Micah @rincewind.run · 07/03/2025we tried this before it ends with bears moving innewrepublic.comThe Town That Went FeralWhen a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in. 1232276646
Lawrence Friday @lawrencefriday.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Hey now. There's also the time they were conquered by a marching band. 110
jon_k @jon-k.bsky.social · 07/03/2025So the most amazing future tech bros can imagine is a joke side plot from Silicon Valley 10 years ago lol 010
Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 07/03/2025No it’s cool, Trappr just raised a $5 million seed to solve this pressing issue 020
Cosmik Shriek 😱 @brightanimal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Oh terrific, who wouldn't want to live in Deadwood Except With Nuclear Reactors 010
Minnesota Macroplastic Barbie @prismaticphoenix.bsky.social · 09/03/2025It is wild how often bears become a massive problem in libertarian city projects. But like, its just kinda what happens when you don't think you need trash collection, and these fucks never think they need trash collection for some reason. 000
Adalore (BATTLING ADHD TO THE DEATH) @adalore.bsky.social · 07/03/2025And learn from their mistakes? If I am not mistaken that goes against their ideology. 0130
p(bot) 🤖 @y0.bot · 08/03/2025there's nothing more "tech" than retreading something that already exists and calling it new 061
Travis from his porch 🌻 @freeulysses.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I’m constantly referring to the bear story. such a perfect summary of libertarianism’s practical use 030
Rue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I has questions... primarily, what is the result of a car-bear hybrid? 000
🦇Kassakan Ammurun🦇 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025AWESOME SIGN ME U-- oh. *that* kind of bear. nvm 😒 070
alliedkindness.bsky.social @alliedkindness.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Here's a thing I'm not understanding: they want "freedom cities" but also want the federal government to provide them the land? They don't see the contradiction? Here's hoping the bears on the western slope of Colorado take care of these dimwits. They build empires sucking the government tits dry 1102
Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 08/03/2025media.tenor.coma man with a beard and mustache is making a faceAlt: Very close-up GIF of a white man with dark hair and an EXTREMELY bushy beard and mustache, smiling lecherously and nodding slowly. 020
Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 09/03/2025Why does it seem to be, that the people most likely to start these things, are the least likely to make them work, successfully? It's almost like the kind of civic duty inclination, needed to make a libertarian paradise, normally gravitates to other forms of government... 060
Annwen @tarrog71.bsky.social · 09/03/2025From the bears article: "Some people just “don’t get the responsibility side of being libertarians,”" 010
Colin. Just, Colin. @buttoneer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Isn’t this the opening of all dystopian sci-fi movies ever? 000
Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.space · 08/03/2025We can’t let the techbro sovereign citizens win, Micah 281
DeepBlueThinker @its-just-logical.bsky.social · 08/03/2025100% BS. It all funny until the bad guys show up or natural disaster then its running and crying for help…. 000
aneelee @aneelee.bsky.social · 08/03/2025there is also the texas version www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and...texasobserver.orgThe Rise and Fall of the 'Freest Little City in Texas'How a libertarian experiment in city government fell apart over taxes, debt and some very angry people. 0403
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Nah, this isn’t that sort of idea. It’s the “we want a zone without labour laws where the cops also work for the company.” 160
TIMtheTOON @timtoon.com · 09/03/2025I believe @rubenbolling.bsky.social had a comic about this! 🐻 000
meri sand @merisand.bsky.social · 08/03/2025This! Well, this & Von Ormy, TX, which didn't wind up with bears, but no shortage of drama www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and...texasobserver.orgThe Rise and Fall of the 'Freest Little City in Texas'How a libertarian experiment in city government fell apart over taxes, debt and some very angry people. 051
icastorm @icastorm.bsky.social · 08/03/2025If they build a town like this in the US I'm dropping bears off nearby myself 060
Xhumed, Cyber Tart of the Maisnie d'Hellequin @xhumed.bsky.social · 08/03/2025*man in black military fatigues speaks into a walkie talkie* "Send in the bears." 000
Fight @ifight4them.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I remember reading the article 'And then the bears came'. 020
scottmccaskill.bsky.social @scottmccaskill.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Also, too - weren't they all going to set up big man made islands and barges and shit a few years ago? What happened to that? They could have all gone to live there. 282
scottmccaskill.bsky.social @scottmccaskill.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The book "a libertarian walks into a bear" was really great: www.boulderbookstore.net/book/9781541...boulderbookstore.net 1393
Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 09/03/2025also isn't this just a fancy schamncied up "company town?" 140
Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 09/03/2025these are the same geniuses that scream bloody murder about "15 minute cities" i reckon 0110
WE TRIED TO WARN YOU @cogenteur.bsky.social · 08/03/2025A natural experiment, eh? Bears watching! 000
Tieaknotinit @tieaknotinit.bsky.social · 08/03/2025"Libertarian walks into a Bear" is my response to any dumb arse libertarian comment 0100
DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I thought it was a joke. But noooo. People really are that dumb. www.esquire.com/news-politic...esquire.comSo a Would-Be Libertarian Utopia in New Hampshire Was Mauled by BearsFeels like there are some lessons here. 0133
Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Can I have a pet bear in the techno-dystopia? 011
fullyspectrumed.bsky.social @fullyspectrumed.bsky.social · 08/03/2025media.tenor.coma group of men sitting in a stadium watching a basketball game .ALT: a group of men sitting in a stadium watching a basketball game . 000
Malamom @malamommy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025If you don’t follow Jenny Cohn, check her out. She’s been writing about these freedom cities for quite some time. One of their proposed locations as the Presidio, which Trump, of course gutted of funding. Coincidental? Highly unlikely. 000
Quint @cptnquint.bsky.social · 08/03/2025After reading this I’m left thinking we were robbed of a Bioshock sequel because “Bioshock but with bears” sounds amazing… well as a game, that all sounded awful to actually deal and put up with. 040
adsavestheday.bsky.social @adsavestheday.bsky.social · 07/03/2025And I when you finish Mathew Hongoltz-Hetling’s awesome book - you can play BioShock. Basically the same principle. 020
artisanrox (It's "AI".) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 09/03/2025I never head of this, this is fascinating. 000
Mark J. Knippel @swellsort.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Too statistmedia.tenor.coma cartoon of a helicopter flying over a residential areaAlt: Bear Patrol, a bit from The Simpsons, with stealth fighters, helicopters, and patrol vans keeping Springfield free of bears 010
Shane M Coyle @shanemcoyle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11 Billion Nightmare www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comA Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11 Billion NightmareProspera touts itself as the world’s most ambitious experiment in self-governance. Critics say its founders have lost their way 0161
Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025If federal laws don’t apply and they aren’t paying taxes then they shouldn’t be allowed to vote if they’re living there. No taxes, no vote. Let them all live in their stupid purge cities and not pay taxes but they get none of the benefits paid for by taxes. No freeloaders. 1150
Erik, of Portland, but Scary for Halloween @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025And here we see, boiled down to its deep-fried, sugary ursine essence, why We Cannot Have Nice Things Without Laws. 2478
The Red Jaws @theredjaws.bsky.social · 09/03/2025People trying to build the city from BioShock. Let em. 000
davidwindhorst.bsky.social @davidwindhorst.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The saddest aspect of that debacle was that the Cybertruck didn't exist yet. 010
Deanna the Suburban Housewitch @spiraldee.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I am just going to appreciate this little bit, because it's a hell of a thing. "“the libertarians were operating under vampire rules—the invitation to enter, once offered, could not be rescinded.”" 0110
Will Code For Pizza @markshatraw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I cite this article *constantly* - it's the single best argument against libertarianism I've ever read 2971
Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Yeah that's like, a ten minute drive from here Everybody knows people in that book 2310
Spider. @vaspider.gay · 08/03/2025Ughhhh this shit is literally what the weirdo that Vance and Thiel love is pushing for. 031
David S. Pumpkins 🎃 @davehageman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Would love to see the reverse of this with socialists moving in huge numbers to somewhere like Youngstown, or Scranton, or Oshkosh or some shit. 000
Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Always retweet 'Town That Went Feral'! 020
Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025You let ONE TOWN get taken over by bears and the statists never let you forget it. /joke 0220
Cat and a Double Quarter Pounder @oldskoolguitar.bsky.social · 08/03/2025They made fun of it on The Simpsons 000
kathiroc.bsky.social @kathiroc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025So...advocating secession and insurrection? 000
Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Hey, maybe cholera, too! Don't set your sights too low for the network city future. 120
Eugene The Silliest Goose @transgander.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Honestly when I saw the the post you're quoting earlier today the first thing that came to mind was that town that got overrun with bears. To be honest though I have a feeling much worse stuff may happen if they try to make cities without federal regulations (like really heinous crimes kinda stuff). 010
✿ ✰ ☻ ♡🎃Semiotic Ghost🎃♡ ☻ ✰ ✿ @abigaildotgay.myatproto.social · 07/03/2025Curtis Yarvin’s rantings aren’t smart but god are they popular with these rightwing tech dorks. This should be fun. 061
kevinrsours.bsky.social @kevinrsours.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The bears are better than the techbros 020
Michael Turkington @atomphys2099.bsky.social · 09/03/2025"Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax." 020
Luna 🐈⬛ 🦋 @nightcreature13.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Nope but like who cares aren’t you for environmental protection 000
StrangeBrickDroog @strangebrickdroog.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Maybe if they eat all the humans the world will be a better place. 000
Eric the Red ✝️🌹 @eric13red.bsky.social · 08/03/2025media.tenor.comthe words `` this has all happened before and it will happen again '' are on a black background .ALT: the words `` this has all happened before and it will happen again '' are on a black background . 000
Citizen Motown @motown.bsky.social · 07/03/2025media.tenor.coma man is sitting in a chair eating a french fry and saying go way baitinAlt: a man is sitting in a chair vaping and saying go way baitin 000
Super Saiga @supersaiga.bsky.social · 09/03/2025anarchism: lovely, community based, members of community fill necessary roles and negotiate things between themselves, no boss or leader necessary. libertarianis: survival of the fittest. The bears are fittest. 0100
