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Judge Stephen Higginson dissented, warning the en banc court has transformed a Second Amendment case into a sweeping Commerce Clause challenge that could "imperil much of the United States Code." He said the consequences for federal law are "hard to overstate."

🚨 The Fifth Circuit will reconsider the constitutionality of the federal felon-in-possession law under the Commerce Clause and Lopez, vacating its earlier Second Amendment ruling upholding the statute and granting rehearing en banc.

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I promised a steelman of Liberalism, and here it is. Liberalism is the political philosophy that defends the freedom of the individual against tyranny, whether in the form of kings or the mob. There are four essential principles that make up Liberalism: 1) Individual Liberty Every person is born with rights that are not allotted by the state, but are rather self-evident and granted by God or Nature. These include freedom of speech, the right to worship however they please (if at all), to own property, and to associate freely with others in a system of voluntary contract without coercion from the state. The role of the state is not to define the good life, but to protect the individual's right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, provided they are not infringing on the rights of others. Nor is this a comprehensive list of individual freedoms, either. There are others that our founding documents recognize under the 9th and 10th amendments. The lack of a codified freedom does not mean the lack of freedom itself. 2) The Rule of Law Power must not be arbitrarily wielded by tyrants. No one wants to live under a Caligula or a Stalin. Accordingly, authority has to be bound by a codified list of rules that even the powerful must respect and obey. We call this codification a Constitution, a system of Checks and Balances, and an institutional framework that protects the rights of all minorities, even the individual, against both the power of the state as well as the will of the majority. Ultimately, the Law itself must rule over society, not the will of a single powerful individual or faction. 3) Equality Before the Law Liberalism does not promise equality of outcomes, but equality of treatment. No one is born into a higher or lower legal status. Whether rich or poor, man or woman, young or old, citizen or immigrant, each person deserves equal protection and due process under the law. Justice is blind, and in place of the old aristocracy of blood, liberals recognize a meritocracy of talent and skill. 4) Political Pluralism and Tolerance A liberal society is a marketplace of ideas, not the gulag of totalitarian states or the throne and altar of absolute monarchies. Disagreement is not a threat to be crushed, but a means to test out new ideas and discover what works. And instead of adjudicating those disagreements by the sword, Liberalism promotes a republican or democratic form of government that allows all citizens to engage in a process of open debate and dialogue, and to live peacefully alongside others with different worldviews. Liberalism holds that the state should not impose a single moral or religious doctrine or worldview, but should instead protect the rights of all. This is what it means to have a truly pluralistic and tolerant society. "Tolerance" does not imply approval. It means resisting the urge to coerce those whom you cannot convince. --- As a former Classical Liberal myself, I believe this faithfully articulates the Liberal worldview in a way that does not constitute a strawman. And it doesn’t end with these four principles either. Liberalism has been the most successful engine of human freedom and flourishing in history. It overthrew monarchy, built constitutional governments, ended slavery, expanded civil rights for millions who never enjoyed a say in how their own government works, raised billions out of poverty through free markets, created societies where political dissent isn’t punished with prison or death, and outlasted the twin totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century (Fascism and Communism). If there is any ideology that deserves to claim the mantle as humanity’s final stage of political development, it is Liberalism. So how could I and millions of others possibly oppose any of this? And not just oppose it out of habit or birth, but walk away from it after once proudly calling ourselves Liberals? I will do my best to explain why in this thread below. This is by no means a comprehensive set of objections (that would take an entire book), but the summary is this: "The Postliberal Right does not deny that Liberalism was born as a revolt against tyranny. We reject it because it has become a new and more nefarious form of tyranny that wears the mask of human rights and freedom while dissolving the necessary foundations for the very freedom and prosperity that Liberalism claims to cherish."

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@observer1492 @VDAREJamesK Just do net taxpayer + more votes for those who contribute more. Far simpler.

@VDAREJamesK My ideal requirements to vote - Age 18+ - Both parents natural-born citizens (jus sanguinis, abolish jus soli) - Net contributors as a household - Pass a civics test - Pass a drug test (no votes for potheads)

The Curley Effect really should have been the last word on democracy.

@siaj92 @MagnaGlossatura @Visitsghhg @TadhgHickey Well, NATO and Europe by extension do.

@MagnaGlossatura @Visitsghhg @TadhgHickey Who cares about your fucking military

If Small Dick Energy was an entire nation.

@crobe2222 @NoBiscotti They are saying that, you're just being smug assholes about it

@NoBiscotti like i don't understand why US fans can't just say "yeah we lost lol"

“Quick let me bring up a bunch of metrics that doesn’t matter to football, that will really show them”

@Kraktoput @neoliberal_hack @celinedionysus_ Because they don't have infinite tax loot to draw from unlike governments.

@neoliberal_hack @celinedionysus_ >Private developers are able to build much more efficiently than the government. Why?

LOL Cassie wants you to live in the projects after taxing the fuck out of you to build them for 3x the cost private developers can build them

@Roog_enjoyer @bfkrklklkr @lyrasie Depends on whether it harms another's property.

@bfkrklklkr @lyrasie Do you believe pollution constitutes an act of aggression; yes or no?

libertarianism is the very funny belief that all forms of power and control are necessarily 'aggressive' *except* Money, which is somehow not responsible for any aggression whatsoever

@AGlavkoverkh @LaissezCorvid @sleepy_devo How aren't they grounded? Why?

@ttskipuri @LaissezCorvid @sleepy_devo Hoppe’s theories aren’t grounded. Hes a moron

Dev is still pretending he's a liberal and not a closeted social democrat?

@AGlavkoverkh @LaissezCorvid By this logic the USSR wasn't socialist

@LaissezCorvid Mussolini was not a syndicalist. The trade unions did not control everything. The state did. He did not abolish private property or give the means of production to the workers. The state directed the economy top down.

"A fascists intellectual (the most influential intellectual behind fascism, specifically) saying what fascism is does not make that an accurate representation of fascism." Also, syndicalism is still socialism, with "the working class" replaced with syndicates/trade unions.

@AGlavkoverkh @LaissezCorvid @sleepy_devo As far as I know, Rawls is a prominent modern liberal thinker, so don't accuse me of putting words in your mouth.

@AGlavkoverkh @LaissezCorvid @sleepy_devo So Hoppe (whose theories are grounded in observable human action and logic, per the Austrian method) is retarded but Rawls and his detached-from-reality theories (veil of ignorance FTW!) are galaxy-brain? WTF kind of logic is this?

@ChristianHeiens I thought the UK had parliamentary sovereignty? Why can't they pass a new law with a simple majority?

Keir Starmer's successor, whoever that will be, will fail just like he did. The United Kingdom is ungovernable at this point because the elected government no longer controls the state apparatus. The unholy blob that Tony Blair constructed runs everything, and they answer to no one. Starmer himself literally said that he pulls a lever and nothing happens. His replacement will find those levers still do nothing. Without a massive purge of the NGOs, the Quangos, the courts, the civil service, and the administrative state, changing Prime Ministers will do about as much good as swapping out a kid's steering-wheel toy in a car that's hurdling off a cliff.

@AGlavkoverkh @LaissezCorvid @sleepy_devo Well, democracy and capitalism, as Hoppe establishes in Democracy: the God that Failed and related works.

@LaissezCorvid @ttskipuri @sleepy_devo There is no such thing as correct liberalism because there arent contradictory premises. Please establish the contradiction

So, given classical social democracy opposes any real/substantive form of capitalism (it seeks to gradually replace it with socialism) and thus endorses widespread legal plunder executed by the state, it's clearly incompatible with the first of your stated tenets of liberalism. Not to mention capitalism and democracy are mutually contradictory anyway (because the basic tenet of democracy is that the many should be able to legally loot and plunder the few if they so wish). Also, current forms of progressive liberalism and social democracy very much violate the third stated tenet, as seen by wokeism and the progressive stack treating individuals and groups unequally under the law (for example DEI initiatives and racial or sexual/gender quotas) based on perceived victimhood/oppression status.

@ttskipuri @sleepy_devo @LaissezCorvid Its all forms of liberalism. General liberalism exists to support 3 values: Capitalism Democracy Equality under the law

@LaissezCorvid I don't this necessarily means that he's just a generic neoliberal.

@LaissezCorvid Didn't he say that he simply wants to implement libertarianism gradually? He doesn't have enough support in Congress to snap his fingers and turn Argentina into ancapistan.

Also, Argentina is doing great, even under Milei's neoliberalism. Communists just keep lying about Argentina and hoping you're dumb enough to fall for it.

@JediGhostBear82 @sleepy_devo @LaissezCorvid I don't see how this is relevant?

@ttskipuri @sleepy_devo @LaissezCorvid Socialism predates Marx by decades

@AGlavkoverkh @sleepy_devo @LaissezCorvid Forgot to add bureaucratic, managerial and therapeutic there, but oh well.

@AGlavkoverkh @sleepy_devo @LaissezCorvid Well, I thought we weren't talking about today's progressive liberalism given the context of the conversation.