Feel free. I can send you the original PNG. I designed it with paint.net. Then uploaded it to the button site. I did it for me. I get nothing when others order it.
With shipping, 50 1-1/2 inch buttons was $26.96.
My goal with these buttons is to help fellow pedes identify each other. When normies ask about it, I won't explain... "it's just a design I like".
I'll give them out to patriots and when I run out, I'll order more.
Imagine (if future voter turnout drops to 10% or 5% or 2%) the mass awakening to the fact that no government ever has any inherent authority. The emperor has no clothes.
It's at that point that the government makes voting mandatory - simply to maintain the illusion of popular mandate.
I'm no Nietzsche expert, but something smells off here.
If slave morality is born of "the [idea that the] good is what is most useful for the whole community, not just the strong" - AND - if slave morality is also based "devaluing that which the master values and the slave does not have" - then I think we have a invalid argument.
You can't want what is good for everybody while at the same time devaluing what others cherish.
That only works if your definition of "good" is destruction. If so, then whoever wrote the wikipedia article is just out to confuse. I suspect Nietzsche is way too subtle for such nonsense.
Tyrants only have power if enough people believe they have political legitimacy. But, actually, there is no such thing as legitimate political authority. ALL political power is illegitimate and ultimately imaginary. And much like the creature of the id in Forbidden Planet, it only comes alive and becomes real BECAUSE we imagine it.
We bemoan our rulers when they abuse us, but we're perfectly happy with them if they "take care" of us. But, the fact remains that we are slaves to the very idea that political power is legitimate. Once we disabuse ourselves of that notion, then no man can have power over us. Not some Islamic dirtbag, and not some demented old man or half Indian whore.
Imagine if only 1% of the population voted. How much authority would the elected ruler have? None. The 99% would laugh him off the reservation. What about 2%? At some percentage the mass delusion starts to kick in and create real power, but it's not actually real. It's always just a manifestation of our belief.
I can't disagree. It's bigger than the individual, of course. I guess it boils down to picking your battles (i.e. not engaging with lost cause brothers, for example :)) and seeing that the big picture matters, and not giving up on saving western civilization. I'm not giving up. At 65, I just need to focus on battles I can win.
Sadly, this IS now about power. But, if this becomes a contest for who has more power, then they win. Because they will have forever defined the game as a power struggle - which is exactly what they want. When the game is all about power, it's no longer about truth, logic, reason, morals, ethics, or even common sense. This is the essence of post modernism.
When power is the currency of the day and truth no longer matters then western civilization is doomed. That's their goal.
I've long said that there are two kinds of people - those who want to control others, and those who don't.
The lust for power in the heart of man is the problem. People who want to control others lust after power. But, we all are susceptible. It's just that the more susceptible among us - we call liberals and leftists.
What are you trying to accomplish with all your reminding, arguing, convincing, cajoling, shaming, etc? Are you simply trying to save face? To be right? To bring them to the light side? Who cares what evil people think of you?
You will never convince evil people to be good. The best you can hope for is to subtly influence the fence sitters who may be lurking (online) or observing (IRL) your "discussion".
My asshole brother virtually called me a racist for supporting Trump. He stopped just short, but got dangerously close. For the sake of our 95 year old mother, I still communicate with him on relevant matters. But, now I NEVER discuss politics with him (and haven't for many months) and he's smart enough to not bring it up anymore. In those rare cases when he can't help himself, I don't respond, walk away or remind him that I refuse to discuss politics with him under any circumstances. And I refuse to explain why (even when pressed hard). If he persists, I continue to refuse. He thinks "silence is complicity (with whatever imagined sins are bouncing around in his head)", when in fact my silence means that I don't care enough about him or his opinions to give him the time of day.
I don't care what he thinks of me anymore. I used to. Not caring what the other side thinks of you is very freeing. It lets you focus on much more useful ways to spend your time.
That's me in about 5 years :(