Rothbard quote … “[Right Libertarians] had taken [libertarianism] over, and more properly from the view of etymology; since [Right Libertarians] were proponents of individual liberty and therefore of the individual’s right to property…”
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At least it wasn’t Thiel, Musk and Zuckerberg in a trenchcoat.
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two words doing a whole lotta work by themselves
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No, it’s just a bunch of people who really want to be like them. Is that better or worse?
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In order to answer this I would have to consult the Bristol chart first.
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To expand on what @teknocholer mentioned, most libraries these days have all sorts of online options available. Hoopla and Overdrive are two of the most common and are great!
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Yes, but could it have an opera house?
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Uh. I don’t think any of the investors listed are Libertarians. Capitalists, certainly, but it’s not like every capitalist is an ancap.
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Only If you bring your own steamboat.
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The article mentions public transportation, parks, a performing arts center and a trade school.
From the survey that leaked, it looks like ten thousand acres worth of parks and open space, schools and a walkable town (so sidewalks).
I’m a little fuzzy on why people seem to think there wouldn’t be other public services. This doesn’t appear to be some Libertarian fantasy like Seasteading. Frankly, it sounds like old developer planned communities like Irvine, San Clemente or Venice.
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It still sounds like a dictatorial dystopia.
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I just don’t see it. They’re entirely subject to the state and county regulations and if they follow other planned communities that incorporated, they’ll end up with a normal elected local government. What part is dictatorial? Initial planning?
The wealthy are constantly flouting regulations. Like all the time… it’s one of their prime characteristics. They use the police to enforce their property rights, whatever the laws actually say.
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Currently the land is zoned mostly for agricultural use so they’re already laying the ground work for a ballot measure to let them build what they want. As long as they’re trying to get that changed, who knows what other regulations they’ll try to change to their liking.
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There have been decades of arguing over whether right libertarians actually care about individual liberty.
My experience is that they are very solipsist in their views and don’t notice anyone else being trampled underfoot as long as they have their rights (or more accurately, privilege), compared to the libertarian socialists who believe that if one of us is not free then none of us are free.
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They do tend to ally with nazis a lot… Or just become nazis.
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Apparently they just launched a website today with fanciful renderings of what their planned community would look like. I can’t help but notice that there seems to be a big disconnect between the Mediterranean-inspired waterways in the renderings and the arid farmland they actually bought.
The pitch:
The actual location:
Good thing California isn’t prone to decades-long droughts or anything.
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