Bill Blake @billblake2018@liberdon.com

So long as someone abjures non-defensive violence, theft, and fraud, he's libertarian enough for me. When the statists have destroyed themselves, we who survive can set up our separate utopias and see which--if any--work, knowing that our libertarian neighbors won't try conquest.

Here's how I read this artlcle: Mastodon users won't kowtow to my progressive agenda; instead they keep talking about what *they* want to talk about. Therefore Mastodon is dying.

🎻

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mastodon-fediverse-eugen-rochko/

Apropos of my last tweet: *Always* check original sources before forwarding news, to avoid propagating falsehoods. *No* news source reliably gets the facts straight, whether from accident or from deliberate distortion.

According to prisoner interviews, only 10% of those who possessed a gun during their crime got the gun from a retail source. (The Breitbart article that led me to the DOJ report said 2%; they misread the report.) https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf

RT @mirriam71@twitter.com
When we say "no man is above the law" it is a lie. If any one of my clients did what POTUS is doing right now - I mean the tweets about a witness in a federal case, the allegations themselves - there would be an arrest warrant and a marshall serving it.

This exceeds the minimum daily requirement for irony.
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RT @freepress@twitter.com
Hateful conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is back on Facebook just a few months after the site kicked him off. Urge Facebook to ban him permanently. http://ow.ly/KDC530nkTKK
https://twitter.com/freepress/status/1085563250702471168

However evil government has revealed itself to be, rest assured that it is worse.
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RT @NBCNews@twitter.com
BREAKING: Thousands more immigrant children were separated from their parents under the Trump admin. than previously reported and whether they were reunified is unknown, HHS office of inspector general says in new report. https://nbcnews.to/2FExRel
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1085937595081736192

And in other news, the sun rose today.
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RT @jasonrileywsj@twitter.com
Higher-education costs have risen every time student aid has been made more generous, writes @jasonrileywsj https://www.wsj.com/articles/think-college-is-expensive-wait-until-its-free-11547596302 via @WSJOpinion @ManhattanInst @FoxNews
https://twitter.com/jasonrileywsj/status/1085365477868740610

The mugger's death at the hands of his would-be victim is entirely proper. The quoted person is even more evil than the mugger, for he would condemn every person to be a defenseless victim.
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RT @ZackFord@twitter.com
Conservatives are thrilled a woman with a concealed-carry permit shot and killed a 19-year-old would-be mugger.

That's not how justice works. The penalty for theft is not death, nor do we want it to be.

https://dailycall…
https://twitter.com/ZackFord/status/1085005610901479424

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RT @BillBlake2018@twitter.com
@MaggieBackup As much as I agree with the sentiment, I expect that protests that significantly hurt the government will start the death spiral that leads to outright dictatorship. Then again, the sooner we get to that state, the sooner it can die and people regain the possibility of freedom.
https://twitter.com/BillBlake2018/status/1085016150180880389

RT @Angry_Husky@twitter.com
I don't crusade for gay rights, women's rights, minority rights, drug users' rights, etc. I'm an advocate for human rights, of which those are a natural subset. Human rights include all consensual behavior between adults, not just the ones that are currently making news.

"The European Union should consider regulating to stop member states from poaching each other’s doctors and other professionals, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-migration-germany-idUSKCN1P70GO?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c3b83bf04d3013686bbb9f3&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter&fbclid=IwAR0L15Uwi8LFVRELFN63Ke0DXSo2YcVeOc7_ZahizeXGe65V4do2QOGaZQ4

*groan*
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RT @WilliamBeutler@twitter.com
With 6+ inches snow on the ground in DC, what do you want to bet the federal government will be closed tomorrow?
https://twitter.com/WilliamBeutler/status/1084607176851841029

RT @JD_Tuccille@twitter.com
With Government Shut Down, Citizens Forced To Interfere In Their Own Lives https://babylonbee.com/news/with-government-shut-down-citizens-forced-to-interfere-in-their-own-lives via @TheBabylonBee@twitter.com

If we are to be ruled by emergency decree, we might as well throw in the towel. We will be living in a dictatorship and it won't be long before America becomes a failed state.

RT @AlexNowrasteh@twitter.com
"'We can’t legalize drugs as long as we have a welfare state—think of the fiscal burden created by drug users!' said no libertarian ever. We shouldn’t hear it about legalizing immigration either."

-Chris Freiman

Too stupid to be funny..... https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/10/the-government-sucks-a-novel

"Approximately three-quarters of all homicide victims in America are killed by someone they know. And the real threat from strangers is quite different from what most fear: one-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police." https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/#_ftn1