Predators and Saprophytes

They’re not your protectors if they’re eating you.

Guest post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic

Bruno walks into a neighborhood shop and threatens the shopkeeper with unspecified “bad things” if the shopkeeper doesn’t fork over $200 a week. The shopkeeper pays. If Bruno runs a “legitimate” protection racket, bad things don’t happen.

You can skip a class, indeed an entire four-year program in political theory, if you realize that governments are everywhere and always protection rackets. Fork over money and personal freedom and the state will protect you from bad things, specified or otherwise. Sometimes the state aligns itself with a deity or deities, demanding not just money and obedience but worship, too.

What if the shopkeeper pays Bruno, but his shop is still beset with burglaries? What if he discovers that Bruno is the burglar? The shopkeeper faces the same quandary as billions of people who are subjugated by governments: they need protection from their protection rackets. The protector has dropped all pretense of protection and has become a predator.

When the Soviet Union conducted its first successful atomic bomb test on August 29, 1949, it undercut the protection-racket rationale for governments. No one realized it at the time, but how can you run a protection racket if you can’t protect those you’re purportedly protecting from annihilation? Perhaps that wasn’t the case in 1949―the US still had a lead in nuclear armaments―but by 1955, when the Soviets detonated their first hydrogen bomb, it was clear that all either the Soviet or American government could offer its people was assured destruction of the other side, and most likely their own, in the event of an attack.

Of course neither governments’ rhetoric changed from the historical protection-racket justification. They said that escalating budgets for defense and intelligence, foreign intervention, and skullduggery were necessary to protect their people from the other side.

That was a lie. There was and is no protection from the other side’s weapons, other than the admittedly incomplete protection offered by good faith negotiation and military forbearance. Trillions have been spent for armaments, intervention, and skullduggery far beyond what is required for an assured destructive capability. Propaganda stokes fear that the spending perhaps assuages. However, that fear has a rational basis, it can never be vanquished. Instead, it provides the political impetus and cover for governments to do what they do best: predation.

If such predation wasn’t immediately obvious to the general populace, it was to the predators. Commentators have noted that government attracts sociopaths and psychopaths. Is that just hyperbole? Government in the age of predatory theft is a gun trained on the subjugated. Why wouldn’t it attract predatory people? A desire to be on the business end of the gun qualifies that person for a diagnosis as a sociopath, at the least.

When predators run out of prey and all that’s left are the carcasses, they move on and the saprophytes―organisms that live on dead or decaying matter―move in. We’re much closer to that stage than even astute critics recognize. It’s been obscured by the predatory mechanisms of debt and central banking, designed to enrich elite predators while maintaining a mirage of prosperity. The global economy is in extremis, kept alive by a drip feed of ever-expanding debt whose source feed is government’s unbacked fiat debt and central bank monetization. Now, not even those shell games can keep the patient alive.

Globalism is the last desperate gasp for the predators. It will destroy any remaining economic vitality and leave the killing field open to the saprophytes. The writing is on the wall for governments’ predatory rackets: nonstop wars, bloated military and intelligence complexes, crony socialism, central banking, medical care, education, regulatory extortion, vote-buying via redistributive theft, unfunded pension and medical promises, and the rest of the criminal activity that has rendered the world insolvent. The many groups clamoring for still more predatory government, globalist or otherwise, aren’t illiterates who can’t read what’s on the wall. They know they’ve run out of prey. Now they’re staking their saprophytic claims to the carcasses.

What about the prey? They’re finally waking up to the fact that Bruno is not running a legitimate protection racket. It’s a shame they’re already in the abattoir chute, but better late than never. In most cases enlightenment shouldn’t be attributed to an increased awareness of the true nature of governments. Instead, it’s their realization that notwithstanding the fake money and debt mirage, they are growing poorer, opportunities are shrinking, and eventually they’ll be destitute and then dead. Which leads to more radicalization than all the blog laments, alternative media critiques, and learned papers and tomes on income inequality and economic stagnation combined.

