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General / What are some liberty conventions around the Nation?
« on: September 17, 2009, 06:39:39 PM »
I would like to plan a long trip around America and would like to attend some conventions along the way. However googleing is not returning many results. So I ask you will you please list some conventions here? If so will you list them now?

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General / Re: Need help with a "statistics socialist"
« on: September 17, 2009, 07:46:11 AM »
I was having a discussion (argument) with a acquaintance recently.  The main topic was socialism vs. the free market.  He hurled a lot of stats.  One example wasthat some European and Scandinavian countries are per capita wealthier than the U.S. and therefore socialism creates more prosperity that what he erroneously believes is the free market in the U.S.  Granted, the U.S. has a  heavily fascistic/socialistic economy but the tax and regulatory burden in Europe has to be higher.  Does anyone have any stats that I can counter with?  I tried a moral argument but he thinks its OK for the "poor" to steal from the "rich" if they need it.

The US is paying for their military. It's worthless to compare Europe with US because the US is a hegemonic empire that rushes in whenever the world gets into a tiff. We spend more on our governments and still have a better standard of living. We do not have a free market, and most European states are not socialist having their own stock exchanges. We like to throw the word Socialism around a lot on these boards, but most Austrian economists would not consider a country that has a stock market to be Socialist, it's probably just highly regulated. This is an important point to make because there is going to be economic growth through capital investment in any country that has one. If you compare the relative growth, you will find that the taxation of the markets and businesses directly correlates inversely to standard of living. The Socialist will argue that Europeans have a better standard of living, because poor people are provided with amenities. However this is dependent on everyone continuing to work while dole queues offer a tempting alternative, and regulation restricts free access to business. So the real premise of the argument is going to be, can people overcome their rational self-interest, which would be to stay poor and lead a simple life while not working?

If you want a statistic, then consider that 2% of the population are sociopaths, they would certainly find it hard to understand why they should keep working. However in a capitalist society so long as they keep their lies and aggression in check they can still have a place. Socialism's only answer would be more socialism setting them up in a jail cell.

For further arguments against socialism you can read 'socialism' by Ludwig von mises. In which he uses many arguments, that logically rend asunder the socialist economic mindset.

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General / Re: Just how gay is this guy?
« on: September 09, 2009, 07:44:11 PM »
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young firm men filling out new crisp football uniforms, a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts

I was going to go into some Gay Football sex stories and find quotes to compare, but I really don't wanna!

How about these gems.
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1. No laptops! Kids can sneak these into their bedrooms for late-night play. Instead, get a heavy desktop computer and set it up with the screen facing outward in your family room. That way you can monitor you child’s computer use (homework!) at all times without interrupting your television viewing.

2. When you’re not at home, unplug the power cord to your computer and hide the mouse. You can always put it in one of your sock drawers. This is a great way to make sure no video games are played when you’re not around.

3. Be honest with your boys and tell them they’ll grow up as failures if they don’t excel at sports. Make them go outdoors! Lock them out if necessary. On birthdays and Christmas, buy them sports gifts. Every kid enjoys a new baseball mitt or a football! (I’d avoid skateboards, however, there is too much drug use and anti-social behavior connected with it.) And when they’re 16, it’s time to consider the appropriate “muscle car” for your boy.

4. Have a private talk with your child’s friends (maybe when you “accidentally” lock your own kid outside) and ask them some of my video game slang trick questions: “What level paladin are you these days, buddy?” “Gosh, this town is nothing like Vice City, isn’t it?” or “Did you lose your Wee? I found one in the station wagon.” If they answer with any knowledge whatsoever of these terms, you have a secret gamer on your hands. Beware!

5. Be concerned about the physical shape of our young people. You don’t even need to be a parent to do this. Watch them run and throw and jump. Encourage them to lift weights. With a handsome firm body, you don’t need an afternoon of sweaty wrestling with a soccer ball as an excuse to celebrate the beauty that our Creator endowed us with. Remind them that jocks can tan themselves shirtless anytime! There is just something so wonderfully wholesome about America’s strong and cocky high school jocks. The pale and pimply loners in black t-shirts too afraid to shower in the locker rooms will never be able to compete with that!

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General / Re: Just how gay is this guy?
« on: September 09, 2009, 08:41:44 AM »
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When video gaming first became popular, experts warned of the likelihood of increased amounts of obesity, apathy, suicide, school violence, Satanism, masturbation, homosexuality and unemployment.

If only we had listened! If only we had listened!

