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For all the tininess of its political percentage among the general population, libertarian Twitter is incredibly widespread and diverse in personality, background, age, temperament, talent, and principal.
My sense is that if we can get beyond the individualistic "herding cats" tendency amongst most libertarians, and truly organized for shared goals, our political capital would be far more dominant than it currently is, perhaps enough to educate the populace into mainstream acceptance of Austrian economics, instill universal negative rights ethics, and even possibly be free in our lifetime.
The above would require an organizing effort unlike what English speaking libertarians have experienced in generations, and it would take a study and acceptance of organizing not commonly found among modern libertarians, especially from its movement leaders. Doing so would also require an extreme increase in empathy (less autism), greater acceptance of voluntary collective action, and a championing of the common or working man and labor markets in the context of what libertarianism brings to the general public, beyond the hero worship of the entrepreneur, if we are to truly capture the hearts and minds of the people.
The world is in many ways entering a crossroads, an inflection point, and we have the numbers and the answers, to lead the next evolutional age of advancement for civilization, rather than destruction and collapse, or greater totalitarianism, so often regressed into in the past; if we only but remember the ancient and modern lesson:
"United we stand, divided we fall" — Aesop
''We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately.'' — Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence
“If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” — Mark 3:25
“Untied we bargain, divided we beg” — Trade Union Slogan
@ggreenwald Is this worse than elected officials sleeping or consorting with Chinese spies, such as Eric Swalwell and Diane Feinstein?
Infiltration is likely much deeper than we know, and is usually swept under the rug. The Huang affair has the hallmarks of a public-targeted setup hit job.
@JossKnow@FuentesUpdates Libertarians won America. That is my legacy and birthright. You are a slave who calls sucking off your masters domination over you winning. You are a prison bitch, and that is what you deserve.
@hailnetanyahu@FuentesUpdates He didn't mention it because he's an idiot who doesn't know how this shit actually works.
As for corporations, they are literal creations of the government that have liability protections against harming the people. Completely anti-libertarian
I'm not sure you know what you're talking about.
Before labor law existed, and when there was a higher density of union jobs, most private union contracts included 'closed shop' provisions, meaning that by private contract, employers could only hire union employees. The government made this private agreement illegal on a federal level. And in right to work states, not only could businesses and unions not bargain on who to hire, but businesses were forced to hire non-union employees, while the union is forced to represent those non-union employees for free. Literal slavery and state socialism.
The union is voted in or out by employee majorities, which is roughly similar to how it worked before labor law. The advent of labor law saw a decline in unionism, and I would be most happy to see its repeal so that the power of workers was not so hamstrung by government.
But this is getting besides the point. With or without labor law, there are plenty of job opportunities where you can work for a union employer or not, you can just expect to be paid less with less benefits, less bargaining power, little job protection, and no representation at a non-union shop. Why you would expect to be non-union at a union employer sounds silly to me, didn't exist in pre-labor law shops, and only exists now due to government intervention and state socialism in Republican states.
@Dreamd0nt@FuentesUpdates America first means Americans are not to be the bitch of government or corporate power, which Nick craves as a gay power bottom
@susanhogarth@Britt4Liberty The idea is that with someone like Massie on the LP ticket, a 5% threshold could be reached for matching funds and lists, which would open a major future lane for the LP, while also being able to leverage deals to a much higher degree.
You’ve understandably run from and changed the subject, which is fine, as I’m happy to talk unionism.
While I agree about public sector unions and the need for labor law repeal, none of the rest of your post is accurate. You further assume that because some unionists lobby government that I do, likely because you are an un-nuanced collectivist. Lobbying government is not a tenant of unionism, nor is it how unions began or originally thrived.
You have no “right to work” for anyone who chooses not to hire you, or contracts to hire others exclusively instead. You are spouting state socialist garbage, desiring to use the power of the state to force businesses to hire whom they otherwise wouldn’t, while interfering with private contracts and restricting what they are allowed to negotiate.
You are propagating and in favor of state socialist and authoritarian policy, completely antithetical to the principles of libertarianism, speaking of rabies, dogs, idiots and negative value to society. Do better.
We do fund dissidents, but it is never for moral reasons, though that is what they may tell you. It is done at the behest of corporate interests to cause chaos, coups, and regime change for their benefit that you pay for, first through the government, and then through economic manipulation. You are very naive if you think such intervention, which is an act of war and the hallmark of neocons, ever could be done for your benefit.
Agreed. I’m just relaying the mechanics of the plan after some public discussion/debate I’ve had with Heise over the past few days.
He would counter you by saying such deals are in the interests of libertarians by leveraging libertarian interests into the establishment when it is understood that LP candidates won’t win and would gain nothing by losing for libertarians without such deals.
@RoyalAshborn@calebzgeekn@FuentesUpdates I literally just admitted and explained how the military distorts and damages economics and geopolitics. And you want more? Are you retarded?
The Straight was open until the war started, and we don’t subsidize the Chinese government or other governments for their rare earths.
What we have done for decades is regime change and pay off dictators and corrupt governments that allow for special, exclusive deals for our billionaire class, at the expense of their competitors, and allows our corporations to rig the market against us the people into paying monopoly prices.
It’s all a scam, these subsidies. You literally pay your government to allow corporations to rig the market against you for what you need. There’s no moral use of subsidies, and the fact that Nick doesn’t know a free market produces the widest access and lowest prices demonstrates he’s either a fed or a complete nitwit in terms of understanding economics and geopolitics.
This is just incorrect factually and historically. Commune is the base word of communism. Communes have historically been both libertarian and authoritarian. Likewise, Marx was often criticized by his contemporary communists for assuming authoritarianism, or even a state at all, was required in a communist society.
But Marx' assumptions were the ones that were popularized, and today, you use a Marxist interpretation of reality and language without even realizing it. Many such cases.
I haven’t redefined anything.
Many people, including yourself, put a Marxist overlay and interpretation onto these words that have nothing to do with their actual base meaning. Doing so assumes aggression and coercion where none exists, which makes dialogue of distilled concepts impossible across ideologies; but maybe that’s the point.
I break down such barriers, and don’t take Marxist interpretations as a given. You would be amazed how much mutual cross-ideological disagreements and misunderstandings are resolved after terms are purified clean of authoritarian assumptions.
@AustinShiloh1@MisesChair@MarioNawfal@RepThomasMassie No one is compelling you to speak. Feel free to run away from your words above all you like. Neither am I surprised that you hate the free association of unionists.
The fact that you would "align voting blocks" with your candidate's opponents is all we need to know.
A commune, as outlined above, is voluntary communism. Communism and capitalism (and more) can exist, even side by side, in a voluntarist paradigm.
Communism and capitalism are only enemies to each other and their own citizens in a coercive paradigm.
Coercion/aggression is the actual enemy of humanity.