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i think it is very dishonest and disgusting to block RT wholesale.

why isn't CNN blocked? it's part of project mockingbird which is an equivalently garbage form of government propagandizing.

@galena I'm not that familiar with Pokemon but from my limited experience with it, that's what it seems. I guess that's what happens when you let animals do all the work.

@galena The adults in the Pokemon universe seem otherwise useless anyway.

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@cee @icedquinn @Indigo I think Singapore also has a land-value tax but I think it's mostly used to fund public transportation. I wish that these UBI supporters would look at LVT instead.

@nerthos @allison @Moon @mrsaturday I usually only see Muslims on my campus. College-indoctrinated Muslims are the only ones I know.

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@PhenomX6 Accessibility isn't even about easy mode, kinda hate how people co-opted accessibility options to use it to push every game needing an easy mode when there's more serious and important accessibility shit going completely ignored and twisted into being just about adding easy modes.
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@Indigo Oh yeah another thing that has tainting anarcho-capitalism is that it has become a meme-ideology among zoomers. All these "recreational nuke" and "Chinese sex slave" memes really make us look like a fucking joke.

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@icedquinn @Indigo
>i would like to see better ways to handle the market for people who have low/zero income and social status.

I would probably be a Georgist if such a thing didn't require a state. It seems like UBI that can actually work.

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@icedquinn @Indigo
>now the libertarian argument is basically a huge hope that without government protected monopoly a zaibatsu won't be able to acquire enough power to do this

Well, Hoppeans believe that covenant communities can combat this. Ones with socially conservative values wouldn't tolerate such businesses or people supporting them and will disassociate with them.

@Moon @allison @mrsaturday I don't like the hijab and I especially hate how neolibs have glorified it.

@allison @Moon @mrsaturday I don't know. Islamaphobia seems to be less taboo than racism and is still acceptable among many conservatives.

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@icedquinn @Indigo Maybe we can have community regulation of the market instead of state regulation. I think that's what the mutualists want.

Have we gotten to the point where every console manufacturer and every digital stores bans all their versions of Tetris yet?

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@Indigo I agree that the word "capitalism" has been tainted by both the "left" and even the "right" to some extent. I prefer "Voluntaryist" or "Panarchist" because those terms sound more "inclusive" and less alienating and they don't imply that capitalism would be the only economic system. "Market anarchist" might imply mutualism or market socialism which I'm not exactly for, but not really against either. Honestly, I'm more in favor of P2P economies. I think that an economy that is mostly comprised of self-employed entrepreneurs is pretty based and advancements like 3D printing can make it a reality.

>we can't do that by digging our heels in and buying crypto.

There has been a lot of anti-crypto talk lately. I'm not anti-crypto, but I agree that we should not treat it like a panacea. It's pretty useful for doing counter-economics over the Internet, but I think for local stuff, people should just stick to precious metals. And people should consider using privacy coins like Monero or PirateChain over something like Bitcoin where all transactions are publicly visible on the blockchain.

People should also consider the fact that the state can (and probably will) force ISPs to block crypto protocols along with anonymizers like Tor, I2P, and VPNs. So, Agorists and crypto-anarchists better start creating underground ISPs and/or meshnets for when the time comes. Biden already signed an executive order that will include more crypto-regulations and is probably going to introduce a central-bank digital currency once the US dollar collapses.

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I think my disillusionment with the "Libertarian" movement can be broken into two halves, both of which boil down to semantics when you think about it.
The first is economics, and the begrudging admission that it is, at this point, impossible to separate the "bad" of capitalism (cronyism, corporatism, etc.) from the "good" (free enterprise, individual ownership etc.) without it fundamentally becoming something else in a modern context.
This is why I call myself a "free market Anarchist" and not an AnCap; it's because that while I do think free markets are the way to go, I can't live in the delusion that the monster "capitalism" has been perverted into by oligarchs and billionaires can be fixed by restoring "real capitalism," any more, I think those days Ron Paul pined for in those books I read in high school are probobly gone forever now.
The second is the simple fact that they will *never* leave you alone. Galt's Gulch is a fantasy and it will never exist. You can't fuck off to a cabin in the mountains, because the state will eventually come and take your cabin no matter how many guns or bars of gold you have squirreled away.
If the state is allowed to perpetuate it will inevitably become a tyrannical dictatorship (we're already there in all but name), this is what "Minarchists" don't seem to get, the state is a germ, and if you don't kill it then all you're doing is treating symptoms. And if we're going to eliminate the state, then we need to completely retool society to create something compatible with anarchy, we can't do that by digging our heels in and buying crypto.
Whatever productive form that takes, whether it's AnComs making functional communes apart from the state, or Agorists replacing state functions with counter-economics, I'm with it. Your flag can be any color as long as it's black.
:anarchistflagblack:
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current thing: :blobcatcouncil: nato! joining nato is a human right! raaa!
anti current thing: :gummycouncil: nato expansionism bad! sleepy hitler!

confused blob: :blobcatwaitwhat: what exactly does the average american get out of NATO again we spend a ton of money arming bases in europe and they still have import taxes on colonial goods
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>Game promoting socialism
>Uses corporate artstyle

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