Yeah he's pretty gay. I think being in the jock culture with those firm bulging muscles made him that way. There is a Christian element that will always blame the childrens activities and not the children, because if they start out 'corrupt' it means that corruption is really innocence. Allow me to slam that point home with this:

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All they want is to return to that tv funtime, but their bodies have become so pumped with hormones they’re confused. Video gaming turns their childhood dreams upside down. Suddenly, Raggedy Ann is killing Scooby Doo while SpongeBob sexually pokemons Barney and these kids have found a new outlet for their mixed-up physical urges.

Your kids want to have sex as soon as HUMANLY possible, it's what they were designed to do. It isn't smart, it must be controlled by parents, but it's inherent.

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General / Re: Parents Tax
« on: September 08, 2009, 08:20:26 AM »
How about we just allow immigration. Then tax that.

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General / Re: The anti FTL show?
« on: August 31, 2009, 07:54:19 AM »
Just listen to politicians. Obama has been pretty good lately. Bush before him was good as well.

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General / Re: Grounds for a divorce!!!
« on: August 31, 2009, 07:53:05 AM »
Hope you didn't have children (You know, cause you'll ruin them through divorce).

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General / Re: The Definitive "Things We Like About Israel" Thread
« on: August 27, 2009, 05:00:09 PM »
That gum that a girl I knew brought back, it was really fruity and had a great taste.

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General / Re: Mandatory Circumcision (a.k.a. Penis Tax)
« on: August 27, 2009, 07:43:11 AM »
I was circumcised when I was around 7.  See, normally babies aren't circumcised in the Soviet Union, and if the family were to do it for religious reasons there could be trouble, but there was a vast Jewish conspiracy operating in Moscow...  hardly a single Jewish boy has ever made it to puberty without a urinary infection or some other excuse that made circumcision beneficial on medical grounds.  I remember that the word got out around the neighborhood, and I was teased about it a bit, and some girls were curious to see it - I did not disappoint.  :roll:


Yeah, in high school girls were very interested in my UNcircumsized penis. Unfortunately once I arrived at college most girls had seen one... :( Now I have to get girls with my winning personality.

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General / Re: Can a laptop survive a desert enviroment?
« on: August 26, 2009, 07:30:01 PM »
One of the best things I did at burning man was going to home depot and buying some vent filter material and putting that over the windows of my car. From past experience I knew the dust would get in my car and I wanted to keep the windows open because I store stuff in there. You could also run the laptop inside the car.

However, I only brought my laptop once to burning man, it stayed in the car the whole time I was there, but I did use it to keep in contact on the roadtrips there and back. There really isn't any use for it.

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General / Re: Free State Project Money Bomb - October 1st
« on: August 26, 2009, 07:26:05 PM »
Sent in $30 can't wait til I get there. Someday.

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General / Re: Public Orgy Protest
« on: August 25, 2009, 08:27:35 AM »
I am sure a lot of people would like to fuck outside, in a free society if you owned your property you could do that. In fact if you rent property from the government you can do that. However a lot of property is owned publicly. You can't have an orgy on public property, so this begs the question. If you own it, but you can't fuck on it, then do you really own it?

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General / Re: NH: Open carry topless protest (guns, breasts, Keene)
« on: August 25, 2009, 08:05:30 AM »
I think this is a real issue, but I don't think it's a well understood one. At first I thought it was stupid, but when Ian made a good point about how it's a very collectivist mentality to think that the liberty movement is just Guns and God (Of course for me it's other things). I think the activists need lots of press, and they need to talk to the newspapers with solid talking points. Like for instance this is all about Public Property, there has already been lots of work about public property that could be tied in. So far so good, though.

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General / Re: 8-21-09 show: Objectivism: Ayn Rand, Ian Freeman
« on: August 24, 2009, 08:03:46 AM »
You know what? Perhaps your resorting to Ad hominem attacks because you can't argue against objectivist philosophy. Try me when you want a real debate. Right now your just trolling and I don't have time for it.

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General / Re: 8-21-09 show: Objectivism: Ayn Rand, Ian Freeman
« on: August 23, 2009, 11:05:41 PM »
How dare you say such things like Ayn Rand was the paragon of logic and reason.  Everything she said was gospel, except it was better.  It was pure unadulterated reason.  She was like Mr Spock on steroids. 



No but she is the most famous objectivist. Some refer to her the same way some refer to Kant, Niche, or any other philosopher. Maybe there are better Objectivists with books ready to open up young minds, but she got a lot of things right and history remembers her for it. Mr. Spock had some failings too, let's not forget the whole Amok thing where he illogically tried to kill his best friend Captain Kirk.

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