Every election I can remember, the more charismatic person won except the last one: Reagan over Carter/Mondale, Bush over Dukakis, Clinton over Bush/Dole, Bush over Gore/Kerry, Obama over McCain/Romney, Trump over Hillary. Only exception was Biden over Trump, and there were serious irregularities around it.

Forget politics, and just ask yourself if there's ever been a bigger gap in charisma/personability than in this election. Then consider the economy which just massively revised down its jobs report for the last year, with inflation crushing the ever-shrinking middle class.

The fundamentals are terrible for the democrats. The indicators (polls/betting markets) say otherwise, but in an era of so much manipulation and fraud, fundamentals > indicators IMO.

I feel like someone should compile an index of all the major events for which the official account is woefully inadequate and offer various theories:

Titanic

Pearl Harbor

JFK assassination

Watergate

9/11

Covid origins

etc. etc.

There are probably 100 or so big ones.

I might consider it, but it would be a huge project.

Basically just an easily reference-able index.

Where to draw the line as to what you could include — Iraq War, Russiagate, SARS Cov-1? — would be tough though. Can’t include everything that’s ever happened.

I don’t know. Just think there should be one place you could get all of it.

State revenues should be 100℅ from sales taxes.

This would ensure that they never adopt policies which would reduce commerce.

I do understand your motive to protect and defend yourself, your family and your community however initiating aggression promotes greater aggression. How do you suggest ending the war between Russia and NATO? How do we achieve and maintain peace between competitive aggressive people?

How?

Do you mean in private or in public?

The best baby foods are just cooked & blended meats. I guess formula is supposed to be more of a mother's milk substitute. Blended meat would be more appropriate in the transition away from breast milk.

Read Turtles All The Way Down by anon & then avoid vaccines & all of the shots & other interventions they want to force on infants & parents. It's all a scam. The few things they may actually protect against are far less risky or troublesome than a life of asthma, food allergies & other chronic problems.

By what authority would a working society have to forbid another working society from holding a reunion?

Are the Statist police, now?

LOL we both know the answer. Prostitutes and the homeless go missing all the time, at best a rookie cop will ask pro forma questions of the nearest random. But they can move heaven and earth for a politician's niece, or a fellow cop.

Even under Anarchism, the poorest are SOL unless they have family who care and are willing to pay someone or go out and investigate themselves.

That's a step up from where we are now.

I think you need to hit the history books, and then add modern forensics back in. Yes, there are private forensics labs even now.

Extra privacy in the world of AI surveillance and constant data leaks. Doesn’t need to be limited to digital. You shouldn’t need to leave a trail everywhere you go.

Good questions, and I disagree with Rothbard on the answers.

Re police.

Private police will be for rich people, transport corridors and commercial precincts. Like the old days.

Working-class neighborhoods will have an old man sweeping leaves and asking "Oi! 'Oo are you?" if you don't look like you belong. And someone else with a rifle behind a blind on an upstairs window watching to see if you pull a weapon.

Like many "ethnic" areas of my city today. There are surprisingly few f_ckups, when one happens its all over the news for days.

Re corporations.

Without the State, who will defend the Board's interests against their managers?

And who will defend the managers' interests against their workers?

Without Big Daddy Government, tens of thousands of pages of legislation and regulations, and a myriad of tax-fed agencies, Big Business will die so fast you'll think it was a conspiracy.

Yeah, we can still have self-executing DAOs living in some blockchain, but if there's no corporate personhood and State enforcement of their rights, then what happens at the linkage between the DAO and real world assets? Private litigation / arbitration is what, and the DAO structure will be at a competitive disadvantage vis a vis sole traders and partnerships.

I would say yes to both questions.

Street crime should never be considered normal but some level of crime will always exists.

Removing guns for the equation we can just imagine a scenario where there are two men walking down a street both wearing a nice watch.

One is over 6 feet tall and incredibly muscular, built like an athlete.

The other is short and scrawny and looks visibly weak.

If one of them was to get robbed which one do you think it would be?

In this case you can see that being capable of harm or at least imposing means you are more likely to have a safe walk down the street.

The one who is more heavily armed (in this case literally) will have an easier time being a pacifist.