There are certain things that the state does need to do, and it's doing those things terribly.

Meanwhile, there are all sorts of things it shouldn't do at all, and it's doing that zealously and to the ends of the earth. It should be protecting people from violent crime. It shouldn't be protecting people from offensive speech, and yet it's making great guns are doing the latter and not very well doing the former. kinds of things about, you know, you kind of see that across the piece. The fact that they've

allowed kind of defense and national defense to kind of completely wither on the vine,

meanwhile they're spending insane amounts of money on things that really don't matter. There's some

kind of reckoning with that is absolutely necessary because at the moment people feel like

it doesn't matter how much they pay in tax, it doesn't matter how much they kind of contribute to the system.

It just disappears. Meanwhile, their actual kind of living standards get worse. So I think there's more of a kind of, whether or not it's going to be pushed in a kind of purely libertarian perspective, I'm not sure, because I think people are still kind of not necessarily kind of in and themselves pro free market, but a sense that there needs to be a reckoning with the states that it focuses on the things it should do and could potentially do well and get the hell out

of the things that it has no business doing and that have kind of tyrannical consequences when it

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The choice comes down to sometimes like, it's such a disjointed journey on the train.

You get fuck all done.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Whereas this one, for example, at the moment I'm listening to that audio book about nuclear war.

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