Christopher Gadsden who the Gadsden flag is named after literally fucking owned the largest fucking slave port in the country and also owned 90 slaves. So much for individual liberty.
Because unlimited negative freedom preconfigures totalitarianism
>>793812Freedom to negate freedom
>>793812So what? The bolsheviks who invented 'hammer and sickle' didn't mind exploiting proles and enslaving kolkhozniks too.
The snake on the libertarian flag represents the snake from the Garden of Eden which caused the Fall, so it checks out.
Americans simply don't read their Bibles.
>>793890it was designed because gadsden thought the rattle snake only strikes others when provoked, also loved franklin's join or die flag.
this is completely on par with what libertarians want because it's private industry oppressing people rather than the guberment
>>793812its the freedom to do what you want with your private property. if you can own people they are property. domenico losurdo said in his liberalism a coutner history that in the US the most enthusiastic propenents of early libertarianism were the most enthusiastic slave owners.
>>794074That's the politically correct censored bullshit made up justification they feed to American kids, not the actual truth.
Slavery doesn't contradict liberty whatsoever. Slaves are property which means they don't have rights. Just like women, children, and employees.
The state is your enemy, not the plantation owner.