People are voting, in the case of Brexit and Trump’s election, and taking to the streets, in the case of the Yellow Vests, because they don’t have the lifestyles they once did and little hope for the future. The prey are tired of being eaten. What’s especially galling: those doing the feasting have made no effort to hide their gluttony.

Poverty―impending or actual―is the theme unifying the seemingly disparate Yellow Vest constituencies. The demands are sometimes incoherent and contradictory, a hallmark of any mass insurrection. What scares the hell out of not just the French establishment, but establishments around the world, is that Yellow Vest rage is directed at government, not just France’s, but the European Union as well.

When you’re broke, you’ve got nothing to lose. If poverty or its prospect, and perceived injustice, prime insurrections, then we ain’t seen nothing yet. The global house-of-cards economy is collapsing in on itself. One of the few bull market left will be yellow vest sales. Another will be firearms.

Which is why the predatory class is obsessed with firearms control and prohibition. Torches and pitchforks are one thing, pistols, rifles, and more powerful armaments available on the black market, another. Predators prey on the weak and defenseless; they’re cowards. Fear that they could find themselves on the wrong end of the barrel motivates their ceaseless efforts against private possession of firearms―but not governments’.

Demonized are those who believe that these weapons provide the only effective, albeit incomplete, protection of their rights against the predators who would deny them. It’s the sheep digging and camouflaging a stake-lined pit for the wolves. The wolves will still get some sheep, but it makes the job that much more dangerous. Alarmingly, it means that the sheep have identified their predators and abandoned their passivity. Governments, the most well-armed and dangerous institutions on the planet, moving against firearms are the wolves taking the sheep’s shovels and stakes.

It’s your life. Fight the predators with everything you’ve got or they’ll render you saprophyte chow. It’s that simple.

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Restless
Restless

Buzzards. Circling overhead. Crooked necks, ugly as hell, hopping around the corpse, able to stomach the rot they thrive on.
Winged cousin to the hyenas, big cats, sharks, gators & crocs. The law of the jungle.

In stark contrast to the majestic American eagle, once on the brink of extinction, slowly re-emerging. Flying and soaring high above the fray, as mostly only eagles can do.

Will be interesting, if- when the elite see some of their own mauled, disemboweled, and victims of their own predation, turning on themselves or reaping rare instances of predator becoming the prey.

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe

Springsteen is a libtard extrordinaire who I would happily beat to death

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yeah, me too JoJo.
But Steve Miller and Tull’s jungle tunes don’t fit here as well.
Get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.

Diogenes’ Dung
Diogenes’ Dung

There ain’t no going back, JoJo.

Nobody belongs anywhere when the options are Predator, Prey, or Parasite.

I suspect parasites always have the upper hand, stealing “free” energy from hosts who are usually ignorant about what is depleting them.

Americans, obese of mind and body, are easy prey for both predators and parasites; inviting and encouraging them to evade natural barriers, paying taxes to fund global predation, to protect an underclass of scamming social-welfare parasites, and getting no protection from anything.

Parasites consume common sense first, then courage.

Predators love parasites, they make prey weak.

Resigned 2 It
Resigned 2 It

You can sell tickets and make an overnight fortune.

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

Me 3.

Llpoh
Llpoh

Restless – What the fuck is wrong with you? I will no longer listen to Springsteen. The fuck is on the wrong side of the fence. How about some Kid Rock?

Restless
Restless

Lordy, big guy. It’s just a damn song. Jungle Land. Law of the jungle? I’m not advocating allegiance to him.
Was just a blast from the past.
Nobody forced to listen to it.
Thought it fit. Kind of.

Trying to keep up with EC, but his juke box has more buttons than my memory box.
That’s a hat tip, amigo.

There’s few in entertainment that I respect anymore. They all should STFU with their social political views.
Bruce lost his creativity with songwriting years ago, as have most of the oldsters still in that game.
If royalties didn’t exist, they’d be starving.

I’m on board with Kid Ritchie.
He doesn’t sugar coat it, & will speak his mind the truth as he sees it.
So, what about Nugent? Re: his music, socio political views, and as a hunter / 2A advocate?

