Methods

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What methods would a political movement that I could happily become a part of employ? Radically oversimplifying:

1. The 198-fold path.

Rationale: Any other method leads to Stalin, Mao, etc. Plus violence is wrong. Make violence the monopoly money of the state.

2. Bullshit detection and destruction.

Rationale: The truth is our only recourse; we are too poor to fund the structure of bullshit that the dominant poles of American politics maintain.

3. Rawlsian principles of justice.

Rationale: [lambert pauses, asks gq for help].

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NOTE I owe what knowledge I have of Rawls, of whom, since I'm citing WikiPedia, I know virtually nothing, to gqmartinez. The answer to the "You're killing people" is to be found in a theory of justice, since everything kills people, the world being round...

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