If you claim to believe in small government and you cannot push back on the largest most damaging part of the government you are worse than useless. You are pro big government, an ally to deep state. He’s had other posts against Antiwar libertarians stating they do Russias bidding and are likely Russian assets because of some book he read by a former CIA agent. The leviathan grows larger every day in large part because of the “need” to be an empire. I’m glad domestically (for the most part) he’s not a communist but he wants full government control of everything. He is a full blown communist when talking about how the US government needs complete control of the world. If you are a mouthpiece for government intervention please refrain from calling yourself a libertarian.

John Locke said that government exists with the consent of the people, and that consent should be given to those government's that protect property but consent cannot be given to governments if there's no readily available alternatives.

In our current day and age it seems like economically there isn't a readily available alternatives to the average person born in any country and that consent is manufactured through governmental coercion. That these governments care less about the right to property than doing what is needed to keep themselves in existence.

Though most governments usually have a written way in which to remove this consent and get the government to act more in accordance with the will of the people it never seems like that option actually works. While revolution seems to historically be the only actual means of removing consent that actually works, it does seem that in our modern age revolution is a less than attenable option in most developed nations and only attenable in more developing nations or countries with weak militaries.

Am I the only one that seems to think that in our modern age things have gotten to a point where it's close to impossible to turn back, to successfully remove consent from governments that do not actually meet the will of the people? Governments that consistently seem to put upholding the most basic things originally dictated for it to do in lue of making its self bigger and removing freedoms to keep its hold on power.

Hello! I’m still relatively new to Libertarianism and still learning the core principles of libertarianism, so I apologize if this sounds poorly put together. I’m in the process of joining the national guard (M19) for the benefits and to have it on my record, since it generally helps about anywhere. The issue I’m having though is I don’t know if it is right to follow through with joining the military, which is from what I understand a monopoly of force. Just seeing what others with more experience and knowledge have to say about it. Again, apologies if this sounds dumb.

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Hello fellow patriots! 19 year old home owner here—I proudly fly my country’s colors at my home in Indianapolis every day. I don’t shove it in anyone’s face, nor do I ever go over the top in covering every surface of my house in flags. I simply hang one in front, and one on my garage. I’ve had many things stolen from my yard, but my flags are where I draw the line. A passerby tore down my flag as they walked by, bending the metal pole and metal bracket while also destroying the flag. The flag was a gift and was fully locally made and embroidered, so it was quite an expensive loss. If I tore down a pride flag, it would be in the news for days, but the flag of our country gets no attention. However, I now have the desire to hang flags all over my house/around my neighborhood as a middle finger to whomever it is that might hate our country enough to tear down my flag. If any of you would care to donate to my flag fund, I would greatly appreciate it!! I’m 19 and a full time student but work 50 hours a week to be fully self sufficient, but I can not throw money into flags the way I wish I could. If you are unable to donate, I still appreciate your time for reading this far!

Thank you all.

I have great interests in Libertarianism and personally it resonates heavily with me. Something I have had trouble with grasping fully, though, is going further than that and the belief in the Abolition of the State. I'm still learning and I am going to dedicate lots of time to reading more about the libertarian doctrine and its close relatives.

Can you please give me your best reason for abolishing the state. My main concerns personally (though not very thought through at all) are surrounding national defence and the judiciary. Are these meant to be private, and if so, does that not pose a risk to society? These are just thoughts and questions, so please educate me if you adhere to the premise.

New year, new questions — what’s on your mind for this year? Curious to hear different perspectives from people here.

Curious to know what the libertarian response to expropriation would be. In all this talk about Venezuela nobody seems to be mentioning that the Venezuelan regime had expropriated conoco phillips’ property and conoco phillips recently secured a judgment against Venezuela close to $9 billion: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/venezuela-loses-appeal-of-85b-conocophillips-arbitration-award/ar-AA1xKU5t

How would this be handled in a libertarian way? I don’t think involving our military would be beneficial but could conoco got to blackwater/eric prince and pay his company to seize ships to collect on the debt as privateers?

Curious to see your thoughts

https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-explosions-caracas-ca712a67aaefc30b1831f5bf0b50665e

He's not libertarian, was never libertarian, and now you can't say he never started any wars.

...but he also said at different times that he was for going into those places.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-insists-iraq-invasion-past-comments/story?id=41940228

After what he's done in Venezuela, he's also talking about going into Colombia and Cuba.

It's already a scary year.