The best
Cultural, Ethnic & Regional Humor eBooks:
Reddit reviews
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
The best of Cultural, Ethnic & Regional Humor eBooks by number of unique Reddit comments:
Top Reddit reviews mentioning Cultural, Ethnic & Regional Humor eBooks:
Amazon allows you to look inside, enough to see the first entry. There's a paragraph on 'mating' so it's even worse than it sounds.
https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Chicks-United-States-ebook/dp/B0090RIFOM#reader_B0090RIFOM
There was one such “field guide” posted both here and r/MenWritingWomen a long while ago, took me a while to find it
This is what we used to think.
Then Libertarianism got a hold on a town, and the town got invaded by bears, and the bears started attacking people and the town didn't get enough money to fend them off, and people started dying. In a span of 10 years. True free market capitalism collapses harder and faster than government-regulated sociocapitalism.
Obligatory reading: https://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Walks-Into-Bear-Liberate-ebook/dp/B083J1FXY8
And my favorite quote(unknown source) about libertarians. It really does sum up the examples in New Hampshire.
>Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand.
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083J1FXY8/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_BH9P4M8YBBTQVD5WMJYE
That book is fantastic, particularly because it is basically a real life account of people getting their faces eaten by leopards that had totally promised not to eat those people's faces.
Hmm, bear attacks are a symptom of a libertarian infestation. Has there been an increase in interest about cryptocurrency and age of consent laws in the area? Maybe some random copies of Atlas Shrugged left around?
"Soonish" by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith. Fun read about future technologies by the guy who makes SMBC comics and his scientist wife.
"A Libertarian walks into a Bear". Fun upfront, didn't quite stick the landing, but still an entertaining read about what happens when internet libertarians interact with small town folks and honest-to-God wildlife.
Cannibalism: a perfectly natural history. Good read about the topic, from species that eat their mates or their young, to modern case studies on the subject.
Are the outcomes better? Is it cheaper? Yes. Good enough for me, because I'm a smart practical guy, whereas you're a libertarian. You should read this book about how well the Libertarian ethos worked in New Hampshire
https://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Walks-Into-Bear-Liberate-ebook/dp/B083J1FXY8
How many times does libertarian "no government all privatization!" crap need to lead to a dystopian failure before people realize its a giant scam?
Well, makes for some fun reading at least.
They also had massive issues with sanitation because, it turns out, no one really wants to clean sewers or pick up trash. That's another reason why they had a huge issue with bears and wild animals.
The book about it is a complete trip. I definitely recommend checking it out.
There's also the Minerva project where a bunch of libertarians tried to proclaim that they owned a coral reef outside of Tonga. The king of Tonga showed up with a group of prisoners to assert ownership of the reef. Didn't stop the libertarians from conning a bunch of investors out of their money though for minted coins.
Then there's Colorado Springs where a "big business" libertarian was voted in, and pretty much every effort to de-regulate and limit costs led to significantly higher costs afterwards. For example, they decided to only light 2/3rds of the street lamps so they could drop people's taxes. They saved about a million dollars on electricity.
Problem was, thieves then showed up in the cover of darkness and ripped out the copper wiring from the unpowered, unlit lights. The cost to fix the damage? More than $5 million.
Libertarianism makes for a fun thought experiment, but taking it farther than that almost always explodes in their faces.
>Amash is a Libertarian and when he was a Republican was a very anti-Trump Representative.
Libertarianism is a scam and that political movement is only good for splitting the GOP vote. That and making funny subjects for books about bears. and the GOP has been rotten long before Trump. Nixon and Reagan were corrupt assholes too.
>The wars in the middle east were supported by Democrats and continued by the Obama administration
Yeah and I voted against HRC and Biden in their primaries in part because of their Iraq war attitudes. Old line liberals tend to have problems like that. Hopefully a new generation of leftists can buck them and lead in opposition to the authoritarian right instead of making constant concessions to them.
>The wars in the middle east didn't put us in direct threat of war with Russia and thus nuclear war.
I highly doubt Russia would use a nuke on America because it was one of many nations that gave Ukraine supplies. That is such a massive escalation. If giving supplies to a country was enough to justify nukes we wouldn't be here to talk about it by now. That was the cold war in a nutshell.
All the nuke bullshit is just saber rattling. No nation wants to commit to mutually assured destruction because they got a bloody nose after they fucked around and found out by accident.
45 yr old w/BM+WD. If possible don’t move there, if you have to, there’s very little you can do to offset the environment they’ll be living in. I never had a problem with my identity being myself at home around my parents. One upside is that just like any other minority, it’s a pretty good primer if they end up working anywhere in corporate America. Things have improved, but they will very likely have at least some exposure to working or being in groups where they’re the only POC.
Two books that I love that come at this from totally different angles, but are both relevant:
Humorous angle: How to be Black - Baratunde Thurston
Tangential but interesting/relevant: The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream - Sheryll Cashin
- Libertarians would never attempt to make a "paradise" or "utopia". Those concepts simply aren't a part of their beliefs.
