I don't really hold what Denis has to say as that important anymore or activists for that matter, it seems in less than a month a lot of people have chucked their rattle out of the crib and are crying about others instead of examining how what they are, or are not doing, is helping, or not helping, the progress of liberty. It's much easier to bitch about others than examine and critic your own actions. Although I do wonder what some people (like Denis) would have told Gandhi, "No Gandhi, we must work within the system, trust me, the British will change." Or perhaps the underground railroad, perhaps we should have worked within the system to free the slaves instead of actually freeing them, whatever.
People are picking and choosing things to bleat out they are right to an audience that is sick and tired of the petty bullshit, let's grow up people. I agree, the activist should focus on something big, like property taxes, or running a business without the states involvement, that will garner lots of support, but open carry laws, wtf? Talk about a hill not to die on, and they do this every night? My guess is most people in Keene now see them as a bunch of alcoholic wankers, I don't, but statists will, thats the way they think. I'm sorry but who decided to make open container laws the issue to die for, seriously? Protest property taxes, don't pay them and when someones house is going to get taken away have hundreds sit outside and in it. But the big issues take time to boil up and become noticed, they aren't instant media grabbing events and that seems to be the thing people in Keene want, to be the center of attention. It's almost like certain people are chasing a chance at fame instead of actual liberty.
It seems both sides have become nothing more than attention whores. Examples of great activisim, even though the people doing it might not say so, Savannah last biscuit, Shaw doing pickles, Mandrik doing his backlava, FIJA out reach, CopBlock, Photography is not a crime, Liberty on Tour, Free Talk Live of course, and frankly I think FTL is a hell of a lot of work, I'd sooner see Ian keep it going than see him get arrested. I'm not sure he understands just how many people his show reaches and gets the message out to, very effective.
You can't get in peoples faces or they will tell you to go fuck yourself, same with giving the state a rim job like Denis, that does not work either, never has. I don't think what Denis does is troll either, maybe he does sometimes, like the activists I think he may be frustrated that things are not moving as fast as they want them to, well they won't, especially when both "groups," seem to be trolling each other instead of doing something for liberty. Find a happy medium or end up making no progress at all. I know it's easy for me to bitch, I'm not even there, but from an outsiders perspective this is what I see. I don't mean to be a prick towards Denis either, it's just that lately he seems a little immature, to put it politely.
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