How can we decentralize the monopoly on violence?
Replying to @Rothmus
Those who are opposed to corporations and favor government do not realize that government is simply the largest, most monopolistic corporation of all and it has a monopoly on violence.
The future seems extremely bright.
More and more people are doing things without permission everyday.
If the culture does not respect individual property rights, fuck that culture.
My property rights are not up for debate or for vote.
We have government because individuals can't be trusted to make good choices on their own...
I don't know who needs to hear this but civilization did not cause roads to happen, roads caused civilization to happen.
A culture is valuable according to the technologies available for the individual to protect his own self interest.
AKA. Freedom.
Replying to @BrianHatano @Mandrik
Incorrect.
You have cause and effect reversed.
Self interest -> Technology -> Culture/Civilization
Philosophy lags engineering.
Mark Lassiter retweeted
Property taxes are used for the services you use every day.
By “services” we mean an army of highly paid bureaucrats, contractors and their cronies who add nothing to your quality of life and who very often harm you.
The government has had it too easy for far too long and it shows.
Replying to @SenatorKarnes @erichhartmann
Touche.
Then they come collect taxes in the form of chicken eggs.
The point is to make tax collection subject to the whims of the economy, so the government will struggle when the people struggle.
Mark Lassiter retweeted
This is a wild approach, @autodesk.
We’re a small business paying $380 per user, per month. We’ve been paying customers for over a decade, and we make a deliberate effort to honor the license agreements for every product we use. Your software already requires authentication and an assigned license. What, specifically, prompted this email?
Earlier today, I had two conversations on two separate podcast episodes about your direction with Fusion and why cloud-based API access makes sense for agentic MEP workflows. I was making the case for Autodesk. I think the product direction is right based on recent posts from @andrew_anagnost.
Our company has been deciding where to invest our development effort: integrate our custom cloud agent harness into Autodesk, build on an open-source platform, or adopt one of the emerging cloud alternatives. That decision will lock in years of internal development and software spending. This decision is also central to our plans to expand @PermitZIP nationwide.
An email like this becomes part of that decision. So does the time we have to spend responding to it.For more than a decade, we’ve paid for anywhere from 5 to 30 licenses each year. Autodesk is our single largest SaaS expense. This is a heck of a way to make our next platform decision easier.
Starting next week, we’ll begin transitioning away from Autodesk products. We have nothing to hide and will cooperate with the audit. We’ll also be directing our future spending toward companies that earn our confidence as partners.
I hope your audit goes well.
I've had people consistently stealing from me every two weeks my entire working life and not once was it an illegal immigrant.
Abolish all government welfare, allow maximum castle doctrine across society and immigration literally takes care of itself.
If given the choice between large State with closed borders and generous handouts, or small state with open borders and no handouts, I'd choose the later every day.
Immigrants from anywhere, so long as they get no handouts and are not permitted to violate private property, are little threat to anyone. And the immigrant that violates property is no worse than the citizen who does the same.
In America, it's white citizens in DC who do the vast majority of the looting, and who cause the vast majority of harm to the country and its people.
Because the scale of the State is so large, it necessarily invites special interest groups of all manner to organize and struggle for benefits. The danger of these factions over time, which the Founders wrote about explicitly, grows in proportion to state size. Identity politics (just a more contemporary name for such factions), which is wholly disintegrating any national concept of the people of America, is less a consequence of immigrants than of the game theory of an ever-growing state that dishes out loot to whomever demands it.
Property prices in and around DC is a much more damning indictment of modern America than any perceived border issue. It is not the barbarians at the gates but the kleptocrats within which most endangers this country.
If you want to deport people, start with Nancy Pelosi.










