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I read Rand as a teen but she didn't resonate. I returned to her the last few years, after studying philosophy and reading folks who influenced her (Aristotle) and folks she influenced (Long/Sciabarra) and I found her far more interesting than fans or critics give her credit for.
The 23rd and final JARS volume is here! My essay Ayn Rand's Novel Contribution: Aristotelian Liberalism situates her thought in the history of ideas and argues she developed a new, exciting synthesis. You can:
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Today is Milton (Bill) Finger's 107th birthday. He's the (until 2015, unaccredited) ghost writer/artist without whom Batman as we know him wouldn't exist. Thread:
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A libertarianism which cannot stand up for the rights of immigrants, abortion seekers, queer and trans people, sex workers, and racial minorities is no libertarianism worth believing in.
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"The Libertarian Party just nominated a libertarian."
The Libertarian Party just nominated a candidate who supports open borders, is pro-choice, and calls himself a trans ally. Complete disaster.
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@worst_account
This is so bad. I can't believe he didn't mention the painfully needed Super Department of Anti-Racism (SDOA) which will be made up of even less political racism experts who ensure the Department of Anti-Racism never becomes racist.
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John Hospers, the Libertarian Party's first presidential candidate, was openly gay by the way.
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Anti-immigration sentiment is deeply, incorrigibly anti-human. It reduces neighbors to aliens, creators to parasites, people to objects; all in service of the murder scene chalk outlines we euphemistically call borders.
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I don't think most people take "my body, my choice" near seriously enough, which demands not only the right to choose in regards to abortion, but also in regards to drugs, foods, hormones, vaccines, circumcision, body modification, human enhancement, and even suicide.
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the worst ideology is the “i have no ideology” ideology
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It’s honestly hard to imagine a more authoritarian worldview than this.
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Wild that folks are dunking on libertarians during one of the worst government failures in recent history.
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I'm sorry, but saying "white supremacist" describes no one in 2022 is like, exactly what a white supremacist in 2022 would say.
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I just can't imagine being seriously concerned about the authoritarianism and repression of historical communist regimes and then turning around and equating a big stimulus bill to communism.
The $3.5 trillion Biden plan isn’t socialism, it’s marxism
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Classical liberals/libertarians are absolutely right to oppose statism and support markets, but they should also support (for the same pro-freedom reasons) feminism, queer liberation, anti-racism, youth rights, and worker empowerment.
What classic liberal / libertarian take that'll get you like this
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Too many people think national borders demarcate human rights or moral worth, when they are actually just chalk outlines at crime scenes.
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Compulsory schooling is one of the most ideologically entrenched features of the prison-police-surveillance state. It subjects kids to years of authority, hierarchy, monitoring, and unpaid labor while punishing and marginalizing those who don't quietly acquiesce to power.
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Any "liberatory" vision in which access to resources is solely based on being able to continually attend meetings, effectively articulate one's needs, and persuade enough others to devote resources to you is ableist.
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I really can't wrap my head around this idea that access to "government control" is evenly distributed across income, instead of concentrated amongst people with the necessary wealth, time, and connections.
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Border restrictions are a scourge on human freedom and resisting them is heroic.
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If this stuff is what you consider a "victory" you are a petty authoritarian with no qualms about using the state to stifle speech, no commitment to freedom of expression, and really no interest in liberty of any kind.
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A lot of anti-police, anti-prison leftists speak as if taxes and regulations somehow exist and operate independently from police and prisons.
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paleos: not letting me refuse service to black people is totalitarianism
also paleos: letting people refuse service to me until i'm vaccinated is totalitarianism
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Smuggling Hayek past the Iron Curtain is insanely badass.
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@anarchopac
classic CIA tactic of... *checks notes* promoting anarchism through academic writing, social media, and video essays
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idea: a "free speech" movement focused on abolishing intellectual property
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One of the most ridiculous, destructive, and historically and scientifically unfounded ideas is that fewer people means more resources and more people means fewer resources.
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It really is remarkable to go back and read the criticisms of Marx by Bakunin, Goldman, Tucker, etc. and see how depressingly accurate their predictions about state socialism turned out to be.
Anarchism is the *told you so* of world history!
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12 presidents owned slaves
Jackson massacred Native Americans
Wilson screened KKK propaganda at the WH
FDR interned Japanese-Americans and turned away Jewish refugees
Truman nuked civilians
Bush Jr. genocided Iraq
Obama droned a 16 year old American
Etc., etc., etc.
Has there ever been a lower moment in the history of the American presidency?
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Nothing like a good reminder of how many leftists are just authoritarians waiting to unleash their own bloodlust.
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"Libertarian antisemite" is like "vegan steak lover." Nearly all major libertarian thinkers (Rothbard, Friedman, Rand, Hayek, Mises, Friedman again) are Jewish. Nearly all major libertarian ideas (markets, free migration/trade, social tolerance) are deemed Jewish by antisemites.
