EDIT: Just got permabanned and muted from this sub specifically for this comment. Speaks volumes, I'd say :/

r/kochwatch

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-History-Billionaires-Radical/dp/0307947904

https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/aa6fb1/we_need_term_limits_for_congress/ecr3gmm/

TP USA, Ben Shapiro, and others are all funded by the Koch Brothers.

Big money and cronyism is paying for these right-wing nutjob cockpuppets to "own" college students and drum up fake support for "classical liberalism" and "preserving western civilization".

Lauren Southern's in on it. Jordan Peterson's in on it with his "intellectual dark web", gimme a fucking break. Steven Crowder's in on it as well.

It's all a marionette puppet show, and the Kochs are pulling at the strings.

That's not socialism. That's a welfare state with capitalism. It has socialist elements, but is still primarily capitalist. Your definition of socialism is misinformed.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism

It's more complicated than that. If you read Why Men Earn More, there are a myriad number of reasons. There's maternity like you said. There's also women choosing to earn less because their husband can get a higher paying job if they move. There's also women choosing to work at lower paying jobs with more flexibility because family is actually a priority for them. The list goes on...

Most interestingly - women who choose not to have a family at all and be career women actually get paid more than their similarly situated male counterparts.

That’s absurdly reductionist. He never knew being racist was bad? In Sweden? Bull fucking shit. There are much better (and real) examples like Daryl Davis, who turned 200 KKK members away by becoming friends with them.

“Anti-fascists” use shaming, intimidation, hate, and everything else in the fascist playbook. They think they’re justified because their cause is more righteous, but ultimately this behaviour only serves to polarise the issue further. No one saw the light because you called them a “scum bitch racist pigfaced shitbucket”.

Great to have your support!

Could we get you to read two short books? The Law by Frediric Batiat and Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt?

For the record, I think it's important for all Libertarians to read the Communist Manifesto even if they think beforehand they will disagree with it.

It's not just a matter of being exposed. Three Felonies a Day is a great book about how it's almost impossible to not break the law on a daily basis.

This article is garbage.

"By contrast, the Bible doesn’t show up at all." - Why would?

The second most taught book is Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations." So one book defines capitalism and another critiques it. Why is this a problem?

My position on the matter is to abolish all limitations and all prohibitions on individual's right to own property. No matter what it is. Suppressors, magazine size, barrel length, number of rounds fired per trigger pull, caliber, ammunition types, stocks, shrouds, colors. Fill in the blank.

Why? Am I some nihilistic misanthrope? Do I hate the children? Do I long for a world where punk rockers roam the desert looking for fuel?

No.

These "regulators" are not your betters. They are not your parents. They are not your employers, bosses, authority figures, or sovereigns. You are not required to genuflect before them. These people are your agents; you are the principal. The agent does not tell the principal what to do. If an agent has the audacity to do so, you fire them. Unfortunately everyone has forgotten this particular dynamic.

That’s the exact phenomenon I’m referring to. These kinds of signs have always made me cringe: link. Like they’re looking forward to killing someone.

I just found them on Amazon for about $10 a piece. I've never actually owned a copy and when I told my pet bald eagle that, he cried. Thank God for One Day shipping!

Constitution: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1557091056/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_T4Z0CbV6979HE

Declaration of Independence: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1557094489/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_k5Z0CbV4R9BPH

Yeah, but that’s what a Russian troll would say. 🤷‍♂️

Edit: conspiracy theorists should check out the amazing similarities between OP's profile pic and this shutterstock photo of a "beautiful young woman".

Pretty sure the slaves didn't get a vote in that democracy and if you think the NSDAP rise to power in the Weimar republic had anything to do with democratic process I have to assume you have not take the time to look at how that shit went down.

In 32 they received 10% fewer votes than just six months earlier, that's when the conservative parties there made a literal deal with the fucking devil and threw all their weight behind him and had him declared chancellor in order to maintain some semblance of power. While it was "legal" Hitler was not elected president by the German people. Even then Hitler only had 2 cabinet appointees from his own party.

Course, then they lit the Reichstag in a false flag and seized power under the guise of a communist revolt, and the rest is nothing but a stain on human history.

But Nazi's being democratically elected? Rofl, good one Fritz.

If you have an interest in the truth of this check out "The Death of Democracy" and/or "The Anatomy of Fascism". While more general, the Anatomy of Fascism is the better read IMO.

You're going to have to do some serious reading, I'm afraid. It's not a 'platform' so much as a philosophy. Most people choose their political positions al a carte. They pick and choose based on what sounds good to them. Libertarianism is much deeper than that, and is based on a philosophy of rights. Once you understand rights, then necessarily, you cannot be for the welfare state.

Try reading 'The Law' by Bastiat, 'For A New Liberty' by Rothbard, and maybe 'Economics in One Lesson' by Hazlitt. The last choice is not so philosophical, but will help you understand why libertarian economics are practical.

Looks to be just an amplifier that'll bork what's left of your hearing if you're not careful. There is disruption happening in the HA market, though.

iHear Medical. Also on amazon.

Everyone needs to take a look at this google ngram search, which puts words used in literature in perspective.

"Isolationism" and "isolationist" were just never used, until there was a tiny trickel in the 1920 leading up to an explosion post 1940. It follows the ussage tragectory of almost any other polically loaded term I searched for. It's a invented word used to politically justify the massive interventionism we've used ever since the end of World War II.

