A Bad Poster posted:

I got to watch a libertarian's brain fry when I pointed out that what he was advocating for was anarchy after he said that he just "doesn't want anyone, man or government, to tell me what I can and cannot do."

bird food bathtub posted:

All of this is a good thing in the GOP's world view. The more hosed up and dysfunctional the government, the more the monied interests behind them can burn the country down to loot the ashes and the more the political office seekers can campaign on GUBMINT BAD (and, lately, transition to "everything is bad and it's [insert minority]'s fault, let me punish them for you")

They WANT to break everything this way.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

ded posted:

In local news...

You know that $500 in medical grade masks my family sent out over a week ago to China? Ya well they have been sitting in San Fran for over a week and the US government (usps) is refusing to send it. Along with a butt ton of other packages. Nothing is going to China right now.

We are trying to get them to give us the packages back but I have a feeling it will not happen for months.


edit : they are also holding things marked as donations for the outbreak. we only know this because of internal messages in the usps

hobbesmaster posted:

Ancaps are very common in the US. Also in dystopian fiction.

some idiot on r/AnCap posted:

I was beat up by left anarchists in Greece. (self.Anarcho_Capitalism)
submitted 3 years ago by AnCapNAPs

I don’t usually use forums or Reddit, I usually just post comments on Ancap blogs like Molyneux or Cantwell’s blog, but they didn’t seem appropriate places to post my story. So here goes, I just wanted to share this with all of you.

Nov 3 I flew to Europe for a Eurotrip type tour. Not a guide or packaged deal, just going around by myself. I paid for half of the trip with the wages I earned over the last two years, my dad paid for the other half. I am 19, I guess that is normal starting college and all. (Before that I worked for my dad’s company part time, so I guess you could say he paid for all of it, lol).

I did France and then Italy and then Greece next. I am an Ancap so I wanted to see anarchists in these places. Yes, I know they are different kinds of “anarchists” and not really full anarchists like us. I went to an anarchist book store in Italy and it had a lot of English books, but no Rothbard or Ancap. Like I said, I expected that, not a surprise.

I went to Greece, which everyone knows is famous for its revolutionary anarchism, its economic crisis and everything going on right now. Here I found directions for a local anarchist center. I went and didn’t see anybody, but it was covered in graffiti, mostly in Greek so I couldn’t read it. Whatever, I started taking pictures. Then some people came out and confronted me.

This should have been my first warning sign something was not right, because photography is not a crime. They were not violent, but they were not friendly, like asking who I was, what I wanted. They all spoke good English actually. Not uncommon in Greece. I said I was a tourist and an anarchist and I just wanted to take pictures. Then they got friendly and told me I should have asked first (but pictures are no NAP violation so I don’t know why, but I didn’t say anything) and they invited me inside.

We hung out for a while and smoked hash (there is no good dank in Europe as you might find out like in Cali, everyone smokes hash with tobacco which isn’t as cool as it sounds). We started talking about politics and anarchism. I was trying to talk about the state, they were like yeah no doubt the state was bad. But they wanted to talk about capitalism, capitalism this and that. This is when we started to get into a debate.

I told them that what they called capitalism is different from the free market. They said capitalism is free markets. And I said I agreed. That is what I am saying. Real capitalism is free markets. And they said yes, that is what we are trying to get rid of. And I said no, but we don’t even have that right now. We need more free markets. And everyone at the same time was like “nooo” we are anarchists, we are against capitalism. Anarchists oppose capitalism.

And I said but not anarcho-capitalists. Anarcho-capitalists are the anarchists who support capitalism. I had a fanny pack (yeah, lame I know) for my camera and in that I had this yellow and black bowtie (also super lame, it was a joke but I wasnt wearing it). And I said look, these are the Ancap colors, yellow and black, like versus the communist red and black. Well, these guys had a lot of red and black in the building already so I thought they would get it.

I think that is when it started to get a really bad vibe, really tense in the air. The free market thing was funny, we disagreed but I think they thought I was just confused. Everyone was uncomfortable now. Then someone said markets wont work with democracy. And I said exactly, that’s it, democracy is against anarchism. And they kind of agreed, and said yes, we don’t have real democracy, just governments, and we needed more democracy. I said no, we need less democracy, democracy is the enemy. And we need to end democracy to have anarchy. Then they were all like “noooo” again. You know that thing people do in groups when everyone all says “nooo” or expresses some disapproval at the same time.

