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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Sep 2, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

Vacating American Hegemony

There seems to be a dilemma between building up retirement savings and not supporting American imperialism. The assumption is that if you are into the stock market, you support the corporations that…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Sep 2, 2018, 1:36 AM UTC

Long term plans are more likely Fullfilled than Instant Gratification Goals

Anything worth having takes a lot of effort or discipline, and takes a lot of time. You can be financially independent but have a life shortened by neglect of discipline in diet and exercise. You can…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Sep 1, 2018, 5:09 PM UTC

Echo Chamber or Interpersonal Communication of Liberty Ideas? Both?

Hi Friends! I'm following a process to delete my Facebook account. I have anti State ideas and some of my "friends" who are very very close recently objected to some of my posts. I've been using Face…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Jul 1, 2018, 1:19 AM UTC

Missing: the Ayn Rand heroic Capitalists in the Voluntaryist Movement?

I got into voluntaryism through the path of being a fan of the high tech and “promise” of science fiction. Perhaps that is a freaky path. But the popularity of Ayn Rand and appeal to selfish innovato…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Mar 25, 2018, 10:13 PM UTC

Brief Guide to Buying Bitcoin - Advice from a Long Time Buyer

I got started buying Bitcoin in January of 2015. The very first thing I did was surf the internet to learn everything I could and found https://bitcoin.org/en/ This page has a link "Get started with…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Mar 24, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

Desperate Times call for Desperate Measures - Vacate Support of the Endless Wars

The recent appointments by President Trump of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State, John Bolton as National Security Advisor, and Gina Haspel as CIA director clearly indicates the Military Industrial Co…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Mar 11, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

Musings on Cryptocurrency Maximalism, Stocks, Capitalism and Regulations

Regulations, regulations, regulations! Many of us libertarians, myself included, want to live in a world without bureaucrats and we know regulatory agencies are no saints. But how many of us really w…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Aug 13, 2017, 8:47 PM UTC

The Virtue of Identifying Yourself an Individualist

Before I called myself "libertarian" I called myself an individualist. Individualism goes deep back with me in my formative years and I lived the concepts very well before I read philosophy in my ear…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Jul 23, 2017, 11:13 PM UTC

From a Right-leaning hawk to an Anarchist in 30 Years!

Since I could remember, I have always liked the idea of capitalism, freeing people to achieve their dreams. Even before I opened an economics book I had the idea that people should be free to trade.…

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therealtomsawyer
@therealtomsawyer Jul 16, 2017, 2:00 AM UTC

Can Enslavement be Imaginary?

44 years ago, the late Harry Browne’s “How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World” was published. Also a couple of years before that, the Libertarian Party was founded. Much discussion on strategy ensued…

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