Arguments against trade deficits are just recycled arguments against savings.

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"This distinction between, there are only analytical statements and there are empirical statements, is itself, a statement that is not hypothetically true, but that is something they [positivists] do not admit is possible." - Hans-Hermann Hoppe at a 2011 lecture at the Mises Institute (31:02) YouTube Link: Invidious Link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aTXxvWa11Lg&t=1862s #Praxeology #Libertarian #Antistate #HumanAction #Philosophy #Epistemology #Positivism #ScientificMethod #apriori #Kant #Mises #Hoppe #Quotestr

"To avoid conflict from the start, it is necessary that private property be founded through *acts of original appropriation.* Property must be established through *acts* (instead of mere words, decrees or declarations), because only through actions, taking place in time and space, can an objective – inter-subjectively ascertainable – link be established between a particular person and a particular thing. And only the *first* appropriator of a previously un-appropriated thing can acquire this thing as his property *without conflict.* For, by definition, as the *first* appropriator he *cannot* have run into conflict with anyone in appropriating the good in question, as everyone else appeared on the scene only *later.*" - Hans-Hermann Hoppe at a speech done at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS)

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About Natural Order and its Destruction

Below is an edited version of the speech delivered at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sep. 22, 2024) (podcast at PFP288). About Natural Order...

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Subjective Value and Market Prices | David Howden YouTube Link: Invidious Link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=pwc_YNTzcmU #AnCap #Libertarian #Antistate #AustrianEconomics #AustrianSchool #SubjectiveValue #STV #OrderOfGoods #MarginalUtility #Prices #MarketPrices #MarketEconomy #HumanAction #Ordinals #SupplyAndDemand #FreeMarket

If I criticize your side, you assume I'm on theirs. If I criticize their side, they assume I'm on yours. You're both wrong. I'm on neither. I hate both of your sides, and I hate the fence you think I'm sitting on. This isn't centrism. This isn't fence-sitting. This isn't even neutrality. This is rejection. Rejection of the binary brainrot you've deluded yourselves into defending like a religion. #Agorism #Libertarian #Antipolitics

"*Voting has not and never will alter the basic nature of the State.* The State is the institutionalized agency of theft (taxes), violence (regulation), and murder (war). Voting for a different murderer (politician) or an altered rate of theft ('tax reform') serves no purpose but to allow statists to claim a 'mandate' to do whatever *they* deem to be in 'the national interest.' Or state interest. Or county or city. Voting *sanctions* the State. What, then, does *refusing* to vote do? It is, in the deepest sense, the most profound vote one can make. It is a vote of *no confidence* in the ruling State. It is the steadfast, principled rejection of the sham of 'democracy' that allows a tiny minority of 'voters,' 'duly elected officials,' and bureaucrats to use the laws, guns, troops, and might of the State to oppress and control the vast majority who refuse, or are forbidden, to vote." - Samuel Edward Konkin III in MLL Pamphlet No. 10 (1987) https://archives.kopubco.com/pdfs/MLLP10.pdf #Agorism #Agorist #Libertarian #Libertarianism #LibertarianLeft #Anarchism #Anarchist #Antistate #SEK3 #A3 #CounterEconomcis #Vote #Voting #Midterms #2026Election #2028Election #Quotestr

This is another issue coming from the State having a monopoly on identification: What if the State just doesn't want to provide you an identity? You're effectively screwed since every entity you come across will require government-issued ID in some way, shape, or form. It is also an infringement on freedom of expression. View quoted note →

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Should this be the Dr. Pepper theme? #Memes #Memestr #DankMemes #NostrMeme #NostrMemes #Nostr #Plebchain #Zap #Laughstr #Jokestr #LOL #Comedy #Funny #Video #Videostr

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I'm thinking about making a tier list for Hoppe's books. What would your tier lists look like? #AskNostr

