America isn't necessarily open about it, but we have the developed infrastructure to spy on millions of people.

Instead of spying on criminals, corporate leaders and degenerate celebrities, we spy on the average Joe.

Wrong question. How great would the US be if decentralization was more of a thing? How great would it be if states could go their own way to an even greater extent?

Also Lincoln on central banking and paper money, poor record there

but then, nothing is a purely black and white issue...

If Lincoln allowed more decentralization under the context of a succeeding south, the only next possible step would the dissolution of the union.

FWIW, I'm more of a fan of the original articles of confederation circa 1781

but it is all water under the bridge at this point

Which would've given the states nearly complete control, pulling apart our country in a pluralistic mess of 13 differing interests.

Keeping government small or nonexistant on the national level

if you don't like the state gov, then easier to vote with your feet

A non-existent federal govt.? Ah yes, I suppose the states would voluntary stay in an arbitrary union.

have you ever read mises.org ?

I don't listen to libertarian news, and I'm sure that if I did, I wouldn't be converted. I'm already too opinionated.

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There's good and bad

What I will say about libertarians is that I respect their independence. They don't care about political normalcy, and they don't sacrifice on their beliefs.

I don't like the excessive idealism in the face of realpolitik, sometimes they make the perfect the enemy of the good

I'd like to see how some of these ivory tower academics would perform if they were in the game. It is like a sports commentator saying 'what he would do', but he's not in the game and will never play pro

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Politics is what it is, we have to deal with it either incrementally or however we can

human action is a dope book

Most regimes and governments who've used realpolitik were statist tbh.

Regardless, idealism is all libertarians have. That's not a bad thing, but libertarians aren't really pragmatists.

They'll never sacrifice libertarianism even in the face of their worst enemies. Foreign invasion? We can't direct industries to produce war material!

What happened to the reddit sub? Is it dead? I see no new posts.

Yes, it got restricted by T_D mods. They wanted to use The_Donald to promote thedonald.win

They basically forced T_D to migrate at a quicker rate. Plus, now T_D on Reddit can't be banned, and anyone who sees the subreddit is more likely to go on thedonald.win

hope it works out

I just say that there's no acknowledgement of realpolitik from the libertarian academics, so there's no actual action towards the stated goals

although I agree with almost all of it in principle, at the end of the day if they don't vote because they don't agree with democracy (only private property) the end result is more politicians who want to ban guns

and when guns are confiscated things will be very different in regards to the private property rights that remain

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