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Wahaha wrote

Reply to it's pretty simple by MasterDestroyer

I'll concede that there are some things where everyone benefits from having one large entity negotiate better conditions for everyone. Like health care. If you go up against the pharma industry as one guy, they screw you over. If you go up against them as a state, they'll have a harder time. The magic word is negotiate, if the state runs things, everyone gets fucked.

And there needs to be a way to opt out and do private health care instead.

I'm also expecting the state to do infrastructure, like laying internet cables or water pipes to where people live, even if it is remote. It's fine to use tax money for that. But once it's done, reduce the taxes again.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to Does "Happy Eyeballs" mean that every internet connection is logged with the hardware MAC address, even for "normal sites" on IPv4? by Wingless

Apparently a whole slew of browsers are sending IPv6 connections whenever they connect, "just to see which one is faster", which sure sounds like a lot of bandwidth for somebody to pay for ... must be worth it to someone.

Don't they just send a packet to measure response time? I'm not certain that'd amount to any noticeable increase in monthly BW usage.

Can someone who actually understands the Dismalest Science enlighten us?

I'm not your guy. It's an interesting topic of discussion and I hope someone who knows what they're talking about can come in and enlighten us.

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to Monitor Java I2P+ from your terminal. by Rambler

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Clearcocoapuffs OP wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in Right now is a great time for us to spread our message. by Clearcocoapuffs

I'll be honest, I left most of the 'liberty movement' awhile ago, because I got tired of their constant bickering about who was being mean to who on twitter, but I do know that Larken Rose's "The Most Dangerous Superstition" is a good book, I had already accepted the ideas and concepts laid out in the book, but it summed them up quite well, and in a fairly non-offensive manner.

One that is a very old, but very good one is Spooner's famous No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, which will hit on the fact the constitution, particularly the 2nd amendment, is ignored until it is politically helpful to invoke it.

I'd personally make it a point to target gun owners who see the ridiculousness going on, and want to distance themselves from it, they're being disenfranchised by the trumpians who are going out making fools of themselves, and have NO friends in the mainstream left.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to Right now is a great time for us to spread our message. by Clearcocoapuffs

Great post, and I agree 100%.

The thing is, many people from both sides would find our ideas quite reasonable. It's essentially a party of personal liberties. <insert meme about gay couple protecting weed plants with guns here>

Who are some up and coming budding Libertarians to follow? I'll admit that I don't follow things as closely as perhaps I should, though I resignate with the ideas, I can't pick faces out of a crowd (if that makes sense).

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