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Liberty’s Daughter by Naomi Kritzer
Nov. 2nd, 2023 09:04 am
Life on the seastead should be a libertarian paradise. Why all the crises?
Liberty’s Daughter by Naomi Kritzer
Life on the seastead should be a libertarian paradise. Why all the crises?
Liberty’s Daughter by Naomi Kritzer
Five SF Visions of Society Free From Rules, Regulations, or Effective Government
We're not using the L-word.
Not the Onion
May. 24th, 2017 12:04 pm Anne of Green Gables proves child labour is good! And Batman proves that we don't need cops, just highly motivated oligarchs in tights.
Contact with Libertarians.
I get email from white, libertarian fans of SF who read my work and realize my hero is black. Whenever I have a new book launch, I get emails that say the above with depressing regularity. My books are too ‘fantastic’ because they posit Caribbean people running and building starships. (This is doubly ironic b/c my last book was nominated for the Liberterian SF award for SF: The Prometheus. I’m honored to be nominated, but I will be brutally honest, when I heard I was nominated I was excited, and then I remembered that when Ragamuffin was nominated and the notice went out and libertarian SF readers read it, I got a stream of abuse and personal guarantees that I’d get my ‘ass kicked’ if said people ever met me in person at an SF con, so it just made me somewhat tired. In other news, I’ll be at Worldcon this year).
One of the few times I will link there
Jan. 4th, 2013 02:54 pmTheodore "Vox Day" Beale's SFWA Platform: the first five points
Of note is how he wants to inflate SWFA's annual expenses by ten thousand American dollars.
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comment(s); comment here or there.
Of note is how he wants to inflate SWFA's annual expenses by ten thousand American dollars.
Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are
One of the few times I will link there
Jan. 4th, 2013 02:54 pmTheodore "Vox Day" Beale's SFWA Platform: the first five points
Of note is how he wants to inflate SWFA's annual expenses by ten thousand American dollars.
Of note is how he wants to inflate SWFA's annual expenses by ten thousand American dollars.
Ah, the long term plan emerges
Dec. 30th, 2012 11:57 amTheo "Vox Day" Beale, having previously asserted such interesting things as
when according to wikipedia she did not become President until 2003, shifts his cloud-shouting over to his Vox Day blog, which btw is going to make keeping a chinese wall between his Vox Day persona and secret identity as Theodore Beale pretty hard, reveals that he has not in fact read at least one of the books whose victory he denounces and then gets to what I assume was the whole point of the affair, launching his pre-doomed campaign to run for SFWA President.
Linking is not advocacy.
My gut feeling here is that once he loses, the next logical move is to set up an ideologically untainted rival to SFWA, perhaps one untainted by the oh so many groups of whom he disapproves.
Catherine Asaro’s The Quantum Rose, which won the Best Novel award in 2002, is perhaps the most egregious example; Asaro was the SFWA President at the time,
when according to wikipedia she did not become President until 2003, shifts his cloud-shouting over to his Vox Day blog, which btw is going to make keeping a chinese wall between his Vox Day persona and secret identity as Theodore Beale pretty hard, reveals that he has not in fact read at least one of the books whose victory he denounces and then gets to what I assume was the whole point of the affair, launching his pre-doomed campaign to run for SFWA President.
Linking is not advocacy.
My gut feeling here is that once he loses, the next logical move is to set up an ideologically untainted rival to SFWA, perhaps one untainted by the oh so many groups of whom he disapproves.
Linking is not advocacy
Dec. 29th, 2012 12:15 amTheodore "Vox Day" Beale goes on a rant about the Nebula Awards, giving as his examples of injustice times when women beat men. You may remember Vox as the guy whose clarity of vision didn't extend as far as satire.
I can see no way in which this could go horribly wrong. Oh, wait
Mr. Friedman in this this case would be Patri Friedman, "the grandson of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and economist Rose Friedman and son of economist and physicist David D. Friedman."
The Hondurans forgot to spray for libertarians, didn't they?
Mr Friedman is an outspoken critic of democracy. It is “ill-suited for a libertarian state”, he wrote in an essay in 2009—because it is “rigged against libertarians” (they would always lose) and inefficient. Rather than giving its citizens a voice, he argues, they should be free to exit; cities should compete for them by offering the best services.
Mr. Friedman in this this case would be Patri Friedman, "the grandson of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and economist Rose Friedman and son of economist and physicist David D. Friedman."
The Hondurans forgot to spray for libertarians, didn't they?
This is more of an "everything would be worse with libertarians":
Nicked from pecunium
[...] I think there’s a good case to be made that taxing people to protect the Earth from an asteroid, while within Congress’s powers, is an illegitimate function of government from a moral perspective. I think it’s O.K. to violate people’s rights (e.g. through taxation) if the result is that you protect people’s rights to some greater extent (e.g. through police, courts, the military). But it’s not obvious to me that the Earth being hit by an asteroid (or, say, someone being hit by lightning or a falling tree) violates anyone’s rights; if that’s so, then I’m not sure I can justify preventing it through taxation.
Nicked from pecunium
This is more of an "everything would be worse with libertarians":
Nicked from pecunium
[...] I think there’s a good case to be made that taxing people to protect the Earth from an asteroid, while within Congress’s powers, is an illegitimate function of government from a moral perspective. I think it’s O.K. to violate people’s rights (e.g. through taxation) if the result is that you protect people’s rights to some greater extent (e.g. through police, courts, the military). But it’s not obvious to me that the Earth being hit by an asteroid (or, say, someone being hit by lightning or a falling tree) violates anyone’s rights; if that’s so, then I’m not sure I can justify preventing it through taxation.
Nicked from pecunium
This is more of an "everything would be worse with libertarians":
Nicked from pecunium
[...] I think there’s a good case to be made that taxing people to protect the Earth from an asteroid, while within Congress’s powers, is an illegitimate function of government from a moral perspective. I think it’s O.K. to violate people’s rights (e.g. through taxation) if the result is that you protect people’s rights to some greater extent (e.g. through police, courts, the military). But it’s not obvious to me that the Earth being hit by an asteroid (or, say, someone being hit by lightning or a falling tree) violates anyone’s rights; if that’s so, then I’m not sure I can justify preventing it through taxation.
Nicked from pecunium
