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>>12861330
Subscribestar tried to do this to Patreon. A bunch of payment processors refused to do business with them.

What we are dealing with are not 'private corporations' in any classically-liberal, Adam Smithian sense. Due to years of anti-discrimination legislation these companies have been effectively conquered by their HR departments - and therefore are choosing to *not profit maximize* (ie, the very thing a company is meant to do) for ideological reasons.

I'd love it if genuine private property and free association returned, but until then these 'companies' are best understood as semi-detached arms of the state

>>12248623
You've misunderstood his quip. 'Facts don't care about your feelings' means you shouldn't use feelings in a *descriptive* argument (eg, illegal immigration costs the US alot of money, or whatever). The abortion argument Shapiro makes is *prescriptive*, so moral arguments are valid in that case.