Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • so, your solution then, instead, what?

    so, your solution then, instead, what?


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 19:47:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853696311341830144

    Reply addressees: @mcmaz1ng @primalpoly @JayMan471

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853693264939102209


    IN REPLY TO:

    @Its_Lynnocent

    @curtdoolittle @gmiller @JayMan471 Do juries do this? Sometimes. Is their record fantastic. Not particularly. Do i trust a court to through out all their biases in cases

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853693264939102209

  • WHAT I’M SAYING ISN’T THAT COMPLICATED. IT”S THE OPERATIONALIZATION, ADVOCACY, A

    WHAT I’M SAYING ISN’T THAT COMPLICATED. IT”S THE OPERATIONALIZATION, ADVOCACY, AND DEFENSE OF IT THAT’S COMPLICATED.

    Michael Churchill

    Curt you’ve argued that you want the US to have multiple legal frameworks via devolution of power from the national to the state level. Isn’t that a sort of acceptance of different strokes for different folks?

    Curt Doolittle

    Different production of commons. one legal (truthful) law. But yes. Hey. I’m a libertarian. do what you fucking want. Just let me live with my people as I want.

    Michael Churchill

    Okay that’s what I thought you’d say. Makes sense. Think i fully understand the core thesis of Propertarianism now. (Also thanks for that elevator pitch description of it a bit earlier.)

    Curt Doolittle

    I”m sayin’ just this:

    Restore the monarchies, rule of law, multi-house government, and the militia, but with strictly constructed natural law that is as inviolable as mathematics.

    The whole ‘trick’ is in that law. It’s that law I spent all the time on.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 16:24:00 UTC

  • what does this have to do with anything I write, say, or advocate?

    what does this have to do with anything I write, say, or advocate?


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 11:31:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853571433187999744

    Reply addressees: @anarchicmonarch

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/852657363010113537


    IN REPLY TO:

    @anarchicmonarch

    @curtdoolittle how does this make you feel? https://t.co/zm5yfa37ih

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/852657363010113537

  • Do you have an argument? Or are you a liar? I dont do racism. I do classism – an

    Do you have an argument? Or are you a liar? I dont do racism. I do classism – and with data.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 10:59:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853563534541828096

    Reply addressees: @old_xcon

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853540980250648576


    IN REPLY TO:

    @old_xcon

    This is a trump supporter. a racist for reals; i’d love to …well i can’t say but you get the point. https://t.co/tHccElE2hc

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/853540980250648576

  • Literature of Growing Up: Rothbard, Friedman, Sowell, Hayek. (and Me) Grownups s

    Literature of Growing Up: Rothbard, Friedman, Sowell, Hayek. (and Me)

    Grownups should ignore Rothbard. He’s talking in children’s stories. Parables. Silly stuff. If you wanna read teenager stories read Friedman. He is as close to correct as I know how to get. If you wanna read junior college stories read Sowell. He talks about the rest of the society not just the economy. If you want to read university stories read hayek. He talks about civilizations. If you want post-graduate work, you’re gonna have to wait for me, ’cause it’s gonna take that to make conservatism and libertarianism into a persuasive science rather than a moral literature.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 08:33:00 UTC

  • (FYI: Over the past few days some playful people created an Imposter account for

    (FYI: Over the past few days some playful people created an Imposter account for the Propertarian Institute. And while I actually enjoy being the subject of memes, the trash talking and the humor, there is a difference between my personal preference, and the Institute that owns the work I produce. And there is a difference between trash talking and fraud. Unfortunately when I contacted those involved they continued their farce, so I had to take action. I apologize to followers for having to do so, but I have formal responsibilities that extend beyond my personal tastes.)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 07:24:00 UTC

  • Old classic essay by Carson. He begins with the issue of Manorialism

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-the-iron-fist-behind-the-invisible-hand

    Old classic essay by Carson. He begins with the issue of Manorialism


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-15 21:44:00 UTC

  • ROTHBARDIANISM? BUILD A MODEL. GO AHEAD. THINK IT THRU. Build a model. Go ahead.

    ROTHBARDIANISM? BUILD A MODEL. GO AHEAD. THINK IT THRU.

    Build a model. Go ahead. Try it. You have an opinion. Prove that you’re not a fucking idiot.

    What will occur if you could manage to put 1000 rothbadians in a small city on a trade route, tomorrow, what would happen? model it out.

    1) it’s easy to find 1000 people to claim they are rothbardians.

    2) it’s IMPOSSIBLE to find 1000 people who DEMONSTRATE they are rothbardians.

    3) but lets assume for a minute that you can, by luck, get given some land along, say, the new silk road. And you want to set up a rothbardian society. How will you do that?

