@voluntarian
I'm a Classical Voluntaryist/Market Mutualist. Politically/ethically influenced by Auberon Herbert's "voluntary government." Economically influenced by Benjamin Tucker's anti-monopolism & Philosophical Anarchism. https://voluntaire.substack.com/
One of Auberon Herbert's lesser known writings is "The Rights of Property." It deserves more recognition imo, so I turned it into an article
You can check it out here: voluntaire.substack.com/p/the-rights...
Or here: medium.com/@thevoluntar...
Auberon Herbert > Murray Rothbard
(I'll still read the article tho)
The state of the union is mid
At least they're honest
Can we still be friends if I'm a Left-Voluntaryist?
The Dow is down guys, we can finally ask about the Epstein files again
Conservatives are calling for disarming trans people because they're "mentally ill." They openly say this. Any "leftist" still advocating for gun control is literally going to hand the Conservatives the ability to oppress trans people without any fear of retaliation
This is why Benny T is the GOAT 🐐
One Drake mem, coming up
Also, just a reminder; Conservatives in the South restricted gun rights from black people to make it easier for the KKK to lynch them, and from workers to make it easier for factory owners to shoot striking workers
Matt Walsh advocates for restricting the (according to his own philosophy) natural, human right to self-defense and firearms from trans people solely because they transitioned
Remember when Conservatives said gun rights were to protect people from an oppressive State? That necessarily means that if they want gun rights restricted from a group, they want the State to have the ability to oppress that group, right?
Interesting position by Matt Walsh
Good flow, become a SoundCloud rapper
Tariffs are showing up on your bill hidden in the price of products that are significantly higher now than they were before tariffs. Imported agricultural machinery cost more. Businesses aren't taking the big hits; they're passing most of the tariffs to customers/consumers.
#TrumpFumbled economy.
My mistake. You're right, that specific set up would be inefficient.
It's good to have diverse energy sources in case one has to shut down. Anothe reason is some forms of clean energy will work better in other regions. Also, diverse energy sources avoids monopolization. Our grid is made around oil, and now supply shocks to oil affect the whole economy.
"All coercive interferences with vice end disastrously. They drive it out of the daylight into secret places, where it assumes lower and more degraded forms." -Auberon Herbert, The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State
"The Sociological Imagination" is a book by C. Wright Mills that introduced the idea of "the sociological imagination" to sociological analysis. Mills described the sociological imagination as "the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society."
"Individual Liberty" is a collection of articles by Individualist Anarchist/Socialist Benjamin Tucker, fleshing out his theory of Philosophical Anarchism
"What is Property?" by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon criticizes the private property norms, advocating for a possession norms & a Mutualist society.
Got some new books
I basically just joined BlueSky; had the account for a while but didn't use it. I started using it because Loyalists and MAGA "Libertarians" pmo.
The thing I find most shocking about BlueSky is the amount of Doctor Who posts on here. Let me just show this off:
