Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers?

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Describes PragerU. I follow their YouTube and Instagram accounts and it’s almost exclusively bad faith arguments or rage bait.

  99% of the comments buy into it as well. I wonder if they’re quick to clean up (read:remove) dissenting voices or if it is actually an echo chamber.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you punishing yourself for something?

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    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha. Just want to better understand how the other side sees the world.

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      • applepie@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just to have bias confirmed that these clowns are inteletually bankdupt bootlickers?

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I only saw a YouTuber make fun of their “Christopher Columbus did nothing wrong video” (not the actual title).

      Their argumentation is terribly weak.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thomas Sowell is a great place to start

  My man was churning out ragebait before ragebait was cool.

  Who lost Iraq? Look to Obama

  Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose or Capitalism and Freedom are both widely recommended classics.

  Mr. Pencil Man, the guy who was convinced a command economy couldn’t churn out writing implements because they had too many parts.

  If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.

  Is one of my favorite Friedmanisms. My guy simply could not conceive of a central authority doing anything right (unless that thing was standing up military juntas in formerly democratic Latin American and Middle Eastern states).

  If you managed to read Marx without dying of boredom you should also be able to get through Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action or Socialism.

  He’s got some bangers.

  Children and Rights

  Applying our theory to parents and children, this means that a parent does not have the right to aggress against his children, but also that the parent should not have a legal obligation to feed, clothe, or educate his children, since such obligations would entail positive acts coerced upon the parent and depriving the parent of his rights. The parent therefore may not murder or mutilate his child, and the law properly outlaws a parent from doing so. But the parent should have the legal right not to feed the child, i.e., to allow it to die.

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  • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I haven’t seen anything about children that insane since I saw that libertarian article pleading the case that we should be allowed to buy and sell children on the free market.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair enough, don’t start with that article! Pinning his guy’s mistakes on the other guy is not a great look. I should have specified that his books on economics are where someone should look first, not his tabloid opinion columns. Friedman’s point about pencils was not that a command economy would be unable to produce them but rather that the free market produces them spontaneously, at low cost and in great quantity, of good quality and variety, with everyone along the way acting voluntarily and better off for having participated in the process. I don’t think an offhand comment about sand is really the best representative of his work. I think the quote from Children and Rights might actually belong to Murray Rothbard, but either way I disagree with whoever wrote it and think it’s a perfect example of someone following a generally good principle off a cliff.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks! Marx is sometimes tough indeed, but readable :D

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• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mises’ Socialism and the economic calculation problem threw me for a loop for a while. It really rocked my preference for socialism at the time. Then I realized modern corporations with modern computing power are doing exactly what Mises says a theoretical central planner can’t do.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s funny, I see large corporations as being similar to a planned economy, but bringing the same problems. Corruption is widespread and gets worse the more layers of middle management there are. Economies of scale are what save them. Internal goods and services are mispriced and misallocated because political considerations replace the price mechanism. Man, I really hated that part of my life.

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