Seems about right to me.
On a roll here . . .

@petep44 Also as someone who enjoys following the sinking ship of crypto currencies etc...

It is amazing how quickly people who have argued for 10 years that all regulations being removed is AMAZING screamed for regulations as soon as they got "robbed". (not sure if you can be robbed if there are no rules that says you can't take someone else's currency).

@WhyNotZoidberg @petep44 Well obviously *my* regulations are ok, it's everyone else's regulations that are the problem. Hey, we should make a regulation about that - put it down as item 2 under 1) No regulations.
@petep44 I discovered Ayn Rand when I was still in high school. I had never encountered anything like her reasoning. For a while I thought that she was so cool. Then I read some other political stuff, not the least Karl Marx. Kinda balanced me out.
@wolleysegap @petep44 same here. Well I did go to Darien high so I can use that excuse. But then I went from Darien to new college (yes that one, what DeSantis is destroying) where I woke up to life outside the libertarian wealth bubble.
@petep44 Regulations are written in the blood of those sacrificed at the altar of profit.
@petep44 I love a happy ending.

@petep44

"After Atlas shrugged, he cried."
SearingTruth

@petep44 If a bar killed me with a poisoned drink, I would not buy drinks there any more.
@NIH_LLAMAS @petep44 I would. The lightening never strikes the same place twice, right?
@klefstadmyr @NIH_LLAMAS @petep44 plus being haunted by a ghost that still buys drinks is a hell of a selling point. "We killed him but he still drinks here, that's how great this place is!"
@petep44 why would the bartender sell something dangerous in the first place if there was no state to protect him from the aftermath if he kills his customers.
@bonifartius @petep44 This is the fundamental difference between libertarianism and anarchism. Libertarians demand that the state exist to protect the bartender from the aftermath in the name of "private property" (which is a fiction created and enforced by the state and a violation of civil liberties).

@gtsteel
> kolektiva.social

> [...] "private property" (which is a fiction created and enforced by the state and a violation of civil liberties).

you are one of those collectivist "anarchists" aren't you?
@petep44

@petep44 the trio reads like someone got really lazy with naming their npcs
@petep44 All they're missing is Ryan Ayn, the fourth Horseman of the Libertarian Apocalypse.
@petep44 If you arrived at the above toot after clicking on a link that promised something else, have you been Randrolled?
@petep44 @LibertyForward1 I love how Paul is enthusiastically trying to catch Aynโ€™s eye but she doesnโ€™t give a fuck about him, and kinda wishes heโ€™d take a step back.
@petep44 Usually attributed to Voltaire.

@petep44

Money was invented shortly after the first warlord hired the first two soldiers to protect three farmers.

@petep44

i jumped in for the Rand/Ryan post which was funny.

this take is dead tbh. you look like a white settler in the usa. your experiences are not universal.

for example, there is nothing con or fool about most indigenous spiritual beliefs. it's sacred tradition, and learning is stored therein.

heck, religion carried scientific development for years, sometimes stunted it, but they had the resources to store tomes of knowledge and work out things about astronomy and navigation.

@petep44

i think the first religion started when people started asking questions. how was the earth made? how were we made? do we have an existence beyond our physical bodies, why did the sun go dark during the day and a ring of fire appeared in the sky?

then they looked for explanations.

and that is how i see religion starting.

someone asking "why?"