There are a number of different Bitcoin "wallets" that you can use to store your money. Some people choose to store their money with third parties, such as on a Bitcoin exchange. This is highly discouraged as the exchange can seize/freeze your money. You should use "real" Bitcoin wallet software that runs locally on your computer and stores the Bitcoins on your computer. Whenever you want to buy/sell Bitcoins on an exchange, you should move the funds to/from your wallet and not leave any balance on the exchange. This way they are exclusively under your control. It's a good idea to take a look at https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet - this website explains all the pros and cons of different Bitcoin wallets.

A government could declare Bitcoin illegal, however, enforcing that would be tricky. They could seize Bitcoins stored on Bitcoin exchanges, and forbid businesses from accepting Bitcoins, but the actual Bitcoin network itself is highly resistent to censorship and so is protected against interference from the government. What would likely happen is there would be a Bitcoin black market where Bitcoin exchanges and businesses operate anonymously. This has happened in countries that do not allow its citizens to transact in any currency other than their own.

Guess what? It turns out that OP's profile pic is a actually a shutterstock image.

Oh, this is how they work so I'll give you another example. In the 80s a test pilot, married to a Soviet Generals daughter, was commissioned to be one of the first Mig-29s pilots. Why did he defect? One of the reasons is just like your post.

His mother was a surveyor and ends up in this state to complete her work. Simple enough? No. She finds that the local and state authorities are hiding very large acreage of farmland. This is typically done to make quotas but to also sell on the black market.

His mom disappears and with some strings pulled he finds her in an asylum. Upon arrival, he finds his mother is basically a zombie drugged out of her mind and he can't get her out!

That's when he finally realizes among other items that he'll get his revenge and freedom. He carefully plans his escape because the Soviet knows people want to defect and especially with Tech like this new plane so he knows they'll try everything to stop such an attempt.

He makes it to Turkey, freedom, and some level of revenge.

https://www.amazon.com/Fulcrum-Pilots-Escape-Soviet-Empire/dp/0446516481

Great book. And not a surprise. Russian or Soviet it's the societal mentality, not politics.

The full quote is quite a lot different and is in relation to arming the people who you need to control the State and populace: > There never was a new prince who has disarmed his subjects; rather when he has found them disarmed he has always armed them, because, by arming them, those arms become yours, those men who were distrusted become faithful, and those who were faithful are kept so, and your subjects become your adherents. And whereas all subjects cannot be armed, yet when those whom you do arm are benefited, the others can be handled more freely, and this difference in their treatment, which they quite understand, makes the former your dependents, and the latter, considering it to be necessary that those who have the most danger and service should have the most reward, excuse you. But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you. And because you cannot remain unarmed, it follows that you turn to mercenaries, which are of the character already shown; even if they should be good they would not be sufficient to defend you against powerful enemies and distrusted subjects. Therefore, as I have said, a new prince in a new principality has always distributed arms. Histories are full of examples. But when a prince acquires a new state, which he adds as a province to his old one, then it is necessary to disarm the men of that state, except those who have been his adherents in acquiring it; and these again, with time and opportunity, should be rendered soft and effeminate; and matters should be managed in such a way that all the armed men in the state shall be your own soldiers who in your old state were living near you.

The Prince, Chapter XX, Section 2

Wasn't there a woman that stripped down and walked through a check point in her underwear so she wouldn't have to be searched? haha but this guys gets arrested, way to profile TSA...

http://gizmodo.com/5703878/the-most-stupid-tsa-action-to-date-defies-belief

Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman.

There are also a ton of videos of him speaking to crowds on youtube. Even the ones that are less than 10 min long are informative. Some of the things in the book are complicated and hard to understand, but I think he does a solid job of explaining it despite the complexity.

The State of California has enacted numerous regulations and laws to encourage energy efficiency, renewable energy, and caps on pollutants. In Los Angeles, they have gone from 50+ "bad air quality days" to under 2 per year. Now that doesn't mean that it's solved or that it's perfect, but you can see that aggressive steps by the State has turned the tide from rampant pollution.

It is a fact that Chinese pollution crosses the Pacific and affects California's air quality. What company would the citizens of California sue in China for impacting their air quality?

Murray Rothbard For a New Liberty to outline the individual rights perspective on political institutions.

Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson for, well, economics in one lesson.

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged for an understanding of what individual liberty means and why it is absolutely relevant to every aspect of human life.

Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom and Thomas Sowell The Vision of the Anointed for a sociological understanding of the development of vicious government institutions and how they destroy us.

Egalitarian and equality symbol

>> Similarly to the Circle-A symbol, the egalitarian and equality symbol, also known as the Circle-E, features the letter E enclosed in a circle or letter O. It is thus used by class-struggle anarchists.

The reason it works in Europe is not a very libertarian reason though. It's because along with decriminalization there is a lot of state assistance for drug addicts. It has worked very well in Portugal.

>Under the 2001 decriminalization law, authored by Goulão, drug dealers are still sent to prison. But anyone caught with less than a 10-day supply of any drug — including heroin — gets mandatory medical treatment. No judge, no courtroom, no jail.

>Instead they end up in a sparsely furnished, discreet, unmarked office in downtown Lisbon, for counseling with government sociologists, who decide whether to refer them to drug treatment centers.

>"It's cheaper to treat people than to incarcerate them," says sociologist Nuno Capaz. "If I come across someone who wants my help, I'm in a much better position to provide it than a judge would ever be. Simple as that."

