getting in a good old debate about whether taxation is theft with a bunch of goober libertarians and ancaps, feels like 2013 on here
they really hate this one, lol
this all feels so old-fashioned though. Republicans are currently using legal coercion to force private businesses to accept unvaccinated, unmasked customers. few people even pretend to care about naive propertarianism anymore
lol

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