"The more paper laws have been more legal uncertainty and moral hazard has been created, and lawlessness has displaced law and order. And while we have become ever more dependent, helpless, impoverished, threatened and insecure, the ruling elite of politicians and plutocrats has become increasingly richer, more corrupt, dangerously armed, and arrogant." - Hans-Hermann Hoppe, ***From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy*** (2014) p. 61 https://mises.org/library/book/aristocracy-monarchy-democracy #AnCap #AnarchoCapitalism #Libertarian #Libertarianism #Antistate #Antigovernment #Freedom #Liberty #Aristocracy #Monarchy #Democracy #PrivateLawSociety #Quotestr

"In schoolbooks and the official orthodox historiography this transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy is typically presented as a great step forward in human history, as progress. In fact, however, it represented another folly and initiated still further decay. For whereas the position of the absolute king was at best a tenuous one, as the memory of his actual rise to absolute power through an act of usurpation still lingered on and thus effectively limited his 'absolute' power, the introduction of a constitution actually formalized and codified his power to tax and to legislate. The constitution was not something that protected the people from the king, but it protected the king from the people. It was a State-constitution, which presupposed what was formerly still considered with greatest suspicion, namely the right to tax without consent and to make laws. The constitutional king, in subjecting himself to a few formalities and procedural routines, was thus enabled to expand his powers and enrich himself far beyond anything possible for him as an absolute monarch." - Hans-Hermann Hoppe, ***From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy*** (2014) p. 39-40 https://mises.org/library/book/aristocracy-monarchy-democracy #AnCap #AnarchoCapitalism #Libertarian #Libertarianism #Antistate #Antigovernment #Freedom #Liberty #Aristocracy #Monarchy #Democracy #PrivateLawSociety #Quotestr

"The reason this institution [of private property] leads to the greatest possible production of wealth is straightforward. Any deviation from this set of rules implies, by definition, a redistribution of property titles (and hence of income) away from user-producers and contractors of goods and onto non-user-producers and noncontractors. As a consequence, any such deviation implies that there will be relatively less original appropriation of resources whose scarcity is realized, there will be less production of new goods, less maintenance of existing goods, and less mutually beneficial contracting and trading. This naturally implies a lower standard of living in terms of exchangeable goods and services. Further, the provision that only the first user (not a later one) of a good acquires ownership assures that productive efforts will be as high as possible *at all times.* Further, the provision that only the physical integrity of property (not property values) be protected guarantees that every owner will undertake the greatest possible *value*-productive efforts, i.e., efforts to promote favorable changes in property values and to prevent or counter any unfavorable changes in property values (as they might result from another person’s actions regarding his property). Thus, any deviation from these rules also implies reduced levels of value productive efforts at all times." - Hans-Hermann Hoppe, ***The Economics and Ethics of Private Property*** (2006) p. 332-333. 2nd ed. Ludwig von Mises Institute. https://mises.org/library/book/economics-and-ethics-private-property https://mises.org/austrian-economics-newsletter/justice-economic-efficiency-full-edition-vol-9-no-2-winter-1988 #Agorism #Agorist #AnCap #Libertarian #Antistate #AustrianEconomics #AustrianSchool #FreeMarket #PrivateProperty #Ownership #Wealth #Incentives #Value #Productivity #Quotestr

RIP Michael Parenti. There are many things I disagreed with him on, but I still respect him for calling out the State. #Agorism #Agorist #Libertarian #Antistate #Antigovernment #UnalienableRights #FirstAmendment #1A #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #FreeAssociation

We truly have came full circle. #Agorism #Agorist #Libertarian #Antistate #SecondAmendment #2A #3D2A #Gunstr #RightToBearArms #ShallNotBeInfringed #ComeAndTakeIt #FGC9 #AbolishICE #AlexParetti

So this is why CaseOh has been playing Contraband Police and Quarantine Zone. #Memes #Memestr #DankMemes #NostrMeme #NostrMemes #Nostr #Plebchain #Zap #Laughstr #Jokestr #LOL #Comedy #Funny

TAX. REVOLT. NOW.