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Libertarians who believe the sole purpose of Libertarianism is maximising personal freedom are just economically literate anarcho-communists. Libertarianism at its deepest is letting things we did not design be. Something something taking Hayek very seriously.

Rip Habermas even though he RUINED libertarianism

Lowk real for the most part but Marx is so widely interpreted that indirect engagement and theoretically barricading the possibility of the system à la Mises is the best reasonable strategy of critique

@Inkiness110895 @LPCLC_TX @run_guns wise 👍

@Austroalian @LPCLC_TX @run_guns they are. it will just lead to chaos. the state needs to be actively cut down and reduced piece by piece, not all at once.

Take a moment to appreciate the greats

@Inkiness110895 @LPCLC_TX @run_guns That’s what I mean, decentralised tribes are a kind of statelessness, some much more controlling than others. Left libertarians and other anarchists who want an uncontrolled revolution out of state hatred seem very silly.

@Austroalian @LPCLC_TX @run_guns well it wasn't really a state, it was mostly just decentralized despotic tribes. and yes i would prefer a careful transition to not form a power vacuum

@Inkiness110895 @LPCLC_TX @run_guns Interesting thought. No state exit 99% of time before farming, even after farming no state for more time than there has been state, free market must be a strict subset of statelessness. Do you expect a careful transition to not get another kind of anarchy?

@Austroalian @LPCLC_TX @run_guns because the default human civilization is not a free market. monopolies will never emerge in a free market

@Inkiness110895 @LPCLC_TX @run_guns If monopolies are cannot exist without the state and the state is a monopoly, why state exist???

@Austroalian @LPCLC_TX @run_guns because it is has a monopoly on use of force

@LPCLC_TX @Inkiness110895 @run_guns If the modern state does not depend upon ideology but power structures in which it would presumably be outcompeted by now if your ideology were true, what hope even is there in attempting to achieve anarchy?

@Inkiness110895 @run_guns Hoppes theories fundamentally ignore basic political power structures, and assume that control can be easily established, and blame can be easily cast. It assumes that the legitimacy or power of a government operates on a populist base, when this is never the case.

@MelGivson2 @6NewsAU There is no world in which Iran could have a sufficient military buildup to genuinely threaten the United States. Every time there is even an indication that they might try this or that facility just gets blown up.

@6NewsAU They've killed the man who was the human handbrake against the hardliners who wanted to go full nuclear proliferation. I hope his martyrdom leads to the leveling of the terrorist states, Israel and the US

#BREAKING 🚨 Iranian state media has confirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead following US–Israeli airstrikes

@TropicnLoyalist @MythicallyMad @6NewsAU Live under Kier Starmer

@MythicallyMad @6NewsAU Genuine question - what do the British Greens do that Aus Greens don't?

#BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election in a significant blow to UK PM Keir Starmer Labour finished third in a previously safe seat with their vote halving to to 25%, while Reform were second with 29%

@6NewsAU Man what a mess she was

#BREAKING 🚨 Former opposition leader Sussan Ley has officially resigned from parliament, setting up a by-election in Farrer where she says a Liberal win is “vital” The contest is set to be multi-cornered with the Nationals, One Nation and independents running

@pcet2022 @1sum1else1 @AusPoll6 Jobseeker and the heaving abomination of the regulation-welfare state *is* the current economic system and it ought to be utterly abolished as soon as possible.

Rubbish. Pauline Hanson absolutely supports the current economic system. Pauline Hanson supports dumping hundreds of thousands of Australians into unemployment and into grotesque levels of poverty on Jobseeker. As a mechanism to protect the profits of Foreign Corporations from Inflation in the Economy. Including for the 108,000 proud Australian Women and 92,000 proud Australian blokes aged 55-64 - forced into unemployment and into poverty on Jobseeker. Pauline Hanson does not support the Right of Australian Citizens to protect their own health, safety and dignity with Employment. "Australia First"? #auspol

Federal voting intention (18-34) 🟥 ALP: 35% (-1) 🟩 GRN: 29% (+1) 🟦 L/NP: 14% (+3) 🟧 ONP: 11% (-3) ⬜️ IND: 3% (-) ⬛️ OTH: 8% (+1) YouGov | 17-24 Feb | n=~400 [subsample from nationwide poll] | +/- 3-10 Feb

@pcet2022 @1sum1else1 @AusPoll6 Hanson is a protectionist and does not believe in market solutions any more than labour. The liberals are more pro-market than One Nation.

@1sum1else1 @AusPoll6 To be clear - Pauline Hanson has no policies that protect the Right of Australian Citizens to Employment, Housing, Healthcare and Education. Pauline Hanson supports the current economic system of "the market" deciding what Australians can and can't access. Australia First?

Comments absolutely tweaking it is almost certainly a trigger-happy nothing event

@JOHN54379832 @CuriousPolite @thmsenglsh @AusPoll6 Would you not say then that us Australian libertarians have already sufficiently distinguished ourselves from the American LP?

@CuriousPolite @thmsenglsh @Austroalian @AusPoll6 A pause is exactly what people want, the issue libertarians have is America... their Libertarian Party is basically an open borders, pro trans, pro drugs party. The last few people put up as candidates for the Libertarian Party in USA were pro BLM open borders nutters.

NSW (state) voting intention (Sydney area) 🟥 ALP: 26% 🟧 ONP: 25.5% 🟦 L/NP: 20% 🟩 GRN: 13.5% ⬜️ IND: 12.5% ⬛️ OTH: 2.5% Two-party-preferred 🟥 ALP: 56.5% 🟦 L/NP: 43.5% ALP vs ONP 🟥 ALP: 58% 🟧 ONP: 42% L/NP vs ONP 🟦 L/NP: 57% 🟧 ONP: 43% Roy Morgan | 16-19 Feb | n=1000+ [subsample from statewide poll]

@thmsenglsh @AusPoll6 Clearly it has exceeded its own target audience since there is a similar trend of polls all over the country. You’d basically have to deny every poll for the last few months to not believe this one.

@Austroalian @AusPoll6 Because everything that one nation does is targeted to regional Qld.

@thmsenglsh @AusPoll6 Why not lol

@AusPoll6 Again I can't believe this. Metropolitan Sydneysiders are not voting 25.5% One Nation

@AusPoll6 3PP IS NOW NEEDED THE DUOPOLY IS DYING AAAAAAA

Federal voting intention (three-party-preferred) 🟥 ALP: 44% (-2) 🟧 ONP: 29% (+4) 🟦 L/NP: 27% (-2) Fox & Hedgehog | 17-19 Feb | n=1625 | +/- 5-6 Jan

@6NewsAU Prime Trump was so smart he stacked the court with normieservatives so they’d reel him in when he went senile. Unbelievable levels of 4d chess.

#BREAKING 🚨 The US Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are illegal The ruling has upheld a lower court's previous finding that the US president exceeded his authority by imposing tariffs under a law that was meant for national emergencies