Episode 418

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17th Feb 2025

AMERICAN FREEDOM! YEA! SOUNDS GREAT! BUT FREEDOM FOR WHO? EARNEST MANN’S: ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN 24-HOUR TRUTH BAR PC.2 T 4.0

The Illusion of Freedom: Why You're Not as Free as You Think

Hey folks, it's Earnest Mann, and today we're tackling a fiery topic sparked by Clint from Abilene, Texas. He’s pissed off about my so-called lack of patriotism and wants to know how in the hell I can say we’re not free. Well, Clint, buckle up because I’m breaking it all down.

The Harsh Reality of American Freedom

HL Mencken once wrote that anyone who thinks they’re free in America is either blind or stupid, and honestly? That statement still holds up today. The idea that we have absolute freedom is a dangerous illusion. The truth is, unless you're an oligarch like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, you live under a system where everything is conditional—your property, your job, your income. We operate on an or else basis: work or starve, comply or lose everything.

The System is Rigged for the Ultra-Rich

The laws aren't designed to protect your autonomy, but rather the autonomy of those who actually own this country. This is why billionaires and political elites can skirt accountability, while the average American can lose everything overnight. Think you own your house? Miss a few payments or get hit with a tax lien, and you'll find out just how much "ownership" you really have.

Patriotism vs. Nationalist Delusion

I’m not against people loving their country, but blind flag-waving nationalism? That’s a dangerous road, one that historically leads to regimes like Mao’s China, Mussolini’s Italy, or Hitler’s Germany. If being patriotic means ignoring reality and blindly believing in a system that works against you, count me out.

The Bottom Line: If You’re Being Controlled, You’re Not Free

If the government can tax your property, seize your assets, or dictate what you can and can’t do with your own possessions, then no—you’re not free. You’re a pseudo-citizen wage slave. And if you still think otherwise, well, enjoy riding America’s Crazy Train.

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Transcript

00:01 hi folks thank you for being here Clint in abalene Texas asked your lack of patriotism really irks me Ernest how in the hell can you say we're not free well Clint that's a fair enough question but before I go into answering it let's get one thing straight from the Geto your question has all the charm of an angry mildly 12-year-old that would come up to me blithering about how I'm a bad man because I don't believe in Santa Claus I don't usually get this pissed off but seriously man are you really

it was when it was written in:

01:29 somehow believing that I am a liberal by referring to me as a classic libtard what you didn't tell me was your age which is fine but I am well into middle age myself and if you are in fact much younger that might explain how you are unable to recognize that I am not only not liberal but I am extremely nonpartisan and it might also explain your Prof found ignorance on matters of Freedom something you clearly demonstrated in your semicoherent hate herang letter in America just like about any other place on the planet you have to

02:15 work for a living we all understand that so until the day however far that may be in the future where virtually everything is automated and every mundane task is done by some kind of robot or more sophisticated Android we're going to be stuck in the 21st century for a while we're going to be stuck in that reality the reality that work is the curse of the drinking class the intelligent and Timeless observation of Oscar wild but currently the how and why we work can actually mean many things to different people and for the

03:02 vast majority of people especially those that have or have adapted the Western capitalist style of economics and production for the most part across the board you work on an or else basis you either keep your job and or have some kind of steady income or your ass ends up on the street unfortunately this is where the true face of wild west unregulated capitalism of Psychopathic greed demonstrates its nightmarish potential completely visible all across America today from our biggest cities to our smallest towns the level of homelessness Across

03:52 America illustrates the truth very clearly and the social safety net that existed 40 years ago is gone and the oligarchs that run this nation wouldn't have it any other way happily replacing the home population whose fathers remembered Christmas turkeys pensions and decent wages due to Union membership a decent standard of living with millions of desperate Mexicans who never had any of that and will work for anything do anything and suffer any humiliation just to survive an absolute perfect readymade slave

04:40 mentality which is exactly what gives the plutocrats and the corporations they run a huge greed hard on and once the wave slave Mexicans have served their purpose the oligarchs will completely dispose of them too if you want to talk about freedom in America it's a ridiculous proposition to talk about it in terms of absolutes there are actually what you might call degrees or levels of freedom but practically everyone else except for the obscenely rich such as Elon Musk or Jeffrey Bezos works on an or else basis

05:25 and because you have no real power as a pseudo citizen wage slave your life situation and position is always tenuous and uncertain at best does this sound familiar a simple example of this is what I call your non-property property let's say you've got what most Americans would say is a pretty decent income the proverbial six figure plus income now although that might be impressive to most Americans to the true owners of this country you're a peasant you don't mean dick you might as well be a fast food worker at a

06:14 drive-thru as far as they're concern because they have two things you don't legal power and autonomy and the laws of America are set up for their power and their autonomy not yours on a quick side note and at the risk of once again being accused to being partisan the fact is that autonomy I speak of is the very reason Donald Trump a man who if it were any regular citizen would have been in prison many many times over isn't currently in prison now if you think I'm crazy and I don't know what the hell I'm talking

07:02 about that's fine just go ahead about your life and keep thinking that until they come to seize your property that is to say the property you thought was yours that you may have worked a good deal of your life for then I guarantee you when that reality hits you you'll suddenly be singing an entirely different tune and stop waving those lips little or huge American flags all the time maybe just maybe you'll snap out of it and what I've been telling you all this time suddenly won't seem so crazy anymore so in a

07:47 nutshell the most self-evident evidence of the fact that you are not in fact free is what you can and cannot do legally with what is supposed to to be your property so as far as anyone being patriotic is concerned in general terms I think the notion is just basically silly but when that notion becomes an emotional hardass hardcore nationalistic materialistic bent then no the silliness has morphed into idiocy think Ma's China melini's Italy or Hitler's ger being really good examples of such nationalistic

08:35 idiocy there's not very much for a reasonably intelligent person to be over-the-top flag waving patriotic about so to finish this up with something short and sweet I totally believe in the real freedom of property possession in the simplest terms if you and your property are not being left alone taxation being a form of legal tyranny and control as just one of my many examples you in reality are not free and if after everything I just said you don't believe me and still actually believe you're free that's fine I'm not

09:25 going to bother you because I firmly believe that anyone who Harbors delusional beliefs commonly referred to as being batshit crazy should be totally left alone to do so as long as they're not harming anyone else and in particular me as I have no desire to ride what has become America's Crazy Train

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