>Capaz's team of 10 counselors handles all of Lisbon's roughly 2,500 drug cases a year. It may sound like a lot, but it's actually a 75 percent drop from the 1990s. Portugal's drug-induced death rate has plummeted to five times lower than the European Union average.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/04/18/524380027/in-portugal-drug-use-is-treated-as-a-medical-issue-not-a-crime

LOL, you proposing we have no safety rules for building a house? None for cars or trucks on the road? None for the manufacture of things like electrical appliances?

The way your life would change is your chances of dying in an accident would go up 10,000 fold.

Private charities could never handle the need for aid from disasters.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/devastating-pictures-of-the-joplin-missouri-torna

Currently the top topic at /r/cheese.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Cheese/comments/27oriw/fda_to_prohibit_maturation_of_cheese_on_wooden/

Linking to metafilter discussion:

http://www.metafilter.com/139797/First-they-came-for-your-raw-milk-then-your-Parmigiano-Reggiano

I remember when I found out a year or so ago that you have to have a license to cut hair....

I talked to my local great clips lady here in GA and they told me its a $600~ fine if you are caught without a license cutting hair. Mean while all the cosmetology schools are raking in $25k a student to go to school for these licenses that require 1500 hours of training. To cut hair... Why?

>A child has ideals and as they age they must give ground on these ideals or they won't grow and prosper.

Which part of the 13th Amendment "must give ground," to "prosper?" See the problem with giving ground? If not, may I suggest a book?

It has been a few years but the biography by David Greenberg is one that I have found compelling and excellent. Coolidge scarcely wrote about himself, and so much of his personal life and perspective is up to speculation, but the book covers the basics of his background and focuses on the presidential administration and how he responded on a day-to-day basis. It shows how unique he was as a president, and as an individual.

https://www.amazon.com/Calvin-Coolidge-David-Greenberg/dp/0805069577?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-fpas-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0805069577

This guy projects the worst assumptions onto everybody. He's got a lot of pidgons and only one hole.

Basically he is this guy in real life. So he might have jumped to conclusions about what people here think.

The wiki on him and its references cover a lot. Try this fairly hard-hitting analysis on his support for fascism and socialism. A good book is here on Amazon.

There is no doubt that he was fascinated by fascism and socialism, and had mixed opinion on parliamentary democracy. However, those really were viable political philosophies in poor colonies in 1930, specially those colonized by a country with parliamentary democracy. Most founding Fathers of modern Indian state were socialists.

I seem to remember Milton Friedman framing this issue in exactly the same way (i.e., using four quadrants). Maybe it was in Capitalism and Freedom?

Upon searching I found this, which confirms it's Friedman but doesn't say where.

>I realized tonight that people, ~~even educated~~ especially thoroughly "schooled" and indoctrinated ones, are fucking brain washed into believing that Keynesian economics is the only economic system that's feasible.

You make the mistake in thinking that sitting in a desk or lecture hall and then regurgitating trivia in order to get a "words on a scroll" document somehow constitutes "education", when it really does not.

Real "education" implies and requires critical thinking, independent research ability, an attitude of curiosity rather than a dismissive arrogance, etc. -- in other words, things that cannot be "spoon fed".

Nor can you educate by forcing viewpoints on them (you are not in a position of authority that they will respect) -- if you want to try to actually enlighten any of them, you have do do it subtly... like reading an old copy of "Economics in One Lesson" and then tossing it to one of them (pick carefully) and saying "Gee, you know there are some ideas in this here book that are really pretty interesting, and kind of troubling ... I'd really love it if you would read it and help me understand it better."

Of course there is no guarantee that THAT will work either. Some people are just "unreachable" (at least at certain points in their lives, or from certain directions).

I wish I made what a research technician makes, I'd be living the life right now even with kids.

Now lets say that his wife makes 20k a year as a full time McDonald's worker, that's about 60K a year!

I make 25k a year, my wife is unemployed (We have no kids) and I'm able to pay my mortgage and utilities on time, what the hell is this guy wasting his money on?

Do you consider Adam Smith a leftist?

>For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.

-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Check out Milton Friedman's classic and short book "Capitalism and Freedom." He argues that the two fundamentally go hand in hand. Here are some botched and over-simplified versions of his reasoning:

• When people are free to do what they want, they interact and trade with each other - it's not by design, it's just naturally what happens. You have something I want, and I have something you want, so it's only natural that we make a mutually beneficial voluntary deal, exchange goods, and both end up better off.

• If government owns all the TV stations and newspapers, we won't have true freedom of the press or of speech. Would there be a "department of subversive speech" that subsidizes speech that's critical of the government? Under such a system, would it even be fair to make taxpayers subsidize speech that they strongly disagree with? Unpopular speech would never be heard.

• If government provides everyone with housing, who will be willing to criticize the government and risk losing their homes?

It's an interesting and short book from the 1960s, and many of its predictions have been found to absolutely hold true under many socialist regimes.

The USSR eliminated profits. Ask why the USSR failed.

Presenting a group with consensus with a question diffuses any personal conflict while defusing her assertion.

Otherwise become more comfortable making economic arguments. Read Economics In One Lesson. Learn some data about health care. State how government spending (it accounts for half of all health care spending) causes inflating prices.

Don't be afraid to go against the crowd. By simply understanding economics you will be head and shoulders over most people when it comes to discussing politics. Don't conflate "authority" with intelligence. If you work hard, you can become a thoughtful and capable thinker, even at your age.