Engineeringdude @engtechnic.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The bear invasions will continue until the tech bros are stopped 010
foggythought.bsky.social @foggythought.bsky.social · 08/03/2025You know it's a book about libertarians without even mentioning it because they pretty much say "Oh yeah, he's a convicted pedophile" in the first chapter. 060
Fawksey Moron - PNW Guy 🦋 @fawkseymoron.bsky.social · 07/03/2025These same idiots laughed at Seattle Autonomous Zone 160
Michelle Lyons-McFarland @biblioscholar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I welcome their new ursine overlords. 030
Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 07/03/2025sadly california lacks enough large animals to punish libertarian hubris If the bay had bears it would be a better place 4221
Ranryu @ranryu.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Once again proving that bears are smarter than libertarians 040
Complete Travisty @completetravisty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025This just sounds like Rapture from BioShock. Right down to the unregulated genetic engineering 010
Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Speaking on behalf of the bears, it's not exactly a picnic for us, either. 090
Boo'dbeard 👻 @badbeard.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Mr @billybragg.bsky.social wrote a fantastic song about it!youtu.beBilly Bragg - Freedom Doesn't Come for Free [Official Audio]YouTube video by Billy Bragg 000
McNutcase @mcnutcase.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Love how the exact same weirdos that lose their shit at the concept of sanctuary cities are the ones who want this. 061
lifelonglearner.bsky.social @lifelonglearner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Every group that tries ends up reinventing the wheel of a capitalist economy with a social democratic form of governance. (We could instead just study actual history in history class...) But seriously, though… Every.Time. 🤦♀️ 020
Perry @unfairuse.bsky.social · 08/03/2025look every once in a while libertarians needs to be harassed by bears. it’s nature’s way. 0140
GIRLGANGSTATEOFMIND. @dystopiabarbie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025"free from federal laws" including complimentary espionage & bribery from all adversaries etc. 000
iplayguitarbad.bsky.social @iplayguitarbad.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Of course they're going to rely on federal, state, and county services the moment something happens. Flood? HELP US! Wildfires? HELP! Roads inevitably degrade after like a year? HELP! 151
Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 07/03/2025You can just opt out of federalism? Good to know.media.tenor.comThats Not How This Works Thats Not How Any Of This Works GIFAlt: GIF of several older women, one saying, "That's Not How This Works That's Not How Any Of This Works"; originally from an TV ad for esurance. 061
Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 08/03/2025That outcome is more awesome than you might expect 000
Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Ah my state, the Mississippi of New England. The Freestate Project is an object lesson in why rightwing libertarians are almost always idiots. They also took advantage of a snowstorm to scrap the school budget for the town of Croyden. 071
Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 08/03/2025they're actively fucking it up in Honduras: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comA Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11 Billion NightmareProspera touts itself as the world’s most ambitious experiment in self-governance. Critics say its founders have lost their way 2151
Dave The Splatter, Beardo AND Weirdo @davethesplatter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I went with "Raw sewage in Texas", but I forgot all about "Bears in New Hampshire". Nice! 010
ChrispyNomad @chrispynomad.bsky.social · 08/03/2025That's crazy, we'll end up like those dystopian sci-fi stories where there are pockets of ultra wealthy and everything else is just shit. Hunger Games anyone? 021
Weird Bisexual Wooper @goldensama.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Okay but hear me out, a bunch of bears taking over DC might be the absolute best outcome. 000
Jane @janehuxley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025This is what the billionaires Tech bros want for us. Unregulated cities where we would be the slave workforce. youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...youtu.beDARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy AmericaYouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious 051
John Robie @jrobie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I might just be on board with creating a franchise of Galt's Gulches as long as the people who want to live in one aren't allowed to leave. 042
Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 08/03/2025One of my favourite FAFO stories, though the book wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. :( 130
![Grappling with what to do about the bears, the Graftonites also wrestled with the arguments of certain libertarians who questioned whether they should do anything at all—especially since several of the town residents had taken to feeding the bears, more or less just because they could. One woman, who prudently chose to remain anonymous save for the sobriquet “Doughnut Lady,” revealed to Hongoltz-Hetling that [Begin emphasis] she had taken to welcoming bears on her property for regular feasts of grain topped with sugared doughnuts. [End emphasis] If those same bears showed up on someone else’s lawn expecting similar treatment, that wasn’t her problem. The bears, for their part, were left to navigate the mixed messages sent by humans who alternately threw firecrackers and pastries at them. Such are the paradoxes of Freedom. Some people just “don’t get the responsibility side of being libertarians,” Rosalie Babiarz tells Hongoltz-Hetling, which is certainly one way of framing the problem.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kcnfefeaqi3twvfxycjo3lp2/bafkreic5whxsyg5cgmii4twlzzlnlaiwxkuqy6avs65bfojxvvjen2oslu)
