Young disenfranchised white guys getting together and deciding they needed to do identity politics because every other group in the country was ethnically tribal was the absolute easiest prediction I ever made during the woke era.

And now it’s come true.

I keep feeling this dread that A.I + surveillance + drone warfare is going to unleash unspeakable horrors on the world sometime in the next twenty years.

And just like WW2 it will be precipitated by economic collapse.

The American Revolution 2

1) Mr. Neemeyer of killdozer fame moved to a town that then deliberately killed his business by discriminatory regulation where his competitors were in on the graft. They literally surrounded his scrap yard, then penalized him for being unable to conduct business with no access easement.

I never accused any of the people being libertarians/rothbardians. My point is that livertarianism doesn’t solve for this modern leftist “I’m not touching you” “soft force”.

If neemeyer MADE and easement, or refused to pay the fines, or otherwise refused to comply with the discrimination, he would have been subject to force.

But your argument is “nobody caused harm to him”.

They surrounded his business and prevented him from conducting any. Was he supposed to wait until they came to execute him? Until he starved to death?

They were engaging in daily force against them and his attack was justifiable self defense, which is my point.

2) but let’s say he found a way to leave.

He founds something like Ruby ridge. “I just want to be left alone”.

But they wouldn’t let Ruby ridge be left alone.

Again, your implication that it isn’t “libertarianism” because the people conducting the actions weren’t strict ideological libertarians is moot. It’s “no true Scotsman” in its portrayal.

If it was Galt’s gulch itself, or any other libertarian utopia you could imagine, it wouldnt have changed the substance.

They wanted to exercise the freedom of association to NOT be involved in government overreach by “checking out” to “a place of their own”.

That could not be allowed so long as the parasitic government existed. “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is intensely interested in you.”

So long as the government that disrespects those rights continues to exist, it will not respect your desire to be left alone by it.

If you do not DESTROY that government and replace it with one that matches your values, it will come and knock on your door to assert its perceived right to your time and resources. That’s why the founders conducted revolution instead of just disappearing into the woods like many others did.

THAT was the lesson of Ruby Ridge. That there is no safety in hiding from evil and expecting to do that indefinitely while you have anything to lose.

3) Gamer gate was a controversy where young men, made nihilistic by our broken culture and lack of opportunities (keep in mind it was around the time of the 2008 crashes so these kids couldn’t find work) ended up trying to find escape in videogames… and realizing there WAS no escape.

Cultural marxist degenerates leveraging bogus gov/corporate bs money used the approved smear words to force themselves into the gaming community and began to take over the industries that produced the games these men used for escape from the very social psychosis that were now being forcibly injected into them.

These were people that didn’t try to run a business like neemeyer nor to physically walk away from the mainstream like the Ruby ridge community. Their escape was solely SPIRITUAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL… and it STILL couldn’t be permitted.

They had to actively build their own parallel game institutions to reclaim their hobby in order to keep it at all.

The ideological and structural connections between the conquest of the game industry and other institutions (like the colleges and big tech) brought some of the gamer gate activists on the freedom side of the issue into broader politics. This is because some of them realized that gamer gate was a spiritual Ruby ridge with the same implications:

The human parasites that believe they are entitled to control you will not respect your boundaries and rights until they are FORCED to, because they respect nothing else.

They believe they know better than you, they believe that your rights are a threat to them (psycho-espistemologivally, they are right, as your ability to thrive by your own code is a refutation of their worldview, entitlement, and thereby, the source of their perverted self-esteem), and will not stop until forced to do so for those reasons.

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You can’t discount every time atlas tried to shrug the shackles of the cult because they failed some sort of “no true Scotsman” ideological purity test for not having read all the right books.

If libertarians will not justify and empathize with their rightful desire for Justice against those that wronged them, then they will seek someone else that will.

THAT is why they are becoming Nazis.

Here’s the issue with modern libertarianism:

What if they refuse to cooperate? What if they refuse to be reasonable?