Llpoh
Llpoh

Nugent is fine, too. I am old and cranky, and any time one of these musicians comes out libtard, I drop them. They need to shut the fuck up. I do not care what they believe, but if they think it ok to use their status as a libtard platform, I am through with them.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Common ground, brother.
Agreed.
-R

ecliptix543

I’ve given up on a Lot of various standup comics, musical acts, writers, companies, etc as soon as I find out they’re actually stark raving fucking lunatics from Leftworld. The breadth of their conquest is staggering sometimes.

My future ex-wife is a leftist. I just wish she had been more clear about that beforehand so we could have saved each other a whole lot of time and bullshit. Case-in-point: This evening, we took the kids out for dinner at a middlin’ seafood place (her kids from previous marriage). There was an extra unused straw on the table when we were getting ready to leave so I snagged it with a comment that I’d better get it now, they might ban them soon if I don’t. Yep, set off an argument about 1: The left coast did pass or try to pass laws banning and criminalizing straw ownership when she claims that’s not true at all, and 2: We’ve got much bigger problems than fucking straws when she claims that we should be doing anything we can to fight climate change. Like maybe the US military and by proxy, the fucking government itself being the world’s single largest consumer of diesel and heavy fuel oils in the history of everything.

As I said, future ex-wife. And after the divorce, I’m selling my house that I own outright by myself (except for property tax/rent extortions). And I’m buying a nice boat all by my lonesome with the proceeds and have a nice budget left over for fuel and maintenance. Then I’m fucking leaving.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Clipped Ticks, El Doggy’s numero uno warning is DO NOT MARRY A SINGLE MOM. Divorced, widowed, never married, whatever, they will make your life a living hell. The baby daddy might be in the wings ready to give her a consolation fuck after one of your fights or she will not allow you to discipline her kid(s). It’s bad news and oh so true. Anybody who has never listened to El Doggy, the takeaway is, if she has kids, run like fuck.

richard from willow

Damn. good luck with all of that. hope there is no alimony or child support. take a trip to Prague, they LOVE americans. they have the best beer and detest muslims.

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

Pussy is sooooooo overrated.

Anonymous
Anonymous

+1000 Llpoh, that is exactly what we should do, and I DO cross them off the list. Not a dime of my money will ever enrich these libtards, I don’t care who it is.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

Ditto for a wife who went over to the Communist and is now an ex-wife: not one penny.

Ivan
Ivan

douchestein has no place….anywhere…period

Javelin
Javelin

“Free For All ” would have been quite apt…

Ivan
Ivan

dicksteen is a traitor…one of them not one of us

TampaRed
TampaRed

i listen to springsteen all the time–i just do it for free on youtube or music i get at garage sales–
no profit to him and good music for me–

IluvCO2
IluvCO2
no one
no one

There are some raunchy folks around but nobody THIS hick.

IluvCO2
IluvCO2

Red flyover country. Trump voters. Lots-o-guns. You say raunchy. I say the last real Americans. Plus the hotties firing weapons. Damn good video. Come on, look at that cleavage!! Where the hell did Rise Up disappear to?

Mary Christine

No, the people he portrays in that video don’t exist. They are caricatures. Here is a look at what real women on a shooting team look like. Your everyday women. Some are attractive, some, well I would not want to meet them in a dark alley.

Meet The Shooters at TWAW Competitive Team

James the Wanderer

Sorry, MC, but women like that DO exist, I grew up around a bunch. Women who could hike, camp, shoot, hunt and still look sexier in camo than street thots in lingerie.
Spend some time around Chattanooga, TN or Athens, Ga, or Mobile, AL; there are more around there than you can shake a stick at, and they do not care who sees them drink, cuss and chew bubble gum (tobacco is bad for the teeth and gums, so that’s out, though they COULD if they wanted to).

