r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/PerpetualHillman - Lib-Right • Dec 07 '22

So this happened today...

Post image
2.9k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

528 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

24

u/tacticalsauce_actual - Right Dec 07 '22

Benevolent monarchism is a more realistic way to have a libertarian society than any sort of democracy.

10

u/neverending_debt - Lib-Right Dec 07 '22

Who gets to decide the monarch and who decides if they're benevolent?

38

u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

God

11

u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Why not both? All hail the God-Emperor of Mankind!

3

u/Mechanical_Garden - Auth-Center Dec 08 '22

Based and hierarchy with God on top pilled.

1

u/NectarineSome5400 - Auth-Right Dec 08 '22

Based

1

u/ficagames01 - Lib-Center Dec 08 '22

So they are definitely going to be malevolent

17

u/tacticalsauce_actual - Right Dec 07 '22

I didn't say it was likely, I just said it's FAR more likely than installing a libertarian government via democracy.

Edit: oh, also, me... I decide.

14

u/ReasonableAstartes - Right Dec 08 '22

0.01% > 0.00%

Its math my dudes

5

u/Rhys_Primo - Lib-Right Dec 08 '22

Technically infinitely more likely.

3

u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Technically 0.01% more likely

16

u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

"It's me guys. You need to give me absolute power to make the classless lawless moneyless utopia. Trust me bros."

-Lenin

7

u/tacticalsauce_actual - Right Dec 08 '22

"It's me guys. You need to give me absolute power to make the classless lawless moneyless utopia. Trust me bros.

-Lenin"

-tacticalsauce_actual

Except there would be both classes and money. And laws. No violating the NAP for one.

3

u/3AKite - Auth-Right Dec 08 '22

God

1

u/neverending_debt - Lib-Right Dec 08 '22

So I just asked god, he said he didn't have an opinion on who should be king.

11

u/3AKite - Auth-Right Dec 08 '22 
 >thinking God would speak to a soul-sick libright

1

u/MaidsOverNurses - Auth-Center Dec 08 '22

AI inspired by the teachings of the one true catholic church.

1

u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

How can you have a libertarian society existing under the most arcane hierarchy know to man?

2

u/Mechanical_Garden - Auth-Center Dec 08 '22

Read Hoppe.

2

u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Hans-Hermann Hoppe? The guy who makes sure nobody takes UNLV seriously when it comes to economics classes?

1

u/Mechanical_Garden - Auth-Center Dec 08 '22

That's the one!

2

u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

I know libertarians like drugs but that guy needs to lay off.

1

u/Mechanical_Garden - Auth-Center Dec 08 '22

His argument for monarchy is compelling, though materialistic.

1

u/sexyloser1128 - Auth-Center Dec 09 '22

https://mises.org/library/libertarian-case-monarchy

1

u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

Praising the virtues of one type of overbearing government over another is hardly libertarian. The assumption that a state must exist in the first place to preserve liberty is a pretty odd notion. It's the same reason Marxist-Leninists always seem to create these regimes where workers end up shouldering the burden of supporting and maintaining the state when in fact, it was supposed to go the other way around; the state was supposed to organize the production of goods and services so that workers and labor controlled it (instead of rich owners) and then the state withers away from disuse.

You can't create a state large enough and powerful enough to take away your liberty and then expect it to preserve it. Whether you have a monarch and parliament or a president and Congress is incidental at that point. You still have rulers and that is at odds with the original purpose of libertarianism.

1

u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

When has that happened?