Freedom of association and freedom to travel are fundamental human rights. No one has a right to interfere with any other person's rights to travel and associate freely because they might do something to that violates someone else's rights sometime in the future. It is completely immoral to keep people from crossing borders to accept a job because they might get on the welfare rolls. In a free society people punished for what they do, not what they might do.
#freedomofassociation #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
Public property is the source of a great many problems because supposedly everyone owns it and has a right to use it. But public property is really stolen property with no legitimate owner so there are endless conflicts over its use. In a stateless society all property would be private and people would be able to go anywhere they are welcome, they could not go anywhere they are unwanted, and no outside party could interfere with their voluntary interactions.
Freedom to travel means I can go anywhere I'm welcome and no one has a right to stop me. It doesn't me mean I can go into your house if you don't want me there. There are employers in the US that want to hire workers from other countries but the government prevents workers who want those jobs from traveling to where they are. This is a violation of the rights of the employers and the workers. The workers don't have a right to trespass on private property while they travel, but private roads, airports, and bus services will be happy to offer their services. If the owner of one road won't do business with Mexicans another will. If there is a need in a truly free market an entrepreneur will fill it. Government funded roads are subsidies for the automobile industry and in a free market we would have flying cars to take us where we want to go.
A license is where the government takes away your right to do something and sells part of it back to you. Drivers licenses, license plates, occupational licenses, business licenses, handgun licenses, and all other licenses are violation of your rights. What you do and who you do it with is none of the government's business.
#anarchocapitalism #libertarian #agorism #liberty
"Fiat currencies can be easily destroyed by their issuers. The things are burning matches. They have half-lives, like radioactive elements."
Doug Casey
#bitcoin #endthefed #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close."
Donald Boudreaux
#liberty #freedom #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part."
Richard Feynman
#feynman #science #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone."
Frédéric Bastiat
#bastiat #austrianeconomics #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Karl Hess
#freedom #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"The idea of democracy must be ridiculed: it is nothing else but mob rule parading as justice."
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#voting #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
#freedom #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
Ayn Rand
#secede #secession #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
Handguns, fire extinguishers, and seat belts are no guarantee of safety. What they do is increase the chances of a positive outcome in a dangerous situation.
#selfdefense #firearms #handguns #weapons #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Within a family the dictum of Marx is valid: 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.' But the family is not a good model for a political system. For one thing Marxism ceases to work when it is extended outside the family by even so much as the factor of one bum brother-in-law."
P.J. O'Rourke
#freedom #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Ed Butler, editor of the 1960s Westwood Village Square, became a Libertarian in 1970. Along with anti-political Libertarians Gabriel Aguilar (a Galambosian) and Chris Shaefer (LeFevrian), they registered the name 'Libertarian Party' in California to use for making fun of the electoral process a full year before David Nolan had his Christmas 1971 party where he announced the creation of the LP, seriously.
"By the way, Murray Rothbard and many others refused to take Nolan's party seriously during the Hospers-Nathan campaign. It would have vanished without a trace had not Nixon Presidential Elector Roger MacBride not jumped the fence and voted for Hospers instead of Nixon in the Electoral College (which actually decides the president in the United States). Walter Block, who was a rare LP candidate for lower office in New York in 1972, ran his campaign humorously for the State Assembly by putting out bumper stickers calling for 'Block for Disassembly'."
Samuel Edward Konkin III
#voting #anarchocapitalist #libertarian
Any reduction or fragmentation of the state's size and power is a good thing. Texas should secede from the US. Houston and Dallas should secede from Texas and become free trade city-states like Hong Kong and Singapore. Most importantly, individuals should secede from government entities at every level.
#secede #secession #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
If you choose to be unarmed you choose to be unable to protect yourself and your family.
#selfdefense #guns #weapons #firearms #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
To paraphrase George Carlin, just think of how stupid the average voter is and then realize half of them are stupider than that.
#voting #freedom #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
When you give the government power to interfere with other people's lives you have no right to complain when other people give the government power to interfere with your life.
#bigbrother #anarchy #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
If there's a law against it then it's something lots of people want to do. If there's a law that requires it then it's something most people don't want to do it or they would already be doing it. That's what government is for, to stop people from doing what they want to do and make them do things they don't want to do.
#freedom #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy."
Frank Chodorov
#secession #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
I use LastPass to store my passwords. But just in case, all my passwords are also stored in a file on my computer. My home folder is backed up throughout the day to an external drive on my desk, and it's regularly backed up to a drive stored in a fire proof safe. Passwords that can't be recovered from a site administer are written down and stored in the safe.