- The "invasion of black bears" was actually one lady, who was a local and didn't move there, who was feeding them and letting them get into her trash.
- Literally every article and report on the incident is based on the same comedic book: "A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling".
- Libertarians still live in Grafton, quite a few of them. Its fine.
- Just check out the Amazon page for the book. Some of the reviews explain how the book is a fictionalized account of the town. The excerpts are basically all about "capitalism bad, government good". https://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Walks-Into-Bear-Liberate-ebook/dp/B083J1FXY8
The book is a good read:
<em>A Libertarian Walks into a Bear</em>
Basically, not only were the Grafton NH libertarians a bunch of chucklefucks, but they also didn't count on the Statehouse being taken over by the Free-State movement, which predictably, redirected what little funds were available the wealthier communities to do all then normal government stuff... you know stuff like fire departments, land managment, and friggin' bears, lol.
Libertarians constantly try to establish their own "countries" to demonstrate their ideals and it's hilarious every time.
https://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Walks-Into-Bear-Liberate-ebook/dp/B083J1FXY8
Es lo mismo... tampoco se puede ser libertario y pretender que el estado no es necesario. Si vives en USA, puedes leerte https://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Walks-Into-Bear-Liberate-ebook/dp/B083J1FXY8 o pedirlo en tu biblioteca... Es un trabajo de investigación real, bastante sui generis sobre las primeras comunidades "free town" en norteamérica. Cero estado es una locura también.
I've got a great book for 'anarcho-capitalists':
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
Story of a real town that managed the 'impossible', and defunded near all government programs, and 'freed' the people from its tyranny! It was the 'ideal' libertarian paradise!
Wherein then the town received a whole bunch of sex offenders moving in, the police became effectively useless as they could not afford to repair or replace any of their equipment, and then came the bears.
Because there were effectively no mandates against disposal of waste, people would just throw away their trash wherever, which attracted the local wild life. Bears are a part of local wild life.
Great read showcasing the logical conclusion of a number of their ideals in practice. Shame it happened to a real place though.
I strongly suspect that many people's perceptions about racism are more governed by their own personal experiences with racism than their perceptions from the media. Perhaps people who live in areas where they are in majority and unlikely to see first hand racist acts might rely on media, but others probably not.
I recently read You'll never believe what happened to Lacey: Crazy stories about racism. I found it kind of eye opening in that it hadn't really occurred to me how many nutso racist things can happen to one person. It makes you more understanding when people misperceive something more innocent as racist. Sometimes people's own experiences are so often dispiritingly and regularly racist, they can't be blamed for just expecting racism is the underlying cause for some weird behavior. It's a funny book, but also super sad. Recommended.
You don't understand.
Libertarians never stop at advocating for their own "freedom", they want everyone else to be as "free" as them. Firsts it's the government shouldn't regulate raw milk. Then it's the government shouldn't regulate regular milk. Then its the government shouldn't get to decide what milk is supplied to kids in schools. Then its school choice over public schools. The slide goes on, and on, and on until society is effectively an ancap hellscape where the person with the most guns gets to decide who has the freedom to be turned into biomatter fuel.
This is what I mean when I say libertarians will often advocate against the best interests of people for the sake of some bullshit concept of freedom. Its a dumb ideology that is often contradictory to the values which they claim to espouse. Let alone the fact that right libertarian movements often have a cadre of Nazis and pedophiles.
If you want to learn more about how dumb libertarians are and how a libertarian project played out then look up Grafton and the Free Town Project.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
https://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Walks-Into-Bear-Liberate-ebook/dp/B083J1FXY8
All you ever need to know about any and all libertarians gets summed up by the book on the New Hampshire town that was taken over by them and promptly run into the ground with their "utopian government ideology".
This is a fine approach...if you are the sole, immortal inhabitant of a planet with abundant resources and no predators. Otherwise, a it's laughably naive philosophy that fails every time it is tried.
Well, this sort of defeats that purpose, but it's only three bucks for digital versions on Google Play or Amazon!
They tried it, didn't work out all that well.
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
Wow so much love, thank you! And even bigger thank yous to those who went ahead and bought/downloaded it!! I hope you enjoy it as much as i am!
Showed dad and he thinks this is amazing and super grateful for all the kind comments... although he doesnt quite understand what reddit is and how people are commenting haha
Wee note re comments: Currently only available to buy/download on amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Hopes-Dreams-Buster-John-Dickson-ebook/dp/B07PL9X4PY
His publisher is focused on ebooks so we've a bit more work to do to get it on shelves in bookstores abd chains (if you have an in for somewhere or want to stock please do message me! 😁). Book launch in a couple of weeks at local pub where he will be signed selling paper copies. Happy days!
If anyone wants another free book that also seems to be hilariously mistranslated but sadly isn't, my detective novel Quinn Checks In is usually kicking around the top of the free mysteries chart.