leftypol's day of the sun edition
<if we dont have inbred monarchs ruling over us people will resort to cannibalism
517 posts and 759 image replies omitted.Now the right libertarians in these circles want a monarch to be limited to his private estate–to his own personal holdings.
I will never trust the monarchist-right libertarian alliance is firmly secure on the basis of lower taxes, so I'm not too comfortable that with right libertarians' loyalty is secure on account of lower taxes–when it came to Charles I and George III, it was right libertarian tier people leading the charge and revolt. Monarchists should never forget that in spite of Hoppeanism.
The right libertarians are so set in their ways that to them it's their fault and that aligning with them is just by nature good policy… but personally I wouldn't trust them with their belief in the preeminence of the free market instead of the preeminence of a monarchy in that instance.
I'd rather agree with Hobbes.
Thomas Hobbes / The Public Is Not To Be Dieted [or restricted to a monarch's personal estates]>In the Distribution of land, the Common-wealth itself, may be conceived to have a portion, and possess, and improve the same by their Representative; and that such portion may be made sufficient, to sustain the whole expence to the common Peace, and defence necessarily required: Which were very true, if there could be any Representative conceived free from humane passions, and infirmities. But the nature of men being as it is, the setting forth of Public Land, or of any certain Revenue for the Commonwealth, is in vain; and tends to the dissolution of Government, and to the condition of mere Nature, and War, as soon as ever the Sovereign Power falls into the hands of a Monarch, or of an Assembly, that are either too negligent of money, or too hazardous in engaging the public stock, into a long, or costly war. Commonwealths can endure no Diet: For seeing their expence is not limited by their own appetite, but by externall Accidents, and the appetites of their neighbours, the Public Riches cannot be limited by other limits, than those which the emergent occasions shall require. And whereas in England, there were by the Conquerour, diverse Lands reserved to his own use, (besides Forests, and Chases, either for his recreation, or for preservation of Woods,) and diverse services reserved on the Land he gave his Subjects; yet it seems they were not reserved for his Maintenance in his Public, but in his Natural capacity: For he, and his Successors did for all that, lay Arbitrary TPost too long. Click here to view the full text.Nietzsche:
>"A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god."
>"Jahveh, the god of “justice”—he is in accord with Israel no more, he no longer vizualizes the national egoism; he is now a god only conditionally…. The public notion of this god now becomes merely a weapon in the hands of clerical agitators."
>"Formerly he represented a people, the strength of a people, everything aggressive and thirsty for power in the soul of a people; now he is simply the good god…."
>"The truth is that there is no other alternative for gods: either they are the will to power—in which case they are national gods—or incapacity for power—in which case they have to be good…."
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>What has become of the last trace of decent feeling, of self-respect, when our statesmen, otherwise an unconventional class of men and thoroughly anti-Christian in their acts, now call themselves Christians and go to the communion-table?… A prince at the head of his armies, magnificent as the expression of the egoism and arrogance of his people—and yet acknowledging, without any shame, that he is a Christian!… Whom, then, does Christianity deny? what does it call “the world”? To be a soldier, to be a judge, to be a patriot; to defend one’s self; to be careful of one’s honour; to desire one’s own advantage; to be proud … every act of everyday, every instinct, every valuation that shows itself in a deed, is now anti-Christian: what a monster of falsehood the modern man must be to call himself nevertheless, and without shame, a Christian!—