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I truly do not understand how any American who has read half of the constitution; has some understanding of American history, can in good faith, be a republican or democrat. Our taxes are going to places and people I full heartedly don’t give a shit about without our consent. Time and labor is being stolen to fund asinine policies, projects, conflicts, and theater.

We have fools willing to vote for a more invasive and expanding federal government, wanting more taxes, and letting whomever the fuck waltz over the border and get high fives. Telling me I can’t drive a 383 stroker straight pipe up and down the highway. Telling me I can’t collect rainwater and force my children into public school. Telling me I can’t rip a fat one and go hunting. We have nut bags that fly the flag and say a bunch of patriotic gab that are reaching for some sort of Sunday school poster of what they thought America was or should be. Resulting in a more intrusive government influenced by foreign entities. I’m heavily generalizing and not going into detail.. but wtf is going on? Am I nuts? How can someone sit there , a “patriot “ , and honestly believe all the bozos they are shilling for are American. Protecting democracy? Making America great again? What period are you referring to. When was it great? When we didn’t give two nickels for Ukraine and Israel? When we weren’t spied on by the NSA? When the gov didn’t say it was wrong to own a hand grenade? When we didn’t have a school child’s dream of a kumbaya Christian camp America. Go ahead and get your 7th abortion, I’m not paying for your mistake. Imagine finding out marijuana is legal, and the first words out of one’s fat mouth is “that’s a spit on the face to all the cops.. blah blah”. No concern for the U.S citizens who had their time and life stolen. On top of all that, we got people cooming over the internet instead of walking into a proper brothel. Whatever. Traditional values and more taxes will stop the next recorded ice age.

I think Starbucks batistas should be able to afford a one bedroom apartment.

Personally, I believe the Healthcare shouldn't be like it's in the US today. People shouldn't go bankrupt for simply going to the doctor. However Ivwould like to be more sufficient and only accessible for people who pay their little fair share. What do you think?

While under the governments control and the will of man is taken we cannot truly be free, I don't know how to live in this world while its controlled by such wreck less choices made by those we don't even know. One day hopefully a group will rise to be the ones to bring true choices back to those who don't.

Hello Libertarians! I don't know if you are aware of the work done by some "libertarian" economist (like Michael Munger of Duke University) who argue that real capitalism i.e. free market capitalism is unstable and leads inevitably to cronyism. I have assimilated this idea as follows: Cronyism is basically political interventionism that favors some businesses or segments over others! And who wants those special favors? It is the businesses themselves! And why do they do that? It is because they are all seeking their selfish interest - which is to maximize the return on their investments! And that higher ROI is in their estimates possible when they spend on lobbying efforts, instead of investing on innovations in the free market environment! So, they invest to seek special previleges! And if you think that the role of government needs to be minimized so that they cannot influence the market - well the counter argument is that it is the businesses themselves that will field "democratic" candidates who will empower themselves to be able to grant those businesses those favors through interventionism! And, so at the end of the day - that is what we get in the name of capitalism! It is all natural! Wanted to see if you had any thoughts on this apparent contradiction!

The USA, is a far more right wing country than Denmark. The party I support (liberal alliance) is protesting against our high bureaucracy, our way too high progressive tax and so on. But as most libetarians do, is to recognize that some branches are too big to not be controlled by the government. For me, that is healthcare. Denmark spends, 10.8% of its gdp on healthcare, and it’s universal and sort of works. The bureaucracy defenitely makes that number higher. The usa spends 16.6% of its gdp on healthcare and it isn’t even universal. Just because I am curious. What is your guys opinion on healthcare? Clarification: liberal in many European countries refers to classical Locke sort of liberalism, not modern American liberalism

Great inventions come from new discoveries. How could studying strange events strengthen the economy and improve the world? Have you ever discovered something that totally changed your world for the better?

Now before i get laughed at, let me clarify what I mean,

Lets say if someone wants the social security net a state provides, and wants to partake in the state-funded systems such as state owned healthcare and transport, and most importantly, roads. wouldn't it be perfectly fine if the state was merely an equal player in the market and these facilities are run by the "voluntary" participation of the people that want to use them in the form of taxes? because i do personally feel this is completely justifiable AND it kind of eliminates alot of criticism of anarcho-capitalism or just lesser radical versions of it, "Who will build the roads?", stuff like that. (im not implying that the roads won't be built without the state). and by extension, what about cooperatives, publicly traded corporations, etc.

And yes, im aware that alot of people use the whole "Coercive = state" thing and hence equate voluntary participation in state as "associations" not states. but i feel that definition is way too pedantic, and is not a commonly used definition.

oh well, i will still get laughed at for this post probably but as you could probably tell, im a beginner to classical liberalism in general let alone anarcho capitalism, and this was just a doubt i had that. because a state is just a community that is organized politically, and politics is just the affairs of the community. some people might want to be associated in it, some might not. i feel that both should be technically acccepted in this system, correct me if im wrong

Hello, are there any libertarian or right leaning fiction writers here? I know those two aren't always one and the same, but either one will do. I also wanted to ask: Are there any forums or publishing houses that are libertarian-friendly?

"Ghost jobs" is the phenomenon that we're seeing more and more lately, where there are tons of supposedly unfilled job postings, but they're postings that have no intention of ever being filled. They may be:

• Postings that are created by headhunters to gather data to use in contract pitches.
• Jobs that companies don't intend to fill, but they leave out there in case a unicorn applies.
• Jobs for compliance-based positions (i.e. cybersecurity) that are only out there so that the CEO can say "we tried to hire someone, but couldn't find anyone qualified" if there's a breach.

Specifically looking at cybersecurity, there's supposedly 500,000 unfilled jobs in the US and a severe labor shortage in the industry. Yet, I've applied for hundreds of jobs and gotten 1 interview. This seems to be common across the industry (for example looking at posts and comments I see on IT and cybersecurity subreddits, which suggest a lot of folks are churning out applications and getting zilch).

I'm curious to the libertarian perspective on ghost jobs. Is this something that should be part of the freedom of a privately-owned business to exercise as they see fit? Or is this the kind of thing that should be considered fraud and therefore job searchers should be protected against?

Regulate might very well be the wrong word here, I’m on a drive and wanna hear people’s thoughts. I know a big critique people have of the free market is that it’s ripe for monopolies. I’m not sure that’s true but please provide any argument to the contrary. Thanks!

Democratic strategists worked to prevent No Labels from getting onto the ballot. Was this politics as usual, or a series of illegal activities, including harassment, fraud, and extortion? Are they doing the same thing to the LP/libertarians?

Great article by Matt Taibbi...

https://x.com/CommonSense1com/status/1862861195125932206

The Democrats' Dirty Tricks Playbook?

Documents just made public show how groups aligned with the Democratic Party hit a third party rival with an array of underhanded schemes that put Watergate tricksters to shame.

A secondary question: What do you think about No Labels and their overall concept? Can No Labels benefit the LP/libertarians?

"No Labels is a nationwide movement of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, and independents who reject extremism, embrace common sense, and believe America only works when we work together. We are creating a powerful force capable of countering the influence of the extremes on both sides."