For example,

If I don't want to get scammed. What should I think?

this is what I am thinking now.

1. Stupid people deserve to be scammed.

2. If someone can scam me it's my fault.

3. Bring them on.....

4. It's not the fault of scammers at all.

5. Government will side with scammers most of the time or are useless against them.

The result?

The result I got scammed less. Notice that those thinking, like it's the victim's fault to be scammed is not a libertarian idea. But it makes me take responsibility.

Or here is another one.

1. If you are strong, you get what you want. The strong get what they want. The weak suffer what they must.

2. Why we pay taxes? Because government is much stronger than us.

3. How to reduce taxes? Strengthen ourself.

Not a libertarian idea right?

But well, bitcoin works. Why? Because it strengthen tax payers, I mean tax victim, relative to government. It's hard for government to track your bitcoin and hence it's hard for government to tax you.

Before I was a naive libertarian. I think the sole purpose of government is to protect us from evil and that's it. Now I realized that even on security I am responsible for my self and government is the source of most evil.

One corollary then the way I think now is that right and wrong is less relevant. Before, evil is only fraud or force. Now I don't care if something is fraudulent or merely "deceptive". If I don't like the outcome I avoid it like hell.

So I used to think there is morality. Now I care less.

I once bought overpriced insurance. The insurance worth a mere $50 but have fees in $5k range. The insurance agent insisted that it's not fraud because the fee is written and all money is indeed "invested".

The law favors the insurance companies. The regulation sucks.

So?

So I simply don't buy insurance in my country.

It doesn't matter if it's really fraud or just smart ways to market bullshit product. If I can lose I avoid. If it can be a scam it's a scam. Here, morality DOESN'T matter anyway. All I care is, if the outcome can make me lose. If it can, then I avoid.

Also I BLAME victims for being fraud victim. I blame myself for being so stupid buying insurance. It's not even the fraudsters' fraud anymore. It's my fault. I AM responsible to avoid scams. Not scammers responsible not to scam me.

I go further to think that humans don't really have any rights. You can get it, you get it. So it is potential's victims' responsibility, to don't get screwed.

Those are very unlibertarian thoughts.

And the result is more libertarian.

I rarely get scammed anymore. I still don't scam people though. Why? Because I got money and I can pay people fairly for what I want. Also because I am able to make money without breaking libertarian principles.

Which is a libertarian outcome. I don't get scam. I don't scam others because I know it's not profitable not because it's moral. It comes from non libertarian thought, namely that morality is illusion and humans don't have rights.

Any other samples?

What do you think?

Just want to vent. Bought my first car, over the moon about it. However, had to pay over $500 AUD in registration, transfer fees, 'motor vehicle duty', roadworthy certificate, just to be able to legally drive it.

No one else in this boot licking society understands my frustration, everyone recognises it as normal that if you buy something that you worked for every dollar towards, you just simply have to cough up half a grand to the government.

If my car isn't worthy to go on your stupid government roads, then the market wouldn't insure the fucking car. I know my car is roadworthy, fuck your stupid certificate.

I wouldn't consider myself a pure Anarcho capitalist, although I align with many ideals, but at my core I am an opportunist. And that's what separates capitalists from socialists, the desire and will to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves.

We are closer to a massive societal upheaval than we've ever been. There are two competing factions in the Trump administration with similar goals:

• the "tech bro" Anarcho Capitalists
• the far right Christo-Fascists

Both of these factions want to completely gut the state, one to give rise to decentralized network states governed by corporate kingdoms, and the other to install an evangelical Christian quasi-monarchy.

I hope most on this sub would agree with me that I'd rather see the tech bros win. But I'd also argue that the stakes are incredibly high, and it's getting closer to the time to pick sides.

So, what are you doing to prepare for this planned upheaval? What should we be doing? What crypto coins do you think have more opportunity? Which weapon manufacturer or private defense contractor will be the most valuable?

... Some of y'all are retarded with regards to what's happening on an international level. Yes stateless society is a solid thing we should be working towards but you're not getting there by having a Rothbard circle jerk on Reddit.

That is to say, you can dig in on some "I don't care what XYZ government is doing all government is bad" bullshit ... Or... You can actually keep up with what's going on so that when the opportunity presents itself to inject the ideals of stateless society onto the mainstage internationally and have it actually taken seriously as an idea, you'll know when you're actually looking at that opportunity.

Right now there's a huge war between an enemy we knew and an enemy that's FAR worse. There's people who think you shouldn't be taxed to death, should have guns, be free to say whatever you want, and generally be left alone.... And then there's people that think you'd should be censored, disarmed, dependent, injected without consent, tracked and traced completely.

