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Learn the Truth About the War in Ukraine at FreedomFest 2023!
FreedomFest is headed to Memphis in 2023!
Come see Scott Horton of the Libertarian Institute explain how NATO Expansion, the Donbas War, and RussiaGate lies made the war in Ukraine inevitable.
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CFR President Richard Haass Admits the UniParty is Real
It used to be—think about it, until recently it didn’t really matter all that much who won an election at the presidential level. Don’t get me wrong, obviously there were differences between the parties. But if I can use a sports metaphor, the differences between Republicans and Democrats, per se, were within the forty-yard lines. Yeah, there’d be differences but actually what Democrats and Republicans had in common was far greater than what they did not.
– Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations (June 1st, 2023)
Besides the “until recently” part, I fully agree with Mr. Haass.
Consider the overlap between Democrats and Republicans. Both support:
- National Security Agency spying on Americans
- CIA
- FBI
- The military invading countries based on lies and murdering civilians
- NATO
- The Federal Reserve
- State involvement in healthcare
- State schooling
- Occupational licensing
- Taxation (sales and income)
- Commercial licensing
- Tariffs
- Immigration restrictions
- Agricultural subsidies
- Increasing military spending
- State police force
- Increasing the Federal Budget
- The drug war
- Food stamps
- Social Security
- FDA
- EPA
- OSHA
- Capital gains tax
- Bank bailouts
Getting Money Out of Politics: Abolish the IRS
[I]f you don’t get money out of politics, then yes in the long term it’s hopeless. But we must, we must get money out of politics.
– Cenk Uygur, creator of The Young Turks
Progressive Cenk Uygur said these words without realizing the fact that the primary source of money in politics comes from the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service, two institutions he proudly supports.
What he is most likely talking about, are voluntary political donations. In other words, people choosing to give their money to candidates is wrong, but those very same politicians should have the right to coercively fund themselves via the IRS. Unlike Netflix or Amazon, the IRS gets to put people in prison for choosing to disassociate with them.
Recap:
Millions in donor funds = Pure Evil
$6.27 Trillion annually taken by force = Progressive Social Justice
Political democracy means you get a 1 in 10,000,000 vote on who wins an election, and Democrats call this representation. However, when people actually choose to do things that have a direct effect on their lives, Cenk supports the state forcibly stopping them. Mandating by law, that people chip in for things they might oppose (taxation), Cenk strips people of their right of actual representation. By supporting commercial and occupational licensing, Cenk strips them of the right to achieve thier goals in life.
As a wise man once said, Progressivism is simply domestic Imperialism.
Roland Fryer’s Shocking Conclusion
On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police officers are utility maximizers, a fraction of which have a preference for discrimination, who incur relatively high expected costs of officer-involved shootings.
– Roland G. Fryer J. An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force. Journal of Political Economy. Forthcoming.
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The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America
Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade.
Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the top 1 percent. Between 1992 and 2013, 72 percent of the top 400 retained that title for no more than a year. Over 97 percent retained it for no more than a decade.
– Chelsea Follett, High Turnover Among America’s Rich
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric.
The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Although Americans account for roughly 5% of the global population, these candidates focus primarily on American well-being at the expense of the other 95% of human beings.
Is it because Americans are the poorest people on Earth in need of the most help? Hardly, most Americans today have access to products and services the wealthiest people in history never had access to.
Surely if they opposed Nationalism and supported Democracy, they would spend more time drafting policy proposals for the 1.3 billion Chinese, 1.2 billion Indians, and 1.2 billion Africans. Their actions (along with every single American Democratic Socialist I have ever met) display the reality that they too care mostly about their own “nation” and are therefore Nationalists.
Nothing wrong with that, but the sanctimonious dismissal Democratic Socialists have of people who are proud of their country drives me up the wall. They tell us loving your country is wrong, except if you live in Ukraine as of 2022. They tell us you cannot take pride in your ancestors accomplishments, but must forever pay for their sins via reparations and harassment by academics. They tell us imperialism is bad and also all 330 million Americans must obey Washington D.C., everyone who supports secession is Benito Mussolini.
Both National and Democratic Socialists support the following:
- The existence of a state apparatus which has a legal monopoly on the right to initiate violence against peaceful people (aka government supremacy)
- The state monopolizing the money supply (central bank)
- State compulsory education
- State regulation of economic activity between consenting adults
- Anti-Trust laws
- Commercial and Occupational licensing
- Higher taxes on “the rich”
- Tariffs
- Immigration restrictions
- Both constantly vilify “the banks and big business” (See National Socialist 25 Point Program)
- Taxation, the right of the state to coercively collect its funding in a manner which no other group has the right to do
- State Police (which is why “Defund the Police” was clearly a scam, they know the state needs police to enforce regulations and taxes which they impose on us.)
- State Military apparatus (not something every country has, private security is cheaper and more reliable, the state itself is an expropriating property protector.)
- Both constantly obsess over race and explicitly judge people by skin color
There are two ways to achieve your ends in life. Either through mutually beneficial voluntary exchanges, or acts of violence and threats thereof. Both types of socialists seek to coercively control hundreds of millions of strangers under the guise of “helping”.
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