https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_V88WDAbKM
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Against free speech?
The point being made here is not the control of the speech, but rather the control of the interpretation of the adjective describing the speech. If the adjective for the modification for the word speech is changed to love instead of hate there would not even be an issue.
I loved his “reversal” of roles in the first part. When confronting censors with censorship against them, that’s when you see their head explode. It has to be done again and again until reason FINALLY re-enters their mind.
How can reason “re-enter” the mind of the individual who is so programmed with anti-reason propaganda that the words and pictures of reason don’t even get to the reason-processor of the mind?
I was once a statist too. However education and self-learning have taught me otherwise. There might be a point of “no-return” at some point, but not all of them are basket cases
It doesn’t take that big of a percentage of a population to make a lot of trouble for the whole world. There are social, genetic and medical reasons why some minds are not fixable. The real challenge is for Libertarians to deal with these individuals in a Libertarian way.
This video really isn’t about free speech. I couldn’t watch the whole thing because saying people should be “thrown out of helicopters” is pretty telling about this man’s values and state of mind. It’s also distracting in a way that undermines his argument, if you can call it that.
But despite the garbage rhetoric, what I managed to gather from this is yet another example of someone wanting to use the government to spread or uphold their own views, just like most everyone else on the planet likes to do. It’s not new or groundbreaking. By Cantwell’s logic, he’d have us join the army or a militia to go fight ISIS because ISIS wants to fight us: be violent because “they” are violent. It’s as if the consequences of keeping a fight going and voluntarily participating in violent institutions escape him.
There’s this thing called blowback; it’s a term used to describe the bad outcomes of aggressive, short-sighted foreign policy. But blowback could just as easily be applicable in the political realm. If the right manages to institutionally punish the left for their views, the left will return the favor, and everyone will be worse off.
I don’t participate in politics is for several reasons. One, I’m of the position that voting is an act of aggression wherever not legally mandated; as such I won’t play that game if I do not have to. Secondly, my one vote is statistically irrelevant. Third, my views are less than 1% of the country’s so it would be futile. There is not a single Republican or Democratic candidate capable of winning the race that will be willing or able to implement a single libertarian value — and even if there were such an individual, their other fascistic policies would be so detrimental to life, liberty, and property that I could not accept having a hand, no matter how minute, in their victory and their crimes. And anyone who can see what politics has become should understand that nothing good can come of it.
