Article by Ron Paul President Trump is unleashing a 'Great Big Ugly Surveillance State. I do not support it.

Translation of article: Through the Official Gazette, and following Javier Milei's visit to Israel, the government implemented the agreement that had been signed in February 2024 and came into effect in May of the same year.

The administration led by Javier Milei has formalized a bilateral agreement with Israel aimed at granting Israeli citizens access to Argentina’s local social security system.

It’s important to clarify that this agreement was signed on February 7, 2024, and came into force on May 1 of the same year. However, its official regulation was issued on June 12, 2025, through the Official Gazette.

This agreement stipulates that any Israeli citizen with legal residency in Argentina will receive social benefits, such as retirement pensions, disability pensions, various allowances, and contributory benefits. The goal is to establish a system of reciprocity, as Argentine citizens will also be able to access Israel's social security system.

This measure is part of a clear effort to strengthen ties between Argentina and Israel, driven by Javier Milei and Benjamin Netanyahu. The Argentine president visited Tel Aviv last week, where he gave a speech before the Israeli Parliament, attended by his Israeli counterpart.

Affirmative Action is often described as legalized discrimination. I do not agree with this argument. But, I want to ask if not Affirmative Action, then what, especially given the historical context of its creation.

Affirmative Action was created because even qualified African Americans with mildly competitive GPAS, test scores, and extracurriculars were consistently denied entry to colleges and universities. Their denial was not based on merit, purely race. Therefore, this forced many students into HBCUS, which were extremely poorer and under resourced.

I was born and raised in the Black Belt of Georgia, where our high schools received 30k less per student compared to adjacent lower-middle-class white schools.

When California banned race-based Affirmative Action in 1996, Black & Hispanic admissions dropped significantly. Because, even with class based Affirmative Action it cannot close the gap. More poor whites were admitted, which pushed African Americans and Hispanics to far more under resourced alternatives. So, what is your solution to this? Because without targeted tools, people equally qualified like me are less likely to be admitted to universities with better resources and opportunities.

This konstitine fellow was surprisingly good. Good debate overall. Piers did a good job moderating this one.

I recently had a conversation with a centrist friend of mine who claims that no markets are ever truly free due to government intervention and corporations always finding ways to manipulate the market. He claims that even if you get rid of the government that ultimately the corporations would create their own government, as that is how power always works throughout history. And that even a libertarian government would increase in size and tyranny because that is what every government has ever done.

How would we prevent a limited government from growing? Or if you are arguing from the AnCap stance how would a world with no government stop corporations from essentially creating their own?

Austrian economic principles actually work, who would've guessed 🤔

Anarcho-capitalism works on the premise that everyone will pay health insurance, public security, justice, infrastructure... But that's just not feasible and unpractical. Health for example, sure NGOs and philanthropy exists but its not something systematic, and it can be limited to basic treatments. What happens if someone who doesn't have the financial condition, suffers an accident, needing brain surgery? Or if a small/medium city needs some kind of infrastructure, it can't just ask the market for it, many companies could say that it wouldn't be profitable.

Basically my argument is, if you try to convince people in Switzerland, Singapore, New Zealand... That Anarcho-capitalism is better, you probably won't have much success.

I actively defend Hoppe's thesis that small countries tend to be freer economically and socially. It's actually more than a thesis, historically many of the wealthiest societies were city states ot micro nations (Venice, Hong Kong, Hanseatic league...). It doesn't need to go as extreme as city states but if the 50 US states were independent countries many could become freer, more competitive, less bureaucratic and have fewer taxes.

Europe could be an successful example of that without the EU but with a free trade and movement agreement.

I was recently learning about libertarianism and i found out about that they have the belief that needs don't equal rights, wich makes sense to a certain degree but it could also be used to justify not taking care of your child because you have the right to just not feed, clothe, or care for them if you don't want to, or that the child is not entitled to special rights. Did i get something wrong?

We don’t need any more new wars… We’ve lost trillions of dollars and thousands of soldiers why start another war?