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Re: Low Content Rant/Vent thread

Willy Truth — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:18:31 GMT

So apparently the individual mandate reduces moral hazard because now people won't be encouraged to wait until they get sick to get insurance! So because we have laws that prevent turning people being turned down, we need more laws to make sure people don't rely on those laws! Gov't intervention is both the problem and the solution!

--My professor

Re: Low Content Rant/Vent thread

Willy Truth — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:00:13 GMT

So do the foaming mouth Obama supporters in DC today hate the children of Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan, or does their stunning decision to support a murderer stem from apathy to executively ordered human anguish?

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Bert — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:34:36 GMT

Just saw Django Unchained. Where the duce was Lysander Spooner?

In Massachusetts.

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Heather — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:08:17 GMT

The rant I want to say about the GOP in Alaska should not be recorded in writing so I will be brief. I worked so freaking hard organizing the whole thing and took time off work to fly almost 2,000 miles, TWICE. In addition to paying 270 bucks just to attend those stupid conventions where we were treated like crap just so this can happen?!! SOOO PISSSEDDDD OFFF RIGHTTT NOWWW!!!!

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/incoming-alaska-gop-leaders-could-be-unseated-even-assuming-control

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SkepticalMetal — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:46:24 GMT

Just saw Django Unchained. Where the duce was Lysander Spooner?

Also, some idiot woman wouldn't get her little rugrat to shut up in the theater.

Re: Low Content Rant/Vent thread

HabbaBabba — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:28:27 GMT

"RAISE the GAS TAX for all needed Revenue, and stop the GROWTH of Government into our Lives."

Comment from Autoblog... My neck has a muscle so tight to where I've achieved taco neck.

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SkepticalMetal — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:45:31 GMT

Celebrities. They make me sick.

Also, my parents are watching a "musical" film called "Joyful Noise," in the other room. *headdesk against desk corner*

Re: Low Content Rant/Vent thread

idol — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:23:48 GMT

Some Leftists are really intellectually sensitive...

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Wheylous — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:50:36 GMT

And this, class, is an example of why red is not the number 7.

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DanielMuff — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:42:50 GMT

Heather:
This is a good example of why libertarians are really not conservatives.

Wait, wut?

Re: Low Content Rant/Vent thread

fegeldolfy — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:54:42 GMT

I like how your professor included no criticisms of DiLorenzo other than "hurr durr he's a confederate weirdo".

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Autolykos — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:41:21 GMT

Wow, who knew that "greatness" was a fact!

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Heather — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:25:32 GMT

Check out my professor's response to me quoting Thomas DiLorenzo and Tom Woods for a paper on Lincoln:

"Why are you using the DiLorenzo article??? First, he's not a historian but an economist; second, he's pro-Confederate. This guy is actually kind of nuts even though he is affiliated with some legitimate organizations. He is a type of rather extreme libertarian. This is a good example of why libertarians are really not conservatives. The idea that Lincoln was not really a Christian but merely used this language as a cynical ploy to get support is false and goes against everything we know about him. It is sad that some people to make a name for themselves have to write things that denigrate legitimate greatness,

You should have stuck with Elshtain. Her work is much more careful. She is realistic about Lincoln shortcomings but also appreciates his greatness."

Re: Low Content Rant/Vent thread

Bert — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:34:42 GMT

When this forum goes we're all fucked. /rant

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idol — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:14:52 GMT

Neodoxy:

I can't decide whether or not Neo-Liberal is actually a position or a strawman used by the left...

I also fail to see exactly what the left argues is so absolutely awful about it...

This is a pretty good explanation I think, from wikipedia:

"The rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s as a practical system of government saw it implemented in various forms across the world. In some cases, the result was not anything that could be identified as neoliberalism, often with catastrophic results for the poor. This has resulted in many on the left claiming that this is a deliberate goal of neoliberalism, while those on the right defend the original goals of neoliberalism and insist otherwise[...]"