Is Trump Being Misled on Iran and the Cost of War?
https://youtube.com/shorts/JQ3IfxKvap0?is=tjpyRTbcfIJ9bBl4

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Weekly Report: The US Government’s Really Big Debt Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgPBr1DlC-Q

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Is this the ultimate work of libertarian theory? Maybe. Probably the longest, at least. 😅
https://redd.it/1xbonbk
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Renewed interest in libertarianism

Sorry for the weird headline here, but I'm really confused these days. I'm 36 now, and when I was in my teens I was very absorbed by philosophy, trying to work out what I thought and felt, and how my experience of the world could be communicated to other people in a meaningful way and hopefully work some common truths out together.

I toyed with libertarianism for a while. I've always been sceptical of mass psychology, and I have a natural contrarian instinct which makes me a bad fit for mass politics.

This search led me to Nietzsche, albeit a very shallow understanding of him, then to existentialism – again quite shallow, but I loved the vibes of Camus –, and eventually to marxism. Marxism and Marx was very good for me. It was productive. I've never really felt so strongly for a "world view" before, and though I'm sure I was quite dogmatic about certain things, the drive to understand and oppose the existing order of things made me very inquisitive and led me to engage in the world in a way that gave me a lot of experience.

It also disillusioned me after a few years. I still have a lot of respect and fascination for Marx and historical marxism, but I recognize that a lot of what I was doing was essentially LARP-ing, and it is hard for me not to thinking that is what a lot of people in that movement is doing too.

Since then, since that disillusionment, I've been aimlessly drifting around, not sure really what beliefs I have other than to take care of my family, love them, and do my duty, like a proper upstanding bourgeois subject. I read Nietzsche more deeply now, and though I rarely agree with him, I love the way he writes and for some reason he ignites something in me. He lets me embrace my elitism and snobbery, which I'm not sure is a good thing, but it feels good after all the proletarian populist larping I engaged with in my marxist days. I also read Montaigne every day, another fellow traveller whose company I love.

I find myself tugged in a more conservative direction, I guess conservative in a "grand tradition"-kind of way. But then I find myself wondering if this is just another kind of larping, the world weary sceptic pining for the good old days when western civilisation was great. I read Jacques Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence and loved it. I feel very alienated from the contemporary left, even though whenever I encounter anyone who's broadly "on the right" in political terms I find myself disgusted by their narrow-mindedness and just idiotic shallow contrarianism.

My question to this subreddit, I guess, is where to start rebuilding my sense of purpose and engagement with the world, maybe libertarianism could be good fit? I've always been a free speech absolutist, and though I've never really been into the free market dogma (kind of an illusion imo) you often find here, I've always prioritized liberty and individualism. Personally I think the market is a homogenizing force which is not a good thing, so I'm sceptical of market dogma.

I obviously have this yearning in me for a meaningful point of view, if only to wear like a piece of clothing for a while. Do I completely disengage from my former self, or do I reconcile myself to the fact that I have contradictory longings, for egalitarianism, the brotherhood of man, but also for a more elitist disdain for humankind?

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Sic Itur Ad Astra

So I made a post previously which the mods for some reason deleted 😒, but I wanted to know if anyone has read Andrew Galambos’s Sic Itur Ad Astra. I recently purchased the whole collection on Amazon and I’m anxious to get into it. Counting the indexes and concordexes, it comes out around 7,000 pages and change, making it very likely the longest work of libertarian theory ever written. Well, I say written, although really it’s transcriptions of lectures, but still. It covers a broad array of subjects, from science to economics to politics to philosophy to history, etc. It’s a rather obscure work though, so I wanted to see I anybody had any experience with it. And, I you’ve never heard of it, maybe consider checking it out.

