Trump? The guy who won two elections for POTUS, started a new war, grew government, and attacks individual freedoms and Libertarians like Thomas Massey? That's absolutely ridiculous, but it shows the quality of your thesis here.

Rather than do any real research you just double down on ignorance. Rick Santelli's "floor rant" started the Tea Party and Ron Paul is widely seen as the grandfather of the movement. Of course if you think you know better than actual Libertarians and Wikipedia, have fun continuing to not only be wrong, but look extremely ignorant.

War is still institutional groupthink and murder and proxy war even more so. I found your (lack of) reasoning extremely unconvincing and uncompelling as reasons Americans should waste stolen tax dollars on foreign wars.

The Spainish CNT, Ukranian Makhnovists, and Korean Shinmin were the most successful. Your assertion/speculation earlier about Anarchists only being able to survive surrounded by a powerful State is actually completely wrong and opposite. They seem to have always been crushed as soon as any nearby state becomes successful. The Spainish CNT were the longest lived (because they emerged during the chaos of the Civil War), but probably not "true" anarchists. Lots of debate here, but certainly not along the lines you painted.

Wasn't like there were great choices, but I didn't vote for Trump, personally. Many did. Many were taken in by his false promises. There is a lot of regret about that. However, it doesn't mean Libertarians = Republicans. Personally, after seeing what Trump did to Massey, I'd say it would probably have been better if Kamala won. At least we'd still have Massey.

I see. We are misguided clairvoyants who can see the future, but still make bad choices. Okay, man, suuuure.

Gimme a break. The LP was never shit. Their disfunction is definitely one of the reasons we lose a lot. It's a org that's poorly run and pulled into too many directions. However, that doesn't mean the Uniparty is right on principles, it means the people with good principles have poor organizational skills (so far) or have been captured by enemy camps.

Nah, sorry man, I think you must be lying. I work with teams of coders also. Claude Code is absolutely sucks hind tit. It generates more code over longer periods of time that is less effective. We measure this weekly on OpenAI CODEX, Grok Build, Cursor, and Claude Code. Right now Claude Code using Opus (the only workable model since they constantly disable Fable access and don't even give you Mythos access) it's about 20% slower in our measured metrics. You can look at broader metrics here at Livebench and you can see Opus is ranked at 80% (but that's with max effort which burns a lot more tokens and will result in a much shorter session) and Grok at 78%. My guess is you have a political problem with XAI and want it to seem like they are being crushed. We barely even use Claude anymore.

Nope, all of that is your assumption. I said you sound like you've never written a single line of code because people who think programming is a social sport and advocate for that get poor results and, in my experience, are ex frat boy managers and "Agile" fans. Anyhow, I know I'm wasting your SCRUM time, so I will let you get back to your circle jerk.

You're just another voice in the same chorus of folks who want to take a swing, but only if it means you don't have to defend any of your liberal ideas. The minute we start actually discussing the murderous failures of partisan politics, you will either wisely duck out or start losing badly. Let's discuss your Uniparty's policies of stealing, censorship, warmongering, and corporatism, shall we? Yeah, I didn't think so.

That's right. It IS very easy to say. Of course folks who want to play fair don't ever win a rigged game. Is that a comment on the player or the game?

You obviously weren't paying attention. The Tea Party movement was started by Libertarians and was pretty much wholly owned by them. It wasn't coopted, it simply failed and faded away. Our candidates lost. There wasn't enough support for it to actually accomplish it's goals. It did, however, influence a lot of political discourse and inspire a few great folks like Ron Paul, Thomas Massey, etc... Your ignorance of even the fundamentals in Libertarian history is obvious.

Typical insults from you but they are just to avoid actually having to debate your true philosophy. You've always been for stealing, warmongering (you were one of those "Slava Ukraini" guys), and censorship. These are the core principles of your Uniparty. Stealing and censorship are wrong. War is institutionalized murder.

You don't even want to talk about your actual policies and you never do: because they are unpopular loser policies. Politics is a team sport for partisans like you.

