Is citing disasters as a justification for the state kind of ghoulish, or is it just me? Is this a really-in-poor-taste instance of the broken window fallacy?
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Hurricane Harvey: About That Wall…
It may be weeks before the storms end, the waters recede, and basic utilities are restored. But this, too, shall pass — and then begins the rebuilding. Who’s going to do that rebuilding?
The Existence of the State makes Evil People Far More Dangerous
Donald Trump or Barack Obama or George Bush or Franklin D. Roosevelt weren’t particularly dangerous until they obtained control of the state, and the same can be said of nearly every politician, dictator, and tyrant in history. What makes evil people so dangerous is that they can—often in an ostensibly legitimate manner—assume power over millions or even billions of other people.
Fellow Travelers Taking Detours
A lot of people will never care about liberty. At all. They’ll never value it. Forget them. They are like rocks and trees on the landscape. They are scenery. Learn to navigate around them. Don’t go out of your way to kick them. That will only end up hurting you.
Tribalism and Economic Nationalism – Cut from the Same Cloth
Why would anyone underestimate the benefits of interacting with foreigners? It might be because they are, well, foreign. Combine this bias with an ignorance of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” (spontaneous order) and a suspicion that exchange is zero-sum rather than positive-sum, and you have the making of an economic nationalist.
Rulers Don’t Give Two Shits About You
How long will it take people to figure this out? When authoritarian powers are huffing and puffing at each other and preparing for war, it is because both sets of tyrannical control freaks–the ruling classes of BOTH countries–need their OWN subjects to be scared, so that the slaves on both sides feel loyalty to their supposed savior rulers.
Derailed!
Some people who I used to believe had their heads on straight, got bogged down in the Social Justice Wanker agenda. So much for them. Others went off on the alt-right crazy train with the election of Trump. Oops. Have fun with that.
Mueller v. Trump: Ain’t Life Grand?
Trump is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, including but not limited to pursuing wars of aggression (the ultimate war crime) in Syria and elsewhere. He is therefore worthy of impeachment and imprisonment under both US and international law. But, sadly, he won’t be pursued for those crimes.
Immigration and Social Engineering
Social engineers of all parties and persuasions talk as though an economy is some kind of mechanism to be centrally fine-tuned and overhauled occasionally according to a plan. Even those who style themselves free enterprisers display the central-planning mentality when it comes to immigration.
Episode 074 – Russ’s Journey, Part One: Politics (51m)
Episode 074 welcomes Russ Fugal to the podcast in a two part conversation with Skyler and Morgan. The topics covered in this first part include smartphones, career moves, Russ’s childhood homeschooling, his unchanging degree of conservatism during the 9/11 crisis period, Ron Paul and the 2008 and 2012 elections, environmentalism, his evolution toward libertarianism and anarchism, “Who would Jesus incarcerate?”, voluntary prisons, and the country’s Wizard of Oz moment c/o of Donald Trump.