“Remember my countrymen, it will be better to have your liberties wrested from you by force, than to have it said that you even implicitly surrendered them.” Sam Adams

“An army during wartime makes sense... But an army during peacetime is a standing army. And if you have an army during peacetime, the thinking is that its only use is to turn on poor, innocent subjects.” Serena Zabin

The Luddites weren't anti-progress. They weren't anti-technology. They were pro worker rights. And it's convenient for the tech barons (in any age) to make us believe those are the same thing.

ok, ORDA is a state authority. so, NYS did the expansion and NYS will pay to purchase more land 😵‍💫 fine lol missing the full history of how they managed to cut trees & do construction on preserved land in the first place, this still seems a moral hazard & new yorkers hand is forced

To those who say that capitalism is democratic because consumers "vote with their dollars", this is not true and I explain why here: jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-capita...