Yeah no kidding, the DSA candidate is a major communist tyrant 😄

I hope he turns NYC into an even more unbelievable shithole so the world can see what socialism does in practice.

I only say this because he can't build a wall around the city to stop people from leaving and the really smart people already left during covid so whoever stays there voluntarily must at least somewhat enjoy it.

And don't tell me "the poor can't move", they can move out of the most expensive city in the US (the world?) to culturally similar places nearby on the savings of the first month of rent in the new place.

And the "interests of the collective" is whatever these men deem necessary to secure and expand their own power to levels a medieval king wouldn't even dream about.

That's what happens if you base policy on religion rather than reason.

Lovely 😄

My main things are less/no more unpaid work for people outside my immediate family and a higher income while legally lowering taxes or keeping them at the same level, in other words: V4V

Well, Islam is the West's future anyway, might as well build technology that pleases our Saracen masters 🤷‍♂️

Christ, isn't Bitwarden a password manager? I know they hate privacy but keeping your passwords secret is bad now too? 😂

I don't think you can spend stolen money fraudulently, the crime has been committed the moment you threaten violence if the owner of that money won't simply give it to you, everything that comes after is just mob shit.

Libertatrian/Minarchist utopiae have existed, they were called the United States of America (1776-1861), West Germany (1948-1971), the Free State of Fiume (1920-1924), among others.

There are Próspera and Morazan right now which may or may not succeed.

Those libertarian countries all ended because of socialist takeovers failing to create socialist utopiae, even though they've consumed all the wealth the formerly free people there had accumulated.

The two Honduran free cities mentioned above are under constant attack by socialist governments so they might well die the same death.

So from my point of view, the important question is not: "How can we bring about an impossible utopia of free people?" but "The next time people become free, how can they defend themselves against those who would enslave them?"

If you're surprised or upset by news about the fraudulent acquisition of government money by private actors responding to incentives - you might not be a libertarian at all, just a plain old right-winger who thinks "liberty" is when the government works in the interest of the people.

This is where we're headed here in the People's States of Europe and we're not far off either.

Well, I'd rather have everyone have their own currency than only the worst and most morally bankrupt among us.

But objective value without the necessity of a debtor like with BTC and gold is obviously preferrable 😄

I'd be down to live like the Amish, maybe without the religious fundamentalism and with a giant library of books written before 1900. I'd herd me some sheep, make a piece of furniture every now and then, and drink a whole bunch of tea while reading Bastiat, Menger, Poe, and Melville.

What do you mean? 100% of that money is acquired fraudulently, at which point it doesn't even matter how it's spent, the whole racket needs to be dismantled.

Don't ever make the omelette, comrade, because if you did, you'd have to stop breaking eggs.

Who would've guessed that Mango wood is tough as nails, cheap, and beautiful?

Lovely, so all my fears were completely justified and I was in fact sitting in a death trap that one time when everyone told me to calm down.

I didn't know the Chinese were paid in Right Mouse Buttons, good on them for using commodity money 🤔

Nobody in Russia has ever tried to harm me other than by selling me cheap natural gas and downright gross foodstuffs.

"My" government however - the one with the legal monopoly over my life - coercively (and violently, if need be) takes my money without giving anything in return and continues to burden me with an ever-growing pile of senseless and contradictory rules.

So don't try to tell me who and where my enemies are.