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Daniel replied on Wed, Oct 7 2009 12:46 PM

Physiocrat:

Your an Austrian whenever your here the acronym PDA you immediately think of  Private Defence Angency and not Personal Digital Assistant.

nor Public Displays of Affection. lol :p

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You know you're an Austrian when...

You're sitting in a high school economics class and you get utterly frustrated when the teacher and everyone in the class is convinced that in a Market Economy, working conditions and product quality would plummet to levels seen in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Happens to me every day.

Or, you know you're an Austrian when...

You see kids wearing Obama-hope shirts and you cringe in disgust.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H.L. Mencken

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Andrew replied on Wed, Oct 7 2009 8:05 PM

When kids talk about learning the ABC's and you think they are a little young to understand Austrian Business Cycle .

Democracy is nothing more than replacing bullets with ballots

 

If Pro is the opposite of Con. What is the opposite of Progress?

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Le Master replied on Wed, Oct 7 2009 11:02 PM

You reprimand someone every time he or she uses pluralis gloriosus or pluralis imperialis.

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DBratton replied on Sat, Oct 10 2009 12:38 AM

You understand that intellectual property is not free enterprise.

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abskebabs replied on Sat, Oct 10 2009 6:06 AM

When you search the term Hayek on the internet and are aghast to find pictures of an attractive, female celebrity

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abskebabs:

When you search the term Hayek on the internet and are aghast to find pictures of an attractive, female celebrity

Always happens hahaha

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

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fakename replied on Sat, Oct 10 2009 11:16 AM

when you don't understand what "wasting your time" means since values are subjective. 

when your girlfriend says that you treat her like property and you think "private or public?".

(I got the last one from someone else)

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Snowflake replied on Sat, Oct 10 2009 11:43 AM

When you forget to enjoy life because everywhere around you the state and its mindless supporters are prospering Crying

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor." ~Dream

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Snowflake:
When you forget to enjoy life because everywhere around you the state and its mindless supporters are prospering Crying

The most important thing I learned from the Ron Paul campaign, was Paul's motto that doing what we do, agitating/demonstrating/organizing for liberty, should be fun, and we should have fun doing it.

If you're not having fun (and we've all been there) take a break.

If you find something evil that wobbles, push it. - Gary North

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justinx0r replied on Sat, Oct 10 2009 11:53 AM

When you get excited after seeing Jeffrey Tucker post in your thread.

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liberty student:
If you're not having fun (and we've all been there) take a break.

-- That's why I was away for a while, it gets so you hate everyone and everything.

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

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Daniel replied on Sat, Oct 10 2009 2:22 PM

When, during the presidential campaigns, you knew Obama's economic policies and their consequences better than Obama's supporters.

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You roll your eyes every time you see someone talk about inflation as an increase in prices.

You can spot a Broken Window Fallacy without even breaking a mental sweat.

Whenever some human want isn't being met, the first question that comes to your mind is, "What's government doing to block the market from providing that?"

You take inordinate amounts of delight in wearing your Rothbard "Enemy of the State" t-shirt in front of statist friends.

You use terms like "time preference" and "misallocation of resources" in everyday discourse, in hopes of steering the conversation to economics.

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John Ess replied on Sat, Oct 10 2009 8:53 PM

When I teared up a bit after reading a Schumpeter quote in Chomsky's Imperial Ambitions book recently.

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waywardwayfarer:

You take inordinate amounts of delight in wearing your Rothbard "Enemy of the State" t-shirt in front of statist friends.

Haha, I liked this one. I have a shirt that says "Capitalists Do It Ruthlessly," so I know what that's like.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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Conza88 replied on Sat, Oct 10 2009 11:09 PM

John Ess:

When I teared up a bit after reading a Schumpeter quote in Chomsky's Imperial Ambitions book recently.

You know you're an Austrian when... you want to know what the quote was.

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