What is Dim Sum?
-Jon
To darkness I condemn you...
And watch the ad homs fly...
*sigh*
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LibertyStudent: Nice strawman.
Or in the libertarian future, will you allow peaceful people to trespass on your land?
Yes, the government doesn't own the land. But, for all intents and purposes in the real, flesh and blood world, they do.
February 17 - 1600 - Giordano Bruno is burnt alive by the catholic church. Aquinas : "much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death."
liberty student: Brainpolice:You cannot pick and choose. This is the crazy thing about the real world. You can pick and choose. You can be irrational. You can be emotional (even on YouTube!). You can be happy, sad, pensive, thoughtless, hedonistic whatever. I've got bad news for you, our opponents are not as fanatically rigid as you are. They are willing to be whatever they need to be to win.
Brainpolice:You cannot pick and choose.
This is the crazy thing about the real world. You can pick and choose. You can be irrational. You can be emotional (even on YouTube!). You can be happy, sad, pensive, thoughtless, hedonistic whatever. I've got bad news for you, our opponents are not as fanatically rigid as you are. They are willing to be whatever they need to be to win.
Which is why - even as Ayn Rand admits - they will eventually lose. And you will lose with them.
I would advise everyone here not to let people like Libby and other counter-revolutionaries drag the Anarchist movement down. Ostracizing them is best, but I would not be sad to see them executed, to be honest.
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And so the best thing to do is become exactly like one's "opponents"? Yea, that's the ticket!
liberty student: Nicky, all of your boilerplate nonsense about Paul is fascinating (and redundant, tired, worn etc.), but how come you didn't comment on Dim Sum? If you are a good boy in school and ace all of your state exams, maybe Mommy and Daddy will take you out for Dim Sum one day. After all, Dim Sum in the west, is a gift from immigrants!
Nicky, all of your boilerplate nonsense about Paul is fascinating (and redundant, tired, worn etc.), but how come you didn't comment on Dim Sum?
If you are a good boy in school and ace all of your state exams, maybe Mommy and Daddy will take you out for Dim Sum one day. After all, Dim Sum in the west, is a gift from immigrants!
Because Japanese everything > Chinese things.
Jon Irenicus: The gnat tries to snap at my heels again. Such a pesky little troll.
Wombatron: The gnat tries to snap at my heels again. Such a pesky little troll. -Jon Ah. I see what he's doing now. Sorry if it seems like I have been supporting him in his trolling Smile
The gnat tries to snap at my heels again. Such a pesky little troll. -Jon
Jon Irenicus: What is Dim Sum? -Jon
Usually the Chinese version of brunch, basically. A little more peasant though...
The most wonderful thing you can do for brunch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum
I had spring rolls, bbq pork buns, rice noodle rolls with pork, siu mai, Har Gau and potstickers! Yummy! The typical menu is 3 or 4 times larger than this.
If you find something evil that wobbles, push it. - Gary North
Niccolò:Because Japanese everything > Chinese things.
Ha, and you call Ron Paul a racist!
NO!
The best tactic is to make angry YouTube videos! Carry on!
Boy are you arrogant. I simply used a line from your post because it was convenient. I'm not expecting a logical answer from you anyway.
It'd overwhelm you anyway.
Juan: Jon Irenicus: The gnat tries to snap at my heels again. Such a pesky little troll. Boy are you arrogant. I simply used a line from your post because it was convenient. I'm not expecting a logical answer from you anyway. Wombatron: The gnat tries to snap at my heels again. Such a pesky little troll. -Jon Ah. I see what he's doing now. Sorry if it seems like I have been supporting him in his trolling Smile No you don't. My post was bona-fide, you did realize that and replied accordingly. But feel free to 'support' Mr. Irenicus...
You've been needling him about Hoppe across at least 2 threads. If its not outright trolling, it is still rather rude.
