Knapp: The difference between a free economy and an un-free economy IS government — i.e. top-down, hierarchic, uniform, centralized — regulation.
Kevin Carson: Why are they doing it? Because they’re afraid of us.
Carson: The only real way to achieve social justice is by bypassing the state.
Carson: The regulators don’t work for you.
D’Amato: Libyans ought to oppose not any particular political ideology or regime, but the state itself.
David D’Amato on what goes up.
Jason Lee Byas: Who’s really dependent on government?
Knapp: They’re desperate. And they should be.
Knapp: There’s only one way to cut the size and cost of government … off with its head!
Carson: A free market … will eliminate — or socialize — the majority of exchange value in the economy and drive the average rate of profit much closer to zero.
Knapp: The hype has gotten so outrageous that it’s frankly becoming a huge tiresome bore.
Carson: The common thread running through the left-libertarian response is that most of the evils currently remedied by the state result from state intervention in the first place.
Carson: With all the resources wasted on trying to influence a rigged system we could far more easily build the kind of society we want, here and now, without waiting to elect a government to give us permission.
Carson: So long as power and hierarchy exist, they will be used by those at the top to live off the sweat and blood of those at the bottom.
Knapp: Apple used to be an innovative company. Now it’s just a protection racket.
Knapp: The R3VOLution is dead. Long live the revolution.
Carson: They’re trying to enclose emerging tech!
Carson: If we break it down and translate it a bit at a time, we can actually distill some sense from it.
It can be easy to dismiss or mock Akin as “just another misogynist Republican”, but it is more productive to approach this with the intent of opening a frank discussion about patriarchy and oppression.
Knapp: Zenawi was heir to, not smasher of, Mengistu and Selassie regimes.
