Why don't you start your own book company, media company, or movie studio if you don't want to be brainwashed by the elites?
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Commies say Libertarians want everyone to live in the Stone Age, but Libertarians aren't the ones who want to make everything illegal.
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If you are a law-abiding and responsible person who doesn't have any debt, you might totally lose respect for the government and laws if you get fined $30,000 for having an illegal flagpole.
Commies say Libertarians want everyone to live in the Stone Age, but Libertarians aren't the ones who want to make everything illegal.
If you are a law-abiding and responsible person who doesn't have any debt, you might totally lose respect for the government and laws if you get fined $30,000 for having an illegal flagpole.
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@h4890 @Example @korsier @freepatriot
Hard to tell. One wonders what he saw in South Africa during his time there.
In my view, he went for longshot goals and has achieved them. Getting to space, even if some of the rockets blow up, has been massive.
Could care less about Tesla though...
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@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot
@cjd
The state... maybe. This is the courts most of all, and those tend to read their own power into laws.
CJD mentioned Wickard v Fillburn, a case that should scare the daylights out of anyone, but we can also look to Marbury v Madison.
The courts are like a bureaucracy in themselves, and lawyers focus on wealth transfer as the solution to all problems (since it is the only means available to them in civil court).
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@korsier @h4890 @freepatriot @EvolLove
Hitler makes me feel unwell, sort of like Lincoln.
Many good people died for his ideological tantrum.
Of course, it was not his alone, and Communism was far stupider, including FDR, but we need and deserve something better than National Socialism (spit).
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@monarchist @db @h4890 @freepatriot @cjd Socialised medicine should be a safety net for those few who cannot otherwise afford health care. For the majority, it should be about affordable choice of healthcare.
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Sellers: politicians
Buyers: voters
"free, informed consent" = varies with ability of individual
Competition: different politicians
Freedom: your vote is private
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@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot
@cjd
In my view, both the market for ideas and the market for votes follow market principles.
In this case, like in the case of decentralized education, the voters are choosing what they want but the voters experience no immediate direct consequences because the impact is socialized.
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@h4890 @korsier @Example @freepatriot
We should mention the Peter Principle here.
Heavily-regulated corporations experience huge losses in labor turnover, so they tend to be cautious about hiring and firing.
As a result, they keep people around until they have seniority, then promote them.
The guy who is good at punching code is _not_ necessarily good at management.
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There is nothing aristocratic about his system; it is a military dictatorship.
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@korsier @h4890 @freepatriot @EvolLove
(The "(spit)" expression is from Dr Dmitri Vulis, who typed it after anything he detested. Kurwa, I think it is brilliant, especially when used with the cyka blyat Nazis and the sadly equally misguided Christian neo-Nazis.)
