Maybe one of the reasons I feel less threatened by the right than the left is that it feels like it's much easier to violate the bad laws implemented by the right than it is the bad laws implemented by the left
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My friends were doin drugs like weed and psychedelics even when they were illegal. You can at least manage to do abortions even when illegal, you can still have romantic relationships with the same gender (tho you can't get married), you can do sex work under the radar. BUT
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Want to run a business without a license? Want to not pay taxes? Want to hire employees without bundling their healthcare in to it too? These things all feel much more dangerous, they leave paper trails, and way more points of weakness for other people noticing and reporting you
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I never really considered taxes, licences and regulations as necessarily left wing?
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I thought left usually wants to raise taxes and have more licensing/regulation on businesses, e.g. trying to make uber class its contractors as employees
The point you're missing, I think, is, that those laws from "the left" usually do benefit others. You can still DO business legally, just not in an exploitive way. But those laws from the right directly prevent you from living your lifestyle: without benefitting anybody.
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