Touched a nerve, have I?
Kidding, kidding (mostly), but a serious follow-up regarding the "anti-propertarian left": have you ever heard the self-ownership denial argument? One particular version, espoused by the DOJ no less, is "taxation is not theft because money is not your property." Federal Reserve technicalities aside, we need to come up with some better philosophical arguments, because Mises no longer has the final word on these matters on account of statist thinkers working overtime recently. If you can recall, I directed you to a hilarious strawman of libertarianism about a year ago, and while that guy took the coward's way out and disabled comments on his entire website, more like him have popped up. They are smart enough to see past the false dichotomy of American partisan politics, and label libertarians explicitly as "an even greater existential threat than MAGA."
Mate, these people are huge fans of Mill, and they are afraid of us. The hell is going on?
What I have heard denying self-ownership usually sounds like flat-earther denial of curvature. "If I refuse to acknowledge it, it doesn't exist, even if the mere fact that I am trying to present a dissent necessarily suggests at least self-ownership of intellect." Maybe there are better arguments out there
As for the Fed and fiat, their argument would hold up better if they weren't also out to tax crypto and destroy projects like the NORFED dollar where people developed voluntary alternatives.
Funny you should mention flerf, I'm about to have some real fun with that! The article is finished, but given my publication schedule, it won't be out for at least a week. I'll be sure to share it here for the benefit of a certain frequenter of your comments section.
Did you have fun with the Final Experiment fallout? I've been following Dave McKeegan for a while, and seeing how the flerf community turned on the flerfers with the balls (heh) to go has been wild. Sadly, I'm not surprised by the flerf priest denials of any evidence presented no matter what, or the knots they tie themselves into trying to "debunk" it.
Oh yes, that was hilarious! However, I have a different angle to the whole thing, which ties into a great metaphysics conspiracy.
Flerf article is done! Let me know if you makes you laugh, I had fun writing it.