michael fraker

@navyhato I’ve seen this playbook before. Take an established show/movie, race/gender swap the main characters, create shitty show/movie that is nothing like the original, show/movie bombs, blame its failure on racism/misogyny/transphobia/etc. Wash, rinse, repeat.

@DemzDeliver This is what it should be. Voluntary funding. DNC, you should turn into a go fund me type bbn organization. Preach the word of helping fellow man. Get out of government.

🚨 Taylor Swift to fund children's hospitals after Trump cuts hospital funding nationwide.

@CptAncapistan This dude is evil.

It’s been said before, but Ayn Rand really nailed it with her villains.

@AGDugin Pure communism! I suggest listening to Ayn Rand's Anthem youtube.com/playlist?list=…

The very concept of the success is deeply immoral. If you are successful the other is loser. We shouldn’t accept it. We should prosper or suffer together. Otherwise it is satanic.

@TimePreference_ Look at all these tax cattle, mad at someone for pointing out the tax farm. Their argument: if you can leave (no matter how difficult), it is immoral to not just take all the abuses heaped on you. The USA revolutionary war was immoral too?

taxation is not a social contract you never signed no opt-out clause no negotiation no consent it's a protection racket with better branding pay or we seize your property pay or we cage you pay or we garnish your wages the mafia offers the same deal the difference is the mafia doesn't call it civic duty

Picture a baker in Rome around 100 BC. He joins a collegium of fellow bakers, pays his dues, shares recipes, buys grain in bulk, and settles disputes with his peers over a cup of wine. Nobody forced him. He walked in because it paid to, and he could walk out the same way. That is a voluntary association, and it worked precisely because it was voluntary. Then the state arrived. By the reign of Trajan, and hardening under Diocletian and Constantine, the collegia stopped being clubs and became conscription lists. The emperors discovered something every ruler eventually discovers: a private guild is an inconvenient thing to tax and command, but a licensed monopoly is a beautiful thing to milk. So they licensed them. The pistores (the bakers) received legal privileges, guaranteed grain supplies, even exemptions from certain public duties. Generous, no? The price came due fast. Membership turned hereditary. Your father baked bread for the annona, so you would bake bread for the annona, and your son after you. The collegium became a caste. Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices in 301 AD then fixed what you could charge, which meant you produced at a loss or you didn't produce at all. Bakers fled their ovens. Shippers abandoned their vessels. The emperors responded by chaining men to their trades by law. Watch the mechanism, because it repeats across every century. The state grants a privilege. The privilege comes with a leash. The leash tightens until the "beneficiary" is a serf holding a charter. Free market thinkers have a name for the exchange the emperors offered: protection from competition in return for obedience. The baker who once set his own prices and hired whom he pleased now answered to a prefect. His guild, born to serve him, now served Rome. The bread got worse.

> "Why are Free Staters trying to convert others to your way of thinking?" Actually, we're not. We're the few libertarians who have largely given up on conversion. Conversion is what other libertarians do. We moved to NH because we think conversion is largely impossible. :) Authoritarians reading libertarians have to excuse us a bit. We have come to view the use of government to steal, initiate violence, and murder as a great evil, the same evil as if regular humans were doing these things. Nonlibertarians cannot see this. They believe one may steal, initiate violence, and murder if one does it through the state. And because the state does not send its employees to jail for these actions done in its name, nonlibertarians believe it's therefore not a "crime". Libertarians disagree. We believe ethical prohibitions against aggression are universal -- applying to every human, even a state worker. Almost every one of us had to "convert" from the same indoctrination that you were also raised with. This was a hard transition. For me, it took nine months of intense study, argument, and soul searching. It almost cost me my marriage. And our leftist friends, family, coworkers never looked at me the same way (nor I them). Because this transition is so hard, it's rare -- so rare, that a few of us subscribe to the Free State Project to create one place on earth where we can practice peaceful "live and let live" in peace. We uprooted our families to NH to escape the statist psychopathy, to live in peaceful respect of each other's self-ownership. We accept that authoritarians: a) have not gone through the intense reflection necessary to get to universal ethics, and b) probably can't endure that transition. They will continue their childhood myth of government employees as super-humans who have an exemption to the ethics the rest of us accept. Our free state movement is an acknowledgement of this great difficulty. Unlike the libertarians remaining in the Authoritarian-49 who hope to convert the world, we gave up on the effort for your conversion. Instead, we separated and moved here because we want to live in peace, protected from the vast majority of authoritarians who think it's totally fine to use state violence against us once they realize we disagree with them about how we should live our lives. I realize our perspective is quite alien to non-libertarians. It was a very difficult transition for me. We are simply trying to live our lives in peace, away from your acceptance of theft, jail, beatings, and murder. #Libertarian #LibertarianHomeland

