People keep using the word 'coopting'. They aren't 'coopting' anything. This is what they believe in. It's what they've believed in from the beginning.
It's called energy flux density. You fix the problem by developing technologies capable of higher output per kg, not converting a 1/4 of America into a wind farm.
One of the plot holes in Libertarianism:
Historically, goverment revenue mostly comes from either tariffs or income tax. So, if tariffs are bad and taxation is theft, WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM?
This British Parliament tax history page goes into more details on the history, and will help clarify what I'm saying in the first post. parliament.uk/about/living-h…
That's pretty much it. Oh, 'yellow jounalism'.
And 'yellow journalism' was just the British sending WT Stead over to teach Hearst 'government by journalism'.
"How do you do, fellow STEM graduates who can't get a job?" archive.ph/B00Gy
You're always given the impression that these things 'just happen', instead of the cause being some guy named Krumholtz writing a letter to some guy named Chertoff.
Libertarianism dot org keeps Algernon Sydney posting, so here's the bit about that from Disraeli's Coningsby. If you don't know why this matters, Venice was the center of the money oligarchy. Banker HQ over time: Venice -> Netherlands -> London gutenberg.org/files/7412/741…
That's their ideal system of government. A weak 'republic' with a figurehead 'Doge', with the real power lying with the financial oligarchy, backed up by a massive spy apparatus. They had these snitch boxes all over the city where you could denounce your bros.