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Things I could do without government

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kingmonkey replied on Sat, Aug 23 2008 11:39 PM

Oh man!  I'd get baked every day out in the open!  Walk into a Starbucks and spark up a J!  Smoke a bowl before I went to IHOP for breakfast at 4:00 in the afternoon.  That, my friends, is living.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. " -- Samuel Adams.

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ChaseCola replied on Sun, Aug 24 2008 12:07 AM

buy a fully automatic weapon

 "The plans differ; the planners are all alike"

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Morty replied on Sun, Aug 24 2008 12:43 AM

Jon Irenicus:
Help Morty spread restrictive covenants to ruin all your fun.

-Jon

Hmm. However, in seeking to ruin the fun of those who enjoy spreading restrictive covenants to ruin fun, we may have to create a restrictive covenant that restricts creating restrictive covenants. What a dilemma.

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kingmonkey:

Oh man!  I'd get baked every day out in the open!  Walk into a Starbucks and spark up a J!  Smoke a bowl before I went to IHOP for breakfast at 4:00 in the afternoon.  That, my friends, is living.

When everyone's so stoned out of their mind to stop me, I'll reintroduce the state and declare myself supreme ruler of the world. MUHAHAHAHA... oh, Ill be benevolent, in fact I won't ask for much "protection money", at least for the first couple of years...

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You're estopped from restricting restrictive covenants!

-Jon

To darkness I condemn you...

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MacFall replied on Sun, Aug 24 2008 6:10 PM

Invest in the cures for various chronic illnesses which have been hampered or surpressed by the government/insurance/pharmaceutical complex.

Start up a business to compete with the municipal "services" for garbage disposal and road maintenence.

Put up a fence higher than 40 inches with staves less than 1 inch apart in my back yard.

Buy an automatic weapon.

Burn my leaves in my back yard instead of having to take them out of town.

Set off fireworks.

Grill out over a Hibachi.

Practice archery in my back yard.

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This thread is fun. I can really see all the different kinds of libertarians here. The pragmatists, stoners, and gun owners.

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And the nerds.

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eliotn replied on Tue, Aug 26 2008 8:46 PM

More things:

1. Never go to school for your entire life.

2. Become a family doctor.

3. Start a friendly society.

4. Put a sign on my properity that says, "I will tar and feather any tax collector who tries to tax me" and do this.

Schools are labour camps.

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Jonas replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 4:36 PM

1) Buy some medicines, dilute them out 10 times, and then sell the resulting solution at the same price as the original.

2) Get a bunch of friends with guns, sneak into all my neighbors houses at night, kill them, and then take their property.  Pay my friends by letting them loot all the stuff they want.  Keep them on as protection.

3) Knife the stoner in Starbucks that's sitting next to me and blowing smoke towards my table.

4) Brew my own wine, but age it using antifreeze so I can get it out faster.

Ah the possibilities of anarchy are endless...

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Juan replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:00 PM
So, you like to kill people ? Interesting.

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."

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ama gi replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:19 PM

Stop giving up 90% of the fruit of our labor to the corrupt warfare/welfare state, and start making large contributions to a worthy charity.

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Jonas:

1) Buy some medicines, dilute them out 10 times, and then sell the resulting solution at the same price as the original.

2) Get a bunch of friends with guns, sneak into all my neighbors houses at night, kill them, and then take their property.  Pay my friends by letting them loot all the stuff they want.  Keep them on as protection.

3) Knife the stoner in Starbucks that's sitting next to me and blowing smoke towards my table.

4) Brew my own wine, but age it using antifreeze so I can get it out faster.

Ah the possibilities of anarchy are endless...

FAIL!  You can already do all of those things!  In fact, the state is likely already doing or encouraging such things!

Fail

 

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

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jmw replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:44 PM

I would grow crops in my yard. And have chickens. I would use my garage as the market to sell my crops and the chickens.

With no zoning laws, and no homeowners association I could do this and turn my neighbors into customers.

I suppose my behavior wouldn't change that much. It would be easier to own a gun and fish, tis' for sure.

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Jonas replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:45 PM

liberty student:
FAIL!  You can already do all of those things!  In fact, the state is likely already doing or encouraging such things!

Ah, but in an anarchist society I don't have to fear any retribution as long as my firepower is sufficient to dissuade any attempts by those I have wronged.

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Jonas replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:52 PM

Juan:
So, you like to kill people ? Interesting.

There is still plenty you can do if you don't like killing people.  Don't limit yourself.

You could plant an entire crop of skunk cabbage in your backyard and use large fans to blow the fumes into nearby houses.  They would eventually get sick and have to move, at which point you could buy their property at a huge discount.  Once you have enough land you just rip up the crop.

Forget all that work...just use your yard as your toilet.  Why bother with a bathroom?  You spend a few weeks filling your yard with *** and see how fast the neighbors run!

Again, this is all assuming you have the firepower to protect your rights.  Remember, nobody has any rights except those you can enforce and/or defend.

EDIT: Weird, the forum filter tags F E C E S.  Ah well.  Sorry for the profanity.  Confused

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Jonas:
Ah, but in an anarchist society I don't have to fear any retribution as long as my firepower is sufficient to dissuade any attempts by those I have wronged.

Hmm, sounds alot like you don't want anarchy, you want to be the state.  That's pretty much how they do everything, by mastering and dominating violence.

I wonder how you will get firearms and ammunition when no one will trade with you.  Will you manufacture your own?

I don't think you have thought over anarchy.  Focus on catching small fish and keeping them.  That's within your reach.

 

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banned replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 6:23 PM

Not sure, but I believe the post was sarcastic.

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Juan replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 7:04 PM
I think it was a 'clever' attempt at debunking 'anarchy'.

February 17 - 1600 - Giordano Bruno is burnt alive by the catholic church.
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Andrew replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 7:38 PM

Sell my sperm at the local market

homestead rivers and lakes by piling dirt in them

Paint my house in Dollars

control my own retirement 

By on margin at 90%

employ 3 year olds at a gram of silver an hour in a paper mill

Shoot porn on my front lawn

grow tobacco 

Dig an enormous hole and bury my garbage

let my grass grow several feet

bury corpses under the road

sell "Metallica" Cd's

let my dog crap on the sidewalk

order a severely undercooked sirloin steak, then feed it to my baby son

throw all my styrofoam products in the rain forest

yell FIRE in a crowded movie theatre

sell cottage cheese in milk cartons with expired dates on them

paint stop signs green

sleep on the beds at Sealy 

and fill fire extinguishers with gasoline

 

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