The question was posed about 7 months ago, “Gun owners of Reddit, what is your reason to own firearms?” My answer and a conversation about my answer went as follows. Skyler: Australia right now, and every tyrannical government previously. TheOnlyFallenCookie: What makes you confident that you will be able to judge if your government turned…
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Neighborhood Auto Shops Can Make a Lot of Money
An article titled, “California ends single-family zoning” was shared at r/Libertarian 6 months ago, to which I responded, “Great now end all zoning.” The following short conversation ensued.
Yes, Corporations Have Free Speech Rights Like Individuals
A short exchange with u/upchuk13 who believes the state should force private companies to respect free speech. I posted the displayed picture to the r/Anarcho_Capitalism subreddit with the following additional commentary, “The furthest thing away from a libertarian solution is demanding that the government force these tech companies to respect free speech when likely they’re…
“Literally Every Government Will Jail You”
Here’s an exchanged with u/Superb-Intention sparked by this article from a Utah Newspaper on the homeless problem in Salt Lake City. It’s just a normie head-butting a radical libertarian on government and jurisdictional claims. Enjoy!
What’s To Prevent Firm Consolidation in a Free Market?
The biggest problem with markets is their tendencies to consolidate and this reduce competition. This leads to things like planned obsolescence. How do you prevent this?
They Are Losing
Constant lies and distortions from the mainstream media. Authoritarian acts from governments everywhere. More and more repression in most countries. For some, this may seem like they’re winning, but they’re not.
Adolf Hitler Was Definitively a Socialist
Ignoramuses like to paint Hitler as a right-wing anti-socialist fascist. He was a left-wing anti-capitalist socialist and fascist, without a doubt. And a disgusting murderous racist to boot. Enjoy.
Property Rights are Necessary For Peaceful Society
Here is a discussion with u/RobertAntonWilson on reddit regarding property rights.
Is Lockheed Martin an “Arm of the State?”
I have another reddit discussion for your reading pleasure. I kicked this one off with this image posted to r/Anarcho_Capitalism, with the commentary, “This so-called libertarian thinks that Amazon is not giving their employees enough benefits in the form of better working conditions and the employees have no other options but to either endure it or starve. Everywhere I go online and offline I see companies hiring. SMH.” The following ensued with user upchuck13 which quickly veered away from Amazon to Lockheed Martin.
On the Non-Aggression Principle II
The Non-Aggression Principle of libertarianism is simple, but it begs the question. How do we know if an act is aggressive? That depends entirely on who owns the scarce resource on which the act is being perpetrated.