David Neilson

Anarchocapitalism, Austrian economics, Bitcoin, Linux.

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2024-09-19 15:35:49

If you choose to be unarmed you choose to be unable to protect yourself and your family.
#selfdefense #guns #weapons #firearms #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-09-10 21:02:42

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Real libertarians are anarchists, not minarchists. Being a libertarian means adhering to the nonaggresion principle. You can't be a minarchist without violating the nonaggresion principle.

2024-09-10 20:29:54

Real libertarians are anarchists. And real anarchists are libertarians.
#anarchy #libertarian #anarchocapitalist #liberty

2024-09-05 04:49:19

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I fought wildfires for the Forest Service one summer. I knew I was getting paid with stolen money, but that didn't bother me. The government had stolen more from me than I got paid that summer. I liked fighting fires and I wanted the experience.
I ended up getting more than firefighting experience that summer. I saw how people how depend on misfortune for their income root for misfortune so they can make more money. I only worked for the forest service for a few weeks, but in that time I saw how if affected people's mindsets. By the time my contract ended I knew I couldn't work in that environment any longer without a negative impact on my own mindset.
I even saw this at work in my volunteer fire department where I was the assistant chief. We did't get paid and all of our equipment came from donations and fund raisers. Firefighters like to fight fires and they like cool gear. The chief wanted to ask the county commissioners to impose a tax on the county residents to buy cool new equipment with. I told no one should be forced to pay for protection if they didn't want and that I would quit the department if went through with his plan. He didn't do it as long as I lived there. I don't know what he did after I moved away.
There's nothing wrong with taking money from the government because it not their's and there is no way to return it to its rightful owners. But you need to be careful about the negative effects that come with it.

2024-09-04 02:52:12

"Anything you do that is outside the control of the state is agorist, so in some sense we are all agorists whether we know it or not. Some people just take those actions because of the personal gain they can obtain, which is perfectly fine, but some do it as a conscientious objection and act of rebellion against the state as well. I'm out to turn unconscious agorists into conscious active ones. :)"
Dread Pirate Roberts
#agorism #smashthestate #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-09-03 18:38:08

The Regime’s War on Cash Could Destroy the Economy
by Frank Shostak
#rothbard #austrianeconomics #anarchocapitalism #endthefed
https://mises.org/mises-wire/regimes-war-cash-could-destroy-economy

2024-09-01 18:25:25

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Is there some way we can connect on Qortal or Discord?

2024-09-01 15:27:03

Hanlon's Razor Is Getting Rusty in the 2024 Election
Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
#voting #freedom #anarchocapitalilsm #libertarian
https://reason.com/2024/09/01/hanlons-razor-rusts/

2024-09-01 15:17:47

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Thanks.

2024-08-29 15:31:19

"Self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party."
L Neil Smith
#selfdefense #freedom #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-29 00:18:04

The Military Tried To Hide Evidence of a Massacre. A Lawsuit Just Exposed It.
#antiwar #warcrime #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
https://reason.com/2024/08/28/the-military-tried-to-hide-evidence-of-a-massacre-a-lawsuit-just-exposed-it/

2024-08-29 00:04:23

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's Arrest Is Part of a Global War on Free Speech
#freespeech #freedomofspeech #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
https://reason.com/2024/08/28/telegram-ceo-pavel-durovs-arrest-is-part-of-a-global-war-on-free-speech/

2024-08-26 04:53:58

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Diderot lived int the 1700s. If he were alive today he would have to update the quote. But the sentiment is still valid.