Lee Harvey Griswald
Lee Harvey Griswald

Jungle tunes? Maybe a better choice…

Hollywood Rob

What will you do? I am buying ammo. I don’t watch what they offer. I don’t eat what they sell. What are you willing to do? Will you put on the yellow vest?

ecliptix543

I’m leaving and anybody in a stupid costume trying to stop me gets blasted. Fuck ’em.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Do you mean leaving New Jersey? I heard the highways out of Jersey were clogged. 66% of residents booked to Dallas and Phoenix. Wow.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

Future refugee here looking for lower taxes, less traffic, fewer people, and some space.
Sick of the libtards, the firearms idiocy, and the increasing number of Orthodox Jews who will eventually take over a township loaded with retirement communities.
Plan B to leave ready to execute within two years.

Pequiste
Pequiste

A bright laser beam boring right-through-the-bone analysis, sir.
May the Evil Fuckers each get a terminal case of Fusarium solani, a dandy saprophyte, for their respiratory systems.

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls

WTH did you just say?

Craig
Craig

weapons grade aggressive cancer?

rainbird
rainbird

Lazy, stupid people who refuse to stand up for themselves deserve to be poor.

neal
neal

Try fighting and being dead for awhile then shut the fuck up.
I choose to be poor. Not my fucking circus.
All the good banking and trades happen in a bad place.
Those passing through do no better but tend to keep going.
You know that those curses and blessings are recorded, no?

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Does your Nazi bible say – Blessed are the rich..?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

EC .
That would be the Baptists.

Steve
Steve

“When you’ve got nothing to lose, you lose it” Gerald Cellente

Martel's Hammer

Bread and circuses are in the end only a delaying tactic and eventually, the population realizes that the barbarians at the gate and the barbarians in power are pretty much the same. While we can’t say for sure but we may be approaching an 1848 type event of generalizing popular revolt against those in power or more ominously a complete breakdown of the ruling order similar to the fall of the Western Roman empire ushering in a new dark age. Except the decline will likely be accelerated with nuclear weapons, directed energy weapons, bioweapons etc………good times.

It has surprised me that it has taken this long for the average citizen to get the first glimmer of insight that our government is farming us……….and not in any way serving us.

mark
mark

MT,

Your post reminded me of this 1962 Twilight Zone episode.

Today’s TO SERVE MAN is the Federal Reserve Act, The Income Tax Act and of course the Patriot Act.

TO SERVE MAN
An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A linguist and his team set out to translate the aliens’ language, using a book whose title they deduce is “To Serve Man”.

Michael Chambers recounts recent events on Earth after the arrival of an alien space craft. The aliens, known as Kanamit, seem friendly and assure everyone they have nothing to be afraid of. In fact, they offer to share wonderful technology that will provide limitless energy, cure all disease and convert deserts into lush gardens. For the people of Earth, paradise has arrived. Chambers is an encryption specialist and they try their best to decrypt a book the Kanamit left behind. The book’s title seems benign – but it’s not what they think it is

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Mark…
Enjoyed that Fed for Idiots site. Best I’ve seen.

mark
mark

Flea,
It is hands down the best educational FED microscope for Normies I have found on the net to date.

A great balance of truth in text and graphics.

I’m going to work on an introduction and send it to the 37 family and friends I have been trying to reach and maybe even send it to Admin.

We have to open as many eyes on the history of the Banksters and the dollar today as possible. I have been beating the drum with some family for years who now have PMs and Preps. I have also given both PMs as wedding and Christmas presents for many years…that gets them going once its in their hands for the first time.

One day it will make a huge difference in their lives.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Mark..
Funny how a 1oz. silver round in the hand affects a person. Not sinister like Golum but it has an effect.
If you can rearrange it in condensed form it should be good. If admin won’t post it for some reason I’ll give you my email. I’d like to see it.

mark
mark

I just sent it to Admin.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Took some searching to find it, from the Tucker thread on 1-5-19.
Agreed, flea, mark. It IS good.
Here.
I’ll save somebody some time.

https://www.truthcontrol.com/federal-reserve-guide

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Anono..
Makes it easy to pick and choose topics that interest me at the moment and easy to come back to.

StackingStock
StackingStock

Great find, kudos!!!!!

mark
mark

Thanks Anon…I had sent it to Admin with a brief intro as I was so impressed with it as a Normie educational click those of us interested could pass on.