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Generally speaking, if you rely solely on fragmented information (talking point mentality) you won't be comfortable in making an argument. Mises.org has many great free books that will help you learn to think. Henry Hazlitt's Thinking as a Science and Economics in One Lesson are essential. I also recommend reading the Socratic dialogues.

These are very simple and easily understood by a high schooler. They aren't taught of course, because you aren't there to learn to think, you're there to be indoctrinated.

>we are right you are wrong , You drank your koolaid

Facist thinking #4 Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”

>Its that simple

Yes of course fascism its simple thats why your entire ideaology can be summed up into a few points to check off as opposed to ones grounded in actual reality that require more thought than some text on a retarded facebook meme that makes up 90% of TD and even your original post because feature #14 Facists use dumbed down newspeak.

If anyone is curious about the full list i use this one here http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

That's blatantly false. Abortions are about 3% of their services. Their biggest single service is sex-ed.

Here read up:

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/04/health/planned-parenthood-by-the-numbers/index.html

Abortion aside you should rethink your information sources as you are deeply misinformed.

Both Economics in One Lesson and Basic Economics are golden, though for very different reasons.

Economics is One Lesson starts with a truth that is obvious and simple once you hear it explained. You think to yourself, "Well, yeah. Who could possibly think otherwise?" And then you hop onto Reddit and see that a substantial preponderance of Reddit are afflicted with a mindset and beliefs that fly in the face of this simple truth. It then spends time expanding on this truth and applying it to tons of different things that you wouldn't intuitively see it applying to.

Basic Economics is better though. Both are well worth reading, but Sowell's work is incredibly comprehensive. When I read it, it didn't come across as someone trying to prove any world view, as tends to be the case from so many economists. It is him simply seeking to explain economics to someone who is new to the field. To his credit, he uses terminology that is accessible to anyone and doesn't spend a single moment trying to prove to how smart he is. (Though his brilliance is immediately evident.) Its most important quality is that it doesn't ask you to partake in a string of thought experiments to reach some grand conclusions. Every assertion he makes is supported by multiple studies and historical examples. This happens time and time again. And the bolder the claim, the more evidence he provides. It's remarkable.

While it does weigh in at 700-ish pages, Basic Economics is almost certainly the perfect book for getting your feet wet when in economics.

Free to Chose and/or Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman. Please also take your time to look up where many modern economists disagree with Friedman, because thats important to know.

I guess "The Road to Serfdom" is also a very popular book on Libertarianism.

Coolio.

If you're interested in learning a bit more, some very short commonly recommended books are listed below (but of course, you could just always post questions and read threads on here!):

How an economy grows and why it crashes by Peter Schiff, The Law by Bastiat, Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt

Engadget has a long standing feud with Monster Cable for being legal bullies:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/09/monster-cable-learns-nothing-sues-monster-transmission/

So foolish that they try to escalate all the bad will they've earned. Never waste your money on their overpriced crap.

Invictus has publicly said he's in favor of eugenics and a 2nd civil war..

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-ruin-argument-eugenics-augustus-sol

https://www.facebook.com/InvictusForSenate/videos/467711426720021/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattpalumbo2

The author has most recently worked 4 years at dunkin donuts and hasn't graduated from college yet, and is posting his own work here because nobody else would. I have no idea what qualifies him to "debunk" anything.

How this got 11 upvotes is beyond me.

I could insult you, because you're worthy of insult, but I'm going to take a different route today.

I'm going to suggest to you a book to read, if you can read this book and still maintain your current worldview, more power to you.

https://www.amazon.com/Suspicious-Minds-Believe-Conspiracy-Theories/dp/1472915631

> The crisis in VZ is a product of lack of diversification and an over reliance on the oil economy to fund social programs.

This is simply nonsense. The crisis in VZ is a product of:

• Price and currency controls
• Corruption and mismanagement in nationalized industries

> how does participation [this] make VZ an example of socialism?

It makes it a perfect example of everything Hayek predicted would result from central/collectivist economies. That the whole thing devolves into starvation and oppression is no head-scratcher. It's right on script.

Have you read Economics in One Lesson yet? I've found people in your poison before are usually confused about economics. http://www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson/

Also this article changed the way I see capitalists. http://mises.org/daily/2317

> That''s how they seem to work

there's your problem. states rights apply to issues not specifically delineated by the constitution. there's a right to bear arms in the constitution; there's no right to abortion

but that's the historian's fallacy and appeal to authority, either way. the problem is life vs property (woman's body). which is why i recommend evictionism

And John Hospers was the first openly gay presidential candidate.

A few more decades of evolving on the issues and maybe the other parties will catch up to where libertarians were in the 70s.

> How can we discuss it? It'd take you years to work through all your misconceptions and get up to speed.

Hahaha

You're a bombastic asshole but that's pretty much it. Let's move straight to the mockery

> We've been doing the camera thing for decades at this point.

No, we haven't. Widespread use of body cams for officers still hasn't happened and certainly wasn't the case decades ago.

> Cameras don't act as a disincentive to police brutality.

Wrong. You literally don't know the first fucking thing you are talking about.

That's a stupid thing to even say out loud. People who know they are on camera are far more likely to moderate their behavior than those who aren't. Sheesh

Fuck off back to r/conspiracy with the rest of your post, kid

For starters, both Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney actually oppose SOPA.

