Deaths by suicide during the lockdown in San Francisco are now higher than the virus deaths.

I soon learned that my property continues to require some labor on my part, otherwise, it may fall into disrepair or be lost.  It takes power to keep power.  It is a constant cycle, eat or be eaten.

And as we have learned from the authoritarian response to the pandemic, simply prevent labor, and the result is the same.  Has anyone noticed that socialist jobs are essential but capitalist jobs are not?  It is a war against capitalism, in order to usher in socialism for perpetual dependency.

That's what gives property its value — the time and effort required to get/make it.  Which is why an honest money system is integral.  If someone can just print up money, he can buy the world.  Those that cry about the wealthy should make the distinction between those that have earned their wealth and those that have appropriated wealth — i.e. LABOR — of others.

Face it — this is the platform of the Democratic Party, period.  In fact, the Democrats have even more on their list for totalitarian control of the people, their energy, their labor, money, and power, their bodies, the 'environment' (i.e. the world), population control (massive depopulation is wanted), weather control (because of climate change, right?) — you name it!  There is no limit to the progressive agenda of complete subservience to the State and its Supreme Leader.  Moses smell the roses!! 

The current pandemic lockdown is a perfect example.  Can we get Chicken Little and Henny Penny off these committees, please?

Very clear, Logan.

Jefferson did all that.  The reasons have been well explained.  He defied the King and freed EVERYONE with the Declaration of Independence.  He could not end slavery on his own, nor could he free his slaves any more than you could stop paying your mortgage and demand to keep your house.  Again, there is no claim (or evidence) that Jefferson abused his slaves, quite the contrary.

There are different ways to look at it — none of which are common practice today.  Sally Hemmings was Martha Jefferson's half-sister, raised as one of the family all her life.  Martha died after giving birth — Sally had always been in the family.  Sally and Thomas wrote each other in letters in addition to their affair.  Is love between the two an impossibility?  Sally was there for Thomas as she was there for Martha.  To assert that Sally was raped is a lie.

How is this different from progressive liberalism?  Every dictator in the world speaks like this.

;-)  Got to love it!

I stand by everything I said for the reasons I said.  I do not expect to convince you of anything, as your entire response is a defense of socialism which is quite simply authoritarian in its approach — control of the POWER of the people is the intent.  From your own words, it is plainly obvious that you are a missionary for the church of socialism, and the god of collective power.  How absolutely in opposition to Buddha's sutras and Taoist philosophy of the Self that is.  You are playing the savior, hero, white-knight act.  I invite you to empower people instead of blaming others for your suffering.

Tell it to Trudeau who has just declared 1500 types of 'assault' rifles banned in Canada.  Not a peep from anyone...

Such is life!!  You get out of it what you put into it.  Risk is inherent.  Death is guaranteed.  So what are you going to do?  That is the nobility of the common man.  Have some courage!

Again, the Jefferson estate was mortgaged, including the slaves which were essentially attached as property.  Jefferson was unable to pay them off, he died in debt.  Fathering children out of wedlock may be considered immoral, but it certainly wasn't/isn't uncommon — certainly not a cause to throw the baby out with the bath water.  Jefferson brought the case for freeing the slaves before the Continental Congress — that is a fact.  And if that clause had been included, his slaves would have been free.  Who is to say how many of Jefferson's slaves would have remained?  Who can really bear witness to how Jefferson interacted with his servants?  Can you even conceive of the idea that slaves were also loved and treated as family? (Some were.)  I give Jefferson the benefit of the doubt.  Far from being perfect, he was one of the most brilliant minds in American history.

It's funny how Waffler gets tripped up by 'reason.'  Classic progressive liberalism...

Today we have social media playing gatekeepers for the powers-that-should-not-be.  What was billed to be a public forum of ideas and communication has turned into the Ministry of Truth with armies of censors creating a narrative for authoritarian control.  Funny how in the search for Truth, the censors act as if they already know it.  We have been lied to for generations — how dare we share those discoveries!  Complete and total surveillance from cradle to grave is the goal — as if the world were a big Sim City game with the social(ist) engineers calling the shots. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram are all in cahoots, and WE are the fools and knaves.

Aren't today's police forces a standing army?  We have been under martial law for over a month with the police enforcing the quarantine of healthy people during this Wu Flu pandemic.  The death totals still are under 2019 flu deaths, yet the entire nation has been shut down.  This is a manufactured crisis, and if it weren't for the standing army, people could get on with their lives. 

Authoritarian regimes need crisis and scarcity so that the people are powerless and dependent on government.  No one is talking about the trillions of new fiat currency being pumped into circulation — a central banker's dream.  People may not be able to go back to work unless they get a flu shot — big pharma's dream.  Mail-in voting may be implemented for the elections — the Democrat's dream.  Never let a crisis go to waste, right?  I for one am tired of Chicken Little and Henny Penny commanding a standing army over us!

I agree with the statement, but doesn't it smack of the 'rules for thee but not for me' elitism so common among 'authorities'?  Isn't it an admission that rules that every one must obey discourage their ability to reason for themselves?  From a Libertarian perspective, this is a rebuke on being regulated by 'rules,' but from a Authoritarian perspective, this is the justification for their power and their shunning of the rules they make for others.

Courage is the virtue that supports all the rest.

Put yourself in Jefferson's position.  You have inherited slaves.  Some are mortgaged.  The slaves are in your care.  They run the farm (requiring hundreds of laborers), the household.  The law of the land prohibits free slaves.  A freed black could be enslaved again.  Jefferson tried to free ALL slaves in the Declaration of Independence.  If you were prohibited from freeing your slaves and you were against slavery in principal, how would you treat those under your care?

Ever since I was a child I have been wanting to govern my own actions — I could hardly wait to be 'grown up.'  Unfortunately, every effort to govern my own actions is being countered with arbitrary regulation as if I were in school forever beholden to the teachers and principal.  Let me out of here! ;-)

By "link" I mean a page that describes what you are talking about.  If this is your own personal integration of spiritual 'truths' then so be it.  But you speak as if your terminology were common knowledge.  Frankly, you are not making any cogent sense.  I know there is something you are trying to say, it is just getting lost in (the lack of) translation.  Your frequent posts of Biblical quotes seem at odds with the numerology and in an unfamiliar language (not Latin, Greek, or Hebrew — Egyptian?).  Just wondering ...

Wow!  Hear, hear!

Lot's of meaning here.  ;-)  Focusing on the word 'bit' — just because your jail cell has been decorated doesn't make you free.