''I’ve experienced transport being excessively controlled by the Taliban, and I can assure you it sucks. Their IED campaign in Afghanistan’s Helmand province was so deadly effective that the British Army lost its freedom of movement. Admittedly the use of IEDs is an extreme form of traffic fines—but the principle is the same: someone else interdicting your movement. It changes everything. ''

  • vertexarray [any]
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    2 years ago

    fundamental principle of morality, the principle of private ownership,

    privately own deez nuts

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      The “fundamental thesis of Socialism”, as Belloc highlights, is “that man would be better and happier were the means of production in human society, that is, land and machinery and all transport [my italics], controlled by government rather than by private persons or corporations.”

      ?????