Ryan:

>The Internet is one of the most magnificent expressions of freedom and free enterprise in history. It should stay that way. While H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, attempts to address a legitimate problem, I believe it creates the precedent and possibility for undue regulation, censorship and legal abuse. I do not support H.R. 3261 in its current form and will oppose the legislation should it come before the full House.

Mittens:

>“The law as written is far too intrusive, far too expansive, far too threatening to freedom of speech and movement of information across the Internet,” Romney said. “It would have a potentially depressing impact on one of the fastest growing industries in America, which is the Internet and all those industries connected to it.”

Also, why do libertarians have to break Godwin's Law and start calling Dems and the GOP "fascists?" Isn't corporatist harsh enough?

If you get into an accident serious enough to jam your seatbelt, you likely would have been ejected from the car and killed without the seatbelt. If it's such a concern, you can spend $10 on a ResQMe which is designed to cut your seatbelt and break auto glass, allowing you to escape from a wrecked car. It's designed to go on your key ring, but it also comes with zip ties so you can zip tie is somewhere convenient in your car.

It pales in comparison to the systematic reduction and genocide practiced on Native Americans by the US Army and government.

I don't buy the 'noble savage' trope that is trotted out all the time but to compare internecine and tribal warfare with wholesale one-sided slaughter and theft that was perpetrated on Native Americans is a bit disingenuous.

"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is a good primer on what the Native Americans in the West faced. It made me both furious and sick to my stomach in turn.

My father gave it to me when I was a kid in the late 1970s and I didn't really pay attention to it. I reread it about two months ago and took it all in. It's fucking horrifying.

Well this is the app in the Google Play store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bloketech.lockwatch&hl=en_US

It has all kinds of alternatives to the right side. I have heard of a lot of great things about Prey but I have never used it myself.

Edit: Completely forgot you can make a custom version of this with something like Tasker.

In Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman promotes humanities as the subjects most worthy of subsidies, because they're necessary for wise voters and politicians but do not pay well. In other words, he thought they had a net return that was harder to measure. I don't know whether this is true but it's worth consideration.

The best thing you can do for liberty at 15 is to learn everything you possibly can. I wish I had started that early. Read "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt (available free online in pdf and audio). Work through Bob Murphy's "Lessons for the Young Economist" (again, available free online). Even if you have no interest whatsoever in economics, those books will give you a basis for rational thought that will be unrivaled even among your eldest peers. After that, I'd work on learning the basics and history of philosophy, starting with the Greeks and extending to modern day (Rothbard, Nozick, etc.). By the time you've gotten a good overview of all that, you should be able to figure out where to go next based on what most interests you. What does this have to do with Ron Paul? Well, he's pretty important, but he's just one more freedom fighter. The most powerful tool we have is education, and we can't look to any government for that. Sadly, those on whom you have the most influence (your peers) can't vote either. You may be able to put out yard signs (with parental cooperation) and leave a few issue cards in restaurants and such, but these things are far less important than educating yourself. Good luck. You're going to need it.

I wish I could remember exactly where I heard this, but I know there were some libertarians who made a name for themselves by going to their local politicians and asking questions as if libertarianism were the long-accepted social norm. "Really? You are in favor of public schools? How odd!"

The best part came when they would ask, "Can you recommend any books on the topic?" It turns out that libertarians - aka real intellectuals - have written enormously many volumes supporting their causes at all levels of thought, from the most abstract moral principles to the most direct statistical analysis of data, whereas statists have never been able to construct such eloquent arguments and are hardly ever educated on the meager attempts that have been made to defend their positions.

Probably the strongest example of this comes with the Federal Reserve. Any decent libertarian can cite many, many works which reveal the destructive power of a central bank and a fiat currency. How An Economy Grows and Why It Crashes. The Road to Serfdom. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. The Wealth of Nations. And this list goes on and on. But ask a statist to justify his faith in the Federal Reserve. He can't find any books to support it. And do you know why? Because there's only one truly analytical book ever written in support of the Federal Reserve: The Communist Manifesto.

If the lobby for chicken producers came to a conclusion that did not call for a reduction in regulation I would be very surprised. The reason prices are higher is that recent droughts have increased the price of grain and thus chicken feed and these costs are passed on to the consumer.

An example of a message to send to Andra Tantaros here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002297821863&sk=wall

She is the Fox news journalist who recommended removing Paul from the debates, here's what I and others sent to her earlier:

Andrea, I respect that you have your own opinion and that you are a respected journalist at Fox. You couldn't have made it this far without saying many things right. But I really do believe your comments on Ron Paul are completely inaccurate. In your recent show, you criticized the man for not supporting people who do not agree with traditional conservative beliefs, saying they should "take him out of the debates". As you know, the Constitution clearly warns against that type of behavior, and I would argue that traditional and neo conservatives would agree that censorship is not the answer to any of our problems. I hope you truly reconsider that opinion, but if not, I still do believe you're entitled to it. Although, I'm not sure if we will be entitled to all these opinions of ours under Obama, Cain, Romney, or Perry, as these are all men who believe in socializing the losses of banks and chipping away at personal liberty through centralization of governmental power. The direction we are heading in is dark, and whoever is elected will have to guide us through a great depression, hopefully without completely devaluing the dollar, erasing the Constitution, and centralizing the Government even more. I will be writing in Ron Paul because I feel that his predictions of our current crisis over the past 20-30 years are a small display of his knowledge surrounding the economy and the Constitution.

