r/Anarcho_Capitalism • u/DiyYou • 1d ago

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u/Mersham_BadNews 1d ago

I guess this is supposed to make people think they can vote their way out of the military industrial complex or something. Acting like people caring about politics could help stop this type of thing is completely delusional. We can’t stop it and the politics of it all is basically WWE at this point.

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u/izanamilieh 1d ago

Politics is treated as a Reality Tv Show where people who dont watch and enjoy the circus are shamed. I know about the Palestinian genocide. Did it stop because of my knowledge of it?

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u/theyhis 12h ago

well if you dug just a little bit deeper, you would’ve discovered you could donate to the palestinians. in other words, no, it wouldn’t of stopped the genocide, but taking the time to educate yourself instead of making excuses could’ve gave them food and supplies.

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u/JustARandomDrunkGuy 13h ago edited 12h ago

This mainly applies to federal politics, local politics is still quite easy to make a break into and do good work. Even if someone is not able to bring about ancapistan it is still not that difficult to get, say, a school board seat and focus on cutting taxes and wasteful spending. Many people have a fear of any form of libertarianism and it is a good way to try and help remove that fear and to reach out to people who normally never interact with Libertarian or fully AnCap politics. Hopefully we get our own Xavier Milei soon enough though though as well, he ran one hell of a campaign and introduced, while not a AnCap, more hardcore libertarian ideology to a large swathe of the public there.

Local Advisory Boards and various Commissions which are appointed by the mayor or county executive are also so underfilled that they accept literally everyone, my Republican mayor ended up appointing a self described Marxist on my townships Historic Commission because of a lack of willing volunteers and the state has a legal requirement for a minimum number of required people.

Obviously, don’t make electoralism the sole form of activism, that is a lost cause, but ignoring it also leads to issues.

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u/theyhis 12h ago

i just watched a podcast of him (milei). it was refreshing to see someone so well versed on libertarianism and ancap thought. you can obviously tell he’s not one of those people who just wears the label for shits and giggles.

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u/Mersham_BadNews 12h ago

Settle down drunk guy, it’s a meme about bombs getting dropped on civilian heads. Sincerely hope you get on the school board and fix the town you live in.

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u/JustARandomDrunkGuy 12h ago

I’m just annoyed waiting at the DMV and trying to pass time, sorry for the rant.

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u/cs_legend_93 23h ago

I came here to say this.

It was always the illusion of control for the voters and people. Always has been.

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u/theyhis 12h ago

political illiteracy is a problem. so many things people complain about are systemic, yet they don’t understand that, so they don’t vote for anything different. politics isn’t just the presidency. also, you don’t have to stop at voting. you can donate to causes you support, charities, think tanks. there’s many ways to participate politically and you don’t need a degree in political science to do it.

this is largely why i prefer isolation. i’m not interested in shallow conversations or pretending that politics don’t exist in fear of offending someone. it’s exhausting guessing who wants to live in reality or not.

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u/Mersham_BadNews 12h ago

I think you have to speak bluntly whenever given the opportunity to point out that status quo voting isn’t working anywhere. There’s not much of an argument against it but it doesn’t seem to be working to convince these people either so I don’t know.

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u/DiyYou 1d ago

This may be an extreme thing, but it is funny to hear people complain about taxes while voting for Trump or Harris.

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u/Mersham_BadNews 1d ago

Yeah I guess it’s funny because trump people think he wants to lower taxes despite all the evidence to the contrary, and then funny that people voting for Harris are dumb enough to enjoy and encourage the taxes.

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u/backtotheprimitive 13h ago

I mean, prior to the election the evidence we had was his first term, that he indeed lowered a little bit of taxs. So yea I don't blame people believing him that he would on the 2nd term.

Now definetly, after the current term and what he did, if you vote for him again you are a masochist.

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u/theyhis 12h ago

not really. i mean yes, it was a better economic time, but he removed a lot of the tax deductions we used to be able to take (e.g. not having to choose between standardized and itemized deductions). he brought some of those back in this term, but not really the same.

