Oddbean

I see many posts about Milei and Bukele lately... Guys please stop kissing politicians ass ! They are NOT your friends, no matter how nice they talk about Bitcoin. They are not there to please you, but only show to media how nice they talk. They are there to fuck you! Listen this amazing critique of Milei by Hans Hermann Hoppe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ayjJBDPYYw

Hoppe is everything that's good. 😍 nostr:nevent1qqs0g9gjcgnpxmr5rvpygy86rhz720dcmzptrv6q0xvh8weggqn5r7gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg8e4jctqdxycythaxzlz33e7vt77rldaem90srqk9rwu7gqyschaspsgqqqqqqshrs6af

Listned to it, and while I think that it is always correct to guard against any kind of naive hero worship, especially in the political realm, I am not at all impressed with Hoppe here. There is nothing that he said that Milei would disagree with ideologically. The entire critique reduces to a complaint about the speed and scope of change. That is to say, Hoppe is criticizing the real, practical work of implementation from the perch of theoretical purity, from a conceptual laboratory devoid of any kind of real-world constraints or consequences whatsoever, and he is doing so without offering any kind of support or involvement whatsoever. It is a bit of a bad-faith criticism, uninformed about the particulars and uninterested in the success. At the very least, consider that Milei is not an absolute monarch, but a president, bound by a constitution, with a party that has an extreme minority of lawmakers for representation, that is dealing with a country that was on the brink of hyper-inflation, that is institutionally captured by extreme criminality and corruption and unbelievable grift. I am extremely surprised that Milei has not been assassinated yet. But yeah, I guess Hoppe can keep writing some books and keep his hands clean and sit in the wings and wait to see if the battle is won before he comes down from his mountain and gives his approval.

Idk but Milei is the nearest we will get to a libertarian president. Of course he has to build coalitions to get his this done. But most important is that he demasks the socialists as being what they are: Corrupt and only seeking for more money in their pockets. Time will tell if Mileis tactic of deconstructing the state from within and with the help of the people will work.

I can respect that position because I do think that 99% of politics is just theater. However, I don't think that we inherently automatically lose just because of one candidate. In terms of the U.S. election, we definitely will lose if Kamala gets it. Whereas, if Trump gets it, we have a chance to at least have a slightly better economy, stronger military, more secure borders, and we won't have the federal government pushing DEI values down our throats every five seconds. The irony is that by seeing the two-party system split into harsher extremes, we get a candidate that aligns a lot more with libertarian values despite not being libertarian... And that candidate certainly ain't the cackling, drunken communist.

Fuck 'em both. Smart people will be well-behooved to bypass all the current systems (because they're all tyrannical, corrupt or both, eventually, and/or based upon corruption) and create their own.