This mindset is as alien to me as it is frustrating. Situation: some libertarians want to live in line with their ideals. They go to immense trouble to buy some virtually unused plots of land, put in years of effort with the government of a developing country to get permission to build on it, and get to work. A new "center-left" socialist government comes in. It breaks the contract, aiming to destroy their ability to build a city on property nobody else had cared to use, undoing years of work. What Lovely frames as a city trying to bankrupt Honduras is a group of people doing everything they can to play by the rules, to find a way within the system to live according to their ideals, only to see the rules change ex post facto. There is an incredibly simple route for the Honduras socialists to avoid losing the lawsuit: they can honor their contract. Even if you are opposed to the ideals of the people working to build the charter city, you should welcome experimentation. If they fail, they burned their own time, effort, and money to try something, and you get an example of their failure to point to forever after. And if they succeed? You don't have to visit, work with, or pay any attention to their city. Meanwhile, they can provide opportunity to, and investment in, a struggling area. In the name of anti-colonialism, socialists want the entire world to live by their ideals. In the name of democracy, they want to shut down experiments run by people they disagree with. In the name of fairness, they want to break promises, then cry foul when people try to hold them to those promises. In a sense, I agree with Lovely here: Interested people should be talking about how socialists in Honduras are trying to shut down a promising experiment ex post facto, and how the charter city is aiming to persist regardless. I'm just not convinced the narrative is anywhere near as flattering for those socialists as he would hope. Let people experiment. Let them work to build and live in line with their ideals. Let them try. And for heaven's sake, don't hit them, then cry foul when they hit back.

Given that @nytimes has some difficulty understanding the difference between socialism and capitalism, here are some charts explaining the two and their outcomes.

Serves me right for clicking on my own "more about this account" link

I think people are forgetting that Kamala Harris has a secret weapon: unhinged Trumpist lunatics with twitter accounts

Imagine Biden's surprise when he's going to wake up from his nap in half an hour and find out that he's dropped out and endorsed Kamala.

This article seems to have the receipts on what goes on at Wikipedia. @jimmy_wales tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reli…