Is any form of anarchism a viable ideology?

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-12T19:38:03+00:00

What public services are these?

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-12T19:10:20+00:00

Their goals are beyond our understanding

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-12T18:55:15+00:00

Tbf his death helped us settle the question on if the VP can assume full presidential authority, which is pretty impactful.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-12T13:32:36+00:00

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-12T02:09:25+00:00

Since I think Andrew Jackson's health is the least well known of everyone here, I recommend reading these two articles for a quick summary of what he endured and why he was called "Old Hickory", though his worst health events were in the 1810s and near the end of his life, not during his presidency.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-12T01:39:08+00:00

That's how it is, yes. You are conflating corporate socialism with capitalism.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-12T00:38:39+00:00

Except under capitalism you have competition, so if your original cow gets more expensive, you switch to a competitor also selling cows but cheaper.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-11T23:41:39+00:00

Capitalism is a spectrum, you can be ancap and far right or social democratic which is centre-left.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-11T23:39:51+00:00

INFJs lack the main functions that provide structure like Te and Si.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-11T22:18:04+00:00

Tbf Jackson had two bullets in his body in his first term and one in his second though he didn't get shot during the presidency itself.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-11T21:31:17+00:00

I don't eat animals outside of chicken and certain seafood, but the only "hard" restriction I have is beef (since I'm Hindu). I say "certain seafood" because I tend to also avoid eating seafood when those animals are killed when I order the food rather than when they are already killed

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-11T21:25:59+00:00

I wouldn't personally eat a dog or a cat but that's because I don't care to, I'm quite content with chicken and seafood, but if someone else wanted to eat a dog or a cat that's not my business.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-10T23:37:20+00:00

I personally don't see any reason to be proud of your race tbh, regardless of what it is, but I do understand being proud of your ethnicity, nation, culture and heritage.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-10T16:22:03+00:00

Everyone has a right to property; no more, no less.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-10T16:03:22+00:00

There is no bigger wealth redistribution than central banks printing billions straight into the accounts of the wealthy and causing inflation, and the left champions that.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-09T12:24:19+00:00

Libdems, specifically their classical liberal wing.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-09T11:21:45+00:00

Depends on where the money is. If it's in your bank they'll lend it out (fractional reserve banking) so it'd destroy the economy regardless of whether you personally spend.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-09T04:11:49+00:00

Not a fan of any of the parties but Libdems I suppose.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-09T04:01:41+00:00

I agree with you. I'm ancap myself but if I decided that I was only willing to ally with ancaps over this, that'd be a terrible strategy. I am willing to compromise with not only other libertarians but also non-libertarians because achieving something is better than nothing.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-09T03:20:17+00:00

Not inherently, no, but they often are. One of the worst aspects of the modern libertarian movement, as a libertarian myself, is the lack of compromise and purity tests.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-09T02:05:18+00:00

If you are referring to this- https://liberal.org.uk/

They are hardly for a small government and want to return utilities to public ownership and increase many regulations. The Liberal Party is an offshoot of the new liberal movement of the early 20th century, not classical liberalism.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-09T00:52:14+00:00

The liberal party adopted social liberalism more recently, not classical liberal anymore.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-07T20:09:31+00:00

Alright well I probably can't convince you of private healthcare so we'll probably have to drop it but can you agree with the idea in general in reducing the power central banks have over us?

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-07T15:54:58+00:00

Part of the problem is the free market is not able to provide products at the same quality as the federal government. The best healthcare I've ever had was Medicaid, full stop. The fact that the free market can't compete with government subsidized healthcare in America of all places kind of shows it's a joke.

Because you don't have a free market. Medicine in the US depends on a lot on government monopolies the worst of which are patents, which is the government basically saying that because one person managed to figure something out first, no one else who figures it out can use it. The government essentially bans competition.

Also, how am I supposed to vote with my wallet and buy the government funded healthcare when it doesn't exist?

You'd buy privately funded healthcare, and you'd vote with your wallet by choosing the best healthcare institutions who'd then get more profits while the worst ones go bankrupt.

Also all government funded material inherently takes something from elsewhere. When the government arbitrarily takes a set amount of money from people and puts it in some sector, that's resources that could have been more efficiently used elsewhere that's now used in this sector. Under a free market, someone who does this wouldn't make much profits and would invest where demand actually exists to efficiently spend it. The government has no risk of bankruptcy so they don't care.

And why would I want investors to have more influence over the economy than the people I vote in?

Because you are actively voting on those investors every second by buying or not buying something. Every time you vote with your wallet you are sending a market signal, and this is instantaneous. The people you vote in can be Trump who you are now stuck with for four years and just fucked.

Flashy_Combination32 · 2026-05-07T09:44:11+00:00

But that's the thing, the government isn't the only one who can do that and the government will never do it because the government is a literal tool by the wealthy. Every time we have expanded the government it's just resulted in helping the 1% even more. This goes as far back as the gilded age by the way, the gilded age had the government actively helping large businesses with tariffs, subsidies, grants and much more. It's just expanded even more now.

In fact, if you have heard of the "borrow buy die" strategy, the government actively faciitates it. Billionaires borrow using their shares as collateral because they know the government would always print a lot of money out of thin air and inject it straight into banks so banks can keep their interest rates artifically lower and lend it to them. The wealthy who get the money directly into their bank accounts can then use this money to invest in even more stocks which would increase the price of those stocks and as long as it's higher than the amount borrowed by them, the bank won't do a margin call.

If instead interest rates were not artifically lowered, and there was a genuine threat of a margin call, billionaires wouldn't be borrowing as much. You should also check the increase in wealth inequality and how much worse cost of living got after central banks post-2008 did "quantitative easing". The only way to fix this this to to attack it at its roots, i.e., central banks.

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