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A lot of things called "cultural appropriation" are objectionable on the grounds of racism and disrespect. Stressing the appropriation part instead of the racism or disrespect part leads to a whole lot of misidentifying totally normal, even neat, things as objectionable.
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Anyway, "Batman Returns" is very much a Christmas movie. It's just not about people coming together as a family. It's about how people cope with lack of family and how those decisions affect our lives and relationships. It's a Christmas movie by, for, and about total weirdos.
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you love to see it
Trump's brand new $15 billion
#BorderWall
is being ripped apart by monsoon floods.
This is what happens when
@DHSgov
waives all environmental laws & ignores basic science to put up a political prop.
Photo taken near the San Bernardino Natl. Wildlife Refuge by
@madreanwildlife
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Ilya Somin offers a much needed corrective to this ridiculous meme:
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not to be all anarcho-joker but it really is wild how so many people lose their minds over shifting standards regarding the norms of discourse surrounding race, gender, etc. but don't blink an eye when peaceful protestors are disappeared by their government
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This is the coolest libertarianism has ever been in my lifetime.
This is the Libertarian pick for President. He’s pro vax and mask mandates, pro d*ag for kids, sees nothing wrong with men in women’s sports, and advocated for open borders.
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Libertarians who are serious about individual liberty and property rights support opening the borders, defunding the police, abolishing the prisons, ending the wars, defending abortion rights, granting reparations, protecting trans people, and decriminalizing sex work.
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shocking that the government was engaging in torture and eugenics at their *checks notes* concentration camps
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Little has done more damage to the anti-war cause as of late than formerly anti-war folks being so absurdly contrarian-pilled they can't actually bring themselves to condemn an obviously aggressive and invading military force.
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I think
@LPNational
has great policy ideas (legalize drugs and sex work; curb police power; more immigration and trade; less war, regulations, and taxes) and it's a real shame a loud group of aggrieved racists, transphobes, and antisemites are tarnishing those policy ideas.
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Rothbard supported Strom Thurmond in 1948, wrote hopefully about getting "the negroes off our backs" in 1966, and explicitly defended "racialist" science in 1994. There is no question Rothbard was always racist.
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Trump speaking at the Libertarian Party National Convention is the culmination of a decades-long project to refashion the cosmopolitan and emancipatory philosophy of libertarianism into right-wing Republican-lite kneejerk-contrarian freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee bullshit.
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"Libertarians" opposing open borders (one of the most trivially libertarian and morally urgent policies) really pushes the limits of good faith discourse. The baldfaced absurdity requires more than mental gymnastics. It's more akin to mental cirque du soleil.
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not a "mixed economy" like half capitalism, half socialism but like a robust multiplicity of cooperatives, community workshops, common pool resources, open source design, micro-enterprises, desktop manufacturing, household production, and mutual aid associations
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For decades, right-libertarians have accused left-libertarians of watering down or abandoning libertarian ideas to earn favor amongst mainstream voices and yet that's basically the entire right-libertarian strategy.
After 18 months of totalitarianism there has never been a better moment for a truly powerful liberty movement to save this country. Call me crazy but I don’t think it’s the time to push open borders, abortion on demand and screeching about bigotry.
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Most of these are "open secrets" by now but spending nearly a decade in libertarian spaces I heard from over a dozen women about sexual harassment they suffered at the hands of well respected "movement leaders" such as:
Jeff Tucker
Cliff Maloney
Austin Peterson
Ed Stringham
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broke: stop redistributing wealth through welfare
woke: stop redistributing wealth through intellectual property, protectionism, zoning, licensing, bailouts, eminent domain, and corporate subsidies
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There was no "botched" invasion, "botched" occupation, "botched" nation-building, or "botched" withdrawal. There was invasion, occupation, nation-building, and withdrawal. That's what they look like. If we don't acknowledge this now, we will only repeat the mistakes.
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“Libertarians” jumping through endless hoops to defend border controls (among the most glaringly-incompatible-with-libertarianism policies) are most likely just racists looking for intellectual cover.
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Recent events have reminded me just how starkly different my vision of libertarianism is from the average “libertarian.”
Many of them envision fighting back against oppressive governments by, like, voting for low-tax politicians instead of, like... burning down cop stations.
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The modern anti-trans panic is quickly becoming one of the most concerted anti-freedom, big government movements in all of US politics.
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Here it is, the entire contradictory notion of "right-libertarianism" summed up in a single pathetic image, laid bare in all its embarrassing incoherence.
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I've read, thought, and conversed about liberalism for over 15 years and I'm pretty sure this is the single worst defense of liberalism I've ever, ever come across. Just a disgustingly callous disregard for human life on display here, no other way to put it.
