Al Freeman

I was into socialism as a teenager. Then I studied its history, hoping to find better arguments for it, and was horrified instead. What scared me most was who did the dirty work: young people who thought they were the good guys. In Mao's China, teenage Red Guards beat their own teachers to death. In Beijing alone, over 1,700 people were killed in August and September of 1966. The Khmer Rouge recruited kids as young as 12 to guard prisons and carry out executions, and around a quarter of Cambodia's population died. Hitler Youth and Soviet kids were taught to turn in their own parents. None of these kids thought they were evil. They thought the cause was so righteous that anyone in the way deserved it. We look at young socialists today and assume they're harmless because they're kids. History says otherwise. This is an existential danger to America, and we have to deal with it. Our schools need to teach all of it, especially the horrors, so it sticks. We can't let them whitewash this history anymore. It's too dangerous. Millions of victims are being quietly erased from memory so socialism can get a fresh coat of paint. Teach the mass graves. Teach the body counts. Say their names.

Never got a flu shot in my life and never had the flu. I don't think that's a coincidence or luck. But people who do get them (and are required to in some professions) are going to think this mRNA "vaccine" is the same thing they've been getting for years. And if it harms or kills them, there is no recourse. The pharmaceutical corporations have legal immunity.

If Trump ends this war and leaves the IIRG in power, then this was all for nothing and complete waste of resources and lives lost. It means the Iranian people will have to continue to suffer under totalitarianism. It means we have to keep 13+ military bases in the middle east open indefinitely. It means there will always be a threat to justify ever more military spending. Forever apparently. And it means gas prices aren't ever going back down significantly. And it will shows the world our military is a paper tiger that can't even beat much smaller countries with much smaller militaries. So what the hell are we paying all this money on military spending for? It's totally ineffectual. It can't even do the one job it's suppose to do, i.e. win wars.

Do you think all those socialist revolutionaries in the past fought and died for totalitarianism? No, they wanted the exact same things you want. Which sound really good and nice on the surface, but you don't understand government power is derived from violence. Using state violence to redistribute to the poor is the wrong tool for the job. Because it requires so much power to achieve that, it invariably corrupts it and turns it into hell on earth. Dozens of times now this has happened. Hundreds of millions killed by their own government. Recent history most people are ignorant of. How many times does this ideology have to fail? How many more mass graves have to be filled before people learn the history of the very ideology they are pushing like crack dealers. If you care so much about socialism, study it's history when put into practice.

Corporations are a legal creation of the state. The state itself is a corporation. All of that government manipulation of the market is not capitalism. Capitalism is simply our right as individuals to own private property and the means of production, rather than the state owning everything. What you're talking about is socialism for the rich essentially, because government power is for sale and they are the only one's who can afford to pay for it.

Learn some economics please, for the sake of humanity. Wealth isn't a pie chart, it's being created every second of every day. The only way Bill Gates, et. al. can make you poorer is if you voluntarily buy their products. All the while the state is forcefully taking 1/3 of our income and also created the inflation that drove up prices everywhere and is hurting us all. Until people learn what causes inflation, we'll never get out of this hole.

Go watch some footage of the Oct. 7th attack and see if you feel the same after. 1200 hundred people murdered. They landed in neighborhoods with parachutes and went into people houses and shot them in front of their kids. Then took the kids hostage. They deliberately targeted civilians, it wasn't collateral damage. Neither are good, but motive matters.

Every business in America, all 33 million of them, decided to get greedy at the same time. Maybe they even conspired. It had nothing to do with the trillions of dollars added to the money supply.

With elections so close, libertarians have a great opportunity to be a rising political power with real influence via the Libertarian Party. We don't need to convince half the electorate, we only need to raise our numbers by a few more percent. We have been at 3% for way to long

When people march in our streets under communist flags and many openly cheer political violence, that's sort of an issue. I know they say it every election, but things are coming to a head. It's not red vs. blue anymore. It's capitalism or socialism.

36% of libertarians say they won't vote at all, and only 25% are backing the LP. We're the dumb teenagers in the horror movie: "Let's split up to cover more ground." Socialists don't split up. They show up every single time.

TIL on this day in 1932, Stalin's grain commission ordered terror against "kulak sabotage" in the North Caucasus. The sabotage was a broken plow, a failed harvest, a starving farmer who couldn't meet his quota. Thousands were arrested, and tens of thousands were shipped off. Whole villages were blacklisted from food and left to starve.

Meanwhile, the government takes up to a third of our income and is still trillions in debt. The suburbs around DC are some of the richest counties in America, and they produce nothing of value. Wealth isn't a fixed pie. It's created every day. Most billionaires got rich making products billions of people choose to buy. The only way they can make you poorer is by cutting a deal with politicians to rig the laws in their favor.