“It’s important to get to the essayistic part, where I ask what it means when the objects in our lives demoralize us in a blizzard of malfunctions that seem to be hastening by the month.”
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The disdain I have for ‘free trade’ ‘libertarians’ cannot be matched. Doing business with Communist China isn’t trade, it’s crimina…
“It’s important to get to the essayistic part, where I ask what it means when the objects in our lives demoralize us in a blizzard of malfunctions that seem to be hastening by the month.”
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The disdain I have for ‘free trade’ ‘libertarians’ cannot be matched. Doing business with Communist China isn’t trade, it’s criminal activity. Often those crimes are human rights violations.
But it’s fine, you see, because it is fReE tRaDe because we put a container ship in between the crimes and the end consumer. HERP DERP.
Obviously, a larger downside, somewhat more significant than your blender falling apart, is that ‘free trade’ has proven to be the most grave national security threat in the history of the United States. Your blender money helped buy a chubby psychopath named Xi some hypersonic nukes. Smart.
Even if you take the assbackward shitholes that we are propping up with ‘free trade’ out of the discussion, you still must wonder, how did they ever sell people on the idea that getting a 14% discount on televisions is a good deal when the result is that you have a bunch of unemployed neighbors and you now can’t access modern medicines like antibiotics.
Good job ‘libertarians’, you psychotic grifting frauds.
(I am generally predisposed to libertarian principals but I am not a fan of behaving like a heedless buffoon, which is what libertarianism often leads to because it becomes a utopian ideology)
Yes and I wrote it ‘libertarian’ so as to hopefully not offend the sensible and intelligent libertarians like yourself.
It’s the libertopians who are the problem because they apply ideological utopian thinking which is not appropriate for planet earth.
It’s how you get
“No but free speech means guys who are aroused by dressing like women have a constitutional right to play with children while dressed like women on government property.”
And yes, they infuriate me. They assume--much like utopian communists, interestingly enough--that all human beings naturally play well with others, despite the fact that tens of thousands of years of human history has proven the exact opposite.
Just because humans manage their own affairs best without undue authoritarian control DOESN'T mean that anything and everything must be allowed. In fact, that is a dangerous practice when it comes to how people are allowed to treat other people. The point of having laws is to set socially agreed-upon limits on behavior toward others. And I would like to think that most people would agree that exposing children to sexual behavior in public is outside the limits.
Another thing that libertopians don't focus on is punishment for law-breaking. For a libertarian society to work, laws HAVE to have teeth. Because the point is not to reform wrong-doers; it's to remove them from participating in society because they have demonstrated in a very objective way that they refuse to play well with others.
China should never have been admitted to the WTO. Doing so, hoping it would join civilized society, was a ruse. Communism failed miserably in the early 1900’s because those state actors were poor. It scars the shit out me to think that China today has so much wealth, the first time in recent history that a communist regime also had economic might. And yet the US government either remains blind to the obvious, or silent.
Don’t forget that outsourcing raw materials production, when it wasn’t absolutely necessary, caused the Ukraine war which is currently starving and freezing people to death in Europe.
“It’s important to get to the essayistic part, where I ask what it means when the objects in our lives demoralize us in a blizzard of malfunctions that seem to be hastening by the month.”
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The disdain I have for ‘free trade’ ‘libertarians’ cannot be matched. Doing business with Communist China isn’t trade, it’s criminal activity. Often those crimes are human rights violations.
But it’s fine, you see, because it is fReE tRaDe because we put a container ship in between the crimes and the end consumer. HERP DERP.
Obviously, a larger downside, somewhat more significant than your blender falling apart, is that ‘free trade’ has proven to be the most grave national security threat in the history of the United States. Your blender money helped buy a chubby psychopath named Xi some hypersonic nukes. Smart.
Even if you take the assbackward shitholes that we are propping up with ‘free trade’ out of the discussion, you still must wonder, how did they ever sell people on the idea that getting a 14% discount on televisions is a good deal when the result is that you have a bunch of unemployed neighbors and you now can’t access modern medicines like antibiotics.
Good job ‘libertarians’, you psychotic grifting frauds.
(I am generally predisposed to libertarian principals but I am not a fan of behaving like a heedless buffoon, which is what libertarianism often leads to because it becomes a utopian ideology)
Libertarianism requires a heavy dose of pragmatism to be workable.
Yes and I wrote it ‘libertarian’ so as to hopefully not offend the sensible and intelligent libertarians like yourself.
It’s the libertopians who are the problem because they apply ideological utopian thinking which is not appropriate for planet earth.
It’s how you get
“No but free speech means guys who are aroused by dressing like women have a constitutional right to play with children while dressed like women on government property.”
It’s all so unbelievably herp derp.
Libertopians--I like that!
And yes, they infuriate me. They assume--much like utopian communists, interestingly enough--that all human beings naturally play well with others, despite the fact that tens of thousands of years of human history has proven the exact opposite.
Just because humans manage their own affairs best without undue authoritarian control DOESN'T mean that anything and everything must be allowed. In fact, that is a dangerous practice when it comes to how people are allowed to treat other people. The point of having laws is to set socially agreed-upon limits on behavior toward others. And I would like to think that most people would agree that exposing children to sexual behavior in public is outside the limits.
Another thing that libertopians don't focus on is punishment for law-breaking. For a libertarian society to work, laws HAVE to have teeth. Because the point is not to reform wrong-doers; it's to remove them from participating in society because they have demonstrated in a very objective way that they refuse to play well with others.
China should never have been admitted to the WTO. Doing so, hoping it would join civilized society, was a ruse. Communism failed miserably in the early 1900’s because those state actors were poor. It scars the shit out me to think that China today has so much wealth, the first time in recent history that a communist regime also had economic might. And yet the US government either remains blind to the obvious, or silent.
Not to mention that the entire "supply chain" charade is entirely the result of our "trade" with that Oriental mafia. (Oh wait, I just did).
Don’t forget that outsourcing raw materials production, when it wasn’t absolutely necessary, caused the Ukraine war which is currently starving and freezing people to death in Europe.
But I’m sure Saddamyr Husseinskyy will fix it.