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Except “whiteness” has never been about skin color (I wouldn’t have been considered white 70 years ago), but an evolving set of legal, political, and economic privileges.
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american conservatism is so bizarre
it's like, yes revolution is totally justified and warranted but only ONCE
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Cops steal more from Americans than burglars.
Cops kidnap more Americans than traffickers.
Cops kill more Americans than terrorists.
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The libertarian movement is, and has been, infested with racists. This is trivial to anyone who has spent an ounce of time in the community. There's no point in debating this with people who deny the obvious.
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dude your caucus is named after a rootless cosmopolitan
Our position has been taken wildly out of context by our political enemies. Let us clarify that we in no way want to enslave anybody. Especially not the rootless cosmopolitans in
@LPMassachusetts
. They don't even work very hard at the job they have.
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You can simaltanesouly believe:
1. Yesterday was a fascist coup that demands swift and widespread condemnation, resistance, and counteraction.
2. Empowering police and prisons is a counterproductive way to oppose fascist coups.
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Transphobia and homophobia are among the biggest threats to freedom in our time, empowering state violence against children and families, state censorship of art and expression, and state intervention into the economy, particularly healthcare and medicine.
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"We still don't actually know that racism was the motivating factor in the lynching."
(Whispers): We still don't actually know that racism was a motivating factor in the unjust killing of George Floyd.
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Immigration is not a problem to be solved, but a solution to be encouraged.
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the left's emphasis on private, for-profit prisons (despite making up only a small portion of prisons) is so hilariously cartoonish it's hard to make up
as if abuse, torture, and forced labor were just fine (or even just less objectionable!) when done by non-profits
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tbf giving your money to sex workers is infinitely better than giving your money to the government
Over the past 15 years, Trump paid more for sex than he did in taxes.
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Around libertarians, I feel like a leftist.
Around leftists, I feel like a libertarian.
Around conservatives, I feel like the Joker.
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Batman Returns is brilliant subversion and satire of the Christmas genre. Christmas movies are primarily about family, of which BR has zilch. So I see why it's rarely mentioned. But the key is that it's *about* family. Specifically, people with none. People Christmas forgot.
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Putting the means of production under direct democratic control of local assemblies is a very good way to transform all social life into psychologically taxing and strife-filled status games in which people compete for bigger and bigger slices of the communal pie.
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"Abolish slavery"? That's a little too idealistic, dontcha think? I mean I'm definitely no fan of the way slavery is currently run, and I agree there's alotta bad actors, but abolition is too extreme even for me and will turn off normies. We should push to reform slavery instead.
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Me: "A bunch of people oppose the Libertarian Party candidate because he's gay."
Half of the replies: "It's not because he's gay, idiot, it's because he waves the Pride flag."
The other half of the replies: "lol f*ggot"
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so many "libertarians" fell for trump because they long ago rejected the liberal roots of their ideas, not just the principled commitment to cosmopolitanism and tolerance but the emphasis on procedural justice as a key means to achieving and maintaining substantive justice
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I'm an anarchist, which means I'm against states. That includes limited states, small states, decentralized states, mini-states, wee states, tiny states, puny states, teensy states, itty bitty states, pint-sized states, pee-wee states, pocket-sized states, and microscopic states.
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Anarchists may underrate coordination problems, but everyone else massively underrates power problems.
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women will literally sneak into the united states, form a polyamorous relationship, get addicted to speed, and write a thousand page novel about "ethical egoism" rather than go to therapy
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This is definitionally true but not sociologically true.
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Exactly. Let's stop beating around the bush. Taxes are droning innocent civilians abroad. Taxes are gassing children on the border. Taxes are mass incarceration.
We have to stop framing taxes as percentages and amounts. Taxes are schools. Taxes are roads. Taxes are progress by which people live and die and by which society is made better. Avoiding them is saying I got mine, the world around me can go to hell.
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I would personally benefit from student loan forgiveness. But my gain would come at the expense of someone poorer than me who didn't have the privilege of attending college. So I cannot support student loan forgiveness.
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"The rights of children, even more than those of parents, have been systematically invaded by the state." - Murray Rothbard
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This is what happens when you mistake mere decentralization for freedom. You end up supporting some of the most fervently totalitarian, statist, and anti-freedom movements in all of human history.
I support every single seperatist movement out of principle
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The LP costing Trump the election is by far the best argument for the LP I've ever heard.
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broke: there is one adam smith, he was a rabid capitalist who hated the poor
woke: there are two adam smiths, one who was pro-market but another who was pro-social justice
bespoke: there was one adam smith, he was both pro-market and pro-social justice
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A far bigger boon to the poor than taxing the rich would be to just eliminate taxation of the poor.
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we're reaching levels of discourse hitherto unimagined
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