Appreciate your back up.

PlatoPlubius

Thank you for that. I missed it previously.

no one
no one

link for fed for idiots site.

no one
no one
Martel's Hammer

It’s a COOKBOOK!

mark
mark

MH…We could always reverse it on them!

https://binged.it/2LWiLlD

no one
no one

one of our favorites from our library…

Llpoh
Llpoh

The average citizen has no glimmer of insight whatsoever. They can see that they do not have the standard of living they came to believe was their entitlement, but can in no way relate it to their own actions and inactions. They are looking for someone to blame, by and large, but that is as far as it goes.

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare

The thought of relying on themselves to make a decision on their own, think for themselves or bear any personal responsibility terrifies them, which is why they are so opposed to liberty. They would be lost and couldn’t function without having their nanny wiping their nose, scolding them, amusing them, encouraging them to rat each other out and generally filling their heads with rubbish.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

The predators are making it much easier for the populace to identify who they are. If you are for gun control, then you are a traitor. That’s pretty much many members of the Democrat party. They really aren’t hiding in the shadows anymore. Once the fur starts to fly, the Democrats who aren’t for gun control will disappear under the baseboard like bedbugs and the people who openly identify as Democrat will be those who truly are the enemies of the people. Then they will get to face a revolutionary reality: If you get rid of the people who cause the troubles, then you don’t have anymore problems.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

I doubt there has ever been any VoPo’s more terrified than that sniper team at the Bundy Ranch mess a couple of years ago. I bet they shit themselves when that photo was published of a protester counter sniper with them in his sights.
The Bundy Ranch thing is worth studying for any number of reasons. It also demonstrates that once the protestors get up into the several hundred range, and especially if armed, there is damn little that can be done to you at that time in that place.

starfcker
starfcker

The Bundy Ranch illustrated the difference between an armed peaceful protest, and an unarmed peaceful protest.

PlatoPlubius

As long as Janet Reno isn’t running the Bureau of Land Management!

Uncola

What about the prey? They’re finally waking up to the fact that Bruno is not running a legitimate protection racket. It’s a shame they’re already in the abattoir chute

If we’re the prey (or rather, livestock?), Bruno is Uncle Sam, and the abattoir chute is our fate, then the Federal Reserve is Temple Grandin.

Excellent, Robert. Even though you made me look up “saprophytes”. Ya’ got me again, ya’ damn lexicomane. 🙂

Uncola

By the way, the piece I am posting tonight (for tomorrow) will go with this sublime “Predators and Saprophytes” essay like butter and popcorn. Incoming…

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Bob..
Abattoir! The way you snuck that through I felt like I just watched a hanging curve float by for stike 3 after I looked it up.
I thought it was odd that an admitted establishment hack like Carlson was allowed to air his rant the other night. Why now and not sooner?
I suspect “They” would like a controlled demolition.
Are you inciting rebellion with that last line?
Might be time to download You Tube videos of making pipe guns to use to aquire more guns.

Horst
Horst

They are working together. The Russians got help to build the bomber fleet to carry the atomic bombs. To make it not so obvious, and maybe for training, they got some B29 delivered, the tale told is these run out of fuel, emergency landing. The planes were copied, becoming the TU4.

Grog
Grog

If those “of the elect” are saprophytic then, the “public servant”, functionaries (viz. DMV, DHS, FDA, IRS), the praetorian and others must certainly be the mycelium.

Just as deadly as the abattoir, and causes extreme agony before death.

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Overthecliff
Overthecliff

Good stuff ,Robert. You and Uncola have sure been cranking it out lately. Glad to know that you are not inciting rebellion. I am not as well. I can speculate that those who would rebel would attack soft targets like government clerks and janitors and low level functionaries. It would be much easier than fighting police and military .

They can’t protect them all. I hope the crazies don’t start using violence.

wxtwxtr
wxtwxtr

The Liberal cries out as he strikes you.

