Stephan Kinsella
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Anti-IP patent attorney, libertarian writer. Author, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (2023). #lmgdt
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@BobMurphyEcon
In a BTC world I suspect there will a separation between storage functions and credit intermediation and people will no longer be able to bamboozled about the difference.
For the former, people will either self-custody, or perhaps in some cases use a custodian type "warehouse"
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Biden is 4 years older than Bill Clinton. Who was President... in 1993.
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Tips for how to start a new libertarian podcast:
1. Don't.
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It seems that high school shootings are always in public high schools and never in private ones. Yet another reason to abolish the government propaganda camps.
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@Liz_Cheney
@mtgreenee
Secession is not unconstitutional, you lying, dishonest, ignorant retard.
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I continue to be amazed at the horrifically stupid arguments young parents today give for why they spank their kids. "I was spanked and I turned out fine!" So stupid, anti-intellectual, dishonest, non-serious.
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My guess is that--sadly--a large number of vaccine-skeptical libertarians probably favor this unlibertarian law.
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This isn’t stealing
students are starting to steal each other's notes with iOS 15 and it's... kind of genius
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Please, libertarians in the US and around the world--stop equating or even associating liberty and esp. libertarianism with America or the US, and with the US Constitution, Declaration, Founders/Framers, Statue of Liberty, US Flag, Liberty Bell, etc. It's not all about the US ...
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Wow. This retard is the LP nominee.
@jamiedupree
So I am having a Thanksgiving of less than 10 people and we will be masked inside and when we eat since masks have to come off, we have spacing happening.
Its not impossible to be responsible.
Limit the size
Wear a mask when not eating
Space yourself accordingly
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From the Mises Institute 35th Anniv. in NY, 2017. Chopper thanks to
@michaelmalice
. This really upset a few people! Fuck 'em!
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@PeterSchiff
You seem to think most bitcoiners are day traders. It doesn't seem that way to me. Most of us are HODLers.
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"Bitcoin could prevent society from functioning and is an ‘extreme form of libertarian anarchism’". Well, he's half right. “If bitcoin starts to displace fiat currencies, governments’ ability to tax, spend and redistribute will be severely impaired.” That's a feature, /1
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Wow.
@angela4LNCChair
is SOOOOO impressive here on
@michaelmalice
. She did NOT do the politician thing and evade questions--she just answered them straight and bluntly and intelligently. Wow. Such a breath of fresh air. No sugar coating, no bullshit.
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“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.” — Frédéric Bastiat
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I've posted my entire new book online in PDF form (it's also public domain/copyright-free). Daddy ain't scared, unlike techno-illiterate tenure-track dinosaurs clinging desperately to copyright, paywalls, insane publishing prices, and gatekeeper publishing industry head-patting.
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Best libertarian intro book... many possibilities, but I'd have to say The Law by Bastiat.
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I *literally* have some "libertarian" friends arguing that Russia's attack on Ukraine is *justified*--since it is self defense, as R is under attack/threat from the US *via* Ukraine. So don't tell me I'm straw manning these people. This is the end result of a monomaniacal /1
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Modern ill-read libertarians need to be reminded of a few things: All taxation is theft. The state is criminal. Eminent domain is theft. IP law is an abomination. Defamation law and antitrust law should be abolished. Vouchers are bad. There is nothing wrong with "corporations."
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I'm confused as to why feminists end their messages with "pound me too"
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Here's a good definition of "post-libertarian"--"someone who pretends to have at one time been a libertarian"
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And now Ted Galen Carpenter has been fired from Cato, after 27 years there, because he doesn't support US involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war.
nb
@scotthortonshow
@veroderugy
A good answer to that question can be found in this recent piece by Cato Institute Senior Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter: "Ignored Warnings: How NATO Expansion Led to the Current Ukraine Tragedy."
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Lots of prominent, ancap libertarians have taken the vaccine but keep mum about it for fear of a backlash by the censorious, paranoiac, rabidly anti-vax libertarians. The new libertarian "cancel culture." Chilling effect, anyone? Some of us don't fear your canceling.
