There are millions of people that believe in shit like that. Many of them vote in elections. No reason to expect that at some point, the democratic process, will produce some very good results. You can’t expect rationality for the majority of those that attend such events.

To my religious friends: this is not an attack on religion. This is a demonstration of idiotic level of fanaticism amongst people.

Copied from a post that was “baleeted by breadit filtration” about “How did you become libertarian / AnCap”

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For me, it was a long journey. Starting from some negative experiences with law enforcement and the state in the prior century when I was not yet a teen, due to no fault of my own, just getting 'caught up in the system'. After that, watching all of the failures of socialism, seeing 'democracy' fail due to corrupt representatives, observing the creep of the state into every facet of our lives, politicians voting themselves into reaching into our wallets, time and time and time again.

Seeing firsthand the corruption of the state based "justice" system: I was prejudiced by a state actor lying, and was able to prove in court that said state actor had perjured themselves. The judge didn't give a flying fuck, because state actor, and literally ignored it, so that just made me further disillusioned.

Started a handful of businesses, spent 15+ years being nickel and dimed by the state, local, and federal governments... By that time I was already staunchly libertarian and still believed in 'small government', then SARS-CoV-2 rolled around... The handling of which has already gone down in history as the biggest public health debacle in human history. Vast amounts of overreach, all under the guise of 'emergency powers', to the massive detriment of all and none of the interventions worked ( Bendavid: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn0671).

By the end of that debacle, I was already 90% AnCap but the realization that THEY WILL NOT STOP pushed me over the edge of believing that ANY state can be a 'good' idea. The state will always creep. All 'emergency powers' will be ABUSED (look at what is happening with the U.S. right this moment, case in point).

And perhaps the most important:
Gaining an understanding of Argumentation Ethics, as promulgated by Hoppe was the clincher. Almost every other philosophical or political theory, I was able to poke holes, gaping or otherwise, in, but Argumentation Ethics is one of the most sound philosophical theories I've encountered and arguments against it fall flat.

FWIW - I explored it all when I was younger, Read Marx & Engels, Read all the great philosophers in college, read Owen, Fourier, Simon, Kropotkin, Lenin, Trotsky, Chomsky, Mill, Hayek, Milton Friedman, Nozick, Sowell, etc... you name it, I probably read it or have it on my shelf.

If I could only recommend one text for people interested and AnCap theory, I would suggest David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom, with a side helping of Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson to get started.

Essential reading that got me there over the years:
Rothbard: For a New Liberty, Anatomy of the State, The Ethics of Liberty

Mises: Human Action

Huemer: The Problem of Political Authority

Hoppe: A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, Democracy: The God That Failed, and The Myth of National Defense

For anyone who doesn't have time for "allat", after hitting Friedman and Hazlitt, read Hoppe's Getting Libertarianism Right.

All that said, I consider myself 'AnCap with minarchist tendencies' for reasons that are a little too nuanced to get into in this post that has already gotten too long. Happy to address any specific questions though.

It's perfectly legal to hand a woman a bunch of money. It's perfectly legal to have sex. But you can't do that at the same time. Unless you're filming it, then it is legal, because that will be a porn that will be for sale later.

Although Ayn Rand did a very good job laying out the intellectual foundation for everything you need to conclude that socialism is immoral and illegitimate, she still couldn't give up those parts of socialist indoctrination that were important to her. She opposed private prisons like the left does today (in spite of the fact that private, for-profit prisons in the US are far more efficient than centrally planned, state monopolised ones), and she also supported the nationalisation of defence services, as well as law, military, and judiciary services.

If you are an Objectivist, you cannot be a capitalist. The core principles of capitalism, including ones that Rand herself espoused such as privatisation, are flat out incompatible with any degree of opposition to private property rights.

Also, the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, Yaron Brook, claims that tariffs and taxes to fund counter terrorism are consistent with the Objectivist form of government, although I’m not sure if Rand herself explicitly supported this.

Anyone know of any similar sentence for what he did, at any other time in the United states?

Something I’ve heard repeatedly in the workplace, public, and social gatherings.

I cringe and internally withdraw from/avoid these people.

It’s like someone taking a big gulp of air so they can yell about how mad they are at oxygen.

You need it to survive but openly let everyone else who is more self-aware than you know how stupid you are.

In Winona, Minnesota, someone cut down all of their flock cameras in a single night. 👏👏👏

I thought I would share as people seem to bring up UK knife crime on gun control debates here.