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Self-Defense?
https://youtube.com/shorts/CKYEzjmh6nw?is=TWgaNQ7vOWi9JrPS

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France Is a Warning to California's Tax-the-Rich Crowd
https://reason.com/2026/10/22/france-is-a-warning-to-californias-tax-the-rich-crowd/

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this is how I imagine economic reforms went like
https://redd.it/1xfnbto
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How to Destroy a Civilisation WITHOUT Firing a Shot
https://youtube.com/shorts/myYOESDCV3s?si=83ofUbFWqbWvLLAD

https://redd.it/1xfznrb
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When socialists and racists finally agree...
https://youtu.be/jNy4h6NIGlA?is=v8p8P-Kh8N1bnsF3

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When Americans Stop Seeing the Warning Signs
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/when-americans-stop-seeing-the-warning-signs/

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Can you help me reconcile my free speech hypocrisy?

Philosophically, I'm a free speech absolutist. I believe that people should be able to say what they want without fear of government intrusion.

I also believe that people should be free to make their own decisions without coercion. That they can consume whatever they want or exchange products and services with whomever they choose.

However, I can't help but think that vices should not be encouraged or advertised.

I would like to see an end to advertising drugs. That is all perscription and recreational drugs including alcohol, tobacco, etc. I would like to see an end to gambling ads including the lotteries. And so on.

I'm fine with these products and services existing. I'm fine with them being legal. I'm fine with people opening discussing them. I just don't think direct to consumer advertsing is a good thing.

How do I square this view of an advertsing ban under my philosohical view of free speech? Or, is it just a paradox, I have to accept.

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Property Taxes

Okay, genuine question.

I don't like the idea of rising property taxes, having to pay, pay, pay, and if I stop paying, I lose my house. I also dont like how old people are being forced out of retirement or barely make their payments because it's getting so high.

I believe we don't need property taxes if we cut unnecessary spending, rely on other taxes, or explore alternatives.

My boss insisted that we need property taxes for police funding and schools. (Mind you, we pay alot and fund schools but as a country we keep getting dumber and dumber.)

Im curious how we funded police stations and schools before property taxes. Of course things weren't the same back then. The police force was more a private security back in the day, etc...

But I just want to hear from people who have tackled and thought deeply about this issue for alot longer than I have.

Educate me! Thank you!

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Scott Horton (director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com) resigns from the Libertarian party
https://x.com/scotthortonshow/status/2115118332114272486

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How to get started

I am not a libertarian, and I would like to ask: how, in your view, should the transition from statism to minarchism or anarcho-capitalism begin? It is highly unlikely that the state would allow such a thing, nor would the general public if it were put to a referendum, since simply passing a law would not be enough. It would require a constitutional amendment. It is not yet entirely clear to me how this could be implemented in practice.

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Ted Cruz in March: "I don't believe that what is happening in Iran will be front and center in November. If it extends that long, we've done something wildly wrong... The president said at the beginning this is going to be a matter of several weeks."

https://redd.it/1xi2tbn
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The infamous Ron Paul "What if?" speach
https://youtu.be/4s_IUwwGq-A

https://redd.it/1xida4w
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Do you guys think libertarianism can fix car prices?

I miss when Ford Mustangs and Camaros weren't above $30k. Can capitalism make them cheaper or do we have to stick to buying used cars?

https://redd.it/1xirs2t
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I was asked to carve a pumpkin of something that scares me a lot…
https://redd.it/1xj5hp3
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Ron Paul says a monetary reset is inevitable and America's debt will be wiped out through the destruction of the dollar

Ron Paul recently sat down for a pretty interesting conversation about the Federal Reserve, America's $40 trillion debt crisis, gold, and the future of the dollar.

One of his most striking comments was:

"The debt will be liquidated by the destruction of the currency."

He also said, "There has to be a reset."

He went into Nixon closing the gold window in 1971, why he believes the US never returned to sound money, and why he thinks the debt situation is now beyond fixing through conventional means...

Him speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaURREYpJEU

All I know, when the legend speaks... I listen.

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