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All you’d have to do is compare the amount of advertisements you see to the amount of those products you buy. I don’t know about your case, but in min...

If you wouldn’t mind demonstrating your ability to incite someone to do something else, it would be appreciated. I will be your willing subject if you...

I’ve already argued that speech cannot cause harm. So maybe you can tell me what harms you’re speaking about.

I don’t represent anyone. No illusions here.

How am I incorrect? It’s quite easy to prove me wrong: make me feel fear with your words. Incite me to violence. You won’t because you know you cannot...

Where do you get that from what I wrote? Odd. You don’t want to test your magical theory?

I don’t believe government makes property rights—or any rights—because I believe in something like natural rights. State rights are merely the concess...

I’m sure you could come up with some terrible stuff and wouldn’t miss a wink of sleep. But it’s your word against mine, and I don’t think you’d be tha...

“Go forth, my disciples, and murder those who would oppose”. Is murder not the “out-going harm” you were speaking of, then? Then what, exactly, is the...

I never said anything about allowing murder.

Kinetically speaking, causing damage with words is impossible. There isn’t enough energy in a word to inflict a wound on even the slightest of biologi...

I don’t think you’d get the responses you’re looking for. The repercussion is you’ll be known as a liar, slanderer, and a defamer. You’d also have to ...

A small quibble. Slander and defamation are usually civil wrongs, not criminal, but I don’t think they should be treated as such. In any case, the fac...

No, I do not believe there should be consequences for speech, and yes, I do believe people should be able to say whatever they want at any point with ...

Yep, the FBI’s collapse is immanent. Any day now.

Let speech be free absolutely. There is no point in censorship and it is a double violation of rights. It denies the speaker his fundamental right to ...

Thanks for the discussion.

Years back I did a very unscientific analysis, gathered as much as I could regarding the convictions of politicians for crimes in the United States, a...

Absolutely. Suppose there are two methods by which man’s economic needs and desires can be satisfied, through production and exchange, or through the ...

I hope it is merely irony to advocate for the regulation of everyone’s lives just in case powerful people were to enslave us. Maybe if the government ...

There is plenty anarchist and libertarian literature showing that the opposite is the case. I’ll accept your experience in good faith but I’m going to...

The alternative is to do it ourselves. Even the most limited, night-watchman state, does not preclude our obligations to our fellow man and to our com...

If by “accountable to the citizens”, you mean citizens get to vote out a few people in power every few years, then exactly what part of the state are ...

I care. The investigation is the punishment in American jurisprudence. It can bankrupt people.

You’re right, save for the conflation of conservatives and libertarians. I understand the close relation of the two in the United States, but they oug...

It’s much the same. In my understanding Property dualism is like dualism except it uses non-physical mental phenomena instead of souls and spirits.

In an act of sweet revenge, it looks like Letitia James is getting treated the way she treated Donald Trump. Now she’s being investigated for mortgage...

The notion that infants are not self-aware, therefore it is acceptable to end their being, illustrates the utter disregard for the material human body...

The question boggles me, too. Thoughts and verbal or written expressions are perhaps the least consequential and harmless actions a person can make in...

“No one is above the law”. Racist anti-Trump prosecutor Letitia James appears to be in hot water for possible mortgage fraud and for living in Virgini...

Good read, Tim. I’m against the idea that liberalism is the problem because I do not believe liberalism has really taken off in the first place. I bel...

I have declared zero successes, to be sure, nor have I made any predictions of future events. That’s a fool’s game, yet it is absolutely pertinent to ...

I can’t say I have any guiding lights and don’t silo myself into any particular brand of this or that political philosophy. I like to know what others...

It doesn’t look like your prediction panned out, much like the one you made about the collapse of the FBI. It appears that the opposite is the case: a...

No way, I love it. I remember this guy attempting to subvert the duly-elected president from the inside, and being rather public about it. Instead of ...

I remember you predicting that of all the wars that Trump is lusting to have, a war with Panama was the second likeliest one. Given that the US and Pa...

About a quarter of the working-age population is “economically inactive” or unemployed in Britain. I would propose that the welfare state is unsustain...

During a recent speech at the American Bankers Association, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this: (I would post the video, but these kinds of fa...

Is it your theory that since Trump “thinks in similar ways about power” to Orban and Putin—something that cannot be proven—he is a dictator like Orban...

I would empathize with those who wanted to assassinate Hitler, but not because he had a different view of power. But the only reason I’d kill a politi...

Rutgers University’s Network Contagion Research Institute released a new report on so-called “assassination culture” online, with Anti-Trumpism figuri...

Decreased government spending and tax cuts will certainly offset the cost of tariffs to the American public. Whether they can pass the tax bills is th...

Oh, you're talking about his tax cuts from 2018, due to be extended. And now we're talking about benefits to the top 20%. Do you think the tax policie...

I guess use your imagination then. How would that tax cut benefit the 1% in your view?

Absolutely. No one has utilized so many tariffs, no one has proposed an External revenue service, no one has created a department of government effici...

The president’s proposals for tax cuts include no taxes on tips, no taxes on social security, no taxes on overtime, and more recently, no tax for anyb...

“Mercantilist” is little more than a pejorative, these days, and in that sense quite meaningless. It’s not like we’re dealing in gold bullion. Neo-mer...

I just want to submit the following for discussion. Talks are now occurring in Canada in regards to zero tariffs, which is exactly what the president ...

The president’s proposals for tax cuts include no taxes on tips, no taxes on social security, no taxes on overtime, and more recently, no tax for anyb...

It’s “liberation day”. Trump’s tariff gamble begins and we’ll find out soon enough whether it pays off or sends the world into another depression. Alr...