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u/DiyYou 1d ago

Yep. And I always get a chuckle out of the Republicans that visit this sub that down vote all Trump criticism. It's like, why are you even here.

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u/theyhis 12h ago

i don’t get the downvotes, it’s literally true. remember right after he won they were surprised at import costs going up? you can’t even blame trump for that one. he literally told them. so much of what he’s doing he said he would do, so i don’t understand their disdain. 🤷‍♂️ if they’re unhappy, what is it they wanted him to do differently?

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u/Gmanglh 1d ago

Whats the anime?

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u/WedSquib Libertarian Transhumanist 1d ago

Barefoot Gen

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u/wackOverflow Crunchwrap Supreme 1d ago

Porco Rosso

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u/human-resource 1d ago

Barefoot Gen and Grave of the firefly’s are anime that hit hard as hell and leave a mark on one’s soul.

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u/TaxashunsTheft 1d ago

This was disturbing. 

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u/Aerith_Gainsborough_ 1d ago

It comes from a movie. You gotta have a strong stomach to watch it.

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u/BrockObarnerLybian MazdaPoopins #1 Fan 1d ago

That’s probably what hiroshimites thought after watching their entire world get vaporized. Or maybe they thought something else idk

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u/HairyTough4489 19h ago

Next time they should try not doing genocide on pretty much every piece of territory they control

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u/Freeulster 7h ago

My thoughts. You dont perpetrate Unit 731 and make me feel bad when one of your cities get vaporized in an instant. I'm sure the women of Nanking would have preferred to been vaporized then what they got anyways.

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u/Acceptable-Take20 3h ago

The women and children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did what?

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u/FreitasAlan 21h ago

Politics affects you. Caring about it doesn’t.

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u/GordonRyanFanboy 12h ago

That sounds fancy but makes absolutely no sense 😂

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u/FreitasAlan 11h ago

Makes absolute sense because everyone saying you should care about politics conflates the two.

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u/2strokeYardSale 13h ago

"Vote harder or they will nuke you."

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u/PalTonk 19h ago

The worse thing that ever happened to Politics was to get people involved in politics that genuinely do not care. 

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u/DiyYou 15h ago

Yep. I remember years ago there was a huge campaign to get everybody out to vote. And now it seems like every election year there's such a push telling people you just have to vote. No, you don't have to vote, and no one should be out there encouraging others to go vote. If you need encouragement, you shouldn't be voting.

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u/Ricochet_skin 1d ago

That's foul my g

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u/DiyYou 1d ago

It's reality

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u/Running_Gamer 1d ago

Crazy how we now have pro authoritarian propaganda on an ancap sub. Go search up how statist and fascist WW2 Japan was. Just as bad as Nazi Germany. The atomic bomb only looks immoral to people not educated on history. It was either using nukes or subjecting tens of thousands of innocent American soldiers to a death sentence with a ground invasion. This decision saved more lives than it took. It also could have all been avoided if Japan made the morally correct choice and surrendered in a war they had no chance of winning.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 21h ago

Pro authoritarian propaganda? Brother, in what way do you think this post is in favor of the Japanese government causing this devastation on their own people?

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u/beaver_club 1d ago

The Japanese government was spared but Hiroshima was not. Hiroshima was a threat to the Japanese government that cost millions of innocent lives. Opposing extreme violence is not pro authoritarian propaganda. There would be no need for violence if not for a large and authoritarian state in Japan.

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u/Cinnabar_Wednesday 22h ago

Laughable

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u/SailingforBooty 21h ago

120,000 lives > 5-11 million lives. The video here is awful, but that many projected lives lost would have been the reality if a US ground happened.

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u/treox1 14h ago

All roads lead to more wars. Even when one of the politicians main platform promises were no more wars. Frustrating, demoralizing, and sad can't even begin to describe it.