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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • One problem with libertarianism and the other selfish philosophies is that humanity absolutely cannot survive at all without a massive amount of cooperation.

    Assholes who think they can do it on their own are completely delusional.

    If you eliminate everything from your life that required the cooperation of another human being, it’s likely you’re naked, starving, and freezing to death.

    "Oh, I can hunt for food.’

    Really? With just your bare hands? Maybe your naked ass will get lucky and nail a squirrel with a rock, but what are you going to do when a mountain lion decides you’re the squirrel?

    Even if you manage to make some rock tools and weapons, you didn’t figure that out on your own. Someone told you about it.

    Knowledge is the biggest advantage humans have going for them. Without sharing knowledge that others discovered, most people wouldn’t last long enough to matter.




  • We need to stop seeing governors and senators and representatives and saying, “they would be a great president!”

    Instead we need to see teachers, co-workers, and neighbors and say, “they would be a great on the city council or county government or as a state representative.”

    We need to stop thinking in terms of only one chance of victory every four years and start putting people who care about us in places where they can help.

    Of course, that means we have to be prepared to run, and that is hard as hell. So many of us are stretched to the absolute limit just trying to survive. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can do it.




  • The only thing I can see that you’re missing is the requirement that poor people still suffer.

    It’s bad enough to punish incident property hoarders for their hard work (inheriting wealth is hard work - you have to pretend to not be a piece of shit until Grandpa dies). You can’t also let poor people benefit from that at the same time!



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    I don’t like the idea of US government taking the property at below market value, since that would violate the takings clause of the Constitution.

    What I would be in favor of is a real estate tax that increases if a property isn’t permanently occupied. Something that would encourage people to either reduce rent or unload the property.

    It should be a reasonably gradual increase so that landlords aren’t penalized if they can’t find a tenant in the first or second month the unit is vacant. However if it’s been a year they should be approaching the point of owing more in taxes than the property is worth.

    Then you can take it for back taxes.

    It would also discourage air b2b type arrangements, unless you own and live in the property. No more buying a house so you can rent it out for exorbitant rates.