• wjrii@lemmy.world
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        Plenty of clever boys at well-funded public schools have an ancap phase. Most of them grow out of it.

        “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

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          Make Obnoxious Teenage Boys Read J D Salinger Again.

          Better complaining about a bunch of “phonies” then “I’m the smartest and bestest boy and I could totally be on top of everything the government (my mom) didn’t make me have a bed time.”

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    Governments could easily get Ancaps on board by renaming themselves to Government, Inc.

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      Some poor bastard out there has a stepping on fetish, and you’ve just gone and ruined it with a trump hat.

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        I was always ideologiclly left libertarian and wasn’t old enough or smart enough to realize that the right-wing commentators reccommended by YouTube’s algorithim weren’t consistant with my views. They really wanted us to hate minorities and women for some reason. They would lie and/or cherry-pick data to make their fucked-up world view sound reasonable.

        I felt like such a goddamn idiot when I realized I was made the fool by absolute human trash like Milo Yiannopoulos, Gavin McInnes, Charlie Kirk, and Blaire White. I think this video is what finally snapped me out of it. I don’t know if this video is any good. I haven’t watched it in quite a while.

        I’d like to think I’m a lot wiser now and less likely to trust, for better or worse. I still feel pretty guilty about that period of my life but I was young and impressionable I guess. In high school I had a gay, punk rocker friend (now identifies as a trans woman) who put up with me for some reason. Why, I’ll never understand. She said “If it was anyone else making those jokes I’d be concerned” or something to that effect.

        I eventually realized I aligned ideologiclly with socialism and communism (not the tankie kind). Just last week I learned who Hasan Piker is and I’ve been watching him alot. Also happy to see iDubbbz is woke now. Anyway I’m in a much better place now and always working on improving myself.

        I’d be happy to answer any follow-up questions.

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    ‘Anarcho-capitalism’ is basically an oxymoron. You can’t have a capitalist society that is anarchist (=without a hierarchy) because capitalism inherently creates a hierarchy of some sort.

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    Nah bro! You see, I’ll be invested in the corporations so their success is my success, and furthermore the market forces that definitely won’t be manipulated by the most powerful players will ensure that things are so much better, and the illegitimate use of violence has never occurred in the history of private enterprise ever, and they’re also making plenty more land and natural resources so duplicating efforts is not problematic, and separate will be as equal as people can afford, and we’re definitely also all starting from a place of utter fairness! Like, if anything I’m starting from behind! My allowance is only 100 bucks a week and Eddy down the street makes 200 with his job at McDonald’s!!!

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    No that’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism which is totally a different thing trust me bro! /j

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    The thing capitalism has is, it offers ordinary people the possibility of getting rich. All you have to do is sign up like in olden times by joining the crew of a pirate ship that can use an extra hand. With a little luck you might find yourself a fat slow treasure laden ship and all you have to do is take the loot.