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   Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 10:24:54 JST Matt Hamilton

   🧵 Thread about a casual conversation I had with a Boomer; my childhood friend's dad.

   Casual chit-chat about work which, after I mention that I lived and worked in SF for 2 years, turned to politics.

   Guy says that he grew up somewhat liberal but has been listening to more and more right-wing radio and that he can't really argue with the points they (Bongino, Levin, etc.) raise. I laughed and responded "well I sure can!" out of reflex.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 10:24:52 JST Sick Sun

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     @eriner the older people get the less amenable to radical change/reform they become. I witness it in myself.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 10:24:53 JST Matt Hamilton

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     I broke it down to the fundamentals: consent, right to enforce my own contracts, monopoly on violence, etc. Told him that I have nothing but disdain for the "go along to get along" types who have the intelligence to understand what's going on, but just want to make it home by 5:30 to watch football, etc.

     He said he'd never spoken to anyone that thinks the way I do, and said that he was sorry to have riled me up.

     [ZeroSum06] 🔸️ repeated this.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 10:24:53 JST Matt Hamilton

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     I wasn't upset, yelling, or even agitated, I was just telling him the truth. I told him that I'm certainly not in the "anger" stage and had already completed the Americana grief cycle.

     We both laughed, but in all honesty it was a bit depressing. I had hoped that the Boomers, by and large, would be figuring it out by now.

     So anyway, this reinforces my belief that everyone is too dumb and still too consumed with consumerism to understand WTF is going on.

     So, yeah.

     Pretty typical.

     Pretty sad.

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 10:24:54 JST Matt Hamilton

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     He asked me what my political persuasion was. I told him I'm an anarchist and that I don't believe that the State has any legitimate authority, that the State doesn't do anything other than commit crime, that some 19-20 year olds 250 years ago who signed some toilet paper have no authority to bind their progeny to anything, etc, etc.

     He responded with the usual questions/retorts "What about the roads?", "what about the police?", etc.

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 10:28:21 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @sun of course; I'm never looking for them to genuinely support change at any risk to themselves.

     All I want to see is an intellectual acceptance that this, our Government, ain't right.

     But it always seems to come back to "but I'm comfortable and have a foot in the grave, so fuck y'all"

     Like I said, typical, but sad.

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