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"I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power."
"I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that."
"Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there."
"It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our government. It's like, come on, why is this scary? Jesus, every generation before you was willing to kick ass."
"People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways."
"There's more roles now to fill since Trump's in. There's this refusal of power. I think progressives are actually literally uncomfortable with the exercise of power, because of what you learn. When you're too educated you understand the total disconnect of the exercise of power."
"The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left."
"I'm not going to let Defense Distributed go into a pro-social NGO territory. "We should really have more women on the board." That's navel-gazing and destructive ultimately. You have to have a kind of white-hot core identity. So far, I'm in touch with it."
"Any democratic sentiment propels my politics."
"I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism."
"All activism is fake activism."
"Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government."
"I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist.""
"When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power."
"I don't believe that it's inconsistent to be suspicious of people and also be totally comfortable with deploying the technology, because you know its fractal potential. It's a vote for politics. It's a vote for the will to politics. There will be people, a one percent of people, that can use this stuff effectively, develop it, implement it. That's why it's necessary. That's why civilization exists, so those few people can exercise incredible techniques."
"History should be about every generation's will to power."
"I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man."
"The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom."