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The funny part is that the German people supported the Nazis because they wanted to be left alone. Hitler convinced the German people that Jews and communists were coming to take away their guns and free speech rights. Hitler promised to protect their freedumbs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Freedom_Movement
People in Nazi Germany thought they had more freedoms and liberties than under the Weimar Republic.
I'm at the point where I would actually pay right wing Libertarians money to read this book-
https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928
I no longer feel that women can be trusted sufficiently for me to attempt to obtain a relationship with one of them; or that they would want a relationship with me even if I did. I have seen claims on 4chan that as many as 60% of rape claims are false and are made due to malevolent intent, among other things.
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I played World of Warcraft for nearly three years, and I saw numerous non-successful psychopaths during that time. The psychopaths need inequality psychologically, to the same degree that the non-psychopaths need equality. The reasons why the psychopathic minority rule, despite their tiny population size, is firstly because most non-psychopaths do not want to take responsibility for their lives, and prefer to delegate their sovereignty to psychopaths, as the psychopaths have trained them to do. The second reason is that the non-psychopaths generally refuse to acknowledge the psychopaths' existence, or at least their existence in government. The non-psychopaths are desperate to believe that government is good, because if government was not good, then that would mean that the non-psychopaths would have to become self-responsible, and start looking after themselves.
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When I look at groups like Ancaps and the Boogs I become more and more convinced that the Fascist Creep is a thing that is growing.
>"Fascist creep" occurs when the right wing deploys corrupted versions of left-wing concepts like solidarity
The Proud Boys and Gadsen Flag waving like were at the Capitol Hill Putsch that Trump called for.
The thing that most Americans are too dumb to understand is that fascism comes in the name of freedumb and liburty. Fascists think they are fighting for freedumb. The Nazis thought they had increased personal liberties.
The Nazis always insisted on being called centrist and hated being called far right.
Hitler and the Nazis painted themselves as victims of media that had taken away their free speech. The German people supported Hitler because they thought communists and Jews would take away their free speech and guns.
https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928
Unleash the cops to clear the streets of bums and vagrants. Where will they go? Who cares? Hopefully, they will disappear, that is, move from the ranks of the petted and cosseted bum class to the ranks of the productive members of society.
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Donald Trump was pulling from the Dixiecrat playbook in a way we haven't seen since George Wallace ran for President. It's not democratic socialism he's endorsing, it's national socialism with a big "WHITE MEN ONLY" tag plastered on the front.
He's not winning among Berniebros, even theoretically, anymore. His entire draw is from that base of Dixiecrat voters who came over to the GOP under the Nixon banner but never really liked it. Over thirty years after Lee Atwater explained why you can't say n*gger anymore, the base has forgotten what dog whistles sound like and want to get back to that old time religion of angry white men screaming impotently into the face of social progress.
Trump has galvanized the national rump. They're not Democrats. They're not Republicans. They're Deplorables who will never be happy under any party system that doesn't go around at night in hoods, burning crosses.
The book cited as evidence is by that well-known titan in the field of psychology, Anonymous Conservative:
https://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Psychology-Behind-Politics-Conservatism/dp/0982947933
It's published by Federalist Publications of MacClenny, FL. That publishing house does not appear to have published any other works.
Hilariously, this anonymously self-published 'science' book has been cited by blogger John Press in a screed about how the left hates science.
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The abridged, libertarian-approved version of "The Wealth of Nations" begins and ends with this sentence(paraphrased, of course): The invisible hand of the free market is sacrosanct and all regulations are tantamount to a combination of theft, rape, and slavery all at once.
I wouldn't mind if religious groups and businesses had the right to deny services because it might be a burden against their religion. Now, it would have to be a solid burden and a solid religion.
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Labor Day? pft...how about loyalty day! Take that Commie!
>They’re trying to reestablish feudalism.
This quote from Ian Kershaw's biography on Hitler makes sense:
>Corruption was rife at all levels of the regime. Hitler was happy to indulge the infinite craving for the material trappings of power and success of his underlings, aware that corruption on a massive scale ensured loyalty as the Third Reich developed into a modern variant of a feudal system resting on personal allegiance rewarded by private fiefdoms.
-Ian Kershaw, <em>Hitler: A Biography</em>
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>The Great Depression spurred state ownership in Western capitalist countries. Germany was no exception; the last governments in the Weimar Republic took over firms in diverse sectors. Later, the Nazi regime transferred public ownership and public services to the private sector.
Whats hilarious about this, is that plenty of companies (like mine) offer sick time/vacation time..(its all lumped together as PTO)
Of course in 8 fucking years I have never once used all my PTO
ooh sure, its available, but you'll be looked down upon as lazy by management, coworkers (competitors) will use it against you when it comes time for bonus/promotion...in fact its a pretty wide spread phenomena in America even when PTO is offered people don't use it
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-only-take-half-of-their-paid-vacation-2014-04-03
Should a business owner be forced to provide goods and services to a citizen against their will? That is the basic question here. If a government or any entity is forcing you against your will to use your knowledge, resources, energy, and money, to do something you do not want to do. We have a word for that, it's slavery.
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This used to just be called a country. Socialized costs predate the concept of socialism as far as I know. Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Articles 2d-3d) talks about the benefits of public schooling and he'd lauded as the father of capitalism. This modern push for all people to carry the totality of their own weight without any form of public assistance—even going so far as to argue for the privatization of roads—is exactly that: modern, and pretty detached from classic notions of liberalism.
That said, it at first annoyed me that people were using the word socialism to describe what isn't really regarded as socialism, but at this point I'm ok with it. It's unreasonable to expect that the average person is going to start using technical definitions correctly, and what's important to me is that people start advocating for greater public assistance. Call it whatever you want, just spread the idea, is my motto.
On the economics front I can confirm its similar, they constantly parrot 'basic economics' yet most of them have not read a single non-Austrian (in some rare cases one of them has read something from the Chicago School) economics book, and a lot of them at that have only read very simplified for-beginners type stuff like Henry Hazlitt's notoriously bad introduction 'Economics in One Lesson', combined with some Rothbard philosophy that gestures toward economics but never in detail. Basically they love using the jargon of the economist to sound educated, but haven't actually read or researched it beyond said jargon.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
>Trump
Doesn't the dude like Hitler's speeches? Mein Kampf seems accurate
>Hillary
Should be Capitalism and Freedom by Friedman
>Johnson
The Constitution works, but so would something by John Locke
Should a business owner be forced to provide goods and services to a citizen against their will? That is the basic question here. If a government or any entity is forcing you against your will to use your knowledge, resources, energy, and money, to do something you do not want to do. We have a word for that, it's slavery.
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Also, I'm not sure, but I don't think he ever got a master's degree, so it's a little misleading for him to say he "quit his PhD". His linkedin profile is a little weird about his education. Instead of saying he was a "student" for six years he says he was an "astrophysicist" for what appears to include his undergraduate years as well.
From what I can tell he was in a PhD program for 1 or 2 years when he quit, having no publications.
I no longer feel that women can be trusted sufficiently for me to attempt to obtain a relationship with one of them; or that they would want a relationship with me even if I did. I have seen claims on 4chan that as many as 60% of rape claims are false and are made due to malevolent intent, among other things.
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Bundy's lawyer explains how he will fight against Obamacare.
Here is his objection to detention order (warning: it reads more like a facebook comment on the Bundy Ranch page than a serious legal document)
Note that not even Hacker News buys this one. They have no code, they have an empty Github, it appears to be an attempt to get funding for vaporware by Dark Wallet.
The government has had policy going back decades that treats right-wing terrorists with the kid gloves. I read about this in the Congressional investigation of the COINTELPRO program which targeted both right and left-wing terrorist groups.
>"The White Hate COINTELPRO also used comparatively few techniques which carried a risk of serious physical, emotional, or economic damage to the targets, while the Black Nationalist COINTELPRO used such techniques extensively. The New Left COINTELPRO, on the other hand, had the highest proportion of proporals aimed at preventing the exercise of free speech. Like the progression in targeting, the use of dangerous, degrading, or blatantly unconstitutional techniques also appears to have become less restrained with each subsequent program."
>"The programs also differ to some extent. The White Hate program, for example, was very precisely targeted; each of the other programs spread to a number of groups that do not appear to fall within any clear parameters."
>"The White Hate COINTELPRO appears to have been limited, with few exceptions, to the original named targets (26 white hate groups including the KKK and American Nazi Party). No "legitimate" right-wing organizations were drawn into the program, in contrast with the earlier spread of the CPUSA (Communist Party) and SWP (Socialist Workers Party) programs to non-members."
None of which is to say that the Empire isn't sometimes brutal. In Episode IV, Imperial stormtroopers kill Luke's aunt and uncle and Grand Moff Tarkin orders the destruction of an entire planet, Alderaan. But viewed in context, these acts are less brutal than they initially appear. Poor Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen reach a grisly end, but only after they aid the rebellion by hiding Luke and harboring two fugitive droids. They aren't given due process, but they are traitors.
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You simply have to be being obtuse on purpose for the sake of fighting about this, otherwise you'd realize the use of "you" in this case is not the accusatory form targeted at you personally.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/you (its definition number 2, just in case this is too hard)
Reprehensible ideas are best addressed when they're allowed to fail under the scrutiny of reasonable people, and exposing hypocrisy is one of the tools to lead to such a pass.
Which is exactly what happened to at least 80% of the superfund sites the US has.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=superfund+sites
We have mining tailings polluting waterways 150 years after the company folded. Without an EPA parts of the US would have long been rendered uninhabitable.
China without Tibet -- the world's 5th largest fresh water reserves -- would be going thirsty.
Many right wing Libertarians are trying to rewrite history to argue that they supported the Civil Rights Movement. They dont even support Civil Rights today.
This is horse feathers. Make Believe. Even Barry Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Movement. Right wing Libertarians try to argue that William F. Buckley Jr. wasn't a right wing Libertarian. This is ridiculous today considering he wrote this book-
>[Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist
](https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Days-Were-Here-Again/dp/0465003354)
Libertarians called Martin Luther King a communist spy.
https://thelibertarianideal.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/the-ancient-future-anarcho-feudalism/
Anarcho-Fascism: Nature Reborn https://www.amazon.com/dp/9188667200/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_R-zxCbWTJB38B
And you thought i was joking
None of which is to say that the Empire isn't sometimes brutal. In Episode IV, Imperial stormtroopers kill Luke's aunt and uncle and Grand Moff Tarkin orders the destruction of an entire planet, Alderaan. But viewed in context, these acts are less brutal than they initially appear. Poor Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen reach a grisly end, but only after they aid the rebellion by hiding Luke and harboring two fugitive droids. They aren't given due process, but they are traitors.
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I played World of Warcraft for nearly three years, and I saw numerous non-successful psychopaths during that time. The psychopaths need inequality psychologically, to the same degree that the non-psychopaths need equality. The reasons why the psychopathic minority rule, despite their tiny population size, is firstly because most non-psychopaths do not want to take responsibility for their lives, and prefer to delegate their sovereignty to psychopaths, as the psychopaths have trained them to do. The second reason is that the non-psychopaths generally refuse to acknowledge the psychopaths' existence, or at least their existence in government. The non-psychopaths are desperate to believe that government is good, because if government was not good, then that would mean that the non-psychopaths would have to become self-responsible, and start looking after themselves.
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If you look at your calendar you'll notice it's also Robert E Lee day, Confederate memorial day, and of course "Idaho Human Rights Day".
The racism isn't even remotely hidden.
Crush Criminals. And by this I mean, of course, not "white collar criminals" or "inside traders" but violent street criminals – robbers, muggers, rapists, murderers. Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
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Crush Criminals. And by this I mean, of course, not "white collar criminals" or "inside traders" but violent street criminals – robbers, muggers, rapists, murderers. Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
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I can't seem to find this mythical document called the "social contract" you claim I am party to.
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There's a Solomonic aspect to the SCOTUS ruling, which limits this sort of moralizing to "closely held" corporations where 50% of the stake is held by 5 or fewer shareholders.
The great thing is that it sets up the choice: either a corporation can be moralizing, or it can pursue widescale investment, but it cannot be both.
On the other hand, I'm sure the Objectivists will eventually pull a page out of L. Ron Hubbard's strategy guide and use religion to dodge taxes and such.
Libertarians were promoting the "race mixing is communism" stuff back in the 1960's to the point that the Civil Rights Act would enslave both the white man and the black man.
The John Birch Society ran an advertisement in the October 31, 1965 issue of the Palm Beach Post titled, “The John Birch Society Asks: What’s Wrong With Civil Rights?”.
Birchers claimed that the CRA would create a "Negro Soviet Republic in the United States". The exact boundaries were unknown, but this new Soviet Republic would include Richmond, Norfolk, Memphis, Charleston, Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Montgomery, New Orleans, Little Rock
In 1963 Fred Koch "exposed" the Civil Rights movement in his pamphlet A Businessman Looks at Communism.
On page 25, Koch explains what the Civil Rights movement will bring. “You may be sure the Communists are fishing furiously in the troubled waters of integration on both sides. The Communists are not interested in the aspirations of the negro except as a means to stir up racial hatred in order to enslave both the white man and the black man. The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America."
There you have it folks. Libertarians warning America that the Civil Rights Act was nothing, but a Communist plot to take over American cities and enslave Americans, both white and black.
To this day, many libertarians claim that the Civil Rights Act was an act of violence by a totalitarian state that stomped on their liberty.
These nutters want to turn back the clock and raise the Old South.
I currently know a half English/South African woman who has been staying at the hostel where I'm currently living, and we have been sharing marijuana and talking for several nights. We have achieved a sufficient level of trust at this point that I might be willing to consider sleeping with her if the idea came up. Physically she is barely 5 feet, a very visible ethnic half-breed, to the point where she has complained about being profiled by the police, and is skeletally thin, as well as having numerous other physical problems.
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I'm 37 now, and my philosophy since my teens has been that other than for platonic friendship, the only circumstance in which I would bother going near a woman under 35, is if I'm paying her. I would never approach a teenage girl or young woman for a serious relationship. That is only asking for abuse.
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In all of the time we spend observing the Rebel Alliance, we never hear of their governing strategy or their plans for a post-Imperial universe. All we see are plots and fighting. Their victory over the Empire doesn't liberate the galaxy--it turns the galaxy into Somalia writ large: dominated by local warlords who are answerable to no one.
Which makes the rebels--Lucas's heroes--an unimpressive crew of anarchic royals who wreck the galaxy so that Princess Leia can have her tiara back.
I'll take the Empire.
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He was among the first in mainstream hip-hop to speak out against homophobia. He has always had some very interesting stuff to say on institutional racism, especially on Yeezus.
He might be a bit of an ass, but he has had strong progressive views throughout his career.
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My opinion is that I don't know. I don't care enough even to look at the data. I have seen some things that suggest it exists because of the sun and other that it exists because of CO2. I know that shit has been changing for as long as the earth has been. What I don't like is when people say that most or all scientists agree. This is an appeal to authority and should be disregarded. One thing that makes me skeptical of the claims is that the solution is always more state power in some form. I was all ears, then I was told the governments would need more tax money to forgive my sin fix the problem. Riiiiight. I see whats going on here.
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Unleash the cops to clear the streets of bums and vagrants. Where will they go? Who cares? Hopefully, they will disappear, that is, move from the ranks of the petted and cosseted bum class to the ranks of the productive members of society.
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In all of the time we spend observing the Rebel Alliance, we never hear of their governing strategy or their plans for a post-Imperial universe. All we see are plots and fighting. Their victory over the Empire doesn't liberate the galaxy--it turns the galaxy into Somalia writ large: dominated by local warlords who are answerable to no one.
Which makes the rebels--Lucas's heroes--an unimpressive crew of anarchic royals who wreck the galaxy so that Princess Leia can have her tiara back.
I'll take the Empire.
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You think because you sit up there in that little black robe hiding behind the ignorance of the masses like a little b#tch, that ANYBODY gives a d#mn about you or what you have to say? Well, just in case you haven't noticed
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We can theorize all we want about what a free market justice system would look like, but really, we know about as much about it as we could've known about Bitcoin in the year 1999. The freedom to switch services means innovation in ways we can't presently foresee.
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I no longer feel that women can be trusted sufficiently for me to attempt to obtain a relationship with one of them; or that they would want a relationship with me even if I did. I have seen claims on 4chan that as many as 60% of rape claims are false and are made due to malevolent intent, among other things.
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None of which is to say that the Empire isn't sometimes brutal. In Episode IV, Imperial stormtroopers kill Luke's aunt and uncle and Grand Moff Tarkin orders the destruction of an entire planet, Alderaan. But viewed in context, these acts are less brutal than they initially appear. Poor Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen reach a grisly end, but only after they aid the rebellion by hiding Luke and harboring two fugitive droids. They aren't given due process, but they are traitors.
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> http://drudgereport.com/now2.htm
>How does the #3 candidate (#2 if you discard Trump) get so ignored by the mass media!? The bias/prejudice airtime selection of the mass media is what has skewed the polling numbers.
How does the #3 candiate (according to some random poll spammed by PaulBots) get so ignored by the mass media!? Also, if you discard all the other candidates, he is actually #1!
Fucking liberal media.
According to libertarians, Thomas Jefferson says a lot of crazy shit:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#Disputed
I believe there was a movement decades ago to tie the founding fathers to extreme-right wing causes by any means necessary.
> all the while seemingly completely ignorant of the fact that there is flat out nowhere accessible on the face of the planet today that you can go to entirely escape from the grasp of political authority.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia
Let me know how that goes.
> Also, none of the subscribers wrote in complaining? That tells us something about his audience.
The newsletter subscription manager is listed as "Jean McIver."
The same Jean McIver who was listed as Texas Field Coordinator, Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign
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This seems to be based on a couple of articles (collected together here) where some leftist reforms were proposed in Rolling Stone, then subversively repackaged as conservative ideas in wonkblog. Missing the point entirely, our libertarian friends released their own, almost completely unrelated list of ax-grindy wackadoodle grievances.
The issue that I have with Patriarchy theory is mostly that it's non-falsifiable, meaning it can be used to explain either a case in which women are better off than men or a case in which women are worse off than men are. If women are worse off, as in the case of wage inequality, then the men that control the system are oppressing women, and if women are better off, as in the court system, then men are infantilizing women.
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Make no mistake, as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator--but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet. It's a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime (in the form of the smuggling rings run by the Hutts). The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen.
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