Juris Doctor @UCDavisLaw / Internet consultant / technology evangelist / cognitive science dilettante / posthumanist / lifelong libertarian / Bitcoin / $MSTR
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After graduating from UC Davis in 1995, I transitioned to email services provided by the Davis Community Network, eventually transitioning to an email account on my own NETESQ-DOT-COM domain in the late 1990s.
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David F. Prenatt, Jr retweeted
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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Now, this is truly ironic. Nazis are acting as uninvited apologists for the free speech rights of a Jewish man LARPing as a libertarian and his radical political organization because they all more or less share bigotry towards non-whites.
Part of the reason LPNH is important is that they're keeping the overton window on free speech open. If nobody is willing to say the kind of things they say, then the window closes and people will go to jail for unpopular speech.
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David F. Prenatt, Jr retweeted
Joint statement from the Chair and vice-Chair of the Vermont Libertarian party:
The calls for violence by the now disaffiliated and fraudulent political club known as LPNH are antithetical to the core of libertarian beliefs. This republic was founded upon the idea and ideals of equal rights for all people and a government by the consent of the governed. The founders placed numerous checks and balances in the new Constitution to ensure continued peaceful transitions of power because they had just fought and sacrificed so greatly. Domestic tranquility and the blessings of liberty were what they desired for us - their posterity - and it would be deeply unwise to ignore this and throw it away for factional interests. As libertarianism is premised upon the foundations of non-aggression and equal natural rights for all, we stand for peaceable political change and against violence.
The bottom line is that the Libertarian National Committee officially kicked LPNH out of the party back in May, and this was unanimously confirmed by the Judicial committee during the appeal. The Granite State Libertarian party is the correct and proper affiliate of the national Libertarian party, and we welcome our new neighbors with glad hearts and goodwill.
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Historically, the Nazi regime was an active genocidal state apparatus. Targeted operations against its leadership operated in a context of total war and ongoing mass atrocities, which is not the same as abstract online advocacy or peacetime political disagreement. 1/x
Abso-fucking-loutely. Absent a clear and present danger giving rise to the justification of a proportional violent response, advocating the use of deadly force is by definition asymmetrical and ethically unjustified. This includes capital punishment.
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Equating “call for the assassination of Nazis” in a modern hypothetical with wartime reality blurs important distinctions between defensive action against an imminent existential threat and open-ended political targeting. 2/x
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And if you want to LARP as a libertarian while espousing bigoted, fascist, and authoritarian policies, Jeremy is definitely your man, and LPNH is your cult!
LPNH is simultaneously the most radical and the most pragmatic.
Do you want to enact ancapistan with tanks and guns tomorrow? We're in.
Do you want to marginally improve things in any way? We're in.
The only thing we're against is people who won't do either.
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David F. Prenatt, Jr retweeted
Actually, real Americans speak Navajo, or one of the other 150 or so languages spoken by this country’s original inhabitants.
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Wow, it looks like Dennis Pratt is a political radical who was never really seeking peaceful coexistence with the majoritarian mob. Good luck with burning the village to save the village.
Oh, sweetheart, this is not about "disagreeing"!
It's about how to respond when folks like you
initiate state violence
to impose your values on,
and to steal from,
otherwise peaceful citizens who disagree with you.
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Treating every democratic outcome you dislike as illegitimate “state violence” that must be resisted rather than contested leaves little room for coalition-building, gradual reform, or even basic coexistence inside existing societies. 1/x
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The problem with Jeremy Kauffman is that he’s very bright, but you never know which Jeremy Kauffman is going to show up, the apostate libertarian who has something worthwhile to say and is willing to put forth a rational argument, or the shitposter.
Dominated minorities have two options:
1) Develop a capability and willingness to commit mass violence (see Iran)
2) Coalition and advance the ball however you can, accepting only partial progress (American socialists)
Doing neither just means losing (American libertarians)
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Libertarians have had measurable influence through technology, courts, and cultural shifts on issues like free speech, free markets, and open borders, notwithstanding what some claim is their electoral irrelevance. 4/x
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