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education
8y
Are Muh Teachers "Underpaid?"
Teachers in Denver, Colorado have recently taken to the streets of the state Capitol to call for increased pay, i.e., for a greater mulcting of the taxpayer. They are supposedly “underpaid,” and the greedy
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voluntaryism
9y
All Government Spending Is "Too High," Not Just the Military.
If your average folk's argument of "why are we spending one-trillion dollars on the military when X people are Y" were taken all the way to see that all government action is at the expense of
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libertarianism
9y
Libertarians Are As Far As It Gets From Fascism
Not Fascism: Self-ownership of body; Private property via original appropriation; Non-Aggression; Anti-statism; Freedom of association; Decentralization; Secession; Exclusion as a right (discrimination)
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voluntaryism
9y
Should You Trust a Socialist with Economics?
For the most part, socialists really only make normative economic statements (i.e., “the government should do X [raise the minimum wage]”) and not positive economic propositions (i.e., “government policy
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democracy
9y
Voting in the Age of Trump
Why doesn't every non-vote count, should be the question? A majority of the population—more than 200 million people—did not vote for either candidate! Approximately less than 20% of the total population
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libertarianism
9y
Libertarianism and Relationships
It was when I adopted the principles of liberty—namely that of self-ownership and non-aggression—that I feel I liberated myself, my mind, and became a changed person. Aside from the personal freedom I
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anarchism
9y
The Cognitive Dissonance of the Simple Issue at Hand
Almost everyone thinks that self-defense is a natural right. We cheer when we see a bank robber get blasted by the private security guard upon entry into a bank; or when the purse-snatcher is thwarted
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socialism
9y
Socialists Don't Create Jobs
Socialists have no concept of opportunity costs in economics, and no one should assume they would anyway. If government "creates jobs", they don't reason that it must come at the expense of something
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libertarianism
9y
Is There "Global Warming?"
I really don't know, but even if there was I can see no reason why governments—of course huge polluters themselves as plunderers of stolen resources for their war machines and other such adventurism; a
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anarchism
10y
You Can't Polish a Government Turd
There is no "reforming government", such as having term limits, to adjusting the tax-code, or voting for better politicians next time, etc. You can't polish a turd; it has to be flushed. If your
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anarchism
10y
Yes, You Can Be an Anarchist and a Capitalist
In fact, it's the only way you can be either. Anarchism and capitalism have the same definition to me: the lack of political authority that gives a legalized means of initiating aggression against private
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anarchism
10y
How To Dispose of the State
The State's crimes rest fully upon public opinion; on the people's support of its aggression as moral and just invasions of property rights. Usually attached to this thought is that such actions – of violently
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anarchism
10y
The U.S. Military is a Piece of Shit, Not a Protection Agency
There's no time here to go at length into the atrocities committed by the U.S. Military around the world, in the name of "making the world safe for democracy", or supposedly protecting Americans
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anarchism
10y
Do Socialists Think Socialism Makes Us Richer or Poorer?
We might wonder if socialists actually think socialism (as characterized by invasions of private property in the form of taxes, regulations, price-controls, or nationalization, etc.) can create more wealth
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anarchism
10y
Do Socialists Even Have Real Arguments?
When arguing for something other than libertarianism, one is caught in a spot where they're demonstrating that, in fact, they do accept the ethic of non-aggression by respecting the private property rights
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anarchism
10y
I Made An Anarchist Website Today
Well, it's nothing special. It's the start to what I want to turn into a local print-publication. I thought linking it, and maybe it getting a few hits, would help expose it in Google better. Thanks for
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anarchism
10y
Why Taxation Makes Us Poorer
There’s little space here to contend that taxation is morally indefensible, though I’d argue it’s patently coercive and that the State rests upon aggression, and no sort of voluntary “social contract.”
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anarchism
10y
Will We Ever Have Anarchy?
The State is not going anywhere, and anarchists would be good to recognize this. They're unlike a private business that one may boycott and watch its demise. They of course don't operate on voluntary payments,
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trump
10y
Who's Trump And What's a Tariff?
What year is it? People are talking about border taxes, i.e., tariffs; or, in the statist-to-English translation, the government preventing you from freely trading with others to both of your mutual benefit
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anarchism
10y
Who the Hell Does the State Think It Is?
It's inauguration day, and Donald Trump has been elected to head the American Empire, the biggest State the world has ever seen. As so, a fine quote by the prolific liberty-lover, H.L. Mencken, is finally
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