I’m at a very strange spot where I’m getting older but also things are sucking much much more — this includes Halloween- the rest of this will just make me a sound like a ‘ Karen’

*im gonna start all these with a ‘ back in my day’ cause I have no other way to say that. *

Back in my day you would see house after house after house with their porch lights on and pumpkins themed leaf bags or DIY ghosts in their yards - a little touch of spirit from the entire neighborhood— now it’s either a Hollywood set /lazer light show / theme park or absolutely nothing.I preferred the little bit from everyone instead of just watching TikTok videos of people who have turned their front yard into a six flags Halloween night.

Back in my day you would got out and walk and walk and your parents either weren’t with you or were parked way down the road now parents either just go to a trunk or treat or drive their kid house to house- how are these kids becoming friends with the other kids that are out trick or treating? And I get that the world is a super unsafe place now but like everything is unsafe - school is unsafe -

Back in my day people would just make some sort of situation and call ourselves a ‘ punk rocker’ and boom good! Now costumes are $125 you can wear them once and what do we do with all this after the holiday— already I see tons and tons of it in thrift stores but man what a mess

Boo baskets- WTF even is this?! I love Halloween as much as the next person but why are we inventing holidays that require more gifts? And if we are just going to make up some BS let’s make a holiday where everyone calls in and makes a blanket fort.

Finally, and maybe this is 1000% my fault but I bought a bag of normal size Halloween candy (which are getting smaller but that’s like a different rant )and I saw a ton of videos of people talking about how they are only going to ‘ nice’ neighborhoods so they can get full size candy bars or 2 liter sodas back in my day we were getting the fun size candy bars and still had enough left over for Santa to bring it in our stockings

I get I’m middle aged and I often wonder if maybe I truly am just being a ‘ Karen’ BUT also I think it could be our hyperdrive capitalism

The world's current state is thanks to a perfect mix of boomerism and capitalism. Any thoughts?

Ghostbusters

Literally about a group of friends starting a business.

Kiki's Delivery Service

A young witch moves to a city to start her training and starts a delivery service to support her self.

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In his previous term, Trump reduce taxes. That's something libertarians and conservatives agree with. Reduce taxes. Trump also promised to free Ulbricht and embrace bitcoin. As a libertarian I am impressed.

If you are a libertarian, chance is you are economically enlightened individuals and economically productive.

If your government is in financial strain, then they will save money, and welfare will be reduced by it self. So huge budget deficit is good because it eliminates welfare, public schools, and stuffs we libertarians don't like.

Many libertarians are not happy with budget deficit. They like the low taxes but they're not happy with budget deficit.

Why worry? Government can always inflate money.

What about if it causes inflation? Instead of taxing people the government just devalue currency? That fiats will be toilet papers anyway. What is inflation for those who hold bitcoin? Nothing. Something to laugh at. You'll get maids at cheaper price when inflation go up and so is bitcoin.

You think inflation will go up, put your wallet in your faith is. Buy bitcoin, pax gold or monero. If you are not smart enough to figure this out, then remember this. There is one thing libertarianism won't protect you from. Your own stupidity.

We're libertarians. We're smart. We understand economy. We know where things are headed. Why worry about inflation?

Tax sucks. But tax you don't have to pay and benefit you is awesome.

Inflation is tax for those holding fiats. We libertarians know better to hold bitcoins. It's the one thing being libertarians pay off.

Then don't worry about inflation.

What about the poor?

Fuck the poor.

I think Trump is the most libertarian presidential candidate that can win, among the current 2 definitely.

He lowered tax on his first term.

Many said that he should have reduce government spending first. Well, he probably can't. If he could, he would have eliminated welfare but that means not winning election. He did what he can. He reduce tax. Isn't that good enough?

But Trump will raise tariff...

Oh..... another tax.

What else? But he will create lottery, which is tax for the stupid. Do you worry about lottery, which is tax for the stupid people? No. I am not stupid. Why do I worry about lottery.

For the same reason why worry about inflation, which is the tax on those holding future toilet paper.

Why do you fear tax for the stupid. You are smart. I am a libertarian because I like getting rich according to my Karma. I think I am wise and if people disagree, let them try and see who got rich.

You see. Tariff is a very REGRESIVE tax.

Regressive tax is easy to avoid. Get rich and your portion of those taxes will be negligible.

That's probably the only 2 things non libertarian that Trump will do. Hell, not bad at all.

What else? Close borders. You want lots of commies voters voting for more socialism? About half of libertarians are pro borders anyway. You don't accept people to your house and let them rule the house, why would you want to allow anyone to come to your place AND then vote socialism increasing tax for you?

Without welfare and without democracy then yea open border maybe nice. But that's just not reality.

I recently discovered that there are a fuckton of left leaning(both ultra left and moderate left) podcasts all around the internet and it made me curious

Are there any good liberal or capitalism adjacent podcasts on the internet

Or anything similar to that sort of thing ?