To everyone knocking Ron Paul:
I agree that his immigration position isn't well thoguht out in terms of libertarianism, but I think Paul has done a great service in terms of spreading the idea of liberty. Before Paul's campaign I didn't care anything about politics. Now I still don't, but for completely different reasons as before. For me he served as a bridge to anarchy, and I have seen other posters on this web site post similar things about him. Had you come to me this time last year and said anything about anarchy, I would have brushed you off and immediately considered you a radical not worth any attention. Because of Paul's stances on issues I started looking at everything. Originally I disagreed with him about the war on drugs, then realized he was right. Because he stressed how important economics was to politics it made me interested enough to read about it here. I've started disagreeing with him on some issues (most notably immigration) but I think he still performs a valuable service in branching out to those who wouldn't pay attention if you mentioned anarchy or agorism or liberty or any other of the bad words.
Abolition is only going to come by convincing a mass of people to stop looking to the government for answers, or regarding it as an authority, either economic or moral.
Great post. Library Libertarians resent Paul, and some of the people brought to anarchism by him I think because it undoes all of their theories which justify laziness and passiveness.
There are a lot of library libertarians who write for libertarian audiences, and thus, never grow the ideology. There is nothing to be gained, blogging to people who already "get it" as David Z from No Third Solution writes on his about page.
I like Ron Paul, I think he's heroic. He's done what so many are too lazy or intimidated to do. It might not be a perfect message, but most people aren't ready for what he says, let alone anarchy.
Stolz2525: To everyone knocking Ron Paul: I agree that his immigration position isn't well thoguht out in terms of libertarianism, but I think Paul has done a great service in terms of spreading the idea of liberty. Before Paul's campaign I didn't care anything about politics. Now I still don't, but for completely different reasons as before. For me he served as a bridge to anarchy, and I have seen other posters on this web site post similar things about him. Had you come to me this time last year and said anything about anarchy, I would have brushed you off and immediately considered you a radical not worth any attention. Because of Paul's stances on issues I started looking at everything. Originally I disagreed with him about the war on drugs, then realized he was right. Because he stressed how important economics was to politics it made me interested enough to read about it here. I've started disagreeing with him on some issues (most notably immigration) but I think he still performs a valuable service in branching out to those who wouldn't pay attention if you mentioned anarchy or agorism or liberty or any other of the bad words.
And likewise, he has completely alienated young hispanics who are the most likely in the United States to support secession.
This is a cost-benefit thing now. The cost of alienating the most rapidly growing market that already possesses some relationship to your product seems rather large for the benefit of gaining a few skinny-armed teenagers who, no offense, merely act as caricatures of the paleo-conservative movement of gold-bugs and tin-foil hat wearing constitution worshipers.
Niccolò:And likewise, he has completely alienated young hispanics who are the most likely in the United States to support secession.
Source?
And are you aware of Reconquista?
liberty student: Niccolò:And likewise, he has completely alienated young hispanics who are the most likely in the United States to support secession. Source? And are you aware of Reconquista?
Yeah, in my response to your post that you ignored.
Libby, you do realize that on a whole immigrants contribute about an increase of 1-3% in the US economy right? A net increase easily defaults the "decrease" through welfare - for which I have seen absolutely no evidence. The fact is, Ron Paul isn't a libertarian. The man is a xenophobe, period. As far as the whole trade-off bull *** for "good politicans" goes, however, you really need to start pulling your head out of your *** and read something about public choice. Also, immigration is a big issue for some people and as Hispanics are the most likely to support libertarian ventures like secession, it's a net loss for libertarianism to have racists like Ron Paul associated with it.
The fact is, Ron Paul isn't a libertarian. The man is a xenophobe, period.
As far as the whole trade-off bull *** for "good politicans" goes, however, you really need to start pulling your head out of your *** and read something about public choice. Also, immigration is a big issue for some people and as Hispanics are the most likely to support libertarian ventures like secession, it's a net loss for libertarianism to have racists like Ron Paul associated with it.
I'm of the opinion that indigenous people do deserve their lands back and that they should re-take it from the government.
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