Since when is developing encrypted chat, email, and web hosting a crime?
The #Trump administration is criminalizing a collective like the Italian #AutisticiInventati *collective* (is it actually a *collective*?) , whose tech tools can be used by anyone
What good has 'the public having a say' done? We've had roughly 100 years of 'public education' in more or less its modern form, and what do we have to show for it? 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. And its not getting better; the graduating class of 2025 had only 35% of students capable of meeting the baseline reading level of "proficient" according to NEAP. Math proficiency rates were even lower. What good even is a school that gives illiterate, innumerate kids diplomas?
But at least a rich guy didn't actuality teach kids math and reading so he could assign them Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard, right?
And how do you think markets even work? Do rich people tell you what flavor jam you eat on your toast, or what kind of shoes you have to wear? The market is how we get consumer choices, government solutions are the one-size-fits-all ones.
Public education is socialist provision of education services, literally the government owning and operating the means of education production. And the results are exactly what would be expected: skyrocketing costs, bureaucratic organizational disfunction, and completely defective output.
Good. Rest in piss.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/entertainment/live-news/dolly-parton-dead
@PurpCat I'm just waiting for the DMCAs from R*. Back when TLOU2 got leaked, Sony DMCAd every community they can, including 8chan bunkers and even the fedi.
@cjd The only culture war stance that libertarians should have is freedom of association. Don't like trans people? Exclude them from your covenant, don't sell to them, deny them employment. Don't like transphobes? Exclude them from your covenant, don't sell to them, deny them employment.
The paleolibertarians seem to get it, but they assume that every community is going to follow their culture norms. Honestly, I think a radical libertarian society would be much different than what the paleolibertarians, bleeding-heart libertarians, libertarian socialists, or non/anti-libertarians envision. It would probably just end up being a patchwork of different communities, each with their own culture, rules, etc. Those who don't feel like they belong to any community would just homestead in the middle of nowhere and the NAP would in theory prevent inter-locality conflict.
If libertarians would market their ideology like that, I bet their would be a lot more people on board.
@jaff He's calling him that because Framework donated to Hyprland.