Am I a conservative?

No.

I like low government spending, far lower than what a conservative want. I want legalization of drugs. I want drugs to be as free as porn. Government should just ensure proper labeling and even that should be privatized.

I love abortion.

But.... If I were American, I would vote for Trump rather than Oliver, at least if I am in swing states.

Why?

Because disagreement with conservatives are easier to solve than disagreement with communists.

Actually this is why I am not a "pure" ancap. Hoppeans and David Friedman may think I am an ancap. My idea is similar with Mencius Moldbug.

Instead of getting rid government, we should just privatize it.

And guys like Trump live lots of room for libertarianism.

Take a look at tax. Many libertarian and ancap says that what's important is reduce government spending.

I disagree.

Income tax is hard to avoid

Inflation is easy, just buy bitcoin, XMR, or Pax gold.

Let those commies pay for their own communism.

You buy bitcoin say goodbye to inflation forever. Bitcoin or gold. It's a solved problem.

Inflation is like governments' taxi. We don't like the way government regulate taxi but we don't bitch about it. Why? Just use Uber or Gocar or Grab or Indrive or whatever.

Saying that US dollar is the real currency and the rest is just commodity is giving special status to US dollar. Bitcoin and XMR or at least pax gold if you want stability is as legitimate as money as US dollar.

Inflation is annoying but it's no longer a huge libertarian concern.

Gay marriage? Just don't get married. I am not even gay. Marriage sucks anyway. Again, technically, gay marriage is a libertarian issue. But if state aggression can easily be avoided I really don't see why it's a big problem especially if you're not even gay. If Trump wants to criminalize homosexuality, then that's a problem.

Borders?

Some libertarians love borders. Here is the thing. If there is no border, how do you avoid your country not to end up like Europe now being flooded by poor refugees. Smart skilled workers from Asia can't get in but lots of stupid people that just rape got in and got subsidies.

Drugs? State issues. Move to states or cities where stuffs like that are legal. Sometimes freedom is not just individuals. I respect my right to do drugs. I think I should also respect other people's right to be free from drug in the community by making such decisions community based.

Abortion? Trump push it to states.

Abortion? A woman that fuck the wrong guy can abort and can just put the babies in boxes. A man can't do paper abortion. Double standard. Hell, if you're a man and you masturbate at a condom, a woman can use your sperm to impregnate yourself and sue you for child support.

So it seems that a blanket allowance of abortion is worse than let each area govern abortion.

So it seems that many libertarian issues are best done locally and individuals move to where they like.

To be honest, I am not sure how libertarian I am on this, I prefer area where drugs are legal and area where drugs are not legal, rather than insisting that drugs are legal everywhere.

To me, the latter is more libertarian or at least I like it more.

Trump

Wants to abolish income tax

Will definitely reduce tax as he has done on his 1st term

More money to the economically productive

Repent and embrace bitcoin

Anti DEI

Free saint Ulbricht

Can defeat Kamala (Unlike Oliver).

Tariffs are easier to avoid by just living more thrifty life. Inflation can be easily defeated by bitcoin, monero, and pax gold. Fuck the poor.

I think libertarian should vote Trump at least in swing states.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/25/trump-commute-ross-ulbricht-sentence-libertarian-convention-00160025

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Funny capitalism comment I found on YouTube:

“iran is literally more capitalist then the us in some cases, i've literally been there. they don't have free healthcare, or free anything basically, considering it's size as a nation i'd argue that class inequality is worse in some cases (i.e. the working class being so poor that they can't afford basic amenities, let alone provide for a family), same thing applies to russia and northkorea in some cases, they've both been privatizing their infostructure(to be fair north korea has been getting more capitalist even before china, i think they started that at around 79').”

Just sayin

WARNING: lots of reading however good content: I've been reading up on Ludvig Von Mises theory, and I also saw an what I read was it's impossible to essentially understand your economic productivity If you're just focusing on gross output, eliminating profit. the capitalist knows he's lagging in productivity if he's making less money, and the socialist is just measuring his economic productivity by making as much of a good as possible.

So for example, in the Soviet union, the USSR was significantly behind the west in terms of technological advancement, because they focused on large scale projects, and focused more on on quantity over quality, so it led producers to focus on making as much as possible without devoting resources to improving the quality of those goods. I think the argument against this would be to say "well this was just simply a miss implementation of the use of of gross output." and a socialist would probably say well you know, instead of focusing on making as much as possible, we still use a gross output system and still discard profit, and now we focus on essentially lowering the quotas/production requirements and focus a little bit more on technology.

Would this be a good socialist counter argument or could you argue that abandoning the quotas would cause shortages in socialist societies because those quotas are based on what society needs and you could also say that how would you essentially understand if your technology is efficient without price signals. I know this is a hell of a read sorry.