The word "Supplicant" springs to mind 😄

Can't wait to find out what fate awaits Bolivia.

The poisoned carrot like Argentina?

The explosive stick like Venezuela?

Something altogether new and exciting?

Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be severely detrimental to regular Bolivians.

It is indeed, and respect for those who leave their country on moral grounds, emigrating is really hard if you've already built a life for yourself.

Oh I'm sure they are indoctrinated and incentivized to increase patients' suffering to sling more chemicals but the Nuremberg defense of "I was simply following orders while taking ze children into ze camps in Poland" is simply not acceptable.

Or in the words of the great warrior poet Barret Wallace: "A good man in the service of a great evil is not without sin".

So yes, I firmly believe doctors are to blame for playing along.

So many doctors are sick fucking demons, shame on them for wishing more harm and pain onto a child with cancer.

I recommend the Jefferson Bible 😄

Well, maybe they'll end the fed 🤷‍♂️

Well, that's the term that springs to my mind when people say "circular economy", just because it sounds funny.

Is that what they mean when they say "circular economy"?

It's so simple, even a Monetarist gets it 😄

And that is all you need to now about CPI 😄

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Stop egging me on, I refuse to bear your yolk!

More important than anything.

All great stuff - except for the corn, that'd cost me half a week in bed, incapable of thought. Corn must've been created by some unspeakable, primal evil looking to undo everything in creation.

Those fiat jockeys and their "diversified portfolios" 🙄

The demise of the dollar can't come soon enough.

I aim to please 😄

I would be very interested in a short Rothbardian/Misesian analysis of the Argentinan bail-out using US government money, maybe some background as to why that country qualified for it (i.e. which politically connected actors are invested in the country's economy).

I stress the reference to Rothbard/Mises because I would like to avoid as much bias as possible, such as patriotic or anti-patriotic, socialist, globalist, neoconservative, MAGA, and all the others.

Sure, I'll just stop eating 👌🏻

Reduction of personal freedom and general bodily harm all around, I guess in the near future the people will need bio-hackers reversing the effects of various government-sponsored bio weapons sicced on them.

Because they know they will be taxed out of any additional earnings anyway - so might as well work for social credit 👌🏻

Did you know Neptune is on the rapidly rising descent into the seventh gate? Better go feed your chickens and knit a red hat to prepare for the total reversioning!

Count Dankula made a video on her politics a couple of weeks ago and, well, let's say her term will be nothing if not interesting to watch.

Haha, fair point, and Plato's world of ideas is not really a place to be inhabited, he suggested it'd be what comes down to a dimension of blueprints and classifications, to be instantiated by real-world objects.

The joke, of course, was that the world of ideas would be "ideal" which is sometimes synonymous with "perfect".

I'm neither Keyser Söze nor John Galt.

Well, according to Plato, there is

Oh look, the government is protesting their parliamentary opposition again

But how else are the powerful supposed to keep down those able to build their own wealth through work and effort? 😅

As did I so I dug around a little and found the following Forbes article according to which industrial application made up about 56% of demand in 2021, I guess the percentage still serves as a ballpark number:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/10/25/silver-prices-10-year-price-analysis-and-production-demand-gdp-dynamics/

Wow, I find both to be impressive - well done, sir.

Well, the original Erebor had a 100% reserve rate in specie, so I'll assume they'll do the same here.

Minus the dragon, hopefully.

Shocking, I know 😜

The latest one of these I think was Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, including local multiplayer versions of early-90s Sega arcade beat-em-ups

I really wanted Argentina to become a libertarian paradise but this doesn't seem to be the road leading there.

I also don't want any government to buy any assets or currencies because it doesn't come at a cost to them, it just distorts asset prices.

I agree, until the power goes out of course 😄

I just want stable money, man, all time highs for commodities usually just mean all time lows for the dollar and its wicked friends

You should believe him, you know, after all he's not a crook

Visual evidence of the first fiat payment.

Sure, stereotypical hippie communes pretty much are left-anarchist societies that fall apart as soon as someone has a different idea of how to live properly because their systems aren't based on individual rights and voluntary association but on compulsive collective action which, in turn, cannot be enforced.

Monasteries tend to have rather rigid rules which are enforced via ostracism but membership is voluntary, so I guess it is in fact an example of working stateless collectivism, if you're into the whole Jesus thing of course 😄

And I agree, even though I consider myself to be an an-cap, I find a minarchist state to be infinitely preferrable compared to the systems in place at the moment, and much easier to sell to regular people who feel that the state should at the very least act as a "night watchman".

Liberty-minded people used to create mainstream media, and it wasn't even that long ago, amazing 😄

Haha, who wouldn't love to be stabbed on a public train for no reason while some government jerk-off is listening to the phone call you're having at that moment.

I like crows and black cats, they're cute.

I have been thinking about collectivism and statism and whether you can be one but not the other. I think you can and it could look something like this:

A non-statist collectivist might be a classical left-leaning anarchist (not an-cap, major distinction there), meaning someone who rejects state oppression but still believes in societal classes and ethnic/religious groups counting for more than the individual.

In other words the classic "Once the bourgois state is gone, we'll share everything with everyone and nobody is allowed to exploit anybody else", meaning a strict set of oppressive rules but somehow no one to enforce it.

An individualist statist could identify as, say, as a "classical liberal", what an-caps would call a "minarchist", so someone who genuinely believes that the state can be used to protect individual rights and liberty if its power is handled by "sensible people".

I belong to neither of those meta-groups, I think that the biggest motivator for humans isn't money per se but power, status, and dominance. Therefore, in order to facilitate peaceful co-existence, coercive tools like states and "legal violence" which people might use against one another should be limited as much as possible, leaving economic success and communal respect as the only paths to societal status, both of which have a positive effect on every life they touch rather than re-distributing good things from a pre-determined loser to a pre-determined winner.

What do you reckon?

I know that his gripe isn't with the Israeli government per se but with all jews everywhere (because he is a collectivist and statist) but I'm sure he's 100% right on this one, the Lakut propaganda machine is nothing short of disgusting.

I'd like to order one fusion-powered mining satellite for "Nakamoto", please.

Sea drones, eh? Sounds like a prime way of keeping dissidents from leaving the country by boat.

Take unlimited stupidity, couple it with murderous cruelty, add a whole lot of ill-gotten money, and what do you get?

A military.