2024-08-26 02:13:45

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
Frederick Douglass
#freespeech #freedomofspeech #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-25 18:59:24

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
H.L. Mencken
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian #livefree

2024-08-25 15:26:12

"Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual."
Walter Williams
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian #liberty

2024-08-25 15:13:43

Opinion: Both candidates tick communist boxes
by Kent McManigal,
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian #liberty
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2024/08/25/voices/opinion-both-candidates-tick-communist-boxes/179233.html

2024-08-24 03:32:54

"What causes poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, what causes prosperity?"
Per Byland
#anarchocapitalism #libertarian #freemarkets #freedom

2024-08-23 17:29:47

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
Ernest Benn
#anarchocapitalism #libertarian #smashthestate

2024-08-23 04:33:45

Kansas judge dismisses machine gun and Glock switch charges, citing 2nd Amendment
#firearms #weapons #guns #gunstr
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/courts/2024/08/22/kansas-judge-dismisses-machine-gun-case-after-scotus-gun-rights-ruling/74903536007/

2024-08-23 03:30:55

"That's all schools are you know, just factories, spewing out mindless little automatons."
Spike
#homeschool #homeschooling #unschooling #libertarian

2024-08-23 01:59:00

"Without anarchy, there would be chaos."
Jeffrey Tucker
#anarchy #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-22 16:51:48

"Without anarchy, there would be chaos."
Jeffrey Tucker
#anarchy #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-22 16:47:35

"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."
Mark Twain
#voting #anarchocapitalism #anarchy #libertarian

2024-08-22 16:42:57

Government funded roads are subsidies for the automobile industry. Public roads and interference from the FAA are the main reasons we don't have flying cars. Fuck the roads. I want my flying car.
#anarchocapitalism #freemarkets #libertarian #freedomtech #taxationistheft

2024-08-22 16:35:59

The Problem with Trump’s Agenda 47 for Homeschoolers
#homeschool #homeschooling #unschooling #libertarian
https://mises.org/mises-wire/problem-trumps-agenda-47-homeschoolers

2024-08-22 00:27:30

When Governments Compete, You Win
by Max Borders
#secession #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
https://www.theadvocates.org/when-governments-compete-you-win/?mc_cid=e3d17dec49

2024-08-21 16:25:18

Feel Free to Insult Me
Rowan Atkinson on the state free speech in Britain.
#freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxWMhB4Cfm0

2024-08-21 16:20:25

"Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism."
Murray Rothbard
#anarchocapitalism #austrianeconomics #anarchism

2024-08-20 22:07:49

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It's intervention by the state. The mafia does all those things but it's not socialism. Here's Murray Rothbard's definition of socialism:
When government ownership or control extends to the entire productive system, then the economic system is called socialism. Socialism, in short, is the violent abolition of the market, the compulsory monopolization of the entire productive sphere by the State. There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

2024-08-20 18:03:46

The only time I ever voted was in 1988 when Ron Paul was running for president as a Libertarian. I was younger and more naive then. I didn't realize that libertarians running for political office was an oxymoron and that voting Libertarian was still an act of aggression.
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-20 17:58:08

Implicit in the act of voting is the agreement to abide by the outcome. When you vote for a political candidate you are agreeing that the winner of the election represents you, even if the candidate you voted for lost. When you chose a representative you share responsibility for his or her actions. That includes all the drone bombings, taxes, and laws this person helps bring about. Voting is ultimately an act of aggression against other Americans and people all over the world.
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-20 16:54:08

The Folly of Legislating against Unfairness
by Wanjiru Njoya
#equ alrights #anarchocapitalist #libertarian
https://mises.org/mises-wire/folly-legislating-against-unfairness

2024-08-20 15:32:38

"There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means."
Albert J. Nock
#austrianeconomics #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-20 15:30:43

The government needs people to vote to maintain its illusion of legitimacy. This works so well that people will continue to vote even if their only choices are Harris and Trump. There's another choice, don't vote for anyone. Opt out and stop supporting the government. Without its illusion of legitimacy it will lose its power over us.
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-19 22:23:05

"The friend of freedom is not a nationalist, a racist, a bigot, nor any other form of collectivist who would seek to judge his fellow man based on anything other than the man himself. The friend of freedom is a true abolitionist and a voluntaryist."
Ben Stone
#freedom #voluntaryist #anarchocapitalist #libertarian

2024-08-19 20:18:25

Lissie "In Sleep"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FOvA9CmIg

2024-08-19 17:17:34

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You're right. I'm not sure how the movie quote made it into my collection of quotes, but somehow it did. I barely remember the movie. Here's the quote from the book. They're pretty much the same message.
"To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives -- such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day. Force, if you will! -- the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax. Whether it is exerted by ten men or by ten billion, political authority is force."

