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It isn’t about how good or bad you’re treated, it isn’t about the ability to choose your masters, it isn’t about the ability to move freely from master to master (to live where you wish, within a certain area at least), and it isn’t about what percentage of the fruits of your labors are taken from you by force (or on the threat of force)…so what then defines the word “slave”?\n\nWhat defines a slave is ANYTIME you labor for others against your will. In Ancient Egypt slavery was a condition of most any taxpayer that couldn’t pay his tax bill, which threw that person into slavery for 3-4 months a year. That meant Egyptians had to work for the enrichment of the state to the tune of 25%-33% of their yearly incomes, whether paid in some form of money, crops, etc., or paid directly in labor. This was and is universally accepted as a form of slavery. In fact “labour in ancient Egyptian is a synonym for taxes” (see footnote 1).\n\nSound familiar? Don’t taxpayers today pay the equivalent of 25%-33% (or far more) of their total incomes to the state on the threat of rape cages (prison) and justly held property (or “justly held possessions capable of being traded”, if you prefer) being seized? Sure, modern slave masters figured out a much more sly way of doing it – by percentage as opposed to all at once in an obvious forced labor situation…but is that really a substantial or substantive difference? Clearly, no.\n\nFor those thinking “but I don’t mind paying taxes”…that doesn’t really matter, because you weren’t given a choice. It’s analogous to saying a man who breaks in a woman’s house at night to rape her isn’t a rapist because she happened to be horny and decided to have sex with him willingly. Who cares?! That isn’t relevant to the fact she wasn’t offered a choice, which still makes the man an attempted rapist (likely to try to rape someone else later). You being willing to pay taxes doesn’t mean you have a choice in the matter, and if you tried to stop paying you’d figure that out very quickly (and violently). YOU HAVE NO CHOICE, you are forced to labor against your will.\n\nOne form of slavery IS forced labor:\n\n“Forced labor occurs when an individual is forced to work against his or her will, under threat of violence or other punishment, with restrictions on their freedom” (see footnote 2).\n\nAnd so, logically, you are a slave (assuming you pay any taxes, including sales taxes, property tax, licensing costs, etc.) in the most modern manifestation of the condition. The fact they LET YOU keep some of your own fruits of your labors is just so the slaves don’t rebel; so they don’t notice their slavery. They gave the plantation a flag, a song, a pledge, and a mythos by which children are implicitly and repeatedly told “you are free and this isn’t brainwashing”. It’s all just a cult built up around the masters. You are not free and all that you have been taught via nationalism is brainwashing. No person who labors for another, directly or indirectly, against their will (whether they like it or not), on the threat of violence (like prison and seizure of justly held alienable possessions) is free.\n\nSee, donations are voluntary and therefore a choice, as are payments for consensual service, whereas tax is not a choice and is involuntary. If you really want to give money to the state, then go to the Treasury Department’s website and donate. Forcing your neighbors to pay just because you WANT to pay is not ethical…it’s being an accessory to extortion and is a conspiracy to extort (racketeering). If I changed the name of the entity you paid from “government” to “mafia”, would you still feel the same? I really hope not. And changing the words that describe a thing does not change the thing described…as Shakespeare put it “a rose by any other name…” is still a rose. And if your excuse (bad rationalization or faux justification) is majority rule or tradition, please consider these are informal logical fallacies (argumentum ad populum and ad antiquitatem, respectively) – majority opinion has been on the side of both tyranny and liberty, and tradition has been used to sustain oppression and liberation; neither matters to the ethics of a matter.\n\nBesides, if everyone agreed funding the government was a good thing, then why do you require a law to make people pay? Clearly, people won’t pay if not forced…which suggests the “mass agreement” on the necessity of funding the state is nonexistent. The same hypocrites and liars who say they’d pay, even if there was no law to force them, would quickly stop paying when they A) can’t force their neighbors to subsidize their favorite pet projects and instead have to pay the full cost themselves for what they SAY they want government to do, and B) realize there is no law to force them to pay and they realize how much richer they’d be in their own lives if they didn’t pay at all. And anything the market (all the voluntary trades between individuals or groups in a society) wants will be supplied by the market. It’s just supply and demand, rational incentives, etc. So, why do we need the state to supply inefficiently (and funded by force) that which can logically be more efficiently and ethically provided by alternative private for-profit, non-profit, cooperative, or completely charitable institutions? Even if you’re against profit, per se, couldn’t the rest of the institutions mentioned handle it?