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@mactonite @lovelymiss @TrevorGoodchild @VikingWays @lks okay, dude, everybody had their lolbert phase and the important thing here is that you can recover from it

lolbertarian yields has some solid economic analysis - let's give credit where it's due - but politically it's total shit and you must understand this

the thing is, you can only have economic relations within the context of what we call a "society" - even von Mises concedes this point - and the proper question of politics is "what kind of society shall we have", which means that there must be some form of rules that are broadly accepted

these rules must take into account three important facts:

1. no set of rules suffices to encompass all cases; the telos of the rules is to enable men to live together;

2. there are always going to be hostile actors ("jews") who will manipulate the system in ways that are perfectly in accordance with the letter of "the rules" and yet completely destructive of their underlying purpose, and

3. there must be somebody whose job it is to take these "jews" (ethnic jews, spiritual jews, it doesn't really matter) and stuff them into an oven as soon as they attempt this, because this allows people to live and work together harmoniously in accordance with both the letter and spirit of the rules, by preventing jews from latching onto the social capital they build in a high-trust society and draining it to death

this implies government of some kind, and a sovereign whose job it is to identify the jew in the equation and ruthlessly purge him; this is a ceaseless and frequently thankless task, but must be done so that nations might live

once you internalize this fact, you appreciate lolbertarianism for what it is: an idealized case of human affairs where "government" is so deeply internalized that men do not act wrongly, and therefore can be trusted to act entirely on their own recognizance without coercion

sadly, jews

so we don't get to see that ideal in this world

(it is not an accident that jews are destined for Hell and there are no jews in Heaven)

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