Hey, Larkin Rose here in a random place, with rocks, yee-haw.
Darren, this video is your fault.
What are the two things that everybody says don't talk about that at like parties and Thanksgiving, religion and politics?
Now, as for the religion side of it, um, there's, I sort of divide that into two parts.
One is sort of how somebody thinks they should behave, how they should treat other people.
Um, and the other is the, the stories they believe in, the, whether it's mythology or true stories or whatever, I'm not gonna bother debating that.
So, like, how you think the world was created, or if you think Jesus was the Son of God, or if whatever you think about Allah and whatever else.
Whatever stories you believe in, I mostly don't care.
Um, I'm not gonna bother trying to talk somebody out of a belief in some factual thing they think if it doesn't really have a significant impact on how they treat other people and how they behave.
I mean, we can have a discussion about that if they want to, but that's kind of optional.
And I can actually see a good reason for people saying let's not discuss things that that person believes and that one totally doesn't.
And you're just gonna argue about it and it doesn't really matter. We could just get along fine without that.
So now, if somebody's religious belief included, oh, I, I believe my religion teaches me that every week I have to murder somebody with red hair or something.
Yeah, there's probably gonna come up in conversation. We might kind of have a problem there because it's gonna directly impact how you behave and how you treat other people.
But a lot of the time it doesn't. There are perfectly decent people who are Christian.
There are perfectly decent people who are atheists or Jewish or Muslim or everything under the sun who know how to peacefully coexist in their day-to-day lives.
So I don't particularly feel the need to argue about whatever stories or beliefs they may have that don't really change how they treat other people.
So there can be a reason to like avoid discussing religious stuff.
Now, what about the politics? Ah, don't get political.
That gets really, really weird because that's not just sort of something you believe in that doesn't really have an impact on you or the people around you.
That has a massive impact on you and everyone around you. Everybody you know in one way or another is being robbed by the state to fund things, to fund warmongering or Ponzi schemes or welfare states or whatever else.
And they're all being forcibly controlled by the threats from government known as law.
So when they say, oh, don't talk about that, it's not because it's irrelevant and unnecessary and it's gonna bring up debates that don't really matter.
It's the exact opposite. They don't want people talking about the elephant in the room.
They don't want people talking about the fact that, hey, do you advocate that I be violently robbed to fund things I don't want?
Yeah. Do I advocate that you be robbed? Yeah. Well, I don't because I'm a volunteerist.
But if I was a Republican or Democrat or believed in government at all, yeah, the answer is absolutely I advocate state aggression against you in a hundred different ways.
And if you disobey, then I view you as a sinner.
If the left is like you had an illegal gun, you're a bad person. The right, you had an illegal plant, you had marijuana where it was illegal, you're a bad person.
The left, you didn't hand over money, you didn't pay your fair share, you evaded taxes to not fund a war machine or some other evil insanity, then you're a bad person.
The right, you came onto this piece of dirt without the written permission of politicians, then you're a bad person and I hope mass thugs kidnap you and haul you away.
Because that's the religion that people actually believe in.
Statists are not Christians. They're not, they're just status. They believe in the government God.
And people can say, oh, who are you to say, well, the Christian God, I mean, lots of others have their equivalent, says thou shalt not steal.
And the government says, well, we're going to call it taxes and then it's okay.
And it's okay for you to vote for us to rob your neighbor and to give you some of the loot or to spend the loot on things that you want that they don't.
We're going to violently rob them and make them fund them.
And if you're okay with that, which you are, if you believe in government, if you're a Democrat, if you're a Republican, if you believe in government at all, how can you pretend to be Christian?
That thing about thou shalt not steal.
And a commandment that gets overlooked a lot of times, the whole thou shalt have no other gods before my face.
The belief in government absolutely outranks a lot of self-proclaimed Christians belief in the Christian God.
Because when government says you're allowed to assault people, you're allowed to rob people, you're allowed to violently control people, they go, oh, okay, it's okay, because it's legal.
Because that's the commandments they really believe in, the commandments of government, the commandments of what they call their God, whatever, they're kind of optional, they don't really matter that much.
And they're obviously outranked by the state, because the state's allowed to steal, it's allowed to attack people, it's allowed to bear false witness, it's allowed to do all kinds of heinous stuff.
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So the fact that we don't talk about that, no, I'm not going to guilt treat people too much for having practical reasons why, like, I'm not going to talk about this because I don't want to lose my job or I don't want to lose customers.
I'm going to sort of refrain from always saying what I think because, yeah, people have to decide for themselves what they're going to risk and when and stuff.
But it's such a weird thing about our society that there's this giant parasitical thug that robs the crap out of all of us.
And it's like, Oh, well, don't don't talk about that. It doesn't really matter. That just politics and people actually talk about it like it's just some trivial belief.
Oh, you might be Democrat or Republican. Can't we all get along? No, we absolutely cannot get along.
You cannot get along with Democrats. You cannot get along with Republicans because getting along refers to peaceful coexistence.
And Democrats and Republicans absolutely condone violent aggression against their fellow man. That's the opposite of peaceful coexistence.
I can get along with them. I don't want them robbed. I mean, if it were up to me, I can get along with them.
They absolutely want me robbed and violently dominated as an anarchist as a volunteer.
I don't want anybody robbing violently dominated. I'm actually capable of peaceful coexistence. Zero status are.
And the fact that we can't talk about that and you're not supposed to point that out even when like, well, there's insane fascist thuggery going on and violence being used against nonviolent people.
Well, let's not talk about that. It's a sensitive issue.
It shows the depth of the indoctrination that we can like be civil and get along and stuff on a superficial level.
But we don't want to talk about literal mass violence, mass murder and the warmongering mass extortion, destroying people's lives, government violently interfering with everything you could possibly imagine, every aspect of everyone's lives.
But we're going to be civil by not talking about that. We'll condone it. We'll vote for it. We'll believe in it. We'll advocate violent aggression against all our neighbors.
But let's not talk about the fact that we do. And it's just so freaking weird.
And, yeah, to some extent, you might have to do that to avoid getting fired or your customers leaving, whatever you decide how much you're going to do that.
Obviously, I've chosen my path where I am not very quiet about what I think about stuff.
But it's just, I thought I'd quick do a video, because Darren brought it, the idea of like, well, don't get political.
And it's just such a bizarre thing. It's not just some trivial thing that doesn't really matter.
It's a giant monstrosity robbing a huge amount of money from hundreds of millions of people to spend it on mostly heinous crap.
But we're just not going to talk about that.
Okay, that's not at all weird.
So go about your day. Believe in, advocate support, violent aggression against all your neighbors.
Just don't talk about it out loud, because that might get awkward.