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The Probability Broach: Ook ook

"I mean no disrespect to our ape cousins when I say that they’re not intelligent in the same sense or to the same degree as humans."

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The Probability Broach: Ook ook
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December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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The Probability Broach: Indian trouble
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November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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: Constant vigilance
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August 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Probability Broach: Smoke 'em if you got 'em

Getting your customers addicted for massive profit.

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The Probability Broach: Smoke ’em if you got ’em
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August 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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The Probability Broach: Charity cases
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August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The Probability Broach: Good guys with guns

Living out every libertarian's hero fantasies.

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The Probability Broach: Good guys with guns
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July 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Probability Broach: Affordable care

The libertarian belief that government prevents scientific progress, for some reason.

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The Probability Broach: Affordable care
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July 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Probability Broach: Coffin nails

Tobacco bans are because the government hates freedom, and for no other reason.

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The Probability Broach: Coffin nails
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July 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Probability Broach: Superfluous villainy

The bad guys in this book are more evil than they have any reason to be.

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The Probability Broach: Superfluous villainy
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May 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Probability Broach: Minarchists vs. anarchocapitalists

L. Neil Smith asserts the free market can solve problems like law enforcement, but it's a case of "tell, don't show".

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The Probability Broach: Minarchists vs. anarchocapitalists
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April 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Probability Broach: Anarchist standard time

Standards make society run, but fractious, disagreeable anarchists could never have them.

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The Probability Broach: Anarchist standard time
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April 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The Probability Broach: Soda pirates

"Property rights, but no laws" is a contradiction in terms.

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The Probability Broach: Soda pirates
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March 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Probability Broach: Worthless yellow rocks

L. Neil Smith almost unconsciously idolizes gold, even though his own philosophy doesn't assign it any special importance.

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The Probability Broach: Worthless yellow rocks
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March 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Probability Broach: Corpus delicti

How would an anarcho-libertarian world respond to a deadly pandemic?

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The Probability Broach: Corpus delicti
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March 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The Probability Broach: Blaming capitalism on socialism

People in this socialist dystopia seem to be completely on their own, but that's supposed to be what happens in capitalist economies.

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The Probability Broach: Blaming capitalism on socialism
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March 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Probability Broach: Peak oil

TPB assumes that all problems can be blamed on government, so much so that it doesn't feel the need to spell out the causality.

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The Probability Broach: Peak oil
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March 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Probability Broach: Meet L. Neil Smith

The author was a gun-obsessed libertarian who spent most of his time feuding with other libertarians.

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The Probability Broach: Meet L. Neil Smith
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March 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM