Eh, are you familiar with gun politics? It's a never ending war of attrition where *any* concession to the restriction side will be abused to the hilt against normal gun owners who violated some arcane paperwork requirement, e.g. Ruby Ridge, while actual violent criminals have charges dropped or never filed by urban DAs. There's a reason gun people are like this, it's years of experience.
"The cultural libertarian moment brings us OnlyFans, FanDuel, legal weed, and visible tattoos". This ignores the fact that most libertarians, even now, only care about greed, enriching themselves, gold buggery and basically making sure the rich and powerful pay as little tax as humanly possible. Case in point, many of the good permissive things you bring up, ostensibly to label them social evils, only emerged in the aftermath of the eclipse of the libertarian moment, because the libertarian moment was all about fetishizing free market capitalism and nothing else. I'm actually in favor of banning tattoos for the same reason I believe in banning gender reassignment surgery (even for adults) because it's clearly self mutilation. But all those other things are good in a society where everyone is white. Contra a point you made in a video on Paul Gottfried subsequent to this article, making your identity about being white and nothing else is in fact, not artificial at all. The people who founded this country weren't particularly religious. It mattered more to them that non whites never be allowed to have citizenship, which is why they made that a law in 1790. It's also why many if not most of them supported colonization of blacks back to Africa, at a time before modern comfort and transportation when it would've been much less feasible and more of a humanitarian clusterfuck than it would be today. That mattered a lot more to them than other things which some on the right (including yourself) would consider to be more 'authentic identities'. A society where blacks are sent back to Africa en masse but everyone smokes weed and bangs hookers would be a safer society with a better economy than what we have now, just a fact. Whiteness isn't just everything, it's also the only thing.
“…the prevailing cultural libertarianism in our country”
While I agree with you 100% on your stance on guns here - 100% - you go to far when you generalize on cultural libertarianism.
It’d be pretty good writ large if it was indeed prevailing in our country, but the woke left surely is not culturally libertarian except on a small handful of issues like weed.
They sure ain’t culturally libertarian on speech.
Then you go further and stylize all libertarians as basically anarcho-capitalists.
The first part of this piece is very strong.
The second part is very weak, whether you have a partial point there or not.
Every American should be able to own a gun (blacks are not Americans)
Eh, are you familiar with gun politics? It's a never ending war of attrition where *any* concession to the restriction side will be abused to the hilt against normal gun owners who violated some arcane paperwork requirement, e.g. Ruby Ridge, while actual violent criminals have charges dropped or never filed by urban DAs. There's a reason gun people are like this, it's years of experience.
Spot-on analysis. Too many right-wingers have unhinged views on guns.
"The cultural libertarian moment brings us OnlyFans, FanDuel, legal weed, and visible tattoos". This ignores the fact that most libertarians, even now, only care about greed, enriching themselves, gold buggery and basically making sure the rich and powerful pay as little tax as humanly possible. Case in point, many of the good permissive things you bring up, ostensibly to label them social evils, only emerged in the aftermath of the eclipse of the libertarian moment, because the libertarian moment was all about fetishizing free market capitalism and nothing else. I'm actually in favor of banning tattoos for the same reason I believe in banning gender reassignment surgery (even for adults) because it's clearly self mutilation. But all those other things are good in a society where everyone is white. Contra a point you made in a video on Paul Gottfried subsequent to this article, making your identity about being white and nothing else is in fact, not artificial at all. The people who founded this country weren't particularly religious. It mattered more to them that non whites never be allowed to have citizenship, which is why they made that a law in 1790. It's also why many if not most of them supported colonization of blacks back to Africa, at a time before modern comfort and transportation when it would've been much less feasible and more of a humanitarian clusterfuck than it would be today. That mattered a lot more to them than other things which some on the right (including yourself) would consider to be more 'authentic identities'. A society where blacks are sent back to Africa en masse but everyone smokes weed and bangs hookers would be a safer society with a better economy than what we have now, just a fact. Whiteness isn't just everything, it's also the only thing.
“…the prevailing cultural libertarianism in our country”
While I agree with you 100% on your stance on guns here - 100% - you go to far when you generalize on cultural libertarianism.
It’d be pretty good writ large if it was indeed prevailing in our country, but the woke left surely is not culturally libertarian except on a small handful of issues like weed.
They sure ain’t culturally libertarian on speech.
Then you go further and stylize all libertarians as basically anarcho-capitalists.
The first part of this piece is very strong.
The second part is very weak, whether you have a partial point there or not.
You should have just stuck to your guns…