I read that 20-25 per cent of all bitcoins that have been mined are probably lost forever. I was given .05 bitcoin for opening a wallet when a bitcoin was a nickle. My hard drive crashed and the bitcoin and everything else on my computer was gone forever. I don't intend for that to happen again.
#bitcoin #linux #opensource
"I'm a rational anarchist...
"A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame... as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world... aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure."
Professor Bernardo de la Paz in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein
#libertarian #anarchocapitalism #heinlein #sciencefiction
I learned as much about libertarianism from the novels and essays of L Neil Smith as I did from Murray Rothbard.
#libertarian #anarchocapitalism #lneilsmith #sciencefiction #rothbard
I got my first computer in 1998. It was a used laptop with Windows 95 on it. I was fascinated with encryption and I was soon lurking on the Cypherpunks mailing list. On there I learned the cool kids all used Linux. I wanted to be cool, so I tried to install Linux in dual boot mode on my computer. That messed up Windows and I couldn't get it reinstalled, so it's been Linux ever since. Linux was hard back then and I had to go to Linux user groups to learn how to use it. Today it's easy. I installed Linux Mint Mate on my tech clueless sister's computer and she had no trouble with it.
#linux #opensource #foss
"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."
L Neil Smith
#libertarian #anarchy #anarchocapitalism #liberty
Real libertarians are anarchists, not minarchists. Being a libertarian means adhering to the nonaggresion principle. You can't be a minarchist without violating the nonaggresion principle.
I got my first computer in 1998. It was a used laptop with Windows 95 on it. I was fascinated with encryption and I was soon lurking on the Cypherpunks mailing list. On there I learned the cool kids all used Linux. I wanted to be cool, so I tried to install Linux in dual boot mode on my computer. That messed up Windows and I couldn't get it reinstalled, so it's been Linux ever since. Linux was hard back then and I had to go to Linux user groups to learn how to use it. Today it's easy. I installed Linux Mint Mate on my tech clueless sister's computer and she had no trouble with it.
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On
the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed
beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
Frédéric Bastiat
#liberty #propertyrights #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
Frédéric Bastiat
#liberty #propertyrights #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
The outcome of the election is easy to predict. There will be 330 million losers in the USA. Billions of people in other countries will also lose out.
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
I fought wildfires for the Forest Service one summer. I knew I was getting paid with stolen money, but that didn't bother me. The government had stolen more from me than I got paid that summer. I liked fighting fires and I wanted the experience.
I ended up getting more than firefighting experience that summer. I saw how people how depend on misfortune for their income root for misfortune so they can make more money. I only worked for the forest service for a few weeks, but in that time I saw how if affected people's mindsets. By the time my contract ended I knew I couldn't work in that environment any longer without a negative impact on my own mindset.
I even saw this at work in my volunteer fire department where I was the assistant chief. We did't get paid and all of our equipment came from donations and fund raisers. Firefighters like to fight fires and they like cool gear. The chief wanted to ask the county commissioners to impose a tax on the county residents to buy cool new equipment with. I told no one should be forced to pay for protection if they didn't want and that I would quit the department if went through with his plan. He didn't do it as long as I lived there. I don't know what he did after I moved away.
There's nothing wrong with taking money from the government because it not theirs and there is no way to return it to its rightful owners. But you need to be careful about the negative effects that come with it.
#freemarket #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves."
Thomas Sowell
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
The Case for Revisionism (and Against A Priori History)
by Murray Rothbard
"The noble task of Revisionism is to de-bamboozle: to penetrate the fog of lies and deception of the State and its Court Intellectuals, and to present to the public the true history of the motivation, the nature, and the consequences of State activity."
#rothbard #antiwar #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
https://mises.org/mises-daily/case-revisionism-and-against-priori-history
"The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam, the politicians would most assuredly start a counterrevolution. Measures to enforce voting would be instituted; fines would be imposed for violations, and prison sentences would be meted out to repeaters."
Frank Chodorov
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
I fought wildfires for the Forest Service one summer. I knew I was getting paid with stolen money, but that didn't bother me. The government had stolen more from me than I got paid that summer. I liked fighting fires and I wanted the experience.
I ended up getting more than firefighting experience that summer. I saw how people how depend on misfortune for their income root for misfortune so they can make more money. I only worked for the forest service for a few weeks, but in that time I saw how if affected people's mindsets. By the time my contract ended I knew I couldn't work in that environment any longer without a negative impact on my own mindset.
I even saw this at work in my volunteer fire department where I was the assistant chief. We did't get paid and all of our equipment came from donations and fund raisers. Firefighters like to fight fires and they like cool gear. The chief wanted to ask the county commissioners to impose a tax on the county residents to buy cool new equipment with. I told no one should be forced to pay for protection if they didn't want and that I would quit the department if went through with his plan. He didn't do it as long as I lived there. I don't know what he did after I moved away.