Read about the history of Anarchism because you sound like you barely know what it is and have no idea what you're spouting off about. Of course, that's typical of you. You often act like an authority about things you really know nothing about and make judgement on things you're nearly completely ignorant on. Don't you ever wonder why you're always losing debates to just about everyone you spew your venom at and having to constantly dodge questions you cannot answer? Don't you every get tired of being crushed all the time or are you just too wrapped up in your own ego to notice? We aren't laughing with you, we're laughing at you, just FYI.

MAGA steamrolled the Democrats in 2024 and 2016. Libertarians never had a chance in any case and were "steamrolled" by Democrats when Obama won, too. Big deal. You literally have no point. What they did to Libertarians was lie through their teeth to get a few extra Libertarian votes. No small government, no wars ended, and individual freedom was actually decreased, not increased. We did get a huge Israeli sponsored loss of our best guy in Congress, but other than that it was just another loss in a long series of losses. Truth is always treason in an empire of lies.

Liar. Reference needed.

Spoken like someone who has never written a single line of code.

No, it was an ignorant assumption. Everyone assumed I was wanting more money for my relatives. What I'm complaining about is the pathetic attempt just sucking air out of the room. "Nobody needs to help those people. The government does it." The point is the government doesn't really. They do a piss poor job.

That might be true, but it looks an awful lot like "The government is a bunch of gangsters fleecing folks and delivering shit value and putting on a partisan drama for the plebs to argue over" The government delivers worse results even in areas that socialists say work well: roads, healthcare, schools. All of those are better and higher quality when delivered by private entities.

It's not really an apples to apples comparison. You wonder why SpaceX doesn't treat a lost rocket as a big deal where everybody else does. Well, this is why. Same reason you think starship is some sort of joke or vanity project: You're expecting the very first rocket to be fully developed and production ready with all planned features implemented. SpaceX does not.

All apologies if I insulted a fan.

Sir, your side has shot the man who demonstrated how left's ideas don't hold up in debates in the neck on front of his children.

And then your types are on the record going into the streets singing "we got Charlie in the neck" and other similar heinous shit.

Sit down.

Lol, you're an idiot and you're making an bad assumption. I brought up what they are getting from the gubmint because I'm upset they try to help at all and suck all the air outta the room. There was a lot more effective charity before Big Brother got involved.

Thanks for illustrating my point. Besides being ignorant fools, partisans would rather lie than be correct.

I doubt you login and get a giant Orange Man banner. However, this is typical of Leftists and other Partisans. They don't want to attack ideas, because they know their own ideas are weak and won't stand up to debate. They refuse to debate them and instead just use a smarmy attitude, when challenged. Whenever they get upset about someone's politics they try to smear them with some kind of personal attacks, get them fired, get them "canceled" or otherwise use more non-debate tactics. It's also why they love censorship just as much as the Right wing fascists. This is just simple ad-hominem.

Conservatives aren't any better since they want to control your bedroom and spy on you constantly "To stop the terrorists" or "protect the children" nor is the Left any more attractive, since they have have to protect their bad ideas from anyone uttering "Cultural Revolution", "Soviets", or "Pol Pot" then having to explain why their great ideas went straight into a murderous ditch whenever they were challenged. The Left is also now just as bad about warmongering (Ukraine) and war cheerleading. You know who didn't kill millions in a murderous rise to power? Yep. Libertarians and Anarchists. There are many instances where Socialists, Communists, and Fascists found it expedient to kill dissidents and censor debate. So all you partisans get to wear that. You're censors. You're warmongers. You're useful idiots. However, I bet you all think voting matters (hahaha!) and that your team matters, too, and makes a difference if you "win" an "election". When, in fact, there's barely any difference at all once you examine what they do rather than what they say (which is the part most Slashdotters seem to be stuck arguing about).

Best joke of the day, but I was hoping for something about the misnomer. Floss refers to the stringy stuff and there's no string in this story?

But I might have asked my dentist about this if I'd seen the story before my last visit. Pert' shure I'll have forgotten all about it by the next time...

Very productive opening joke. Thanks.