The Probability Broach: Indian trouble

"In this libertarian-friendly alternate history, the Native Americans were still displaced by white colonizers - but they were happy to move and no one felt any resentment over it."

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@daylightatheism.bsky.social Is doing a readthrough of the Probability Broach where he raise a lot of criticisms. www.patreon.com/c/adamleeboo...

The Probability Broach: Villainous authoritarians

Why the Articles of Confederation failed.

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The Probability Broach: Who lives, who dies, who tells your story

Alexander Hamilton the enslaver and Thomas Jefferson the abolitionist.

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The Probability Broach: Roosevelt the warmonger

We're anti-war, unless someone other than the U.S. started it.

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The Probability Broach: Blood on the highway

"It’s 'you can eat your cake and have it, too' as a political philosophy."

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The Probability Broach: Nine-tenths of the law

The predictable chaos of a society where you can keep whatever you steal.

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The Probability Broach: Constant vigilance

"You can put spinning spikes or flamethrowers on your car’s wheels, Mad Max-style, to get revenge if some jerk on the highway tailgates you."

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The Probability Broach: Smoke 'em if you got 'em

Getting your customers addicted for massive profit.

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The Probability Broach: White people’s histories

"This is another running theme with libertarians, going back to at least when Ayn Rand referred to Native Americans as 'savages' who deserved to be wiped out because they didn’t have capitalism."

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The Probability Broach: Charity cases

"If you run out of money, do you have to beg in the gutter? Are there debtors’ prisons? Dickensian workhouses where the destitute are put to slave labor? Or are you just expected to die?"

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