Why the Libertarian Party is crazy and why that won’t change anytime soon:

I’ve noticed the same.

Libertarians blame government for a bunch of things that are just the will of the people. The terrible, awful, stupid will. The system is broken, sure, but “the system” is democracy itself.

People—well-educated, nominally intelligent people—do not grasp what a hypothetical is. I’m starting to understand what’s wrong with our society. @AndrewPaulWood

Privatize libraries, run them on a subscription basis, and transfer the spared tax dollars to the poor (who could then spend it on a library subscription if they preferred that to all other uses).

Mood.

I know this is tiresome, but words matter. MAGA is not conservative, it's radical or reactionary, it arose in opposition to conservatism. It's why Trump in 2016 pointed out "this is called the Republican Party, it's not called the Conservative Party."

Communists actually don't know what supply and demand are. It's really quite amazing

Never been more true

By the anti capitalist standard, “killed by capitalism” often just means someone wasn’t guaranteed housing, food, healthcare, or income regardless of whether anyone voluntarily chose to provide it. It’s essentially redefining dependency as a right, then calling the absence of forced support “violence.” By that logic, not buying someone lunch becomes “killing” them. Meanwhile they rarely apply the same standard to systems where governments directly imprisoned, starved, purged, or executed people for resisting collectivization. One side treats unmet desires as oppression. The other involves actual coercion and state force.

I was actually sort-of kind-of a sun worshipper in my youth.

Historians in 5000 A.D. “You realize Trump wasn’t a *real person,* right? The ancients made him up as a cautionary tale. No actual human would ever say the things attributed to him.”

Something I told 14 yo: There's a kind of politician who tells people "Your life is bad because <outgroup> stole what's rightfully yours. Vote for me and I'll get it back for you." They do it on both the left (Lenin) and right (Hitler), and they're invariably bad news.

There are certainly more things to learn beyond the basics. Everyone who tells you that the basics are wrong is not doing something more advanced, but rather peddling false nonsense.

Greenwald is a national treasure.

Yes, those were foundational principles for many traditional Republicans. Robert Taft (the "Mr. Republican" of the mid-20th century) was a leading voice for fiscal restraint, balanced budgets, and non-interventionism—opposing expansive foreign entanglements and deficit spending. Barry Goldwater's 1964 conservatism stressed limited government, individual liberty, and constitutional limits on spending and power, though his foreign policy was more robustly anti-communist than pure isolationism. Massie's approach echoes that older strain of Republicanism.

It's pretty wild how to this day nobody can articulate a solid reason why helping Israel benefits the American people. At best it's circular reasoning arguments like "They fight our enemies" when the "enemies" are only enemies because they hate Israel.

Honestly... Time is literally just a number... I'm on board with everyone on UTC. We don't need timezone headaches it is a problem we created

"existential": academic, abstract, pearl-clutching "risk": rare, unlikely, ignoring it is based "x-risk": nerdy, jargon, lame "extinction threat": oh you mean we might all actually fucking die

I so much hate that if I engage with a topic on here, that dominates my feed for hours or days. Yes I engage with libertarian content. No I don’t want to *only* see posts from libertarians bitching about the convention, or bitching about libertarians bitching about the convention