Too many American right-wingers use "freedom" to mean "I get to impose costs on you; you don't get to impose costs on me." It's not equality; it's strictly positional. Look at the association of "freedom" with shitty driving for a little example: "I get to threaten you on the highway, pollute your air, tear up the land with my off-roading ... but taxing my gasoline is on offense to the Founders."
Thing is, the economists are right about free markets being a good idea; and free markets depend on a certain kind of regulation to exist. The trouble with capitalism is that it's never been a reliable ally of freedom of any sort; going back to the origins of capitalism in the private funding of colonial slaver monopolies. The association of capitalism with free markets is largely propaganda; capitalism started with colonial slaver monopolies like the VOC; to a first approximation every firm wants to be a monopoly, and a great way of doing that is political corruption; see today's USA.
But there's a reason every government since ever — from empires to democracies — has done things like standardize weights & measures, build public goods like roads to enable trade, and establish courts of law to enforce contracts and fair dealing. Those things are really good ideas! And I'm not sure I can credit the left-anarchist proposals to replace them any more than I can credit the anarcho-capitalist ones.
I use an Iris split keyboard from keeb.io. it's comfy. Actually I have two of them; the heavy clicky custom one with steel plates stays home; the light quiet one is for travel.
I drifted slowly from right-libertarian to a more leftish position: pro-union, pro-social-programs, skeptical of the compatibility of unregulated capitalism with individual freedom. Still no fan of tankies.
This wasn't from anyone sitting down and trying to convince me, though. Part of it was discovering how close right-libertarianism had always been to white-supremacism: some old Ron Paul newsletters were unpleasantly enlightening. Part was seeing people who called themselves "libertarians" line up with the far right to support state violence, especially against black and brown people. And heck, part was from getting richer and seeing how that worked.
I have a lot of sympathy for the frustrations that get young men into right-wing positions and occasionally I try to puncture some of the nonsense they're being fed.
exploiting the fact that literacy among blacks was lower
That wasn't the exploit. The exploit was twofold:
Whites didn't have to pass the literacy tests. For instance, in some states any man who could show that his grandfather had voted, was assumed to have the right to vote, without having to take a literacy test. This is the origin of the terms grandfather clause and to be grandfathered in.
Tankies are against good things, because good things make the world more pleasant, and if the world becomes more pleasant then the people are less likely to want to destroy it.
Nope. The brown of shit is dead blood cells filtered out by the liver. Those are a potent source of Death energy, and so are drawn up into the new vampire's body as part of the conversion process. What's left in the new vampire's colon is a nearly odorless, dusty gray substance — emptied of both Life and Death energy — that is typically farted out during the vampire's first few feedings.
Too many American right-wingers use "freedom" to mean "I get to impose costs on you; you don't get to impose costs on me." It's not equality; it's strictly positional. Look at the association of "freedom" with shitty driving for a little example: "I get to threaten you on the highway, pollute your air, tear up the land with my off-roading ... but taxing my gasoline is on offense to the Founders."