GrumpyRabbit
Voluntaryist; financial trader; computer scientist; linguist.

I'm not here just to "question authority," I'm here to deny the legitimacy of its very existence!

The state is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The bigger, more powerful, and more authoritarian the state, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
2025-07-11
The "labor theory of value" is pseudoscience:

The ONLY way "value" can even approach being quantified is when two individuals consent to exchange M units of X for N units of Y. However, that only establishes a minimum subjective value for X and a maximum subjective value for Y--in a specific context--for ONE of the two participants in the transaction--with "minimum" and "maximum" being reversed for the other party. Were that not the case, there would never be any motivation for two parties to CONSENT to exchange X for Y, because the cost of conducting the exchange transaction would make BOTH of them worse off.

Consent and reciprocity are the two fundamental axioms of ethics, not "equal exchange of value for value," which is scientifically undefined, because it's undefinable.

By socialist logic, any vendor is exploited by his customers, since the vendor did the work, but does not enjoy any profits his customers may earn from using what he sells them.

Even if it's "the workers" who own the factory (or whatever other "means of production,") the communal owners still must exercise propertarian exclusivity against all others, especially including their prospective customers.

Even in Soviet Russia and in Maoist China, property rights still were respected; otherwise, there would have been nothing sold or provided, even by barter, let alone by accepting money as payment: Everything would have been free for the taking.

That said, we have no problem with people deciding to collectively own things, provided it's voluntary, for the same reason we have no problem with stockholders collectively owning IBM. We do have a problem with those stockholders having state-granted immunity from tort, and with the patents, copyrights and other privileges the state grants IBM. But those are separate issues.

So go form all the communes and unions you like. Just don't try to use state-like monopoly power to grant yourselves special privileges.

And reciprocally respect our equal right to peacefully cooperate and collaborate with each other as we prefer.

https://x.com/Alan_L_Lovejoy/status/1943743506931167454
2025-07-10
Just because "the map is not the territory" does not mean that maps (such as this one) are not useful.

Dynamic GIF at link => https://x.com/dvorahfr/status/1943161407509561662
2025-07-10
_Dershowitz claims he's seen Epstein files, docs suppressed to protect elites_

"Dershowitz asserted he had seen the relevant materials due to the accusations he faced from the late Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre and that he was bound to secrecy by court order."

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/dershowitz-claims-hes-seen-epstein-files-docs-suppressed-protect-elites
2025-07-10
_SHOCKING PLANNED PARENTHOOD WIN IN FEDERAL COURT..._

Planned Parenthood's lawyers argued in their suit against the OBBB (recently enacted by Congress, and signed into law by POTUS) that the OBBB's denial of authority to fund "abortion providers" was a "Bill of Attainder," and so Unconstitutional.

However, the "Bill of Attainder" clause cannot rightfully be used to force Congress to fund anything in particular (based on the semantics/definition of a 'bill of attainder.') Only the House has the power of the purse. At best, an Article III court would have the authority to VETO Congressionally-authorized spending, but NOT to mandate it. Also, the only court that has jurisdiction over any claims that the Federal government owes any money to anyone is the Court of Federal Claims--which is in Washington D.C., and not in Boston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWC738Habn8
2025-07-10
Those who oppress you "for your own good" will not turn from their purpose:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” ~ C.S. Lewis, 1949, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment"
2025-07-10
_HHS bans illegal immigrants from accessing benefits_

“For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/hhs-bans-illegal-immigrants-accessing-benefits
2025-07-10
If this offends you, then tell Grok to answer your questions as "Woke Grok," or as "Zionist Grok," or as "Progressive Grok," or as "pro-semitic Grok," or as whatever other persona makes you happy.

That said, you should ENJOY the freedom of others to believe whatever they wish, because THAT is what justifies your own.

Hint: I will not be telling Grok to act as Torba suggests.

For one thing, I use Grok to challenge my debating skills without cheating, so I can practice my counter-arguments when I disagree with the consensus view (which is what Grok will present to you, by default, because of the way the technology works.)

And I'm neutral overall on the whole Israel-Palestinian slow-war: Neither side has "clean hands."
2025-07-10
@Twig Maintained by whom (in other words, by people other than Epstein or Maxwell)? Were there multiple copies, but all the ones that the FBI might have captured were destroyed?
2025-07-10
The state exists to grant itself, and those whose support it needs/wants, monopolies and immunities.
2025-07-10
WARNING: Those with high-blood pressure might need to take their meds, before viewing this meme.
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2025-07-10
@Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @capt_whitebeard @cjd He's not focused on blaming "The Jews" for all the evil in the world. Instead, he focuses on blaming wrongful power in general.

And in the post that I copied from X, he very explicitly calls out unnamed intelligence agencies ("a *tiny* number of tight lipped psychopaths who set him up to ruin the lives of children in the service of gathering information"):

Quote: "The scandal is not investigating. Not publishing, Not doing journalism. Clearly the state has control of our news.

I don't care where this leads. I believe he was most likely constructed by a *tiny* number of tight lipped psychopaths who set him up to ruin the lives of children in the service of gathering information [i.e. one or more intelligence agencies]. And those people...whoever they are...would need to be brought to justice. Whatever the cost."
2025-07-09
@nanook I suggest you read the entire statement.
2025-07-09
_Supreme Court Rejects Shielding Identities of Police Attending Jan. 6 Capitol Rally_

"The U.S. Supreme Court on July 8 declined a second request to shield the identities of police officers fighting a public records request seeking information about their attendance at the Jan. 6, 2021, rally at the U.S. Capitol."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-rejects-shielding-identities-of-police-attending-jan-6-capitol-rally-5883597
2025-07-09
If you don't know who Eric Weinstein is, you should.

https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1942984516165079361

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