If you are really honest about it, you'll note that even the concept of "pulling oneself up"' implies an economic structure within which one is elevating oneself.
That economic structure is wholly dependent on a government that administrates it.
TBF. If you ignore:
How money retains value
How property is defined
How ownership is secured
How business is incorporated
How trade is conducted
How resources are distributed
How socioeconomic status exists
Then sure. Nobody needs government to get by.
Government isn't a concrete thing. It's an operating principle.
It's a process for administering services.
It is the manner by which humans self-organize to address their collective needs.
It literally is the core of any society.
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We STARTED with "Bought a beauty pageant so he could see naked, underaged, teenage girls backstage"
We just pressed on from there.
It's bizarre that anyone thinks there's a limit.
Around the time everyone saw a Presidential candidate drooling over his daughter and the self-proclaimed avatars of family values said "That's our guy" we should have said
"Welp. They believe nothing. Let's move on without them"
As European political parties go, the only people I can think of who are further right than our GOP are maybe UK's Conservatives and Canada's People's Party.
At this point though. I don't really know if it's reasonable to consider the GOP a political party anymore.
They're so absurd and nihilistic and unconcerned with governance that the only thing keeping them viable is their entrenchment in a two party system.
What's disturbing is that questionable videos of unverified origin were literally the majority of their content.
"In early 2021, NCMEC will release our total number of reported CSAM incidents alongside numbers from other major social and content platforms. We will also continue to work with law enforcement globally to report and curb any issues of illegal content."