Malice isn't a particularly good debater, he's just a fun talker that brings up some good points. Someone like Tom Woods though might be be a good contrast as not only is he very rooted in the topic but he's a good contrast to someone like Knowles.
Yeah from what I've seen Malice isn't a good debater, he's just massively overconfident in his views (and often debates people who are first class morons). I don't know where I stand politically but the past few years have made me really despise libertarians and anarchists.
Throwing government away is actually retarded, and the simple fact is most people don't want it. Government, for all its faults (US specifically), regulates corporations from becoming monopolies, sends murders to the chair, rapists to prison, settles civil grievances, and above all, protects from invasion.
Eh, I agree that people want government. I don't agree that it's doing the rest of its other duties though.
I see Tim failed at playing This War of Mine too. It's a big fallacy to get weapons when fortifying the house does a better job at a fraction of the resources. Then you build up to getting guns later.
It depends on what level you're talking about. Idaho is not run like New York. Each state is designed to be a micro expirement. The most the feds ask from me on the day to day is taxes, which I can live with. And where I'm at, things are run very efficiently. They don't hassle me about my guns or my speech, all I got to worry about is a cop looking to make some money with speeding tickets. And until I see a Chinese fleet off the coast, I think we're doing a pretty good job at deterring a threat. Something that's almost impossible under anarchism; how the hell do you get a army together if you all are isolated in the woods?
He seems to know little about security in general or twists facts to fit his narrative. In the same vid Tim complained that private airports lack security and "anyone can hop over the fence and harm passengers". Well, Musk-level VIPs either have private security flying with them or waiting at the airport. Or both. Also, private airports will probably allow cars to park on tarmac so they can pick the VIP up once the plane lands.
The benefit of Malice, and really any philosopher or historian, is that they're good for getting you to think about an idea, but they shouldn't be your gospel. I've read Malice's works and like watching his show, and while I recommend people at least read The Anarchist Handbook, I'd never claim him or anyone else have all the answers or even the best answers. People just need to stop worrying about having someone tell them what to think and take what others believe or say as simply one point of many that they can build on top of, regardless if that's by means of agreement or disagreement.
That's a hell of a lot more mature and reasoned response than I've gotten from any other anarchist. Well done.
Plenty of illegals crossing the border. That's an invasion.
That's the thing, it pisses libertarians off because your taxes are typically used to fuck with you, not your own benefit.
Ron Paul has specifically pointed this out in the past. I've seen Tim mention it too.
He did it again during the live show tonight.
I consider taxes the cost of doing buisness. The trade is simple: they take my money and then the government fucks off and builds aircraft carriers and roads. Is there corruption? Yeah. Should it be fixed? Absolutely. But we still need infrastructure, defense, nukes, things that a small group of people can't do. Those are my thoughts.
He might pull of a Uncle Dave from Postal 2 moment by hiring more burnout skater recruits on his house of the beanie cult, furthermore optimistically causing a future chance for Waco 2.0 to happen.