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2017/hurricane-harvey

It may be at cat 2 now, but it hit land at cat 4 early in the AM. Note the way it's basically sitting over the same spot the entire time it'll last. Flooding is going to be really fucking bad. The weather service has used the sort of language they have only used to describe Katrina.

As Edward Hudgins wrote in his book "The Republican Party's Civil War" (https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Partys-Civil-War-Freedom/dp/1941307027), it's these Social Conservatives that keep hamstringing the true conservative movement.

We lost sight of conservatism's aim: small government NOT small minds.

Buy this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Slavery-Through-Ages-Campbell/dp/0821418769

Child slavery and exploitation has been around basically forever. They were using child slaves in Africa and China as early as like the 8th century.

But you, of course knew that child slavery pre dates capitalism.

And you also know that global poverty has been on a rapid decline since the eeeeeevil capitalists brought upon the industrial revolution too. But whatever stat I'll cite, you'll cunt about the source. So why don't you tell me which sources or metrics I'm not allowed to use to indicate the clearly fucking obvious reality that global health and wealth among the poorest of the poor has shot up like a hockey stick the last 150 years

I'm not. They clearly fear the lone wolf, it's why false flags are almost always done with "lone wolves". To display to the public that they haven't a chance of getting away with it as lone wolves. A successful attack is not one that accomplishes a singular goal. it's one that set's up the attacker in a position to strike again.

More of you should spend more time reading. The Art of War is worth the time.

> innocent

The British East India Company, innocent? Dear god no. The Company was specifically selected as the only target in a calculated fashion, and for good cause.

It's possibly the most evil corporate entity in history, It was formed as a monopoly on trade. Though at the time of the Boston tea party, they, "the Company" literally <em>ruled</em> the East Indies. Using their own private army and navy naturally, they even had capital in Calcutta. A year before the tea party, after its victory in the Battle of Buxar, the Company obtained in 1765 the Diwāni of Bengal, the right not only to collect tax revenue, but also to administer civil justice in Bengal. Nothing like the Company exists today...

So a tax exempt company that collected taxes, yeah fuck them and their tea, though I am British and would sooner loot the tea than waste such a bounty.

The Neils-Reynold Report confirms much of Sinclair's claims in The Jungle.

You might know that if you were familiar with the history of the era. Or you might just cite The Jungle in the same way folks cite Animal Farm.

Might want to mention the subsidies and exemptions that came with the mandate.

That's the Humanitarian argument. It is 100% disigenuous argument.

Syra, 40 people die, immediate military response, global headlines, 100s of millions spent on bombs killing more people.

Myanmar, 1,000+ Rohingyas genocided, also happening right now. No headlines, no military action, no real money spent by the US.

Flint, Michigan, June 14, 2017 - The Michigan Attorney General's Office announces that several state officials have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with a Legionnaires' outbreak in the Flint area between June 2014 and November 2015 that killed at least 12 people during the Flint water crisis. Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/04/us/flint-water-crisis-fast-facts/index.html.

Famine in Yemen currently has killed hundreds and is threating millions. Hundreds of thousands suffer malnutrition. So what is the US response. From Wikipedia page on it:

> The famine is the direct result of the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and blockade.[31][32][33] Yemen was already the most impoverished nation in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East, and Al Hudaydah one of the poorest cities of Yemen, but the war and the naval blockade[34][35] by the Saudi-led coalition and the United States Navy[36] made the situation much worse. Fishing boats, the main livelihood of Al Hudaydah's residents, were destroyed by Saudi airstrikes,[37] leaving them without any means to provide for their families.[38][15] As a result, a child is dying every 10 minutes in Yemen.[39] A UN panel of experts found that Saudi Arabia is purposefully obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid into Yemen.[27][40][28]

Cambodia, 1970s. Millions genocided. US and UN response: KR got to keep their seat at the UN, and it appeared the US was helping them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_support_for_the_Khmer_Rouge

And start with the book &quot;Economics in One Lesson&quot; by Hazlitt.

That is not by any means ALL that you need to learn, but it is a VERY good start to gain an intimate familiarity with it (not merely reading it once, but multiple times if necessary to make certain you comprehend the solid foundational principles and learn the "critical mindset" with which to view all things economic -- i.e. to always be vigilant for the "unseen" side(s) and aspect(s) that are being either passively or actively ignored & denied).

"One is unwarranted in calling goals of action irrational simply because they are not worth striving for from the point of view of ones own valuations." - Mises

Rational does not mean man is a perfectly calculating machine or omniscient. People can still make mistakes. The point of calling action rational is that people act within a "means-ends" framework.

Being a student of psychology I am very familiar with the cognitive biases and imperfections of man. I am also currently reading the behavioral economics book "Predictably Irrational," which is a great refute against the neoclassical assumption of perfect rationality. BUT - people's actions, outside of unconscious bodily responses like breathing or behavior after being intoxicated by hard drugs, is always guided by some intent - meaning it is a product of our capacity to think.

Add coercion to that equation and you are limiting that capacity to think and behave in accordance with those values. It is the antithesis of reason.

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and this ... and this as well is an interesting read.

It says here that a former boss tipped off the police due to these sorts of searches being made on a work computer:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/employer-tipped-off-police-in-pressure-cookerbackpack-gate-not-google/

http://www.ehow.com/info_7890463_tax-rates-minimum-wage.html#ixzz1ks2VYPG0

Single minimum wage workers who work full time find themselves in the 15 percent tax bracket, which includes incomes from $8,501 to $34,500 per year.

Social Security Tax All workers, even those making the minimum wage, are subject to the payroll tax used to fund the Social Security program for older workers and the disabled. The normal tax rate for Social Security is 6.2 percent of wages, but for 2011 only that rate has been lowered to 4.2 percent. This 2 percent reduction in the Social Security payroll tax was part of the tax cut compromise worked out between Congress and President Obama at the end of 2010. The Social Security payroll tax is scheduled to go back to its 6.2 percent level in 2012.

Medicare Tax Minimum wage workers are also subject to the 2.9 percent Medicare tax used to pay the health care expenses of senior citizens and the disabled. This tax is listed on your pay stub as Medicare, and you can find the total amount of Medicare taxes paid by looking at the Medicare taxable wages and Medicare tax blocks on your W-2 form.

These are forms of income tax.

DogChan truely is a sociopath: https://imgur.com/a/jxQZE

Apparently, soon to be on the police force somewhere. Also was looking for help on Reddit to steal his roomates girlfriend. Also likes to bully 'fat chicks'. See his posts in my screenshots.

What a huge disappointment for whatever police force he gets on.

> For example, if it won't load a small, not-for-profit, independently-funded site, how will we know whether the ISP is refusing to load it or if the site just went offline?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

^_^

It's late here and I'm about to go to sleep, but that question just reminded me of the site, and I always like showing it off...I think it's a funny, neat concept. Sorry for not giving you the full response you are asking for, but I'm sure someone in a better time zone and with time on their hands will come in and contribute. :)

Human Action and Socialism by Ludwig Von Mises

Defending the Un-defendable by Walter Block

Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick

Free to Choose by Milton Friedman

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard

The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul

The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin III

It's guaranteed to hurt the average US individual, too. It's merely unseen. There's so many examples of this in Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.

What are those "agreements and in whose interests?

Most libertarians identify with the Austrian School of Economics. You will find www.mises.org to be the best place to learn about Austrian economics.

Also check out /r/austrian_economics/

A good primer would be Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, or How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes by Peter Schiff.

No need to keep spreading false information. Alexander Tyler most likely never said those words.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp > The "Alexander Tyler" quoted at the head of the article is actually Lord Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler, a Scottish historian/professor who wrote several books in the late 1700s and early 1800s. However, there is no record of a Tytler's having authored a work entitled 'The Fall of the Athenian Republic' (or 'The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic'), and the quoted material attributed to him above is likely apocryphal.

Emphasis mine.

>VOICEOFREAS0N, in particular, is attempting (and failing) to emulate the behavior of a wise old man. it is a form of social mimicry being administered in order to create the illusion of social validation, for people who are trying to make up their minds on an issue (in this case, Occupy Wall Street). the idea is that people will see that thread, and read his posts, non-critically, as "social proof" that some 63 year old guy, so learned in his years, believes that the OWS protests are insane and stupid. this is textbook propaganda.

Here, you'll be needing this.

You don't need another ISP to get the services that a VPN can give you. A VPN is not a replacement for your ISP, as VPN is a service that allows you to browse the web mostly or entirely anonymous depending on how the VPN handles data encryption and logging. ISPs, as you know, provide you the connection to the Internet. Again, VPN only offers the ability to browse the Internet anonymous, but is not a replacement for your ISP.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/vpn.htm

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545442.aspx

Too tired to read through the snopes article, but:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp

Someone read this and the OP article and let me know if this is something I should actually pay attention to. Goodnight.

No. 'Band aid' indicates a temporary solution, not an ineffective one.

>used to describe something that will only be helpful for a short time or in a limited way:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/band-aid

I am an anarchist but I'll readily admit that anarchism is not a quick or easy fix to any problem in our society. It's a long-term goal.

>No it doesn't. See I can make unsupported claims too.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/06/health/charlie-gard-us-laws/index.html

Better?

>So 2 year olds are independent of their parents now?

Yes. They are not the same person. Making a decision for your child is very different to making a decision for yourself.

>Click the link. One of the biggest supporters of universal healthcare in the US and one of the most popular economist saying we would need death panels.

Perhaps reread what I said. I didn't disagree, I explained exactly what a 'death panel' was, and how even the private system has them - abet ones that come in to play far earlier.

If death panels are bad, then anything that pushes their effects back is good, and that is what the Public Health system does.

>"Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects; others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions; others have fostered enmities against themselves; others have laid themselves out to gain over those whom they distrusted in the beginning of their governments; some have built fortresses; some have overthrown and destroyed them. And although one cannot give a final judgment on all of these things unless one possesses the particulars of those states in which a decision has to be made, nevertheless I will speak as comprehensively as the matter of itself will admit."

>"There never was a new prince who has disarmed his subjects; rather when he has found them disarmed he has always armed them, because, by arming them, those arms become yours, those men who were distrusted become faithful, and those who were faithful are kept so, and your subjects become your adherents. And whereas all subjects cannot be armed, yet when those whom you do arm are benefited, the others can be handled more freely, and this difference in their treatment, which they quite understand, makes the former your dependents, and the latter, considering it to be necessary that those who have the most danger and service should have the most reward, excuse you. But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you. And because you cannot remain unarmed, it follows that you turn to mercenaries, which are of the character already shown; even if they should be good they would not be sufficient to defend you against powerful enemies and distrusted subjects."

--Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter XX

https://quotefancy.com/quote/888464/Plato-The-penalty-that-good-men-pay-for-not-being-interested-in-politics-is-to-be

“The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.” — Plato

Maybe this?

Hunstman is as big a globalist as the rest of the neo-con Republicans. Sadly, I don't trust him and would not vote for him either

http://www.geni.com/blog/look-whos-related-mitt-romney-and-jon-huntsman-371593.html

Because I believe Adam Smith was right, in his work The Wealth of Nations, when he said workers must organize and unions are the only protection from the owners of capital colluding. Unions are one of the foundations of capitalism.

> Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington. [Because] if I do not like what my local community does, I can move to another local community... [and] if I do not like what my state does, I can move to another. [But] if I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations.

Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 1962

>I feel like I'm reaching out to the unreachable. I fear that a copy of Economics in One Lesson would be perceived as antiquated, or too simplistic and boring.

A lot of it depends on WHO they are and HOW you approach them.

>A friend of mine, who is revered as an intellectual, is getting his masters in economics.

Oh, then -- pursuing a Master's in Economics -- means he is not only "unreachable" he is so hugely brainwashed that you would basically need to engage in "deprogramming" equivalent to a cult intervention (and I mean that quite seriously, as he is not merely "brainwashed" he is literally attempting to become a "mid-level priest" in a religious order).

IOW he is too far gone, and is entirely unreachable.

Concentrate your efforts on OTHERS -- not "Econ Majors".

>When I hear him speak I literally hear someone who has never considered a path besides Keynesian theories.

Of course he hasn't. Why should he? He has been repeatedly taught over and over again and again) that it is not only "triumphant" but that it is "scientifically superior" (and there are all of those fancy "equations & shit" to prove it -- and never-you-mind that {unlike in real sciences like physics} the equations never match with reality).

And never mind that he's been given a skewed view of history (everything he has been taught -- from the Depression to the ending of the gold standard, and indeed even prior to that the economic & monetary history of the 19th century -- has been a one-sided revised Keynesian/Fabian-Socialist version {but he doesn't know that -- as it has been reinforced in all of his other non-economics classes, everything from anthropology to sociology, from history to civics & political science classes -- they all taught him the same refrain}).

So literally, you should not be surprised that -- like any "good catholic" -- he views everything else as "heretical".

Here is a brief article on the subject: http://www.ehow.com/about_6644194_history-marriage-licenses.html

There are more reputable sources, I'll get them later. I don't have them saved anywhere.

Edit: Here is a site dedicated to the subject: http://privatizemarriage.org/

There's a lot of misunderstanding of Ron Paul's position on environmental issues. His stance is grounded in property rights. So, for example, if you own an acre of trees, and want to cut them down for wood, that's your call because they're your trees. If you want to apply "green grass" chemicals to your yard (as many suburban homes do), that's also your business. The problem is when your chemicals seep into my property. Then it's destruction of (or tampering with) my property, and I can take legal action accordingly. The same with smoke pollution: if you're burning tires in your back yard and the smoke is effecting my property (including my health), I can take legal action.

Of course, this opens the doors for everyone to cut down all the trees they own, pollute their yard to their heart's content, etc. But who really does that? Meanwhile, Obama made bold proclamations that BP would have to set up a $20 billion fund for their oil spill. Sounds great, except that they did more than $20 billion in damages, and the government cap on liability was worse for the environment than the $20 billion fund (which is still in limbo, last I checked) could ever hope to help.

edit: Also, here's a TED Talk about how the free market can (and has) been applied for environmental solutions.

Well, there is disagreement because your original comment was hyperbolic as shit and you're being disingenuous.

>Obama made it a crime to not buy a health insurance from a private corporation

You pay a fine. It is not a misdemeanor nor a felony nor a crime of any kind to not buy healthcare.

So you're flat out lying with that one. He never made it a crime. Stop parroting that false narrative.

>Donald trump did not make it a crime to say disparaging things about him.

Yet. He's alluded to it multiple times.

>Glad we cleared that up.

I agree that I am glad I was able to clear up your blatant attempt at misinformation and bullshit.

I love Parks and Recreation. You should cross post this to the r/PandR.

Also at the beginning of this episode Ron Swanson gives his two cents on the UN. You should watch all the way till you get to the intro clip.

This is incorrect. Politico is using Cloudflare as a CDN for their site. While it is hosted on Cloudflare it is still the Politico website. Learn what a CDN is

Who said they are hiding behind safe harbor laws? Apple and Spotify both have terms and conditions. You break them? They have the right to kick you off immediately. They have never and will never consider themselves open platforms you doofus. Stop convoluting platforms with curated spaces.

Please join me in helping to take back independence day. Print these out and distribute them at your town's Independence Day celebration, at your state capitol, or wherever people are gathering on the fourth.

This film is not yet made. It needs adequate funding and exposure. If you want to see the film try to donate to their Indiegogo page.

Also here is their website.

I don't think of the Reeeeeeeeeees as being more libertarian. I think of them as being the hyper authoritarian while the almost invisible moderate left are still very statist but are.. moderate about it.

I'm not a liberal but I imagine there is someone out there who likes minimum wage and is a bit environmentalist, but thinks banning speech is rediculous on it's face, like any rational person would.

I guess I should be more specific to the picture. Someone who wants free stuff is probably less of a statist than someone who wants to violently conform all conversations into their absurdly contortionist newspeak while calling other people fascist.

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