Libertarian Discussion Thread

[Taihei Tengoku]

Bryan Caplan does this and he gets called a globalist cuck from one side and a neoliberal shill from the other.

I think even the most liked presidents and candidates get shit talked.

This is the usual reaction to Bryan Caplan's most well-known position: open borders. He's done a lot of empirical study to show how it would be incredibly beneficial to everyone but everyone hates him for it.

[Mattopilos II]

I think even the most liked presidents and candidates get shit talked.

This is the usual reaction to Bryan Caplan's most well-known position: open borders. He's done a lot of empirical study to show how it would be incredibly beneficial to everyone but everyone hates him for it.

What people claim to be beneficial can be quite irrational.

[The Liberated Territories]

Lots of people seem reflexively against the idea of open borders, even a lot of people on the left.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rs-economy

For extra cancer, read the comments section!

[Mattopilos II]

Lots of people seem reflexively against the idea of open borders, even a lot of people on the left.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rs-economy

For extra cancer, read the comments section!

The Guardian is a joke.

[Nordengrund]

Lots of people seem reflexively against the idea of open borders, even a lot of people on the left.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rs-economy

For extra cancer, read the comments section!

I'm mixed. I believe we have borders for a reason, but I'm pretty lax about immigration and who should be let into the country.

[Great Minarchistan]

I'm mixed. I believe we have borders for a reason, but I'm pretty lax about immigration and who should be let into the country.

Honestly you should be able to join the country as long as you know the official (or most popular in the case of US) language of the country, has a good education level (middle or high school completed) and is willing to either study or work in such country.

[The Liberated Territories]

the pie fallacy is bad

[Northern Davincia]

the pie fallacy is bad

Is it pie flavored?

[Great Minarchistan]

the pie fallacy is bad

Is it pie flavored?

It's Ajit Pai flavored.

[Janszoonia]

Is it pie flavored?

It's Ajit Pai flavored.

Ajit Pai made ancap memes real.

[The Liberated Territories]

One of the first libertarian essays I've read and it hits me in the feels (and I don't get hit in the feels often):

https://www.panarchy.org/rothbard/left.html

[VoVoDoCo]

One of the first libertarian essays I've read and it hits me in the feels (and I don't get hit in the feels often):

https://www.panarchy.org/rothbard/left.html

Almost done reading it. This is some good stuff.

[The Flutterlands]

It's Ajit Pai flavored.

Ajit Pai made ancap memes real.

Except he,banned states from making their own laws. So much for state rights.

[Janszoonia]

Ajit Pai made ancap memes real.

Except he,banned states from making their own laws. So much for state rights.

But don't you like the thought of real life ancap memes?

[Agritum]

Lots of people seem reflexively against the idea of open borders, even a lot of people on the left.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rs-economy

For extra cancer, read the comments section!

Plenty of closed border lefties out there, they are almost as bad as the right wing version.

[What R Ye Doin in Muh Swaomp]

You guys are more on my wavelength. I wanna be left alone by stupid governments.

[Eibenland]

Lots of people seem reflexively against the idea of open borders, even a lot of people on the left.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rs-economy

For extra cancer, read the comments section!

The Guardian is a joke.

That was an opinion piece, not endorsed by The Guardian. Many of the opinion pieces are garbage, others are semi-decent.

[Northern Davincia]

Ajit Pai made ancap memes real.

Except he,banned states from making their own laws. So much for state rights.

Economic freedom usurp state rights every time.

[The Liberated Territories]

Ajit Pai made ancap memes real.

Except he,banned states from making their own laws. So much for state rights.

Local governments creating their own laws is why net neutrality is effed up in the first place.

https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-t ... mpetition/

[VoVoDoCo]

You guys are more on my wavelength. I wanna be left alone by stupid governments.

[Mattopilos II]

The Guardian is a joke.

That was an opinion piece, not endorsed by The Guardian. Many of the opinion pieces are garbage, others are semi-decent.

I know, yet people take them seriously. That is what I mean.

[Northern Davincia]

You guys are more on my wavelength. I wanna be left alone by stupid governments.

The more the merrier.

[The Liberated Territories]

I have to admit to the LDT that I am fairly apathetic these days to advancing liberty. It seems that no matter what we try, we cannot influence people to think rationally. And even when we consider using emotional arguments or memes, mythical threats such as immigrants or private corporations making money seem to motivate people far more than having the government have the ability to literally take your livelihood away, throw you in prison, or even kill you arbitrarily.

Perhaps I need to spend less time on facebook.

[Taihei Tengoku]

don't convince randos on facebook convince people that matter

[Northern Davincia]

I have to admit to the LDT that I am fairly apathetic these days to advancing liberty. It seems that no matter what we try, we cannot influence people to think rationally. And even when we consider using emotional arguments or memes, mythical threats such as immigrants or private corporations making money seem to motivate people far more than having the government have the ability to literally take your livelihood away, throw you in prison, or even kill you arbitrarily.

Perhaps I need to spend less time on facebook.

This is why I believe in change from within, and why I'm a Republican. The right and left have generations of straw men to throw at libertarians working from the bottom-up, but Ron Paul showed us the proper way is top-down.