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everyone is praising Colin Powell for "35 years of service to his country" but I'm wondering "was he always on welfare or did he ever have a real job?"
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Since blacks are less likely to be vaccinated, isn't requiring vaccine proof for restaurants, concerts, etc. racially discriminatory since it has a disparate impact? Congrats social engineers.
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1/ Normally I like and agree with
@JacobforLiberty
but this is the worst thing I can recall ever coming from his pen: . H has gone off the rails here. This is not a libertarian perspective. For one: defamation law is totally unjust and unlibertarian. This
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"... people who refuse vaccination are asserting that they have a right to "swing" their microbes at other people. There is no principled libertarian case for their free-riding refusal to take responsibility for their own microbes." Jesus, Reason
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Perhaps it's just the libertarian in me but I don't get what is the big deal about opioids and fentanyl. How about just lower my goddamn taxes and call it a day. I'll avoid "fentanyl" on my own
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I'm sick of Boomers and "Greatest Generation" types continually mocking Millennials and Zoomers for being lazy, listless, unwilling to commit, etc. I mean there's a reason--the job market sucks; it's hard to afford a house and get a steady, high-paying job, precisely because /1
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Had a nice meeting with
@parkeralewis
today. Very intelligent guy. Unchained Capital is going places.
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Interesting discussion about the libertarian position on immigration/open borders between my brothers El-Bobborino
@BobMurphyEcon
and
@ComicDaveSmith
. Dave does a good job giving his take on the Hoppean-type view on this matter, on second-bests, and the like. I tried before to
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Key takeaway: "If Bitcoin exists for 20 years there will be near universal confidence that it will be available forever, much as people believe the Internet is a permanent feature of the modern world."
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My book Legal Foundations of a Free Society has been published, in a limited inaugural print run for presentation at the Property and Freedom Society Annual Meeting, Bodrum, Turkey, this coming weekend (). It will be available Nov. 1 on Amazon and other
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@AdamKinzinger
Because she's right. Texas should take the lead and declare independence. We don't need you people.
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Juneteenth promoters say it celebrates the end of slavery. Read the 13th amendment. Slavery is still permitted as punishment for violating an artificial government law--i.e. imprisonment, slave labor. And conscription is still legal.
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I just finished reading Hijacking Bitcoin, by
@rogerkver
with
@steveinpursuit
, and with a foreword by my buddy
@jeffreyatucker
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I will say that it is extremely well written and organized and well argued and researched. It is a very professional job. I learned some things from
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your quote of the day. Goddamn Mises was brilliant.
"The mathematical economist attempts to ignore the difference between physical phenomena, on the one hand, the emergence and consummation of which man is unable to see the operation of any final causes — and which can be
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Anyone in favor of the Alex Jones defamation verdict is an unprincipled socialist.
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@PoliticalKathy
Kudos to your for your integrity and courage. Too many people back down in cases like this. Good for you.
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Here's the right (libertarian) way to view the FTC's ban on noncompetes.
First, the ban is unconstitutional since the federal government simply has no jurisdiction over state contract law.
But let's ignore that and ask about the legality of noncompete agreements. Under current
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I wonder what the anticapitalist left-libertarians are thinking about all the looting and riots. To ask is to answer.
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Fuck copyright, and fuck "libertarians" who are not opposed to patent and copyright.
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Someone's urging me to donate $100 to some Libertarian candidate for some state senate seat (which he can't win). My response -- "Do you really think it's better to spend $100 on this futile race than on buying 212,765 satoshis?"
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Prediction: libertarians who have been complaining that the covid vaccine doesn't yet have full approval from the FDA (bizarre since usually we don't trust the FDA), will find a new reason to complain now that it has given full approval.
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my son and
@scotthortonshow
have made me far more sympathetic to the antiwar anti-Israel line, I have to admit. Such a mess. I see no good way out of this mess.
