Ideas and Infiltrators

It’s wild to me how clear the premise of this subreddit is, “Don’t hurt people, don’t take their stuff.” It doesn’t get much simpler than that. And yet somehow, we constantly see people coming in from every other political persuasion trying to argue against it, twist it, or act like it’s naive or unrealistic.

Like, you don’t walk into a gardening subreddit and start ranting about how flowers are a waste of land. You don’t go into r/ vegan and post steak recipes. But somehow, when it comes to anarcho-capitalism, the floodgates open. Socialists, minarchists, statists of every flavor they show up to complain, argue, or condescend.

And the irony is, they often try to frame themselves as the rational ones. But if you’re going out of your way to crash a space that exists specifically to talk about a voluntary society without coercion, maybe you’re not the enlightened one in the room.

It’s not that we’re afraid of debate a lot of us enjoy sharpening ideas against real opposition. But there’s a difference between someone asking honest questions or exploring ideas, and someone coming in just to stir the pot or rehash arguments that have been answered a hundred times already.

At some point, you have to wonder if the idea is really that dumb or flawed, why does it need constant policing and suppression everywhere it shows up?

And here’s the thing, a well-tended garden grows more flowers. This place could be thriving a hub for real discussion, outreach, and refinement of ideas. But the hands-off moderation has left it overgrown with weeds. Maybe it’s intentional, maybe not. But either way, it feels like most people eventually give up. Not because they were beaten in debate but because the signal gets drowned out by the noise.