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In this video, I think Stef is confusing people who are new to Anarchism. The NAP does NOT prohibit the use of force against people who have done wrong to others. For instance, if someone rapes or steals, then force CAN be used against them to extract what they have stolen (restitution, etc.)! Stef makes it sound like only people with brain tumors will rape. Can we stop sounding so utopian to outsiders? Yes, prevention is better, and surely it will reduce violent crime, but there will always be some unrepentant criminals. Now, using force may not be the BEST way, but it's not morally wrong. I agree that ostracism is great and preferable, but Stef is making the NAP sound almost pacifist, which it is not. Stef made similar "far out" arguments about how an anarchist society would work when on the Joe Rogan show, where he spoke about future weapons targetting peope based on DNA, etc. I was pulling my hair out... For statists, you need to ease them into the anarchist paradigm. The most solid argument is simply "If it's a service that people want and are willing to pay for, the free market will provide for it". Boom. Simple as that. Surely I can't be the only one who thinks this?

The statist argument is that because government owns all land, it has the right to do whatever it wants. I agree with the premise that if you own land, it's "your land, your rules". If I have rules at my house that I want to "tax" people, or not allow drugs, etc. then that's fine, because it's my house and my rules. However, I believe government does not own ANY land. But I need to make the solid historical case and my knowledge of history is not great. How can we prove, historically, that the government doesn't actually own anything? I want to make a rock solid case. For instance, we can use the 13 original British Colonies as a case study. Because the settlers came on British ships on a British government charter, does that mean that the 13 colonies were government owned? I have a few counter points, but I feel that they are not strong enough: - Any land that government has claimed has already had inhabitants owning land already -Obviously you cannot simply claim arbitrarily large tracts of land as your own property -Government recognizes private property currently anyways (for instance, allodial land patents) -You cannot sign up children (people who have been born into property) to abide by rules which they never agreed to (you have to give them the option to leave, and the entire country is way too big to leave)

My personal opinion on the matter

I feel for you man, that sounds very frustrating. In fact, I know for a fact how frustrating it is, because I live that struggle basically every day. It's so hard to talk to hardcore statists because under every terrible idea are 10 more supporting it, so you really do have your work cut out for you. I have chosen to take my ideas to Youtube in hopes of gaining more converts, however I haven't stopped the in-person interactions either (they're just incredibly wearisome). Keep up the good fight! Eventually you will get a couple converts, and then you can sleep in the satisfaction that you have worked hard and created one more liberty advocate who will help to change the world, albeit slowly. I applaud you!

We, as ancaps (aka economically literate people) know, the price of technology tends to go DOWN over time. I realize we are far beyond DSL and all that shit, but it seemed like 5 years ago, the price of internet was a lot cheaper. Why has the price of internet been increasing over the last 5 years? That's my subjective experience, at least. The media is full of all sorts of anti free-market conspiracies about how companies are out to screw us. I of course know that it must be rooted in the regulatory capture, lobbying, general bullshit relationship that many ISPs have with the government, the FCC, etc, however I don't know any of the details. Is anyone savvy on this subject?

Hi everyone. Has anyone else experienced the mind-fuck that is anarcho-communism? I need some empathy before my head explodes. So lately, I've taken a strong interest into the anarcho-communist, anarcho-mutualist, libertarian socialist, etc. (leftist) world. I really wanted to consider their ideas with an open mind. After all, they claim to be anarchists, so they can't be that bad, right? WRONG! Not only are their ideas unbelievably bad in every way possible (evil, naive, unrealistic, etc.), but these are some of the most pompous people I have ever debated. They like to make posts taunting anarcho-capitalists by calling us "an"caps, as if we're supposedly not anarchists because we support "hierarchy" and "oppression" via voluntary trade. It's literally like watching a scrawny 10 year old walk up to a sumo wrestler and spit in his face. They have no idea how bad and embarrassing they look. I have directly asked many of them, and almost all support the initiation of force against peaceful property owners (such as businesses) because they're engaging in "exploitation". This worries me. Will we have to start shooting commies again? I wouldn't mind a whole lot, to be honest. I searched hard to find any merit to their ideas and found precious little if any. I can't be the only one tripping over my own incredulity here.

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Time to put this tired, old idea to rest. Enjoy my video ladies and gents! Constructive criticism welcomed!

Constructive criticism welcomed!

Hey thank you very much! I really appreciate that.

Video by yours truly. Let me know what you think!

A video I made to hopefully save you a lot of time

Video by yours truly. Probably nothing new in this video for people here, but thought I'd drop it here anyways in case anyone wants to potentially sharpen their arguments! Criticisms welcome.