There's nothing wrong with taking money from the government because it not their's and there is no way to return it to its rightful owners. But you need to be careful about the negative effects that come with it.
"Anything you do that is outside the control of the state is agorist, so in some sense we are all agorists whether we know it or not. Some people just take those actions because of the personal gain they can obtain, which is perfectly fine, but some do it as a conscientious objection and act of rebellion against the state as well. I'm out to turn unconscious agorists into conscious active ones. :)"
Dread Pirate Roberts
#agorism #smashthestate #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
Ethics from the Barrel of a Gun:
What Bearing Weapons Teaches About the Good Life
#selfdefense #guns #weapons #freedom #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
http://catb.org/~esr/guns/gun-ethics.html
I got my first computer in 1998. It was a used laptop with Windows 95 on it. I was fascinated with encryption, and one of the first things I discovered was the Cypherpunks mailing list. There I learned that all the cool kids were using Linux. I wanted to be cool too, so I tried to set up my computer to dual boot Windows and Linux. I got Linux installed but in the process I messed up Windows and couldn't figure out how to reinstall it in dual boot mode. So it was about six months of Windows and then it's been Linux ever since.
#linux #opensource #freedom
I'm learning to play Chitlins con Carne by Kenny Burrell. My guitar teacher and I are transposing it from a recording. This means he's doing most of the work by listening to the song and writing the notes on a whiteboard, or correcting my beginning attempts.
I take what we do in my lesson and enter it into SoundSlice. SoundSlice has tab and staff notation. A cursor moves over the notes as the song plays so you can see what note or tab you need to play. You can speed up or slow down the playback without changing the pitch so you can start learning at 40 or 50 per cent of the tempo. And you can loop any part of the song to play over and over.
You can check out the progress we've made so far. I'll post changes as we make them until the entire song is transcribed.
https://www.soundslice.com/slices/ZJb4c/?from=channel
#music #jazz #blues #guitarlesson
Hanlon's Razor Is Getting Rusty in the 2024 Election
Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
#voting #freedom #anarchocapitalilsm #libertarian
https://reason.com/2024/09/01/hanlons-razor-rusts/
Thanks for posting this. I checked out Qortal and set up an account. Naturally I don't know anyone on there yet, and the tutorial says I need someone at least Level 5 to sponsor me. Is this something you can do? I realize you don't know anything about me other than what you can see on page so I understand if you're not comfortable doing this.
Carrying a handgun is a serious responsibility. One way to develop a responsible mindset is to habitually carry every time you leave the house. If your circumstances prevent that then determine when you can carry and habitually carry during those times.
If you do this, you won't find yourself in a situation where you're out in public and you forgot you had a gun on you because you always have a gun on you. The flip side is you won't find yourself in a situation where you need a gun and you reach for one that's not there because you just didn't feel like strapping it on for whatever reason.
#selfdefense #guns #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
Carrying a handgun is a serious responsibility. One way to develop a responsible mindset is to habitually carry every time you leave the house. If your circumstances prevent that then determine when you can carry and habitually carry during those times.
If you do this, you won't find yourself in a situation where you're out in public and you forgot you had a gun on you because you always have a gun on you. The flip side is you won't find yourself in a situation where you need a gun and you reach for one that's not there because you just didn't feel like strapping it on for whatever reason.
#selfdefense #guns #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
If you can't do stupid, annoying shit that doesn't physically harm anyone else or their property then you're not really free.
#freedom #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself."
PJ O'Rourke
#myob #livefree #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"The car is not a holster. Carry your fucking gun. All the fucking time."
Pat Rogers
#selfdefense #guns #weapons #firearms #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party."
L Neil Smith
#selfdefense #freedom #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"Why do Statists get offended when someone calls them a Statist? I don't get offended when someone calls me an Anarchist."
Kimberley Rodriguez
#anarchist #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
"The set of goods and services the state currently supplies can be divided into two subsets: those goods and services which should be eliminated, and those which should be privatized."
Jesús Huerta de Soto
#anarchocapitalism #austrianeconomics #freemarkets #smashthestate
Inflation is an increase in the amount of money in circulation. The increased money supply comes from the Fed. Rising prices are called inflation to deflect blame from the Fed on to greedy business men and other imaginary causes, but only the Fed can cause inflation.
#inflation #endthefed #anarchocapitalism #austrianeconomics #libertarian
https://mises.org/mises-wire/only-federal-reserve-can-cause-inflation
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot
#freedom #anarchocapitalism #libertarian #livefree
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