Discussion I recently had with a fellow veteran: Him: you sound like a Democrat Me: bro, I'm probably several clicks to the right of you.

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Can we talk about natural consequences? Like the McArdle/Mises Caucus things that followed the LNC in Reno, and all of the 2024 stuff led to this recent rise in leftism surging in the LP. As a natural consequence, affiliates like LPNH and Jeremy Kauffman rose to prominence. And they're going to gain more traction due to the absolute embarrassment that happened this year at the LNC with LPNH being disaffiliated. And deservedly so. The brand of the LP is not good right now. I keep hearing there are only ~6,000 dues paying of us in the party, and there should be no mystery why. Leftism, especially the open borders, pro-abortion, pro-trans mentality, that has grown in the LP, is not conducive to the pursuit of liberty. And the blatant abandonment of the NAP by some of the membership is not helpful.

“When you die you become like God.” And you get your own planet. This is what the heretics who claim to be Christians and call themselves “The Latter Day Saints” say when they speak the blasphemous word of Joseph Smith. Mormons are heretics who pretend to be Christians.

For the record, I don't support the president and the war. But I do support the military, of which I am formerly a member. One can be against the war but want the best for our service members. Stop looking at situations myopically.

I'm just gonna come out and say it, because they really are awful on here, X needs to ban African accounts on this platform. F your feelings, all they do is post trash.

June 14, 1775, the day that formally established the Continental Army, the first of the armed forces of what would become the United States. Happy birthday to my beloved Army, and may God continue to bless those who stand ready to defend our nation. I'm proud to have worn the uniform, like my grandfather before me, and his father before him.

The outrage today is essentially: "An African immigrant came to America, built multiple companies, became one the richest person in history, and achieved more success than we find acceptable." For people who claim to celebrate opportunity, diversity, immigration, and the American Dream, it's a remarkably strange thing to be angry about. The objection isn't that he failed. It's that he succeeded.

Twitter this evening is proving they really don't teach economics in school anymore, and when they did, most of you didn't pay any attention... Then people get mad when they hit the limit of their understanding and take it out on those who actually get it. Wild.

What Elon Musk being a trillionaire means: 1. That is his net worth, not how much money he has. The reason it just went up so much is that SpaceX--a company he started that would not exist without him--went public, which means the number of shares he holds times the going rate for each share was added to his net worth. He could not get that much actual money from if he wanted to b/c selling all of his shares would tank the stock price. 2. The reason it is possible to be a trillionaire is because we have a central bank that creates money. There is more money in the system than ever before, and as the money supply increases, people who hold assets gain wealth while life gets more expensive for everyone else. If you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at the Federal Reserve and advocate its abolition. 3. Net worth is closer to an approximation of how much you've contributed to society than how much you've extracted from it. You can't eat money. You can't build anything with it. The primary purpose of money is trading it to move resources around the economy. If you earn more money than you take in, you are contributing more to the economy than you are taking from it. Elon didn't take that money from you. Even if you believe Marxist exploitation nonsense, if you don't work for one of Elon's companies, there is no way he took that money from you (see caveats). 4. Even if Elon had that much money, it would not negatively affect you. If he was sitting on that much money, then that would mean he wasn't using that money to take resources, good, and services from the economy that you could be using. The rest of the economy would keep churning without him, and he would be abstaining from taking those resources for himself. If he were to spend all of his money, that means stuff you want would be more difficult to get. 5. No, Elon cannot solve world hunger with that money. Again, you can't eat money. The issue isn't money, it's food and distribution. Spending that money on food for poor Africans would just spread the available food around more thinly, and it would feed them for a day. It would do nothing in the long run. Governments around the world have cumulatively spent far more than $1T trying to solve world hunger, and it hasn't worked. 6. No, Elon is not why you're poor. If Elon actually had $1T and spread it out evenly among the American adult population, that would be about $3,000 for each of us. Not per day or per year. One time. Did the Covid checks change your life? Did they fix society's problems? No? Again, if you want someone to blame for how hard it is to get by these days, blame the Federal Reserve. Google "What Has Government Done to Our Money?". CAVEATS: 1. Subsidies: Yes, Elon's companies take subsidies, and that is in effect extracting wealth from you via government taxation. Elon has repeatedly advocated for abolishing all subsidies, but he takes them while they exist. Is this philosophically inconsistent? Maybe. Understandable? I think so. Money made through voluntary exchange is valid; money taken by force is not. Corporate welfare is theft. 2. We do not have a free market. The way I described how net worth is an approximation of how much you've contributed to society is how it works in a free market. We don't have one, and there are plenty of people who've used government coercion to accumulate wealth. Elon is far from the worst offender in this regard. 3. I personally think SpaceX is a silly use of resources. I feel the same way about NASA. We have plenty of room on this planet. Keep the resources here and build things that improve our lives more than just "ooh, cool, rocket ship".

It's actually kind of scary how so many people don't understand how wealth works. They actually think people just have all this money sitting in a bank account. That's not how it works.

This is why people are becoming more and more against the black community. Does this happen the other way around? Sometimes. But not at nearly this high of frequency. I get it, "not all black people," but enough of y'all that people aren't taking the risk.

My ballot arrived yesterday, and I love how it's just one item because Alex couldn't be bothered to cede victory to Sean at the convention. Sean won by a majority, but due to bylaws he got a high enough percentage to have it actually be a primary. Typically the loser cedes to avoid having a primary, which would then involve the state in our party politics (never a good thing).

I know, I'm a little behind, but I'm watching a Piers Morgan episode and the discussion is on jokes and if there are lines, and @emilysavesusa brings up a good point about the linguistic double standard. If I say the "n-word" I'm cancelled, publicly shamed, and possibly even assaulted. There is nothing, with regard to my race, that anyone, ever, could say to me that would result in that. What are you gonna call me? Ofay? Whitey? Cracker (or is it cracka?)? Peckerwood? I'm just gonna look at you like you're an idiot if you call me those things, and move on. There is nothing anyone can call white people that is over the line. And you know why? Because it was never actually about the word, it's about the recipient. Insecurity, sensitivity, and inability to moderate emotional response. How else can one word, as we saw with Chud, or one phrase (such as "chimp out") hold so much power over a group of people?

Americans of a certain melanin content need to realize that you don't have to own the actions of one person because they are the same shade of skin tone as you. You don't have to consider Karmelo Anthony one of your own, just as we white people don't consider Jeffrey Dahmer, or Timothy McVeigh as part of our "community." Evil people can do evil shit without having any implications on your ethnic makeup.

Nah, he totally deserved this. And he got off light with 35 years. Don't murder people, you won't get put on trial for murder.

I love how it's considered racist to say "You shouldn't murder people who ask you to leave an area" but have no qualms with people defending a literal conducted murder because they're the same race as said murder. Holy crap, you people are ignorant.

There’s nothing dumber than standing by somebody’s atrocities simply because they are the same race as you are.

If you're surprised by the verdict in the Anthony case, clearly you weren't paying attention. It's just a shame SCOTUS ruled minors cannot be eligible for the death penalty.

There is only one God, and He is known through a trinitarian view. He is the Almighty, the Creator of all, the Alpha and the Omega. And He was never a man before He was God, and no creation of His can become God. I hope this helps.