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sarcastic gay rights meme from the 80s that hasn't aged well
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My forthcoming book, Legal Foundations of a Free Society, should be out in September.
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@CAgovernor
If you had any real liberal principles you would pardon all the prisoners convicted of victimless crimes, immediately. Until then, shut your pie-hole, you socialist hypocrite.
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No, sam. Most atheists tend to be leftist state apologists--they've replaced God with the State or Democracy. No thanks.
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Query: what are the top 3 or 4 podcasts (or youtube shows) by actual BTC maximalists? I'm tired of the shitcoiners and "smart contract" nonsense
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My modest proposal: the US should offer to buy Russia. By my math it would only cost about $7.25T, if we assume the 145M Russian shareholders would accept $50k each. We can easily afford that. Just print it up.
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@timmbabwe2
@MMAnarchist
@Ace_Archist
I think you should realize you are talking to a heavyweight and should be grateful I am devoting a few minutes to you, and take advantage of it, and be respectful and not a punk. That's what I think.
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1/ Libertarians with principles and balls need to come out in defense of Alex Jones. This defamation case is total bullshit. Down with defamation law. It's is a travesty. Principled libertarians have known this for a long time--see, e.g, Rothbard: and
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@nsarwark
There is nothing wrong at all with insulting an evil statist like Biden who is literally harming us. Indeed as Hoppe points out one key way to delegitimize the state is the laugh at them--ridicule and scorn them. Biden doesn't deserve respect or /1
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Sartre: Hell is other people.
Mises: Heaven is other people.
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IP is the most evil law; it impedes innovation and distorts knowledge and culture. It's driven by the US; and by Big Three evil US industries: Hollywood, Big Music, and Big Pharma. These three sectors have helped ruin the whole world. No offense, Objectivist r-words.
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Why does Superman fly head first on his belly? Why not standing up? Or feet first on his back? Or balled up like a cannonball? It’s not like he has rocket thrusters in his feet.
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@TXUUQ
@jordanbpeterson
But you should definitely get a Misesian, as opposed to a Hayekian. So other than Hoppe, others wd be-Joe Salerno, Bob Murphy, Guido Hülsmann. I could put you in touch with any of these. Tom Woods isn’t an economist but knows a lot and wood be excellent too.
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your assigned reading for tonight: Hoppe's provocative counterfactual WWI-WWII 20th century narrative in the introduction to Democracy
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Paperback available on Amazon.
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Elon gets it. Money is a sui generis good b/c increasing its supply does not increase wealth. Money is not wealth. Consumer and capital goods are wealth. Keynesians and freebankers are wrong. Increasing the supply of money never increases wealth, since money is not wealth.
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of policies and laws, taxes, regulations, spending, supported by the old farts--New Deal, Great Society, the drug war, war, deficit spending, etc. They have imposed this anemic economy and crushing debt and tax burden on the young, and then they mock them? Shame. Shame. /2
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I'm embarrassed I voted for this anti-intellectual, unprincipled statist jackass.
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aaaaand now copyright is poised to kill one of the most amazing things of all time, the Internet Archive . Fuck you, Randians and other IP socialists
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@RubinReport
I know several people who regret not getting it. Like, those hospitalized and near to death with Covid who wish they had been vaccinated. They are simply leery of going public about this because of libertarian bullying (I'm a libertarian but disgusted by this bullying).
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What would most people rather: famous like Tom Cruise and worth $500M or to be unknown and have $500M in BTC? Seems to me that being famous is a big price to pay for being rich. Rather be unknown. Not as easy to get good tables at restaurants, but you can just buy it.
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Misesians:Hayekians == BTC Maxis:Shitcoiners. We are Misesian maximalists.
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Wrong. Patents destroy innovation
Thanks to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Americans can continue innovating, creating, experimenting, and solving problems.
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My advice to aspiring libertarian activists and people who want a "career in liberty": Don't. Just achieve a successful career. Then use your own resources to be your own benefactor. Don't work for a non-profit. Don't get a "career in liberty." Don't beg for donations or
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