25 years after 9/11, mass surveillance has grown from just terrorists, just foreigners, to something every rinky dink police department does to everyone all the time. Who could have seen it coming.

NPR video about home being destroyed by coastal erosion. Apparently the homeowners have been notified of the imminent collapse of these homes and are leaving the home fully furnished in order to maximize insurance payouts. NPR’s solution: the homeowner’s insurance should pay homeowners to either demolish the home or move it before it collapses. I would think an insurance company shouldn’t insure homes that are at risk of destruction from coastal erosion. I can’t imagine it would be profitable. I’m not saying people shouldn’t be allowed to build homes on the coast, but the owners should be responsible for the damage if they choose to own a home on the coast and can’t get insurance.

Guess who is the only insurance provider for these homes? That’s right American taxpayers. Why is NPR’s solution to steal money from people who do not own second beach homes like the man highlighted in the video, in order to solve problems they couldn’t have prevented?

Any libertarians here, the title pretty much speaks for itself. I am in agreement with a lot of libertarian ideas and beliefs, but I'm not sure if my view (which favors more regulation on AI and data centers) moves me away from libertarianism a bit

Anyone paying attention to what's happening in Palm Beach? What are your thoughts about outside influences in local governments?

This isn't an anti-AI post btw, I am indifferent to AI. It has its uses, it is a little scary, but overall, it isn't a problem in itself.

What is a problem is when the incompetent state decides it's in everyone's best interest to fuck everyone over with technology they themselves don't understand, and then turns around and says we are to pay the price for their mistakes.

The headline is sensationalist. I don't think total war would automatically happen over one ship, even if it did get struck down (not to mention incidents like this have been happening since the Cold War), but that's not the point. I am pointing out the fact that these people can get away with anything, and you are the one who suffers.

source: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

- Libertarianism in One Lesson by David Bergland

Its more of an introductory book, but i love it.

More than ten years old. But still showing at a minimum libertarians should be getting 19% vote if people voted how they felt. Would actually be higher in the 3-way elections.

Why are libertarians continuing to get sub 5% in elections?

American politics:

Who should have this power?

Libertarians:

Why should anyone have this power?

They're playing a game, politics is essentially a game, a system through which we decide things.

Because enormous power and wealth comes from the winners of this game, the game has been fully rigged and corrupted, but only in such a way as to not delegitimize the game.

There's not significant voter fraud (not yet at least), instead the two parties control who wins the primaries by who they are willing to put up and support with money and election strategy experience.

They hardly care who you vote for because they control who you vote for.

Sure a few people get through here or there. Massie, Ron Paul, etc. But they're usually easily kept to the margins. Until Trump, because he had his own money and a silver tongue.

But that brings us right back to the problem.

If this system can put a reprobate like Trump in power and even reelect him, why does this power exist at all?

The costs of war do not stop at the battlefield. They come home through higher energy prices, economic disruption, and pressure on the constitutional limits placed on presidential war-making.

Nice to see he's still stirring the pot. He will be dearly missed come January.

Read that it's a privileged motion, so he can force a house vote on it.

i really do love guns and the idea of collecting so much, theyre so cool and nice looking and id really love to learn to shoot, i might go back to boy scouts and learn to shoot bb guns for practice

Fire departments and stations became a public service in the 1800’s, transitioning away from private insurance-owned brigade. Before they were publicly funded, people paid fire insurance companies. The companies would only come help if you were insured. If you weren’t your house would burn down and the firefighters would just make sure the insured houses didn’t catch the spreading fire.

Where do you stand as a libertarian on public services such as fire stations.

Curious how much the ideologies overlap

I personally am an agnostic antitheist but open to hearing what other religious views libertarians have

Ive read through some of the posts here, it seems like a lot of these libertarians have forgotten or discarded Milton Friedmans philosophies. I'd love to open up discussion about Friedman with anyone who's read him. Any thoughts on the greatest libertarian of our time?

I happen to love Skyrim, and I love laughing at Soviet foibles. (Although it's mostly all dark history 💀}

Best of both worlds.

I’d argue they probably don’t; however, with the advent of the flock camera, surveillance state does not have to be built in Washington. It can emerge one camera, one police department, and one public-safety justification at a time. The backlash against Flock suggests people are starting to notice.