\n\nWe don’t need it. The state just makes it illegal to compete with them. They SAY it’s because no other institution can do what they do, as well as they do it…but how can that be proven without allowing competition? It can’t. It’s just a perpetuated myth of which all of us are convinced, since childhood. It’s no more logical or rational or evidence-based than the Tooth Fairy (belated spoiler alert: the Tooth Fairy isn’t real).\n\nSlavery is alive and well. And you can see it where the slaves turn against each other; house slave and field slave mentality. House slaves cheer for the punishment of field slaves who refuse to comply. They call them “tax cheats” (which is absurd, considering you CANNOT cheat on extortion – there is NO FAIR SHARE of extortion that anyone needs to pay). The field slaves hate the house slaves because of their cultish beliefs in the master’s necessity and beneficence (or at least the master’s benignity). Divide and conquer on the plantation: alive and well. They even take some of the slaves and hand them whips to punish the field slaves who dare to step out of line (the police who enforce these unethical laws).\n\nBut “we’re free”? Only if you’re delusional and playing on relativism. Sure, we (Americans) MAY be the freest nation-state on Earth…but that’s like being the prettiest ugly girl at the prom – you’re still an ugly girl and won’t get introduced to his friends or his parents even if he has sex with you after the dance. Relative freedom is a nonsense measure, because if the whole world were fascist and we were just slightly less than fascist, that would be “freest” still, but certainly wouldn’t be FREE in any objective sense of the word. We have to quit confusing objective criteria for relative criteria, and principles for matters of degree. It leads to disgusting complacency and incremental loss of even more liberty.\n\nWe’re all slaves, like it or not, accept it or not, and resist it or not. You can make no logical, rational, or evidence-based argument to the contrary. I know this all too well, because I tried to lie to myself about it for years. It was painful to face the Truth, as it sometimes is, but now that I’ve gotten past that period in my life and am able to look back at it, it was the best thing I could have ever done for my personal dignity as a human being; to recognize the condition in which I live without bias of a brainwashed childhood. It feels empowering, believe me, to know you ACTUALLY don’t give a damn what others think about it (or you), since it isn’t simply an opinion – it’s a provable fact (via evidence, logic, and reason). Now I always question my own opinions anytime they match tradition or popular opinion. More often than not, I find those opinions to be bad and without merit.\n\nThe idea with the least merit is taking that which is illegal for the slaves (extortion, for one example) and making it legal and revered when the masters do it. There is no legitimacy in such ideas.\n\n“Slavery is a legal or economic system in which…humans [are] classified as property,[1]” (see footnote 3).\n\nIf you don’t own all the fruits of your labors, then you don’t completely own yourself (if “own yourself” is an objectionable phrase, then replace it with the equivalent of “have individual autonomy”)…and if you don’t completely own yourself/have individual autonomy (putting aside the determinism/free will debate for now), then logically someone else owns you (in total, or in part). That IS, undeniably, treating people as property. It is taxation and similar coercive acts of the state that makes you a slave (and if you think corporations aren’t manifestations of purely state-granted protectionism, then read a little history on the subject or my future essays on the topic).\n\nPeople think I’m crazy to be an anarchist and to say these things, but in fact, anarchists were among the first (and most vocal) abolitionists (of chattel slavery). Apparently, we’re also the LAST abolitionists too. One more form of slavery is left to abolish: the state (and with it, corporate economic domination). When the house slaves figure out we field slaves aren’t the problem, and that the master is, we’ll get there. It’s just a much tougher sell today because in chattel slavery the house slaves were the minority of slaves, whereas today they are the vast majority of them, and their relative good treatment keeps them from recognizing both the chains around their wrists and ankles and the locks fastened to their children’s necks.\n\n“George Mason University professor Thomas Rustici uses two hypothetical anecdotes to illustrate this point. In the first, Sam Slime mugs a person for £50. In the second, Sam Slime votes for a politician who taxes a person in order to redistribute £50 to the “disadvantaged” Slime. Both examples involve the use of force. However, the second scenario is arguably worse, since through the state, Slime is now empowered to repeatedly take others’ money, thus putting them in a condition of slavery. Leo Tolstoy argued that taxation of labor is one of three stages of slavery (the other two being land slavery and personal slavery)” (see footnote 4).