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Neat quote saw when reading. Admitting you're wrong in a genuine way is something you see rarely these days.

"In a 2024 interview, he said he renounced his libertarianism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic after a libertarian group asked him to speak at an anti-mask rally. "The fact they sent me this email is something I need to be very ashamed of, and I need to change" adding "Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, 'It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,' and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate."[56]"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not necessarily true, those people can be banished from a community or even violently resisted depending on your flavor.

And even if you take your statement as fact, isn't that a much easier problem to solve than what we're dealing with now? Maybe some limited prisons for the worst offenders might be our only compromise

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Banished how? They can just re enter.

Violently resisted how? Lynch mob?

I agree that limited prisons is preferable to the current US system but you've essentially just reinvented government and police in all but name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Positions of power like that in anarchist societies are usually held in rotation or fully democratically.

i gotta be honest with you, do you really think no anarchist philosopher ever thought of that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

not exactly, it's not theoretical this is how stuff has worked before. someone can be banished from a society and become a persona non grata that can't get support from anyone.

you're acting as if something that's actually in our history is unimaginable