2024-08-19 15:45:47

No one has a right to not be discriminated against. Freedom of association means people have a right to associate or not associate with anyone they choose.
All rights are property rights because every individual owns his life, his time, his body, and any justly acquired property. Freedom of association and all other rights are derived from property rights.
If a business owner can't refuse to do business with gay customers because of his or her religious beliefs, then equal treatment under the law would require black business owners to do business with Klan members, and Jewish, gay, and Gypsy business owners would be required to do business with Nazis.
Being forced to do business with people you don't want to is a form of involuntary servitude, and any form of slavery is always wrong.
Bigots are unsavory people, but they have the same rights as everyone else. Protecting your rights means protecting the rights of people you can't stand, because any law that can violate their rights will eventually violate your rights.
#freedomofassociation #propertyrights #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-19 15:38:37

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."
Jean Rasczak in "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-19 04:35:22

"DEMOCRACY: A system for (1) selecting the sociopaths with the greatest demonstrated ability to bamboozle the electorate and (2) placing them in positions of supreme governmental power."
Robert Higgs
#democracy #voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-19 02:57:17

On Secession and Small States
by Ryan McMaken
#secession #anarchocapitalist #libertarian
https://mises.org/austrian/secession-and-small-states

2024-08-19 01:26:28

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And if the government wasn't subsidizing the automobile industry by building all those roads we'd have flying cars by now.

2024-08-18 23:34:23

"The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam, the politicians would most assuredly start a counterrevolution. Measures to enforce voting would be instituted; fines would be imposed for violations, and prison sentences would be meted out to repeaters."
Frank Chodorov
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-18 20:17:42

The system will not be changed by working within the system. The system will be changed with ideas. And one of the most important of these ideas is that voting doesn't change anything, Rather it lends legitimacy to the current system and helps keep it in place.
Real change will come through refusing to vote, stopping all other voluntary interactions with the government, and then sharing this idea with others. Ideas take on a life of their own and when they reach a tipping point they become viral. There is no way of knowing when this will happen, but when it does it will be fast.
There was a time when it seemed like the Berlin Wall was a permanent fixture in Europe, And then seemingly overnight it was gone. Within a couple of years the Soviet Union collapsed as well.
This can happen here, too. Don't vote. Pass it on.
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-18 17:35:04

How to Talk to Children about Climate Change
#climatechange #anarchocapitalism #libertarian
https://fee.org/articles/how-to-talk-to-children-about-climate-change/

2024-08-18 16:50:54

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
by Étienne de La Boétie. Written in 1552. You can get a free copy here:
https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude
#anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-18 16:48:28

"If you can't opt out, of course an election is rigged."
Sheldon Richman
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-18 04:23:36

Getting mugged is just politics at the local level.
#taxationistheft #anarchocapitalism #smashthestate

2024-08-18 00:11:32

Inflation in One Page
by Henry Hazlitt
#inflation #austrianeconomics #anarchocapitalism #endthefed #taxationistheft #hazlitt
https://fee.org/articles/inflation-in-one-page/

2024-08-17 22:30:49

Less Marx, more Mises.
#anarchocapitalism #austrianeconomics #libertarian #mises #rothbard

2024-08-17 21:03:15

"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children."
Malcolm X
#homeschool #homeschooling #anarchist #libertarian

2024-08-17 17:44:19

Less Marx, more Mises.
#anarchocapitalism #austrianeconomics #libertarian #mises #rothbard

2024-08-17 17:42:25

Welcome to America
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken
#voting #anarchocapitalism #libertarian #smashthestate #mencken

2024-08-17 17:37:41

Without government warlords would take over. Oh, wait, that's already happened.
#freedom #anarchocapitalist #libertarian #smashthestate

2024-08-17 16:29:51

"Secession is a crucial part of the libertarian philosophy: that every state be allowed to secede from the nation, every sub-state from the state, every neighborhood from the city, and, logically, every individual or group from the neighborhood."
Murray Rothbard
#secession #liberty #anarchy #libertarian #smashthestate