And one of them said “but we do want to stop democracy” and then they kind of spoke back and forth in Greek. I didn’t really understand it. And they asked me what I meant.

So I said okay, I had the floor, I was going to tell them about ancapism. And I tried to explain to them some Rothbard and Hoppe. I said the natural order in anarchy is that the best rise to the top, the market picks who is the best. They compete and are peaceful. They said what do we want instead of anarchy. I said we want private owners to own their own land and businesses, and to employ people. They said that is what we have now. I said no, it would be even better. One of the guys said it was like feudalism. And I said it is not feudalism.

Eventually one of the guys spoke up and I thought he was Greek, but he spoke English perfectly so he may have not been. He said he knew what anarcho-capitalism was and that we were basically fascists. He asked me if I thought everything should be private. And I said yes. And he asked me if I thought people were unequal. And I told him yes. And that not everyone would have equal rights. I said everyone has the right to own property and not be done aggression against. But that not everyone had to be treated equally by the owners. He said what about immigrants and racism. And I said that would not happen in a free market, but yes property owners could be racist if they wanted to. They had to respect property.

Then he called me a fascist again, and someone else said I was a fascist. And then they basically all started shouting fascist at me, and one of them grabbed me by the wrists. They pulled me out the door, it was up three floors, and basically drug me down the stairs on my back. It hurt really bad and I remember yelling “you’re breaking the NAP” and things like that. “Stop initiating force against me.” Then they kicked me around on the ground in the hallway, before they took my camera and threw me outside. I was crying and stuff, I just sat there. I was in shock because it was so sudden. Looking back there were warning signs though.

I think they felt bad for me and gave the camera back, but when I looked later they stole the memory card with all of my Greek photos.

So they initiated force and theft. They broke the NAP. I knew the left anarchists were not real anarchists, but I never knew they would do something that bad.

I wasnt seriously hurt, just kicked around a little, lots of bruises and little cuts. I am fine guys so don’t worry. Just needed to share.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Current Events:
I have finally seen fit to correct the arms imbalance between NZ and a lot of other first world countries. To that end, I've acquired a surplus Soviet Shtil missile, with Luca for scale.



Tl;dr OUR WORDS ARE BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS

shame on an IGA posted:

Never not reposting this

Jaguars! posted:

I thought you'd lost that auction.

LingcodKilla posted:

Why is an anarchist whining about getting stomped? What a baby.

shame on an IGA posted:

Never not reposting this

shame on an IGA posted:

Never not reposting this

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

I did, it relisted and I got it for 36 buck lol

quote:

In a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray outlined several concrete steps the agency had taken to combat violent far-right extremists, explaining that the national threat priority designation puts those groups or individuals on the same footing as ISIS in terms of the resources the FBI will devote to it.

Were particularly focused on domestic terrorism, especially racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, said Wray. Not only is the terror threat diverse, its unrelenting.

Jaguars! posted:

Lol, who the hell buys a nuclear missile and never picks it up?

Internet Wizard posted:

Some little piece of good news https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8awn/the-fbi-just-put-white-nationalists-and-neo-nazis-on-the-same-threat-level-as-isis

maffew buildings posted:

but what if they persecute the wrong kind of domestic terrorist

orange juche posted:

That kinda problem is usually more of an issue at the state and local level than the federal one. FBI agents arent the folks stopping and frisking a dude for walking while black.

Internet Wizard posted:

No they just arrest mentally disabled persons https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47390/alabama-isis-peyton-pruitt/

orange juche posted:

How do you craft allowances for mentally disabled individuals who sympathize with international terrorist organizations? That's a thorny patch of legal scholarship that I don't have any expertise in.

Ancap posted:

"you’re breaking the NAP” and things like that. “Stop initiating force against me.” Then they kicked me around on the ground

Oxygenpoisoning posted:

LTC Vindman and his brother reassigned/fired and escorted out of the White House. I’m assuming this is only the start of Trumps retribution campaign for the impeachment.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Not me!

As a matter of interest, a Ford Mondeo makes an excellent delivery system

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

This bit gets me every time lmao

fknlo posted:

How DARE you suggest that Trump might seek retaliation!

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

https://twitter.com/NASAWatch/status/1225867891242885120

Bored As gently caress posted:

Cool lets waste more time and money on signs.

Ken Bone Comeback posted:

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1225886958888423424

...probably, yeah?

if that ied he ate didn't gently caress his wheels up too bad to run two nine minute miles anyway