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I gotta do this thing IRL and it would be supremely funny if I went as a libertarian.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

Blame all of society's problems on switching away from the gold standard

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

What's an age of consent between two consenting people?

Regulations are sin.

States rights about everything. National standards are authoritiarian commie fascism.

What law? It's the Natural order.

Worship Ayn Ryand.

Taxation is theft.

If you can't afford private everything that's your own personal bad choices and you should be left to rot in a Mad Max thunderdome hellscape outside of the successful indivual enclaves.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are the only person in the world. Anything that interferes with anything you want to do, or think you may get to do in the future, is anathema. You must always insert your sense of empathy into the top of whatever social hierarchical structure exists.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

oh shit, this is the entirety of the SF Bay Area. But they actually live this way in all things. "I alone exist, there is none other than me."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After we destroy the state (somehow):

Corporations will take up the job of building and maintaining roads so their employees and goods can travel on them.

Private security companies will take on public safety and crime investigation at a competitive rate.

Poisonous food won't get produced because it would cut into profits so we won't need regulations

Everyone has a gun and that fact alone means we can defend our stateless society without any central authority. This will not lead to warring factions of corporations fighting to become the new state shut up.

Every interaction you have with someone will have to involve an actual contract whether digital or physical. If you break the terms of a contract it falls under breaking the NAP and the private security company that investigates can determine if the nap was broken.

If you break the nap you become a slave or get executed fyi

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have clearly spent a lot of time suffering around libertarians.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even worse, when i was like 20 it was the first anti war anti cop ideology i encountered so i figured i was one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

no lie i was just going on a screed about libertarianism to my partner this morning and stumbled upon this post

your comment is my hole it was made for me.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Argue about generational debt. But argue "the sooner you can get pregnant and birth a new generation to work off the contract the sooner you're free to start your own business". Then segway into a age of consent laws, pro-womb-rentals and pro-indebted-servitude as a foundation as collateral for private bank loans to finance home ownership.

Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • the "non-aggression principle" is the only ideologically consistent mode of politics. Hmmm, envihermental pollution? Never heard of her!
  • Human contribution to climate change, if it is happening at all, is negligible. It's very convenient!
  • absent government involvement in the design of computer networks we'd have naturally seen decentralized platforms from day one rather than large websites for information harvesting and propaganda.
  • the only function of the state is military defense and maybe courts if I'm feeling it
  • age of consent

ancap-good last-sight flashbang

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I initially had age of consent on here, but that's not something you want to do as a bit because most people won't run across online libertarians and know of their obsession with that topic libertarian-alert

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's always about the NAP, the non aggression pact. Essentially, imagine a burger (say this a lot and explain things in terms of burgers)- McDonald's and Burger King don't assassinate each other because that would violate the NAP and the McArmy would be allowed to drop a McNuke on you.

You could do bit idea: talk about how a PRIVATE GROUP could enforce the NAP and collect revenue from everyone within the pact's borders (reinvent the concept of a state).

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

McDonald's and Burger King don't assassinate each other because that would violate the NAP and the McArmy would be allowed to drop a McNuke on you.

Did you just lathe the Franchise Wars into existence?

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

I'm afraid not. It's a known term. In fact, it appears I used too narrow an example. Not linking the fandom wiki because it seems like it would be gross (the related search is Ancapistan).

Recreational Nuclear Weapon (McNuke)

Refers to any thermonuclear device, that is privately owned. Anarcho-Capitalists believe that no substance or device should be restricted access from the public, through a government monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well I had to go and see wtf is this all about and found this absolute gem: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/1axleai/is_ancapistan_even_possible/

This is priceless comedy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

or is there a practical way for business to “take-over”?

You may want to sit down...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

A Reddit link was detected in your comment. Here are links to the same location on alternative frontends that protect your privacy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Just be as much of a contrarian as possible really. Devise elaborate, implausible imaginary situations to explain why any human interaction is a violation of your rights. Do strawman misunderstanding of socialism.