\n\n“Gail Buckley also notes, ‘In British eyes, the American colonies existed only for the benefit of the mother country, but Americans saw any form of taxation as slavery’ ” (see footnote 5).\n\nWhat the hell happened to us? When did we become such unthinking, whipped dogs? When did we come to accept, and even embrace, our slavery? The answer is a sad one: almost from the beginning. The new government soon placed on the people a tax, after the veterans of the revolution, at least in part, fought to abolish the requirement of such a payment…and some of those same veterans had their lands seized by banks because the new state they fought to establish never compensated them with their promised back pay from the war. That, my friends, was the first bank bailout in American history – right after the revolution ended.\n\nSo, consider it’s not what the hell happened to us back then that matters (as nostalgia, even if true to life, cannot aid us now), but what the hell needs to happen to us from here forward. And what the hell needs to happen is more people accepting the Truth of our slavery.\n\nAnd why is that?\n\nBecause you can’t begin to solve a problem until you admit you have it.\n\nFootnotes:\n\n1. “A World History of Tax Rebellions”, pp. vi-viii\n\n2. “Slavery in the 21st century”, New Internationalist Magazine Issue 337\n\n3. “The Politics of Property: Labour, Freedom and Belonging”, p.162\n\n4. “The Slavery of Our Times”, Leo Tolstoy, ch. 8-12\n\n5. “American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military From the Revolution to Desert Storm”, Gail Buckley, p. 3\n\nBy Tony Palmentera, who is an anarchist without adjectives, an essayist, an ethical theorist, a poker player, and contributor to the Skatopia community.\n\nBe Sociable, Share!",
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      "body": "What is “Citizenship”? And What is “Liberty Layaway”? \n\nThe Abusive Relationship Between You and Government\n\nCitizenship is being an extortion victim, a victim of intimidation, and a beast of burden. Is that harsh? In Ancient Rome, what was it like? You’ve heard…think back. The unlucky people were slaves, some sex slaves (and not in a weird but harmless fetish way). Actual slaves. Runaway and get killed slaves. The lucky ones were subject to all sorts of abuses. Even in the best of times, they were under threat from their own government. But that isn’t relatively bad, because the foreign people their military ran into got way worse. They were violently conquered through orgies of unprovoked murder (if they refused to pay up). Once they paid the extortion fee (the protection money/tribute), they were left to live like all those citizens of Rome did (more or less). They were allowed to not be chattel slaves, not be murdered. Well, not usually anyway. 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They spared us the corporal punishment. That’s simply incidental, and less than rarely, but almost randomly, administered during the arrest (kidnapping process). In theory, you could actually be innocent and get corporal punishment, since it is related to the arrest and not the validity of the charge of failing (or refusing) to pay your extortion installments (taxes). So, I’m not sure how much credit should be afforded for that particular modification to the modus operande…but certainly some credit, I suppose. So, things have gotten much better. But I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we still pay extortion money in exchange for being left alone, or we pay through confiscation of our property (our labor or our justly-attained and justly-held physical possessions). CITIZENSHIP IS BEING AN EXTORTION VICTIM, A VICTIM OF INTIMIDATION, AND A BEAST OF BURDEN. Isn’t that harsh? Damn right…that IS harsh. Addio estortione, addio della stato (see footnote #2 below for translation). 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I’m suggesting you simply acknowledge this reality, and no longer see it in any other way. It is what it is…no sense in letting our egos try to shield us from it. No sense in letting the traumatic experience go unaddressed. No sense in letting “patriotic” and authoritarian brainwashing cloud our perception of this reality. We can’t get well until we admit we have a problem. Our problem is this sadistic relationship we’re trapped in. “Breaking up” means seeing it for what it really is, and eventually getting enough other people to see it so that it is abolished like some of its more distasteful punishments. “It” being the state, of course. So, clearly, the goal is to decrease the level of coercion and harshness of the punishments employed where coercion still exists in this bad relationship. Anything that does that leads us closer to ending this disturbing relationship. Be careful, however, because it is easy to forget the goal is to break up completely when it keeps giving you free stuff, or stuff you have to really struggle hard to remember (or realize) that you don’t need it to get. If you forget that you are only getting free stuff, or stuff no one else has because they are not allowed to provide that stuff while they are also in a relationship with this sadistic institution (yes, it is cheating on you, on top of everything else), then you might lapse into having strong feelings for it, not being