If they really want to commit to being the Ayn Rand institute, they should use Ayn Rand's argument for why Native Americans didn't have the rights to their land
I “like” the text of that speech because it just nakedly shows how much a monster Rand was and the natural conclusion of her “philosophy”. Showed it to a Rand stan I know and she never responded to it.
" [Native Americans] didn't have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their 'right' to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent." - Ayn Rand, West Point lecture 1974
To be clear, Indigenous peoples did have property rights in their own legal codes and did work the land, so she's even wrong on the basics here, and even if they didn't would not justify genocide.
The same monster that said millions of slaughtered First Nations peoples deserved to be slaughtered because they didn't "own" the land in a proper way to begin with?
AnarchoCapitalism is a deeply unserious ideology with no historical basis and should be viewed as similarly ridiculous to AnarchoMonarchism. Fascist theory is famously incoherent nonsense, but at least there have been fascist movements in history. At least they exist.
How can an objectivist support the state forcibly moving people off the land people are entitled to, and worked for with the sweat of their brow?
Even their founding monster said that forcibly moving people off the land and doing atrocities to them was cool and good because they weren't using the land correctly and there was some veiled cryptofascist bits about mud huts there too.
Been getting random trans hate videos/shorts every so often, gets a lot worse when I open a fresh container off my cultivated feeds. Inevitably also see Mr. Beast videos and part of my soul gets absorbed by his soulless smile.
I swear there was even an admission from someone at Youtube that their algorithm was biased towards that kind of content, but I can't find it now. Chuds really like to whine and play the victim even though and are among the people who've benefited massively.
That is a daily experience for me, I'm already pissed off enough about many things to a point where it's negatively affecting my mental health and life in general. I keep ignoring articles, videos, discussions, etc. that are both relevant and interesting to me, but I know I'll just be angry at the end, so I ignore them or save them to read/watch later when I feel I can handle it. But things are being added to that list faster than I have moments and mental energy to go through them all, even when I consciously don't save many of them.
Weird because a looong time ago when I was a libertarian nerd I was still pro-Palestine. Like, it’s a pretty straightforward thing even from a libertarian perspective.
that's the contradiction of american right-libertarianism. young internet people get into it because they're disillusioned with party politics and want an alternative, and they don't realize that literally all its institutions and major figures are vestigial growths of movement conservatism.
They had to put DEBUNKED in bold red letters on the thumnail or else their viewers would plainly see Palestinian land being stripped away with each conflict.
Much like Gazan hospitals exploding, Israeli territorial expansion just happens spontaneously. Just because Palestinian land happens to contract at the same does not mean Israel is stealing land.
it was gromyko that spearheaded the very temporary pro israel position, Stalin did not. The Pan-arab movement at that time was also being subverted by the british (until Nazzer created an actual pan-arab ideology). It was bad, but soviets fully and absolutely denounced zionism soon after the Nabka. Stalin was anti-zionist his whole life, but this part is where the politburo overruled him. Although he could have pushed harder against it.