It's really fucking common in the internet wild. It's even common offline.

"Just pack up your entire life and move out of here if you don't like it here. No one is holding a gun to your head to stay." smuglord

Oh, I did, but it took years of planning, preparation, savings, and an early retirement with the penalties that entailed. There was no gun, but I couldn't whisk myself out of Bazinga Land in CA any faster than I could sell a flooded house to Aquaman.

That's it. That's the post. No one held a gun to my head to post this, but I did it anyway.

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    The gun is collective which lets the people holding it all wash away their own liability for holding it - "not my fault, I was just getting my bag"

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      The moment the first corporate charter came into being, liability became limited, and that fake personhood allowed untold and perhaps unimaginable death and destruction ever since.