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  • What Daryl Davis does might work if you are talking about a very small group, but by the time it reaches percentage points of the population that method no longer works as the societal support structure grows from these vial ideologies, the weaker an approach based on societal influence. Eventually the only option left is violence as you have two opposing societies and can no longer pull “radicals” out of their hatred.

    Just like with the Fascists of the early 20th century, the only option left was to expunge these hateful societies.










  • Not to be that guy, but you can very well be a leftist, hell even a full on communist, and be reformist, you don’t need to pull a Robespierre (ironically a Liberal btw) LARP to change the world.

    Also, dual power, what a fever dream, do you really think that any sovereign entity is going to allow an alternate sovereign entity to exist within the same space? That so absurd you may as well start believing in the Libertarian “subscription governments” because essentially it’s the same thing. Either you reform the current system into Socialism, or you roll the dice and pull a revolution, problem is, that no one knows exactly who will come out on top during those.




  • The lawsuit actually reads like a Legal fever dream, get this, they postulate that the entire internet should be American sovereignty, that all countries should be forced to follow American law, that 1776 happened.

    In reality, what 4chan and kiwi farms are upset about is either instituting the UK laws, or being cut off from the UK users, who still are a decent chunk of the English-speaking world along with it setting a president that nations can enforce their own laws in their own countries when it comes to the internet




  • She didn’t call herself a libertarian and explicitly said she isn’t

    And North Korea calls its self democratic. Yet we don’t call it a democracy. No, we define these categories by what they are/do/believe in/etc… and like it or not, Ayn Rand’s Objectivism is 100% a component of libertarian ideology, Ayn Rand’s beliefs are very much a core component of Libertarianism, and i’m sorry to inform you that many on that list of yours ARE libertarians, such as Milei. In the same way the Marx&Hegel were a cornerstone of communism.

    But you are correct about Zelenskyy, he is not libertarian.

    Bullshit. You might also want to think who’s “we” and what externalia does giving that “we” an ability to “put limits on these things” possess.

    Standard Libertarian response that basically ignores the existence of anything outside the individual

    Also, from the person who you believe isn’t a Libertarian: The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose. -Ayn Rand, Galt’s Speech.

    A government is large scale organized violence and warlords. Spoken just like Rand herself! “Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury—the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.” The Virtue of Selfishness “The Nature of Government,” The Virtue of Selfishness, again Ayn Rand.

    Lastly, on privatization: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fjep.20.3.187




  • I find it interesting, so many proponents of Libertarianism don’t realize that the limits we put on these things they want to exist to stop people from creating neo-feudal fiefdoms.

    Yes, Ayn Rand IS a Libertarian, yes the end result of Libertarianism is a government that is too weak to oppose any organized violence.

    If a government is too weak to stop large scale organized violence you get warlords, of some form, in the modern case it’s whoever has the most wealth to found the largest private army.

    But hey, your not too far off the mark with the whole Nazi bit, after all the word Privatize was invented to describe what the Nazis did with state property.