im fairly disappointed by people who generally identify as libertarian leaning yet support vaccine mandates and passports without explicitly grimacing about the implications for government power and considering the actually implementability of these policies
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so ok maybe youre fine with this and you dont care about fabrication but at that point you might as well admit that your policy is forcing people to claim they have the vaccine which all right i guess you can do that if you want. i also support all kinds of useless ideas
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2. lets say that you manage to create a vast and uniform national apparatus for reliably tracking the medical status of every person in the country in real time, crushing opposition from states, appropriate for precisely identifying individuals to exclude from public life
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"gosh we have this just lying around hope the government doesnt use it for anything other than its intended purposes ha ha"
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anyway im sure you can imagine a set of parameters where ok the vaccines are good enough and the disease is bad enough and people are stupid enough that we still should do all of this but if you dont even worry about this a little bit like what kind of libertarian are you even
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imagining what sort of person would reply to these tweets expecting me to heartily agree with them that the problem with actually existing libertarians is that they dont like government enough
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lack of things like national ID & better national tracking does tend to make these things unsolvable; can't build a house without a foundation irrespective of how gov't uses power, we're quite under-invested in foundational systems
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another example is the use of crappy ersatz SSN for an identifier (it isn't one) and the implications of losing it that's some banana republic shit right there
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That's been the long game of those seeking to pull this collective of states apart like a rotisserie chicken. It's working well eh?
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If you had a population with a basic understanding of crypto instead of being constantly bamboozle-fucked by crypto, this would all be a no-brainer
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