    Here is how your conversation will start: “if some rich person (please mommy or daddy), or some nation (please king, or government) will fund (pay me to play around) a libertarian order (a place where I can keep my meagre earnings outside of a major market) I will (I fantasize) move there (away from all the creature comforts of an empire and a mixed economy) to a place only other losers like me will go to, and feel good until we fail and blame it on other people who don’t come for not having our fortitude (subsidy).

    So, why do people come? What will they do? Why will they choose it over the alternatives? how will you create private defense, private, courts, private property, and how will your courts determine what private property, and what contract terms, they will rule in disputes over, and what not?

    How will you prevent a nearby city, state, or empire from boycotting you via trade barriers? how will you stop organized crime? How will you stop an influx of people who prey upon nearby cities, states, empires by violence, fraud, conversion, immigration, or fiancialization, or some other scheme?

    Why will WOMEN want to move there? or live there?

    If you can’t get 100 libertarianis to agree to the scope of non aggression, or the definition of private property, despite 50 years of trying, how will you get them to take real life and property and commercial risks together?

    In other words, how can you OPERATIONALIZE rothbardianism? How can you bring it into existence in the real world instead of the fantasy world of silly teenagers and immature young males?

    I mean, if you can’t operationalize your ideas, you (anyone) is just saying that youre stupid ignorant and fantasizing over hot girs on porn sites, right? I mean what’s the difference between envisioning yourself with some hot chick, envisioning yourself as some athlete, envisioning yourself as some warrior, envisioning yourself as economicallly successful, envisioning yourself as a leader of men, envisioning yourself as a politician, a king, a despot?

    I mean, if you can’t OPERATIONALIZE some objective and demonstrate that it’s at least POSSIBLE then you’re just masturbating to political porn the way young men masturbate to car porn, gun porn, chick porn. RIght?

    “I’m a libertarian” is, like “I’m a Marxist” just signaling that you masturbate to political porn unless you can state some strategy for operationally constructing what it is that you desire.

    I’m pretty smart and I CANNOT OPERATIONALLY CONSTRUCT A LIBERTARIAN ORDER. I CANNOT locate a candidate geographically, discover any incentives that would produce membership, discover sufficient means of organization to produce the minimum commons (rule of law, defense) discover a means of constructing sufficient comparative advantage that it is possible to attract and maintain population (particularly women). Or discover a means of preventing such a territory from being populated by raiders of nearby or remote markets who then seize power until the external markets prey upon them.

    I can’t do it. Tell me how it can be done. Show me people will do so. Show me rational incentives to do so. And the answer is, that you can’t. All yo ucan do is say “i would prefer to wok on the borderland where I exchange limited regulation and taxation for much lower standard of living and much higher opportunity costs – so high that I can only survive by parasitic remote subsistence on remote markets. Why? subsistence farming by an individual is fucking hard and libertarians aren’t exactly the hardest working folk you know.

    ROTHBARDIANISM IS NOTHING MORE JEWISH SEPARATIST PARASITISM sold to young ignorant men who have a touch of intelligence, but are of little associative, reproductive, commercial, military, and strategic value, precisely because there is something WRONG (undesirable) about them.

    it’s just that this parasitic argument, like marxism before it and christianty before it promises the impossible to people not smart enough to falsify that vast overloading and framing that the propaganda is constructed from.

    It sucks to admit you were played. That you’re not that smart. But libertarianism played a pretty good sized group of people. Not enough to make a political movement. But enough to make a cult for misfit boys.

    Grow the fuck up.

    Men fight. They kill. They destroy. They take. They rule. They profit from their rule. They decrease the cost of profiting from their rule. They profit more so.

    If’ you’re a free riding effeminate loser unwilling to fight, kill, destroy, take, rule, profit from taht rule, and build a civilization that constantly decreases the cost of profiting from that rule then you are just a fucking whinny little bitch.

    Lift. Run. Explosively Sprint. Read about war. get a weapon. And when the time comes be the first guy to sprint to an opportunity to fight, kill, destroy, take, and rule.

    Otherwise youre just a child. Not a man.

    Thus Endeth The Lesson.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-15 14:41:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://takimag.com/article/white_people_are_pussies_john_derbyshire/printhttp://takimag.com/article/white_people_are_pussies_john_derbyshire/print


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-14 21:44:00 UTC

  • The problem is, we have already got all the intellectually honest and intellectu

    The problem is, we have already got all the intellectually honest and intellectually capable libertarians. What remains are those that are intellectually incapable, or intellectually dishonest, or both.

    But boys will be boys and we should expect schoolyard tactics from the boys that are not yet men.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-14 11:37:00 UTC