When I was Muslim, Surah 5:32 was my favorite verse to quote. “Whoever kills a soul, it is as if he killed all of mankind.” I put it in every debate. Every conversation about Islam and peace. It felt like the most beautiful verse in the Quran. Then I read it slowly. The verse doesn’t say Allah revealed this to Muhammad. It says: “We decreed upon the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL…” Wait. Decreed where? When? I went looking. And I found it. Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5. A rabbinic commentary on Cain and Abel, written down around 200 AD — four centuries before the Quran. Rabbis discussing why Genesis says Abel’s “bloods” cry out — plural — and concluding: whoever destroys one soul, it is as if he destroyed an entire world. Word for word. Same context. Same Cain and Abel story it’s attached to in Surah 5. The most beautiful verse in the Quran is a rabbi’s classroom commentary. And that’s when the question changed for me. It was never “is this verse beautiful?” It was: what is a rabbinic homily doing inside a book that claims to be the eternal, uncreated speech of God? Because there are only two options: Either Allah quoted the rabbis. Or a man in Arabia heard Jewish teachers and repeated what they said. The Bible predicted men would do this too. Jeremiah 23:30 — “I am against the prophets who steal my words from one another.” Once I stopped defending man’s word… I found the Living Word. Christ Jesus my King.

@NellyBWilin @JAndrewLauer @BuenoForMiami I know this is X and people feel the need to be real piece of shits toward each other, but look at my responses and find any thing I wrote where we actually disagree. I said I was mistaken about your position. I do not think people need consent to operate their own property.

@JAndrewLauer @LibertyFrk @BuenoForMiami He still raises his hand to piss and he’s clearly a dog

I am a freedom absolutist. I believe individuals should be free to move to where there are better opportunities for themselves and their families, whether to another state or another country, as long as they do so peacefully.

Not only is there no example of predatory pricing working, we have a great example of it not working. A seller sold below cost to try to eliminate an upstart. The upstart bought the cheap chemicals and resold them. The predator went out of business. The upstart is now Dow Jones.

Guys my ideology is better bc "what if outnumber you?" You might think this is a dumb argument, but I actually disagree, this is perhaps the best pro commie argument to ever exist.

the public goods argument: some goods are non-excludable and non-rivalrous markets underproduce them therefore the state must provide them but lighthouses were privately built and profitable for centuries private roads existed before public ones private courts resolved disputes before state courts private security protects more property than police the theory assumes markets fail the evidence shows markets succeed what actually happens: entrepreneurs find excludability mechanisms subscriptions tolls memberships contracts or they bundle the good with excludable goods radio is non-excludable advertising made it profitable the public goods argument is an excuse for taxation not an economic necessity

@JAndrewLauer @NellyBWilin @BuenoForMiami Did you get the consent of all your neighborhood when you moved into your hone?

@LibertyFrk @NellyBWilin @BuenoForMiami Vehicles, tobacco, ethanol, and pyrotechnics are not people. They cannot invade and displace resident populations.

@NellyBWilin @JAndrewLauer @BuenoForMiami My bad, I got arguing against you by mistake. I thought you were the "consent absolutist" guy. I don't really get the second part of your post. It's just a picture, my name is up there.

@LibertyFrk @JAndrewLauer @BuenoForMiami I am an anarchist so it doesn’t matter I got a car paid off it’s an 09 gets 18 on the highway I would ask about yourself but you can’t even muster your own self in your avi….what pride do you own that’s a longer list for me

@JAndrewLauer @BuenoForMiami My dude, if you and your neighbor agree about everything, then I dont believe you actually have neighbors! A barking dogs is enough to start a Hatfield-McCoy level feud hahaha ( joking of course, but we've had neighbors try to sue each other over cameras!)

@LibertyFrk @BuenoForMiami Not if we agree.

@NellyBWilin @JAndrewLauer @BuenoForMiami That's great, but you are not a consent absolutist. That would be disastrous!! Do you ask for permission from your neighbor over what vehicles you park in your yard? What about cigars versus cigarettes? What about drinking on your porch? Fireworks? How many cars you own?

@LibertyFrk @JAndrewLauer @BuenoForMiami Well yeah you’re right I’m a Man first American second…since I’m righteous to boot I even will add the fact that I will have to yell at my neighbors from time to time but when the community is well knit we tend to pass around food and beers and cigarettes over a nice sunset…