BB
BB

Go over to the ” Overlords of Chaos ” website and read the ” Take down of the world economy ” . Read some of the other articles.If just 1/4 of what this guy says is right you begin to understand what is really going on. He is spot on about the secret societies . Maybe all the rest .
Hammer , so you claim to be a Jew . If so are you going to fight for America or run to Israel ? Doesn’t matter cause we all gonna bow down to the Lord Jesus Christ. Right. He says yes u are.
Meatballs , I know you love me to ! Just so we understand I’m not faggoted.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

BB- I’ve never been to that site, but I’ll be headin’ that way shortly.

Now, my standard “it’s the gawd dam FREEMASONS”, and I’ll post a link to the press release with trump and the border patrol ‘officials’: /watch?v=HV71lMoHYxY

Listen to their words and watch as they choreograph the masonic- lapel- pin- wearing border patrol puppet as he becomes flanked by ‘muricin flag lapel pin wearing trump and the other ‘official’.

Annuit Coeptis Novus Ordo Seclorum !

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

That’s what Democrats do.

Old Krank
Old Krank

Finally – someone using the same metaphor in print I’ve been using verbally for the last 20 years!

Whenever some libtarded, cucked soiboi think I’m on their side because I’m an anarchist (traditional meaning, not the 80’s-punk-socialist-nihilist kind), I have to ‘splain it to them (using monosyllabic words wherever possible), which always gets them extolling the virtues of Unca Sam’s Perpetual Zillion Dollar Give-a-Way Extravaganza…

…after which, I invariably ask the question, can you explain the difference between the Mafia and government – any government?

…which always leads to some blather about the Mafia being criminals, but .gov isn’t – and me walking away while laughing at the libtarded, cucked soiboi for proving himself the clueless, brain-dead moron I suspected him of being in the first place.

Trouble is, it isn’t entertaining for me anymore. I’d much prefer to (though have the restrain not to) administer high-velocity lead injection therapy to them than have to listen to their NPC dipshitted cluelessness for any length of time.

tl;dr: I want my fucking country back, the way it was supposed to be.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote
BB
BB

Nice song EC….Old Frank ,I want my fucking country back to. The way I remember it growing up. I hate those liberal progressives Democrats more than words can say.Even the ones in my own family.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

I thought you opted out of the belief in the Hegelian demonrat/republicant dialectic !

“For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God”

Heb. 11:10

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- in your face masonic crap EVERYWHERE, and still an open border !!

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

There has been somewhere north of 1,000 fake shootings this century.

The “protection racket” from shootings that don’t happen and guns that aren’t a problem.

Billions of dollars for school security and airline security that’s a total farce.

http://mileswmathis.com/mob.pdf

Anonymous
Anonymous

The US government may be a criminal enterprise, but at least we have multiculturalism and diversity. That’s our strength, right there. Replacing us only makes US stronger.

Arizona
Arizona

DUE to the fact the girlymen in america were turned into pussies and queers by the FAT ugly whores they claim are women,YOU HAVE LOSS YOUR COUNTRY,your freedom,and everything you owned…ITS all gone now,the only thing left is for you to die,GET close to the LORD ,maybe he’ll let you into heaven..

Stucky

Saprophytes. Huh! Learn something new every day here! I’ll bet Robert Gore always got 20 out of 20 right in the monthly Reader’s Digest “Word Power” section.

Late to the game here …. nothing new to add to a terrific article and insightful comments.

Jay
Jay

The button on the bathroom wall hand blow dryer said, “to hear a speech from Al Gore, press here.” Now that’s real global warming. Hot air to be specific.

Mangledman
Mangledman

Well done!! Yes, marching is not on my menu. Locked and loaded is. One should hope we sheep havn’t located where the wolves chose to sleep!!

RiNS

The protests in France are now taking a serious turn. The Yellow Vests are turning their sights towards the heart of the beast. It is not being widely reported of course and for reasons that should be obvious to all concerned.
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Still the fact that after nine weeks the Macron regime has not gotten hold of situation speaks volumes to who is the predator and who is the prey. And how it all can change. In the blink and some colour in the day.

https://www.facebook.com/events/329665461092228/?active_tab=about

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

Long story short, government bad, liberty good.

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