We know about the killdozer incident. But Ruby ridge? Gamer gate?

The entire of the authoritarian right stems from young men just wanting to live in their own communities and have freedom of association…

And realizing that they aren’t allowed to and that they will be attacked for ANY place they go to be “with their own”.

Until libertarianism has an answer for that, mean will continue to be authoritarian as a form of defense from OTHER authoritarians.

Until you can answer how you can keep Ruby ridge and gamergate from happening again, they will just want Nazis to kill the way out of the problem.

I never really knew what Guy Fawkes Day was until I just looked it up. So my options are to celebrate either the fact that the king survived an assassination plot or that one group of religious lunatics wanted to murder another group of religious lunatics and install their person into power.

hard pass on both.

the mask is alright though

“The United States has been a socialist country LARPing as a capitalist republic for many decades now. You can't have a truly capitalist society if the lifeblood of your economy is centrally planned. And our money is more centrally planned than any reserve currency system that has come before it.”

Few today understand the difference between a free market economy and socialism for the rich larping as capitalism.

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Anarcho capitalism is a good goal and likely a necessary evolution in humanity, but the only way we can get there is by solving problems. Mainly technologically. No political means will ever create this reality. Which is why we are so centered around cypherpunkism.

I used to advertise that my wine was naturally fermented. I've stopped.

I had never added yeast, but I learned that most "natural fermentations" aren't what they claim to be, including mine.

Yeast lives on everything. It's everywhere. So if you want a true natural fermentation, you'd have to work with fruit grown on your own land in a space where no fermentation has ever happened before.

I thought that as long as I didn't add yeast, it was a natural fermentation. Turns out the yeast my dad pitched once, back in 2007, is probably still the dominant strain.

I haven't tested it, but that was enough for me to stop calling my wines "natural."

Natural fermentation doesn't make wine healthier, but yeast drives flavor. The fewer outside inputs you have, the more the wine speaks for its place.

Many wineries add a heavy dose of sulfur at harvest to kill off natural yeast so they can start clean with a commercial strain. They want total control.

I don't do that. My grapes come in, start fermenting with whatever yeast lives in the vineyard, and finish with whatever's taken up residence here over time.

It's wine minutia. In the end, only two things matter:

Does it taste good?

How do you feel the next day?

I think you'll like the taste of my wine and by skipping the massive sulfur dose, you're one step closer to feeling great tomorrow.

It is a common fault not to anticipate storms when the sea is calm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I've met people over the years who are constantly upset about one thing or another.

If I ask them what it would take for them to feel at peace they would rattle off a long list of external conditions which need to be met first.

This process never leads to a resolution. Mental clarity and inner peace begin within ourselves and resonate outwards.

Personal development is an inside job. Just like 911.

"What we do now echoes in eternity." —Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes when I nap, my mouth hangs open, and it becomes a fly hole. Heyoh!

GM! Photo taken in Brussels #belgium #photography

Guess he also lost due process in this boating accident.

#Agorism #Agorist #Libertarian #Antistate #Antiwar #NonAggressionPrinciple #NAP #Venezuela #Trump #Trumpstr #WarCrime #FifthAmendment #DueProcess

Regarding the much discussed coming Age of Abundance…

Universal basic services (UBS) would be much wiser and more beneficial for humanity than universal basic income (UBI).

UBS examples may include widely available:

- Clean water

- Electricity

- Bandwidth

- Safe roads and bridges

- Food

- Housing

- etc.

Discuss.

#AI

#Robotics

#UBS

#UBI

PSA: I hereby give notice that I do not consider myself obligated in any way to read documents, review code, or engage with ideas written by an LLM and not refined first by the prompt engineer.

By asking me to take more time to read a document than it took to write it you are assigning a premium to your own time and a discount to mine. I consider this a sign of disrespect and will treat the content in question in like manner.

You may now resume your regularly scheduled vibing. Thank you for your attention to this matter.