If stateless society is to ever be taken seriously on any level, it's advocates need to be capable of having rational discussions with others outside their ideological bubble, about the topics de jour.

Be practical and patient. Play the hand you're dealt. Right now, we are not dealt the "ok let's have a serious talk about your ideas" hand. We are dealt the "who would you like to try to have that conversation with later" hand. Choose wisely... Maybe even help those people out and they'll be more accepting of your ideas later.

If you want to get caught up on the international scene with a swiftness I recommend following WarClandestine on X. He also goes as BioClandestine on Telegram.

Explain this one Trumptards

On the one hand like minded people in government is a positive but it seems to contradict the spirit of anarcho capitalism

The bible makes it very obvious that statism is dangerous for example the following:

1 Samuel 8:10-22 "10 So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who asked him for a king. 11 And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots. 12 He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. 14 And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants. 16 And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest [a]young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants. 18 And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.”

Unfortunately, alot of Christian Anarchists have become lost in the ideas of Marxism. The small communities of early Christians having a form of tribalism and sharing with one another is very different than forced collectivism. They do not impose this structure on the rest of society. This is formed in small communities of people voluntarily associating and not on the larger scale of true collectivism and is completely unrelated. In addition, Christianity is further incompatible with Marxism because it reinforces the idea of hierarchy and order. Christianity is actually inherently compatible with Anarcho-Capitalism. God warns of rulers, but reinforces that hierarchy and order are necessary. Which can only be achieved through the solutions the market provides. Jesus reinforced the rights to private property throughout his life.

Christianity has been diluted through statism. Look at more modern translations of the bible. Romans 13 is drastically different than literal translations of the Aramaic. It is actually inherently anti-state, but advising us to be peaceable in the context of the whole chapter. All the conservatives wanting to regulate morality have to turn a blind eye to God asking us to respect the free will of others.

I'm a 23 year old french dude, and not two months ago i was still this sort of mild leftist, with some positions more reactionary than others, influenced by my emotions and my blindness before the hegemony of the State. Now, after reading and thinking a lot, I found what can only be called "the Truth", which feels just surreal: I'm so inclined to doubt and question myself and my views, and yet, I've been debating with myself for days long, and every single time Liberty wins, and the State loses.

I feel sick to my stomach. I never walked and biked so much, to no ends, just to canalize the bubbling of my thoughts, I want to shout to these poor people how wrong they all are, how much they suffer not because of the right, of the left, but because of the State. Every single problem raisable could be solved by the abolition of the state, criminality, drug, racism, poverty, wars, everything... Not up to some sort of mythical paradise, but to the epitome of the human mind, where collaborating is always widely more beneficial than theft or corruption.

I feel so... powerful in a weird way, I've been patiently debating people on twitter today, and they either stopped talking, resorted to fallacies or straight up said "you're wrong!" without any arguments left.

I for exemple told a guy that the state was not omniscient and therefore always allocating resources in a suboptimal manner, but the free market always tends to the optimum, without resorting to theft. "You're wrong, How?!!", He objected, and I just sent him Friedman's video "I, Pencil" because twitter is way too short to explain such a thing. His answer? "That's wrong, and completely innapropriate in today's world!!!" I asked him for an argument to support that claim, and I'm still waiting for his answer...

Poor guy, he doesn't know that my brain is finding arguments for the state and systematically destroying them on repeat for days. I understand him actually, this very much feels like cutting a brain parasite in the flesh without anaesthesia: the pain is immense and the parasite will do everything to force his host to impeach that.

That's the main problem of all that. How much pain, how much time and effort will I have to devote to convince every single one of them? This feels like a Sisyphean task.

What can we do then? Anarcho-capitalism is such a bad, heavily charged name, while the libertarian flag is way too agressive. We only want peace and prosperity by enabling true liberty ; we therefore need words and symbols that show that. That's certainly a theme of discussion here for years, but I'm on board!

Sorry if such a post has already been made, I've only been there recently. I wish you all a good and free life

I'm curious how this sub is viewing how Trump is doing.

There were a lot of folks, like myself, that felt the signals from Trump looked to burn a lot of everything down. I primarily based it on it being his only option for self preservation.

I know there were quite a few that were not hopeful based on lack of ideology and COVID & bump stock.

I think there was some that thought he is in government therefore a statist regardless of what he does.

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Do you think intellectual property is morally right? Also, is it beneficial for prosperity?

In the US a private club or "trade association", an organization commonly known as a cartel, has complete control of the judicial system from top to bottom. How would one appeal the legitimacy of such control without going through members of that organization and the system they control? Would it be better if the organization was governmental?

I know we all hate the state here, but I think we can all appreciate the thinking of the founding fathers of the US. They just didn't see that the existence of a state in and of itself leads to tyranny.

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