I'm personally not the biggest fan of when people wear their politics on their sleeves but that does seem to be the standard of the times, I walked by a house earlier today that had this chimney mural for instance not to mention all the "In this house we believe..." signs that I see people putting up. What would the libertarian equivalent of this be? Should we be painting stuff like the Bill of Rights on our chimneys?
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So I was working on my podcast today, and I was going over a post that was about syndicalism, which is pretty much just a rebranded version of communism that seeks to have workers control corporations rather than a hierarchical corporate system. I personally would make the argument that this would just result in another form of hierarchy though, just like how every time communism is tried it results in those with positions of government authority being at the top of a hierarchy with everyone else at the bottom. You see it a lot in labor unions as well, those at the top of the chain can get a lot more benefits for themselves than those at the bottom of the chain. Ultimately I would say that the libertarian position is that hierarchies are very much inevitable due to how humans generally operate, they should be voluntary rather than forced though like in regards to the state.
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I personally wouldn't, I would argue that if people want to use such a system to create a utopian system such as a MAGAtopia or a woketopia among consenting individuals that they should be able to but I think the system in and of itself is more the natural state of things if anything else. People are going to justify what they want to justify regardless of any government system in place and I think libertarians are one of the only groups that recognize that.
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In a lot of countries today, the left tends to be pro immigration since they view them as oppressed victims of circumstance (it helps that a lot of them have darker skin, which is viewed as another mark of oppression). However they miss something very important when it comes to them, most of them tend to be very culturally conservative, mostly in the form of Hispanic Catholics in the US and MENA Muslims in Europe. These groups will in the long term be potentially even more regressive than whatever currently constitutes the "far-right" especially if they do not assimilate with Western values, which very much seems to be happening currently. It's a very textbook case of being careful what you wish for.
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Next Friday marks the big 25th anniversary of the attacks. Personally I would argue that in the long-term Bin Laden and al-Qaeda got everything they could have possibly dreamed of from committing the attacks, the American Empire of today lies slowly but surely crumbling and divided at the seams. I think the hijackers would have had a better argument if they used their own planes and focused only on government targets (though they did hit the Pentagon as well and probably would have hit the White House or Capitol Building if flight 93 didn't go down in Shanksville) but I guess you could make the argument that the US government doesn't distinguish between government and civilian targets a lot of the time when it relentlessly bombs the Middle East, just look at how it bombed a school in Iran earlier this year and a hospital in Afghanistan roughly a decade ago.
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Libertarians tend to get caught up in the idea that taxation is theft (which I very much agree with) but even going beyond that, why can't taxpayers at the very least earmark where there taxpayer money goes to? If people want to pay for endless wars or state controlled grocery stores and the government wants to spend money on them, I think they should be able to but they shouldn't be forced to do so if they don't want to. It comes down to the fact that each individual should have as much choice as possible in regards to what to do with their resources while under the current tax system, the opposite is very much true, the government can throw taxpayer dollars at whatever bullshit it wants to justify and oftentimes there is nothing you can do about it.
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The uniparty will win and the political theater will continue. It's clear at this point that one size fits all forced collectivist democracy is clearly not working and needs to be done away with as soon as possible. Even if by some miracle we manage to get someone good like Thomas Massie in the White House it's just going to be a band-aid on a sinking ship.
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Still works on other browsers, is anyone else having this problem?
Edit: Looks like it is working again.
So I was having a dream where a younger version of me who was still in school was about to go on a trip to Maine with a teacher and two other students of his. We were in the car ready to go but then we learned that there was a law on the books that a teacher needed at least 19 students to be able to go on a trip (no idea if this is an actual law, I can see an argument for not letting teachers go on trips with single students for like grooming reasons but that's still too much state interference IMO) so we couldn't go.
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Wikipedia is a very important tool when it comes to controlling narratives.