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AOC Exposes Herself as a Total Fraud

by Keith Knight | Oct 21, 2022 | Blog

So often Democratic Socialists will claim that private companies are bad because they care not about others but only for their own personal benefit. Want money voluntarily? That's greed! Taking money via taxation with the threat of jailing peaceful people, that's public service! If AOC really saw herself as a representative, she would be in tears knowing her constituents are upset with her policies. Instead, she literally smiles and dances. The free market represents peoples values more than the political sphere ever will since it faces competition and lets people opt out of...

Refuting the “Experts”: The 1619 Project and Covid Narrative (feat. Phillip W. Magness, Ph.D.)

by Keith Knight | Oct 20, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/sDgfh4qilo4 Whereas Marx rejected chattel slavery and extrapolated a long historical march to an eventual socialist reordering through revolutionary upheaval, Fitzhugh saw a readily available alternative. “Slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism,” he explained. Wage labor, he predicted, would be forever insufficient to meet the needs of the laborer due to deprivation of his products from his skill. Slavery, to Fitzhugh’s convenience, could step in and fill the gap through the paternalistic provision of necessities for the enslaved, allegedly removing the...

Replacing the Logic of “Workplace Democracy” With the Iron Law of Oligarchy

by Keith Knight | Oct 18, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/py1C_4ZX174 The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy, is inevitable as an "iron law" within any democratic organization as part of the "tactical and technical necessities" of the organization. Michels's theory states that all complex organizations, regardless of how democratic they are when started, eventually develop into oligarchies. Michels observed that since no sufficiently large and complex organization can...

USA vs. China: World War III Over Taiwan?

by Keith Knight | Oct 15, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/K5FagNGtif8 “My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits of war are highly uncertain. [Empirical claim about people’s ability to accurately forecast the long-run effects of war]. These empirical claims imply pacifism when combined with a bland moral premise: Premise #3: For a war to be morally justified, the expected long-run benefits have to substantially exceed its short-run...

The Santa Clause Mindset

by Keith Knight | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog

What kind of imbecile would believe that everyone can acquire and consume massive amounts of resources for "free"? A child that's who. How can someone say "education should be free"? Are all the teachers unpaid volunteers? Did the construction workers who built the school get compensated? They are lying and insinuating free is synonymous with the government confiscating money then paying for the service on behalf of citizens. As if money printing has no downsides and taxation does not exist. Government pays for the military, is the military free? The goalpost then moves to "well it's free at...

The Biden Administration’s Family Separation Policy

by Keith Knight | Oct 13, 2022 | Blog

While I applaud the arrest of rapists, murders, kidnappers, and looters, Joe Biden's administration has separated children from their parents unjustly. Biden's regime has practiced Truancy Laws which separate children from parents for the crime of parents opposing state indoctrination. Biden's administration has enforced drug laws which separate peaceful parents from their young vulnerable children. If Biden's administration catches parents not chipping in for wars based on lies or welfare schemes they oppose, the IRS will separate children from their parents, ripping a child from the...

Texas Officer Fired After Shooting Teen in McDonald’s Parking Lot

by Keith Knight | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog

Imagine the nerve of someone saying "You'll be safe so long as you do whatever I say. Have a problem? Take it up with my coworkers in 4 months." Of course it's a truism that all interests will align if one party disregards their interest. However with the historical record of government mass murder campaigns, we have no reason to believe blind obedience to the state leads to safety or freedom. Police officers constantly brag about "protecting and serving", yet we "civilians" must blindly obey their edicts or get shot. We have no recognized right to give them orders and arrest them if...

Jacobin Magazine Lies About Ludwig von Mises!

by Keith Knight | Oct 11, 2022 | Featured Articles

Five important criticisms are made of Ludwig von Mises in the recent Jacobin article titled, Ludwig von Mises Was a Free Market Ideologue, Not a Hardheaded Thinker. Mises was an ideologue Mises supported workers "bowing" to capitalist masters Lack of support for universal voting proves Mises was opposed to empiricism Nordic countries and the UK's NHS prove that statism is preferable to free markets Mises supported imperialism For a full refutation see the video linked below, in short: The Misesian ideology can be summarized as: Decriminalize all economic activity between consenting adults....