Posted on 09/02/2024 5:24:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Governments relish playing parent. But the ‘children’ are waking up.
Negotiation is the art of getting an opponent to advocate for your position. You want one thousand dollars for an old car. You ask for two. The buyer works you down to one, and you shake on the “deal.”
Parents employ similar skills. A toddler who is unhappy about being put in the stroller might be given a choice: we can either go to the park or take a nap. Cries often disappear when the alternative to play is less fun. Of course, children quickly learn this game, too. Some will double-down on crying until mom throws up her hands and offers to renegotiate: and we can stop for ice cream on the way! Teenagers realize that either-or offers invite workarounds. “Do your homework or you’re grounded” succeeds as a negotiating position only if Junior can’t climb out the window after dark.
From an early age, we grasp that successful negotiations take advantage of (1) asymmetric information and (2) asymmetric authority. Individuals who know more than their opponents and who are capable of restricting the range of available outcomes to any dispute are likely to get what they want.
Governments use such asymmetries to maintain control. By knowing more than the public and by exercising complete authority over what is permissible, their bargaining power far exceeds that of the lowly citizen. In the United States, the Department of Justice maintains an almost perfect conviction rate. Is that because prosecutors pursue only the guilty? Or is it because lone defendants are up against federal law enforcement agencies with huge bureaucratic workforces and immense investigatory resources? When the “United States of America” is a party to any case, the underdog sits on the other side.
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I don’t want a momala.
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
Daddy is drunk most of the time and doesn’t live by his own oppressive rules.
He’s gotten his law abiding neighbors in trouble.. by reporting them to the police.. for crime he knows they didn’t commit.
Just because he doesn’t want them in “his” neighborhood.
He’s spent his family in to such debt that Jrs grandchildren will still be paying.
In short ...dad is a A-number one a-hole!
And he’s ‘adopted’ some children from another country. Not because he loves them but because he can use them for his own benefit - which reduces the quality of life of his real children. But he couldn’t care less about that.
Better late than never. And all the folks who cannot afford a $400 emergency room visit?
The big elephant in the room-If a 50 year-old cannot write out a check for $5,000 right now is there something wrong?
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Understand the “Iron Law of Oligarchy”
“A system run by people, individual people, but they are all replaceable, interchangeable parts of the system. No one is giving orders to censor anyone or prosecute anyone or telling anyone what to publish or broadcast. No one has to. Anyone in any position of power knows what to do, without being ordered. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be in their position. They are organs of the body that the system compromises. We are the infection.
Until we understand that, and accept it, we are going to get nowhere”
CJ Hopkins
There is a major flaw in US law, state and federal. Prosecutors can charge you with anything and get away with it. It is then your burden to prove innocence, despite the time and cost of you against the state with limitless resources. Then the states are incentivized by corporate prisons. The corporations pay the states out of the profits made from prisoners working for a $1 or so an hour, producing any variety of goods. Am thinking the license plate days are gone. Show me the last time a state paid for a prison. Corporate Oligarchy
Daddy Government is afraid because his “children” are done negotiating.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Folks,
The 2nd is not about guns, it is about people of like mind, who understand freedom and responsibilities. We are necessary for a free State!
Isn’t that the difference between slavery and freedom?
Also, the government wants high crime because then people will beg for more police state.
Acts 7:56-60
56. And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58. And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
59. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Negotiation is the art of getting an opponent to advocate for your position.
Any questions why democrat party takes away your options.
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