My dad thinks that people who promote COVID conspiracy theories should be fined and/or imprisoned. Yet with a straight face laughs at me when I say that Canada is turning into an authoritarian police state.

The concept of liberty is lost on people. I want more restrictions than say a libertarian would want. But a lot of people are comfortable with restrictions on liberty that horrify the fuck out of me.

I'm not a "taxation is theft" kind of guy. But there is a huge difference between paying taxes and fining/throwing people in jail/executing people for promoting conspiracy theories. Yes executing. In my best Stefan Molyneux impression: If you resist arrest when you break these restrictions, you will be shot.

And at this point with the government spending money like a drunk sailor, spending a huge deficit on COVID, I am 100% in agreement with the taxation is theft people now. Even though I am not opposed to the concept of taxation and social safety nets.

My dad thinks that people who promote COVID conspiracy theories should be fined and/or imprisoned. Yet with a straight face laughs at me when I say that Canada is turning into an authoritarian police state.

The concept of liberty is lost on people. I want more restrictions than say a libertarian would want. But a lot of people are comfortable with restrictions on individual liberty that horrify the fuck out of me.