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How to Avoid Getting Fooled in 2024: Jones Plantation Movie w/ Larken Rose

by Keith Knight | Sep 1, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/hMGR8WTZ6b4 If human beings are so careless, stupid and malicious that they cannot be trusted to do the right thing on their own, how would the situation be improved by taking a subset of those very same careless, stupid and malicious human beings and giving them societal permission to forcibly control all the others? - Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition (p. 26) You can control a man with brute violence but you can never truly OWN a man until he's convinced that your word is law, and obedience is a virtue. Watch Jones Plantation here:...

An Honest Conversation About Race and the Victor Mindset w/ Adam B. Coleman

by Keith Knight | Aug 29, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/RhYikrrSQKY The victim mentality always sees life as a struggle against opposing forces. Victim versus oppressor. Black versus white. Democrat versus Republican. Liberal versus conservative. Tolerant versus racist. These counter forces are a means to divide people into a smaller and more controllable tribe, making life simply about us versus them and asking everyone whose side they are on; choose wisely. Racial division is among the strongest method to keep black people submissive and making them fearful of straying away from the controlled narrative. - Adam B. Coleman,...

What Bernie Supporters Don’t Understand About Economics w/ Dr. Art Carden

by Keith Knight | Aug 27, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/39MzPxcM03Q The eggs, milk, flour, and sugar that went into the cake? Strangers bought them from other strangers before selling them to us. My family used spoons and scrapers made by strangers and bought from other strangers to mix all the ingredients. They baked the cake in an oven made by strangers. They colored the icing with an unholy mix of chemicals made by strangers. And those strangers rely for their daily bread on still other armies of strangers. It’s remarkable. If you have a sweet tooth, you take candy from strangers all the time. If you’ve ridden in a cab or with...

Three Social Justice Lies: Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia

by Keith Knight | Aug 24, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/d3rD8JFDx-Q Rather than picking between two racialist sides and fighting for one or the other, American citizens can simply begin telling the truth about race relations. ere is no race war going on in the U.S.A., and there certainly is no epidemic of whiteon-Black crime. In fact, interracial crimes on an annual basis have been consistently 75–85 percent Black-on-white for the past thirty years. More importantly, there is no horrifying epidemic of interracial crimes of any variety because 84 percent of white murder victims and 93 percent of Black murder victims are killed by...

One Metric to Refute Every Argument Democrats Make

by Keith Knight | Aug 19, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/ef-EDYwNbKk Every flaw that people point out in consumer choice is present, but much worse, in political choice! - Asymmetric information about quality (where producers have more knowledge about the product than consumers)? Check. Consumers can look at ratings or Consumer Reports to learn about product quality. But it’s very difficult to know when a politician is lying (unless you buy the old line that it’s when her lips are moving). - Monopoly? Check. Yes, the cable company is pretty bad. But the state is the very definition of monopoly. Your only escape is to move… to some...

Self-Ownership or Slavery? The Case for Decriminalizing Sex Work w/ Ariela Moscowitz

by Keith Knight | Aug 15, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/FmRhREbbl2w … it is peculiar that while liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action. - Murray N. Rothbard, Economic Controversies, p. 673 Ariela Moscowitz is Director of Communications at Decriminalize Sex Work, a national organization pursuing a state-by-state strategy to end the prohibition of consensual...

What’s Your Start Date, and Why?

by Keith Knight | Aug 10, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/81VAaNqqXzs [T]he number of blacks in professional, technical, and other high-level occupations more than doubled in the decade preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In other occupations, gains by blacks were greater during the 1940s—when there was practically no civil rights legislation—than during the 1950s. In various skilled trades, the income of blacks relative to whites more than doubled between 1936 and 1959… Affirmative action hiring pressures make it costly to have no minority employees, but continuing affirmative action pressures at the promotion and...

An Honest Conversation About Race, Freedom, & the Corporate Press w/ Jeff Charles

by Keith Knight | Aug 7, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/0WAxXLr116M For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the “intellectuals.” For the masses of men do not create their own ideas, or indeed think through these ideas independently; they follow passively the ideas adopted and disseminated by the body of intellectuals. The intellectuals are, therefore, the “opinion-molders” in society. And since it is precisely...

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