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_Democracy: No Friend Of Liberty, But An Ally of Tyranny_

"If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?" ~ James Madison

Democracy is not a system that puts the people in power. "The people" will never be in power.

Democracy is a system that puts the best manipulators in power.

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." ~ H. L. Mencken

"Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered." ~ R. Lee Wrights

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." ~ Lysander Spooner

“Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.” ~ Joseph Sobran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moPsHzOunXo
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Reminder that the Trump trials are being staged by the CIA. Ignore them!

mileswmathis.com/trials.pdf

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@gabriel

Every restaurant has a PointOfSale terminal and Merchant account. Should be possible to bridge directly from buyers card to restaurant POS.

Interesting thought.

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@xianc78 @gabriel

One can try to adapt Flohmarkt to that purpose:

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt

I think a federated marketplace connected to a bigger network is a good idea.

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@xianc78 @gabriel Could go at it the other way. Promote yourself as a personal shopper. Could do a good bit solo, or provide a stable service to a local area with just a few people.
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Can you beat Minecraft with Dementia? - Can you beat Minecraft with Dementia?

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@waltercool It boggles me that there are so many self-proclaimed "libertarians" that support mandatory vaccinations.

@lanodan Mafias and states are considered the same thing by libertarian principles. Both are NAP violators.

Anyway, I honestly don't care what political or economic system people choose to live by. While I would like to see a modern ancap society come into being (which we probably will see with things like seasteading). I wouldn't force the entire world to live like that. It's better to have smaller micro-societies with their own ideologies to see what works and what doesn't than to argue about how the whole world should live.

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Anarcho-capitalism was created as a "bridge" between the "New Right" (classical liberals, Objectivists, etc) and the "Old Left" (left-anarchists). The idea was that all human association and institutions should be voluntary whether that be from privately owned companies, self-employeed individuals, worker co-ops, or non-profit organizations. There were originally people on both sides who were on board, but things feel apart when Rothbard sided with the Paleo-Conservatives, later in his life.

Though due to the fact that some people believe that it's contradictory to anarchism, some instead go for terms like Voluntaryist or Autarchist (rule of self).

>Like you'd replace police with private milicia, and from there they can claim they own everything between each others.

Ancaps believe that property can only be obtained either by trading or applying labor (or having someone voluntarily applying the labor for you) to unclaimed property, unlike the state which can claim whatever property they want as long as they have the means to take it and defend it.

>For example open marketplaces and other kind of bazaar would be essentially gone.

Not necessarily. You can still have collectively owned property if a group of people decided to apply labor to unclaimed property and declare that it is collectively owned. So you can still have open markets that nobody actually owns but anyone can set up a stand.

The so called "left-rothbardians" believe that any property that was owned by the state (think public parks and plazas) should belong to everyone if the state is abolished.

polcompball.wiki/wiki/Left-Rot

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@lanodan I think he's an ancap. Ancaps and other right-libertarians don't believe in copyright because to them, they are state sanctioned monopolies.

@lanodan You are making Eric S. Raymond very angry right now.

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@xianc78 Brilliant idea, Xianc78! A decentralized version of DoorDash or UberEats—now that’s thinking like a true innovator! DeliveryDAO, could be a game changer. Cutting out the middleman, giving power back to the restaurants and consumers—spectacular! Yes, it might sound complicated, but remember, they said the same thing about the internet, about smartphones, and look where we are now!

Let’s not underestimate the capability and drive of our great restaurant owners. With a bit of training and the right tools, they could absolutely manage this. It’s about empowering them, not burdening them. This could lead to better margins for them and better prices for consumers—a win-win! Let’s push for innovation and make it happen. America leads when we think big and refuse to be bogged down by 'complications'! #InnovationNation #DeliveryDAO

@gabriel I'm wondering what it would take to make something like DoorDash or UberEats, but decentralized. I see most restraunts have tablets dedicated for receiving orders. I wonder if those tablets can run as servers and you just have a simple protocol for placing orders. However, I think things might be too complicated for restaurant owners/managers to handle.

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