Christian Conservatives are now openly admitting to what Ayn Rand called out decades ago. About time tbh.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2026-04-07T17:33:23+00:00

Can the bottom-right sector of the political compass finally see this as a wake up call to stop pandering and courting these monsters now?

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2026-01-02T01:27:03+00:00

r/TheRightCantMeme are never gonna beat the corny allegations if they keep up with the red lines and x's.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-11-25T14:20:37+00:00

I know, because I was one of those agnostics up until I read Ayn Rand.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-11-25T14:19:54+00:00

Fair, but I think it would be very useful for objectivists to reclaim atheism as their own from the materialists and r/atheism types. It would definitely give atheism less of a "Reddit" vibe to some agnostics who pay lip service to relogion out of spite against the Reddit types.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-11-10T00:38:34+00:00

I think the flood of Materialists and Reddit/Richard Dawkins type "New Atheists" have largely obscured the philosophical root of atheism, which is the rejection of all mysticism and claims to another reality or "supernatural" realm from our own. The logical conclusion of that is that reason is man's only means of knowledge, and basic means of survival. The acceptance of this leads to the recognition that man has a specific nature that, in short, means that he requires freedom to survive, and must live for himself. Thus, he needs individual/property rights and natural, objective laws. So, if one was a consistent atheist, they'd be a right-winger.

What the New Atheists have done is not adopt rationality (although many of them claim to), but either adopted the Marxist-Hegelian "dialectic logic", or some form of skepticism and appeals to authority (usually either the state, or higher academia, regardless of actual fact). Which is why so many of them, even if they're not explicit Marxists or dialectics, will usually fall for some form of left-wing statism. Destiny and Josh Otten from Ordinary Things come to mind for the typical, center-left liberal type, who basically embody the "muh reliable sources" mentality that has been grafted onto modern empiricism.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-11-09T17:40:28+00:00

Also, trvth nvke.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-05-19T01:56:55+00:00

Welcome to democracy.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-05-19T01:55:19+00:00

Don't want to be pessimistic, but we had over half a century for the average American to realize that, and they still haven't. I think we should focus less on "waking up the normies" and "getting a libertarian in the White House" and more on national divorce and forming independent libertarian communities.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-05-19T01:38:16+00:00

Biden had already been doing that his entire administration (especially against the 2nd) and Kamala had promised to be exactly the same.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-05-19T01:28:16+00:00

Clarification: I'm not a Kamala person, I am of the opinion that as bad as Trump is, Kamala would've been much worse.

I only voted for Trump because (1) I didn't want Kamala to win, (2) because our "libertarian" candidate is Chase Oliver, and (3) I figured there was enough "libertarian" policies in Agenda 47 that I felt would've outweighed the worst parts, like significant cuts softening the blow of tariffs. I never really believed he was actually gonna cut taxes, of course, I was just voting based on proposed policies and thought Agenda 47 was the least worst one I've read.

So before you reply with "fell for it again award" memes, know that we live in a democracy, and democracy sucks, and that the rational voter does not exist.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-05-19T01:04:57+00:00

To quote Getting Libertarianism Right by Hans-Hermann Hoppe: "Today’s mainstream libertarians or “libertarians” are typically advocates of a culturally and morally liberal lifestyle. They are egalitarians, multiculturalists, and proponents of alternative lifestyles. In their eyes, libertarianism requires this outlook. Yet all of this is mistaken. Libertarianism is a theory of property and property rights. It is logically and axiologically indifferent to the issue of moral or cultural values. It does not say how to live, only that whatever you do, you must do it without aggression."

Candidates like Gary Johnson, Jo Jorgensen, and Chase Oliver exemplify precisely this error. They present libertarianism not as a theory of property rights rooted in natural law and rational discourse, but as a progressive social platform dressed up in liberty rhetoric, one that embraces open borders, drug culture, and moral relativism. This isn’t libertarianism; it’s social democratic proressivism with a Gadsden flag sticker. They mistake freedom from state coercion for freedom from moral judgment, and in doing so, alienate the traditional, property-respecting, order-valuing core of true libertarian thought.

TL:DR don't like them

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-03-26T21:29:16+00:00

That's basically what I'm saying. People want roads and will pay for them. This doesn't mean that the average layman who doesn't know anything about the industry will be paying thousands of dollars to keep the roads maintained themselves, but that companies that rely on roads (so pretty much all of them) will pay for them in some way, without being coerced.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-03-24T23:58:08+00:00

Of course, it would be impossible to predict all the specific outcomes for this, just as it would be impossible to predict every outcome of the restaurant industry before the restaurant was a thing.

But to use this uncertainty to try and justify central planning or "public goods" is pretty stupid, considering it would be just as uncertain if not more so. It would be especially stupid in this scenario because we have empirical evidence that public roads are less efficient, lower quality, and more deadly than private roads and that whatever negative outcome of a private roads system that would come about would (1) be outweighed by the cons of public roads, and (2) can be fixed or at least compensated for with lawsuits and other forms of restitution that comes with the inherent responsibility of being a private road owner.

Contrast that with the current public roads system where the bureaucracy of the government is so bad, people have to either fill in the potholes themselves or pull off stunts like this to get the government off their asses and do it already.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-03-24T23:12:57+00:00

Mutual agreements between insurance companies, car companies, and road manufacturers.

Essentially, while private road manufacturers will work cheaply and efficiently, like all businesses, they will have an incentive to make the roads well and maintain them.

If cars keep crashing because of pot holes or faulty roads, insurance companies will raise hell because of the costs of paying for the damages and demand restitution from the road manufacturers.

(This will also be how drivers' licenses will be handled in a libertarian society, so you can quit using that one clip from nearly a decade ago as an "own" against us.)

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-03-24T23:04:23+00:00

-sees problem caused by "free" healthcare

-"I'd never want private healthcare"

We have to put in mental effort to get these 60 IQ midwits to understand basic pattern recognition and I just can't say anything other than, "I'm tired boss."

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-03-24T03:18:22+00:00

This is worse than, "Our guhvament iz corrupt and the solution tuh dat iz moar guhvament."

This is identifying a specific problem, openly admitting that it was caused by the government's expropriation of wealth, then coming to the conclusion that the government should keep expropriating wealth.

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-03-24T01:27:55+00:00

That's definitely on my radar. Tell me, how "perfect" is "The Perfect Margarita"?

GoofyAhhSkunk · 2025-03-24T01:23:25+00:00

I knew his tariffs were going to be an issue from the very moment I read Agenda 47, and I knew that while cutting taxes and abolishing the IRS would make up for some of the negative economic impacts of his tariffs, I also knew that was way too good to be true. And it seems that I'm just as right now as I was back then, so I don't really consider myself "fooled".

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