conscious of the positive feedback loop going on in your brain when you get gifts from it, and as a result get too comfortable in this horrible relationship. If you do that, you’ll never leave it, and this relationship is permanent. What’s worse, the government doesn’t die on you, and when you die it will NOT be following closely behind you. It will exist for your kids, and their kids. You would subject your children and grandchildren, for who knows how many generations, to this evil and abusive stepfather. You being a co-dependent masochist is one thing…but to force your kids and grandkids to marry your abusive mate? Unforgivable. You’d be irredeemable (in your own eyes, I hope). Don’t take it’s hand. Don’t marry the state. Divorce, for the sake of the kids. And don’t forget, the state gets meaner and more expensive as it gets older. Sure, each new state gets progressively and (only) relatively nicer, but each state gets more violent and costly as it ages through its own, even if lengthy, life cycle. Just because your new significant other is relatively nicer than the last doesn’t mean it’s good enough. And one fit of rage can reverse all the progress (see democide stats). Don’t settle. Rome was worse than the United States government…but only in degree, not principle. We deserve better. Have some dignity. Abolish the state. Spread that message, wake up as many as you can, and urge them to pay it forward. We may not live to see this relationship end, and our kids’ kids may not see it either, but the work we do today will save lives, money, and time of people in the future. You can purchase the end of someone else’s slavery with your labor in pursuit of liberty today. THAT IS LIBERTY LAYAWAY. Struggle for them like you would for yourself…unless, of course, you can rationalize how future victims of this abusive relationship are worth less than victims in the present. I just can’t convince myself of that. Footnotes: 1 “pizzo” is a Sicilian term for the money paid to mafia in racketeering schemes, also known as protection money when extorted. Functionally, it is identical to taxation, other than it is illegal and the body you pay the extortion to is not called “government”. 2 “Addio estortione, addio della stato” is Sicilian for “Goodbye extortion, goodbye state.",
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      "body": "![010.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZpZ3wiT1qdeks3MM3PUgg1r4SCJwraXNX4TK5GY9gqyT/010.jpg)\n\nI get an hysterical laugh at people who consider Skatopia to be a cult. People who think this, have to be completely in ignorance, or acting out of spite, especially people who have been here, for themselves, and experienced it, but yet still think this insane idea.\n \nMy father is notorious for being called a “cult leader” ( he loves it, and uses the idea as a mockery, especially to those who do not know better, he would make JOKES about people calling then his “minions” they enjoyed the humor because they KNEW it was NOT true. But he does this just to pull on people’s gullibility ) So of course I must be a “cult leader”…… Because I’m associated with my father right? How absurd, imagine if we said this about everybody, your father or friend did this and because you were there as HIS CHILD or friend you must be “guilty” also…. This is confirmation bias…. I’ve have been harassed and ridiculed about this fraudulent false notion, especially now since I’ve started to speak out against the iniquities and corruptions of our current condition. Unlike my father, I do not mock people with this concept to play on people’s gullibility. I, on the other hand, take the antithetical approach which is being firmly rock solid in Truth again such a blatantly ignorant view points or I should say a lack of view points. “guilt by association” is not actual evidence nor is it based in any TRUTH. We MOCK cults, and stand firmly against them!!\n \n2 types of people who I hear this from –\n \n1. If you haven’t actually attended and think this is true. ( based upon what you’ve “herd” etc… )\n \n2. If you have and think this true. Yet KNOW it isn’t true, because of empirical evidence etc… or you DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT A CULT IS, and falsely assume such based on lack of KNOWLEDGE. Then proceed to tell other that it is “true” even know you have no clue or your just trying to start something because of some form of predisposition and bias.\n \nWe could break these down psychologically,\nas of the reasons why people tend to do this. Like; lack of true knowledge, knowledge but lack of understanding, parental abandonment issues, logical fallacy, cognitive dissonance, lack of education, jealousy, spitefulness, “vengeance” etc…\n \nOk, to completely dismantle this absurd notion, let us first start with a definition of a cult.\n \nCult; A system of religious worship or veneration and devotion that espouses beliefs that are dangerous, especially to the Lives Rights and Freedoms of those who are not its members.\n \nOk, now On what bases are you making this assumption? Where is your evidence? (Show me) Where did you hear this? Did you come up with this idea yourself? Why are you spewing such nonsense? Why are you “believing” without see it for yourself? 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