The thirsty in the desert metaphor is one they use a lot, or the "you have two cows." You're thirsty in the desert, a capitalist offers you water for 3 days of work, but the socialist says you have to wait your turn to drink no matter how much work you do.

Libertarianism is the ideology of 13 year old white kids who grow up comfortable and bored, so just channel that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Whine about taxes but praise companies.

You like Donald Trump, but it’s such a shame he’s becoming President of a state! You also love America.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

What if the child consented?!?!?!!!!111ones

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Call everything bad either corporatism or socialism. Advocate constantly for deregulation and decreasing tax. Throw in some complaints about government spying and military adventurism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

"Crony capitalism" is a good one to use, too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Declare that all public infrastructure and services are communist. All of it. Roads, streetlights, highways, water treatment plants, weather forecasting, militaries, public schools, everything that an individual doesn't need to pay out-of-pocket for at the time of use.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But then money is also communist because everyone has to agree on its value.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Exactly, that's why you also need to go full goldbug.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's why you go back to individual bank notes. I forgot to talk about fiat currency in my other comment shit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
  1. You could drone on endlessly about Episode 3 of The Last of Us S01 and how it is libertarian cinematic nirvana until the character is revealed to be gay.
  2. Gun cleaning
  3. Doomsday prepping
  4. Trapping
  5. Making protein rich food that lasts forever but makes you produce the worst smelling farts ever.
  6. Libertarian bootstraps
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

A thorough understanding of the Dewey Decimal System is a must

/s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

only refer to paper money as 'fiat'

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

imagine your mom telling you to go to sleep is the greatest violence you ever experienced and go from there to "nobody should interfere with my decisions ever".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Make sure that every single one of your beliefs has an equal and opposite counterbelief that you also believe in

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

get real close to getting a fundamental understanding with the flaws of capitalism once in a while and then come to a wildly dumb conclusion. that and explain why any kind of state intervention to anything is somehow a bad idea; make it clear that you think you should be able to sell heroin to eight year olds

oh yeah and explain why crypto currency is totally a thing everyone will be using on a regular basis in 10 years

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

In my opinion, the easiest ones to do that with on the fly are, like you said, environmental externalities and the free and flourishing child markets.

"Well, without government intervention, even the trafficked children will be better served! Do you see how capitalism is just better?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Make your own paper license plate because you don't recognize the authority of the corporation of the united states to regulate travel

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

wearing a black/yellow pin, always mentioning crypto, 'sovereignty ending at the individual', 'only market solutions', 'privatization needs to continue', towns governed by companies, 'doughnut shaped real estate means no road access for the tenant living inside', 'the bishops in the Vatican can peacefully elect a pope in a private conclave so we can elect a leader informally as well', 'selling illegal services from international waters to force the government to loosen up their laws'

edit: maybe private armies for the rich as well? to 'protect' the new corporate fiefdoms

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Bring up land value tax for no reason. Like, imagine someone just said all taxes are bad, and you're trying to add nuance or well-actually them, by saying actually this one is good. But nobody brought up taxes, you just start doing this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Better to fake less and mask your political opinions less. "The state should not sanctify what is or isn't a legal business so we should strike all LLC and corporate law from the books. The state should not recognize these as legal entities."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Freedom of Speech, Praise Trump, Talk about Tech Bro things, Rockets, About something called the "Woke Virus", be against taxes, talk about Milei, less goverment, bitcoin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Just think of anything reasonable the government does (like seatbelt laws, FDA regulations, or drivers licenses) and say it’s oppression

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

having a language used by others forced on you violates the NAP, so i'd just speak in tongues like a good little individualist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"WHAT'S NEXT, NEEDING A LICENSE TO MAKE TOAST IN YOUR OWN DAMN TOASTER??????"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Constantly reference Ayn Rand. Compare things to characters in Ayn Rand's books, name random things after Ayn Rand references, but don't mention Ayn Rand directly unless you're asked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Don't talk about roads, they will sniff you out immediately and start screeching.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"Look, we all have the same goals, just different ideas about how to achieve them"