are.
     
     
   • Soy_Magnus (soy_magnus@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 22:33:17 JST Soy_Magnus

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     @teknomunk @Zerglingman politics are for losers who cant thibk on thier own or want to use goverbment force to make someone love the way they see fit. Ive come to realize its not me against the state, its me against everyone who wants to use to state against me to pillage my wellbeing, paycheck, and keep me enslaved to tgat system. Sadly sonehow im not very interested in participating in this society
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   • teknomunk (teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 22:33:21 JST teknomunk

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     @Soy_Magnus @Zerglingman
     
     And I've come to realize that "the state" is just another group of people that happen to have lots of guns at their disposal and have no problems with using those guns to force people to do their bidding.
     
     It's just people.
     
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   • Soy_Magnus (soy_magnus@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 22:49:54 JST Soy_Magnus

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     @teknomunk @Zerglingman best part is you can simply ignore them and enjoy your life. U just have to learn how to hedge against them (like tor, ghostguns, gold) but yeah u can totally just walk away from that system