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Part 1

A man is traveling by foot when he sees a party of merchants walking in the opposite direction. With that party is a donkey who is heavily burdened with all the merchandise. The man noticing the donkey ready to collapse, states, "That donkey is carrying too much! Take off some of those things so that he does not die from exhaustion!"

The merchants take a look at the donkey and see that the man is correct. They start to discuss among themselves what they should do.

I have a theory about the supposed increase in autists. The internet is to blame. Not simply because people can look up terms and mis-diagnose themselves (though this is part of it), but rather that the internet has the unfortunate side effect of allowing people to be "terminally online."

When you are doing the vast majority of your communication through text alone, you are missing most of the actual communication you would get in a natural social situation (vocal inflections, emotions)

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For anyone who wants marriage and family in their future, I have some advice:

Don't marry wrong. If that means not marrying at all, so be it.

It is indeed better to not marry at all than to make the wrong choice on who to marry. I will never tell any man that they have an obligation to get married, because in spite of the fact that I am married myself, I understand that my path is not one that can or should be prescribed to all other men.

I frequently see topics of discussion where I want to chime in, but I realize in order to do so, I must reveal a part of myself that I fully intend to keep private. It is not worth accidently leaving a trail of evidence about yourself for some asshole who wants real harm done to you just for a discussion which will most likely no longer have relevance a week later.

So when we are dealing with having ICE operate in Minnesota, we still need to look at the bigger picture. If they can successfully make a difference in rooting out those committing fraud and make the system less corrupt, that would be a step in the correct direction to having more freedom. Because having your money stolen is bad enough when the government does it, but when it is stolen again through those who are cheating the system (gov officials included here), then it makes for less freedom.

Tangenting for a moment regarding Colorado and marijuana. Libertarians may point to legalization of marijuana as a victory of "more freedom," but consider the outcomes of this legalization. Did Colorado become more free or Libertarian as a result of pot legalization? I would argue no. Libertarians who think in such short sighted ways will not only not get more freedom, but often work against themselves. It turns out many people who are pro-marijuana actually do not care about freedom.

So when we have a corruption with the system when it comes to fraud with tax dollars, how do we address this? Libertarians may not like the idea of having different parts of government coming down on one part of the government (since they are often purists), but maintaining principles would come at the cost of having nothing done. Because it is not merely the immigrants who are the problem here, but other parts of government who are enabling and possibly getting their own cut from the fraud.

Like many other agitators, she was there in attempt to disrupt ICE from carrying out their actions. And what are these actions? Dealing with those who were committing fraud and should not be in this country.

And here is where we need to confront Libertarians about the bigger picture. What is their plan to deal with this fraud? Usually they are fine grandstanding about how they are against having welfare of any kind, but they have neither the will nor the capability to actually cut any welfare.

A perfect example of the issue I have with many Libertarians came up again with the Renee Good shooting. No surprise, many Libertarians were against the ICE agent shooting Good.

The thing about this situation is that like many other scenarios, Good being shot was not an event that happened in a vaccuum. There are many, many other factors that cannot be ignored. One of which is why she even had her car there in the first place.