>>1419>>1429Stonetoss is based
and is himself an ancap even if he won't talk about it openly, and he's correct in this comic. Many lolbertarians fail to grasp an essential part of Austrian economics--ordinal preferences. Yes, the state is obviously an imperfect solution and in most cases the very cause of the problem you're trying to solve. Yes, using it as a weapon is at best a gamble because the other side can use it against you. But guess what? If you abstain from using the state, your enemies will not reciprocate the gesture. The democratic state is, for better or for worse, the gun in the room, and if you don't grab it, someone else will. It's not even a violation of muh NAP to use the state in this manner, because you're using the state in self-defense against people who hate you and want you dead. Obviously, it's undesirable for the power you wield today to be used against you tomorrow. But it's even more undesirable for you not to wield that power at all, such that it's wielded against you not just tomorrow, but also today. A large number of people refuse to acknowledge the reality of ordinal preferences like this, and in turn refuse to acknowledge that a bad situation is preferable to a terrible situation. When you are facing an existential threat--and make no mistake, allowing the left to wield power unopposed is absolutely a threat to our continued existence--you cannot afford to waffle about how your tactics might be used against you in a few years. If you're dead by then, it doesn't matter.
And of course, the argument being made against using state power is making a rather big assumption--that it is inevitable for your enemies to gain power in a few short years. It's perfectly viable to grab hold of political power, and then bar your enemies from ever gaining it back. You can march through the institutions, and strip them of credibility. Deport them. Take the franchise away from them. Cut them out of the financial system. Throw them in jail. Throw them out of helicopters. This is exactly what the left is doing right now. Whenever they have control of institutions, they use them to make the right's positions ridiculous, outdated, and morally reprehensible. And it's working; the overton window has steadily shifted leftward, and the only right-wingers allowed to participate in mainstream discourse are the ones who capitulate to the left in every meaningful way.