2024-08-17 16:23:00

"When we express a preference politically, we do so precisely because we intend to bind others to our will. Political voting is the legal method we have adopted and extolled for obtaining monopolies of power. Political voting is nothing more than the assumption that might makes right."
Robert LeFevre
#voting #liberty #anarchist #libertarian #smashthestate

2024-08-17 03:59:38

Uvalde Police Timid, Bungling During School Shooting, New Records Reveal
If you want something done right, do it yourself. That includes protecting family, friends, and neighbors.
https://reason.com/2024/08/16/uvalde-police-timid-bungling-during-school-shooting-new-records-reveal/
#selfdefense #smashthestate #ancap #libertarian

2024-08-17 01:23:34

"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
#liberty #anarchocapitalist #libertarian #smashthestate

2024-08-16 20:08:44

There's no need to protect popular speech. No one is trying to suppress it. It's unpopular speech that needs protecting. And the more vile, hateful, bigoted, racist, and antigovernment it is, the more it needs protecting.
One of life's little jokes is in order to protect liberty you have to protect the rights of people you really can't stand.
#freedomofspeech #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-16 20:02:23

Freedom of speech is a property right. On property you own or rent, or property where the owner has given you permission to speak, you can say anything you want, no matter how offensive, obnoxious, insulting, vile, hateful, racist, or bigoted.
You do not have a right to trespass on other's property to speak, and you can't make anyone else listen or agree with you.
#freedom ofspeech #liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian

2024-08-16 19:50:21

"All governments are lying cocksuckers."
Bill Hicks
#liberty #ancap #anarchocapitalist #libertarian

2024-08-16 19:41:18

"One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure — and in some cases I have — that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy."
Jeff Cooper
#selfdefense #weapons #guns #firearms

2024-08-16 17:32:16

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I use Bisq.

2024-08-16 16:16:38

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over. Voting for any of these dumb fucks running for office is proof of that.

2024-08-16 16:14:21

When I was a reporter for a small Texas newspaper I lived in Ron Paul's district while he was a congressman. One of Ron Paul's aides told me that he really loved politics. Not liberty, freedom, libertarianism, or sound money. He loved politics. I got the impression he would have been just as happy working for Ted Kennedy. Some people are really consumed with being part of the system that controls other people's lives.

2024-08-16 03:49:50

"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
Han Solo
#starwars #selfdefense #weapons #guns #firearms

2024-08-15 20:21:06

"Political theory deals with what is proper or improper for government to do, and government is distinguished from every other group in society as being the institution of organized violence. Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal. Libertarianism, therefore, is a theory which states that everyone should be free of violent invasion, should be free to do as he sees fit, except invade the person or property of another. What a person does with his or her life is vital and important, but is simply irrelevant to libertarianism."
Murray Rothbard

2024-08-15 19:56:40

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-15 03:58:52

I like Wikipedia for bios and discographies of musicians, bios and bibliographies of authors, and info about TV shows, movies, and actors and actresses. In other words, strictly for entertainment. I don't trust it the least little bit for anything important.
#Wikipedia #entertainment #disinformation

2024-08-15 03:27:39

One of my sculptures.
#art #sculpture #woodcarving
https://davidneilson.io/pages/flight_slideshow.html
https://image.nostr.build/46b1e6e058fdc9a71060875ceb246502e9e5913eec386f05c6825a3ba4ebacac.jpg

2024-08-15 01:13:24

Soldiers who kill and injure innocent people, and destroy their homes and property, are criminal murderers and vandals. The fact that they are following orders and acting with the blessings of the government doesn't change that. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. There is no shifting the blame to someone else. This is why I don't support our troups. They're not protecting life and liberty, they're spreading and enforcing tyranny.
#liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian #statism

2024-08-15 00:19:54

"The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent."
Joseph Sobran
#liberty #anarchocapitalilst #libertarian #taxationistheft #sobran

2024-08-14 05:08:01

2024-08-14 04:36:21

Hello, new to Nostr. Interested in individual liberty, anarchocapitalism, Austrian economics, agorism, and bitcoin.