"What’s usually at play when many people bash capitalism isn’t even an indirect rejection of the fundamental principles of private possession/property and voluntary exchange." - Alex Aragona

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"Abolish the tariffs, issue no patents, take down the bars from unoccupied land, and labor will straightway rush in and take possession of its own. Then mankind will live in freedom and in comfort." - Benjamin Tucker

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"The state did not invent war (in fact it may have been the other way around), but the state has normalized war. It has perpetuated, and continually worked to perfect, wholesale murder for four centuries now." - Thomas L. Knapp

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"All anarchists seek the greatest freedom for each individual, unrestrained by political, social, or economic authority." - Darian Worden

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"Other kinds of privileges for the politically well connected that tend to make and keep people poor — think occupational licensure and zoning laws, for instance — would be absent from a freed market." - Gary Chartier

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"Markets, at their root, are many moments of reciprocal exchange." - Shae Ross

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"Borders create feelings of animosity that cause people to turn their backs on fellow humans simply because they come from a different region and don’t share their customs." - Dylan Delikta

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"Processing is not magic, a supercomputer the size of the sun can’t crack some encryption schemes and so too are there significant and inescapable constraints on processing through economic considerations." - @rechelon.bsky.social

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"Rearticulating Brownmiller’s theory in Hayekian terms provides a surprising resource for the radical feminist critique of rape culture; it may also dialectically clarify and enrich the concept of 'spontaneous order.'" - Charles Johnson

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"Do you admit that economic freedom is desirable? That control over the means of labor — and thereby over your life, that of your family, your material well-being – should not be vested in the hands of a few?" - Dyer Lum

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"Policy and governance questions are addressed in a stigmergic or wikified way." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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"I wish I didn’t know that on average people assume 30% of victims are lying, when less than 10% are. I wish I didn’t know that at least 90% of rapes are never reported, because women know what will happen to them." - Cathy Reisenwitz

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"Killing a person despite the fact that ending their aggression doesn’t require it is not an act of self defense. It’s murder. The death penalty, then, is nothing but institutionalized murder." - @corymassimino.bsky.social

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"We owe it to ourselves to create a world in which rapists are held accountable for their actions and a culture in which human rights violations like rape are viewed as the atrocities they are." - @peacenotpeas.bsky.social

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"The problem isn’t the anti-porn moralist crowd’s personally held convictions. The problem lies in their attempts at the use of authoritarian power to enforce their personal morals on the rest of society."

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"By criminalizing drugs—deciding what an adult can put into her own body—the state has immersed the country and world in a cycle of violence that has very little, if anything at all, to do with actually preventing people from using drugs." - David D'Amato

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"The only difference between you and a border crosser is that you have the privilege to live without knowledge of the crimes you commit." - Ryan Calhoun

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"Politically powerless undocumented immigrants make an easy target for Washington." - Chad Nelson

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