The Rollo and Slappy Show

We hear it all the time from people, especially when they’re defending some war that makes absolutely no sense.  The claim is always the same: “Okay, well, the candidate has what he’s running on, but once he’s elected, he gets sat down and they explain what’s really going on.” This is such a tired excuse.  […] The post Episode 67 – Are statists unwittingly supporting an oligarchy? appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

While watching the Sunday night football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys last night, commentators Al Michaels and Cris Collingsworth lamented the fact that some great stories happening in the NFL on the field were being overshadowed by off the field antics and commotion.  The biggest of these is of course the National […] The post Episode 66 – NFL military propaganda appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Jordan Peterson has come to some fame (or notoriety) following his admirable refusal to go along with the militant politically correct culture.  Dave Rubin recently had him on his show, the Rubin Report, to talk about this upcoming book.  Rubin followed the interview with some audience questions.  One of the questions was about anarchy and […] The post Episode 65 – Jordan Peterson on anarchy appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

It seems like forks are all the rage nowadays—that is if you follow bitcoin.  A few months ago, we experienced the Bitcoin Cash fork.  A few days ago, there was another fork to Bitcoin Gold.  And soon, the latest hard fork, SegWit2x, is expected to take place. So what is a fork exactly?  And is […] The post Episode 64 – Bitcoin forks and current bitcoin news with Vivek Raj appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

Libertarians often get criticized for not describing a system or society with an explicit social safety net.  People argue that it is the state’s job to provide this apparently necessary service.  Even most “small government” types agree with this.  What constitutes the social safety net and what programs should be included is often up for […] The post Episode 63 – Replacing the social safety net appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

We seem to be getting a lot of inspiration from Twitter recently.  And we feel no shame: Twitter is an excellent muse.  There are always people offering their often wrongheaded opinions, so it’s a good place to look for ideas that need correcting.  This happened last night with a conversation regarding immigration and labor.  Someone […] The post Episode 62 – Facts without analysis are worthless: immigration and labor appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

One of the main concerns among people is how basic needs would be met.  A lot of libertarians think the answer is obvious—otherwise we wouldn’t be libertarian!  If a societal framework couldn’t provide the means for the basic needs to be met, is it really a workable framework?  Most people outside of libertarian circles believe […] The post Episode 61 – Is it true that the state must provide basic necessities? appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

The Cato Institute tweeted an article from their site, Libertarianism.org, with the text “If #TaxationIsTheft (and it is), does it follow that we must abolish ALL taxation? Not necessarily…”  A lot of libertarians took umbrage with this, but it’s worth examining.  The piece was written by Michael Huemer, from whom Slappy and I take a […] The post Episode 60 – In defense of Michael Huemer’s “Is Taxation Theft?” piece appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

The country has gone through yet another senseless mass shooting.  This time it was in Las Vegas at a country music festival that left at least 58 dead and more than 500 wounded.  And predictably, everyone has an opinion on what could have been done to prevent such an event.  The loudest, of course, are […] The post Episode 59 – Poor reasons for the cause of the Las Vegas shooting appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.

The Non-Aggression Principle is one of the core ideas to libertarianism, but it is unfortunately not always correctly applied even by otherwise strong libertarians.  The Non-Aggression Principle states that it is wrong to commit or threaten violence against peaceful individuals.  So if someone is not treating you peacefully, i.e. violating the Non-Aggression Principle, then your […] The post Episode 58 – The difference between justified violence and preferable violence appeared first on Inside McFloogle's Mind.