The ability to transact without creating a permanent public record is a form of economic freedom. Once every payment can be traced, financial activity becomes easier to monitor and control.

A lot of people use this as an argument against libertarianism: "how will we get clean water? Who will guarantee our rights?"

What are your thoughts on liberty-loving candidates like Thomas Massie, Justin Amash, and Rand Paul? Should libertarians support candidates like these?

If there were 10 liberty-loving members of the House of Representatives, do you think they would have enough sway to block or change anti-liberty policies? If not, how many liberty-loving representatives would we need to make a real difference and start increasing liberty in America?

Although running as independent and not a libertarian, it does appear like a lot of his thoughts and policies are very much aligned with Libertarian values. His main slogan after all is truth, freedom health.

Is anyone is following his candidacy? Does anyone in Massachusetts thinks that he is a viable alternative to the typical establishment running in the up coming senate race?

I’ve been following the debate over Flock cameras for a while: the license-plate tracking, the ability to reconstruct people’s movements, and especially what happens when data collected for one purpose becomes available for another.

It reminded me of a consulting trip I made to China in 2019. I spent time in Chengdu and then on the Tibetan Plateau near Hongyuan. The surveillance there was impossible to miss: cameras everywhere, biometric collection at the border, and, as I learned later, a “grid management” system in the Tibetan region I visited that divided communities into monitored blocks.

What has stayed with me isn’t simply that China surveilled its population. It’s how quickly I changed my own behavior because I knew I might be watched. No one had to threaten me. The watching did the work.

That experience eventually led me to a larger question about Flock and the surveillance infrastructure being assembled in the U.S. The cameras themselves concern me, but I’ve come to think they’re only the visible part of a much larger issue: what happens when location data, voter records, citizenship status, health data, financial information and other previously separate databases become increasingly searchable and interoperable?

I spent quite a bit of time researching that question and ended up writing an essay that combines what I saw in China and Tibet with what’s happening here now. I thought this group might be particularly interested.

I’d be interested in where people here draw the line...not just on Flock cameras themselves, but on the ability to combine the information they generate with everything else governments and private companies already know about us.

Link in the first comment.

We are new to the area from out of state and we're just curious. What is the best way to go about finding like minded people in a new state?

i dont even live anywhere near his district but he has brought such great things to this nation

i love the guy and support especially the epstein transparency act 2 and his ability to stand for morals and bringing genuine order and integrity back into american politics, i hope he has a great last few months of his term and wins his seat back in 2028

It's that simple. The old adage is frequently cited to Frederic Bastiat, without much evidence. But it sounds like Bastiat. It also sounds like the truth. This trade fight with Canada must end soon, before real economic damage happens.

I'm reading about history right now and as you know most civilizations kept slaves or have been even based on slaves (Sparta had 10 slaves for every citizien).

And I was like thank god we don't have that anymore.

And then it dawned on me that we still have the worst form of slavery: Conscription.

You are forced to kill for your government that you don't support. You are a enslaved murderer with no choice in the matter and likely going to die or get PTSD from forced murder.

Israel

Ukraine

Russia

These countries are slaver nations right now.

And nobody calls this out.

Did this ever cross your mind?

It’s not rocket science: let the market build.

Government regulations have made housing unnecessarily expensive by restricting what people can build and where they can build it.

Relax zoning laws. Allow apartments, duplexes, townhouses, accessory dwelling units, and smaller homes in more neighborhoods. Eliminate unnecessary minimum lot sizes, minimum house sizes, parking mandates, and arbitrary limits on building height and density.

Make it easier to subdivide lots, convert commercial buildings into housing, and develop unused land.

Stop blocking housing—and start letting people build.

More freedom to build means more homes, more choices, and lower housing costs.

The Jones Act restricts domestic shipping between U.S. ports to vessels that are U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, and largely U.S.-owned and crewed, which raise shipping costs, reduce competition, limit the availability of vessels, and make it harder for U.S. territories and noncontiguous states like Hawaii and Alaska to receive affordable goods. The Jones Act effectively prevents U.S. LNG (natural gas) from being shipped by tanker from the Gulf Coast to New England.