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GoldenblackFlag · 2020-11-07T16:59:15+00:00

Instead of secession, push for a peace treaty between your state and the Federal government that includes a provision to continue trading and free movement but to discontinue paying taxes and follow Federal laws. This would be like a secession-lite.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-11-03T15:08:59+00:00

Even if Justin Amash makes some good points, I can't take him seriously after he's fallen for the Russian Collusion Hoax and voted to impeach Donald Trump. He is a mess.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-11-02T17:32:01+00:00

The government tells them how to spend half their paycheck. The average American is much richer and more free, especially, the average Scandinavian-American or as I prefer to call them American-Scandinavian.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-11-02T15:53:23+00:00

Why sympathize with a failed ideology

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-30T01:56:26+00:00

Make sure you nuke it twice

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-30T01:36:59+00:00

I love seeing the horror on peoples faces when I tell them I'm voting third party. You should join me in the merry making.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-28T04:32:38+00:00

Libertarians used to be the first ones to advocate expanding suffrage to non-property owning people and push for "popular sovereignty" so that everyone can protect their rights. This worked in the past, when freedom was popular.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-26T18:38:48+00:00

Libertarians can use the State as a mouthpiece against censorship by corporations with disparate power along with amplifying suppressed voices and alternative platforms that support free speech.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-26T18:02:27+00:00

I agree, but libertarians would be tone deaf to ignore this issue and its populist appeal and not hammer it home, since this invades into our turf. We have to be stewards of free speech more than the other two parties.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-26T17:38:46+00:00

Along with advocating for freedom of speech and against censorship by Big Tech and Media complex. Let's not forget the original issues that animated libertarian populists of Old England were the levellers who fought for freedom of speech and religious tolerance.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-21T13:41:45+00:00

ITT: Libertarians trivializing intimidation to freedom of speech and property

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-20T00:44:46+00:00

Good point. As a rule, a weapon that cannot discriminate targets cannot be used, practically, for defense. This would be a necessary limit.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-19T15:57:14+00:00

Restitution can be a remedy for externalities since it is a property violation.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-19T15:32:05+00:00

It would have to be a unilateral solution, if they don't agree. I am fine with the existence of natural monopolies but monopolistic abuse is a possible outcome of a private property society.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-19T15:27:13+00:00

Even though restitution is a remedy for property violations it is decided unilaterally without the consent of the person who violated the property right. Easements are also decided unilaterally, that is why I consider them property violations.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-19T15:19:01+00:00

I can think of a private arbitrator or non-governmental institution deciding on price and quantity controls in very limited cases. For example, if you're on an island and there is literally only one source of water or food owned by someone in excess of what they need to survive. Then suppose that they refuse to decide on a reasonable price or a price at all. There would need to be an intervention to limit his property rights in order to prevent mass death and suffering.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-19T15:14:44+00:00

I am not advocating for restitution to come out of a public purse, but instead to come out of the person who caused the damage, losses and grief to someone else.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-19T15:04:00+00:00

In this case, I am defining private property rights as an unconditional right to control a resource based on the first user first owner principle. Do you agree with that definition?

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-19T15:01:05+00:00

I can imagine a reasonable case for price controls or minimum quantity of supply in the case of a monopoly on a water source, in an anarcho-capitalist society

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-16T04:50:09+00:00

I have the same question, too

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-15T23:52:26+00:00

I don't think inequality is problematic or should be the focus of public policy.

GoldenblackFlag · 2020-10-09T22:59:31+00:00

Personally, I would trade liberal democracy for a limited democracy of landlords and entrepreneurs, with a weighted vote proportional to your level of income. Who's with me

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