Rudd-O.com

published Nov 13, 2008 , last modified Dec 30, 2022

A shill for truth. Defiant heresy on cultural matters. Free software, voluntaryism and cypherpunk. Established 1999.

Stephan Kinsella walks us through the clearest, most concise and conceptually consistent conception of property from the libertarian tradition, debunks the mythology surrounding John Locke's "mix it with ya labor" theory of property, and once again reduces intellectual poverty to nothing.

Despite the intense desire of a few cultural Marxists to deny everyone else the use of the term — up to and including the deletion of the term from Wikipedia — cultural Marxism has had a decades-long history. Theconversation.com weighs in.

With deep apologies to my European friends... this is far too funny not to post.

...when the well-off 21st century Maoist yells at a senior Soviet Union exilee about how he should be thrown in a forced labor camp.

John A De Goes' response to the scandal manufactured by the SJW faction to suppress Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) from LambdaConf — and why his response is a win for actual heterogeneity and richness of thoughts, beliefs and ideas. Bravo!

If you hear a faint, or a loud, hum coming from the speakers connected to your Marantz preprocessor, here is the fix.

Sometimes you need to diagnose a particular problem with your stereo's setup, or your headphones, or the speakers of your laptop. Maybe one of the sides sounds louder than the other, maybe you think you have a blown tweeter, maybe it's the audio signal currently playing? Here's a trick to test that without reconnecting any cables or adding any hardware to your setup.

That thing which happens in every debate with a statist, and which every libertarian knows full well, is actually well-studied. It even has a name.

Wendy McElroy aptly summarizes the truth about the manipulative tactic known as Kafkatrapping, a term coined by Eric Raymond to describe that pattern of manipulation.

The differences -- racial, socioeconomic, gender -- get branded in people's brains way before they can even remember them. This is how.