tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post2100942588990369535..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: WHY LIBERTARIANS STILL SUCK, PART INFINITY.roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-79838901184306843732014-07-13T18:25:02.256-04:002014-07-13T18:25:02.256-04:00Eat dick. I mention a relevant blog once in a blue...Eat dick. I mention a relevant blog once in a blue moon.Mickey_Zellbergnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-25645353075960512182014-06-28T09:53:12.822-04:002014-06-28T09:53:12.822-04:00too prolix
I agree. Many of their posts could hav...too prolix<br /><br />I agree. Many of their posts could have 1/3 the words and lose nothing. Loomis & Spencer are better, though.atheisthttp://www.tumblr.com/blog/atheist-thoughtsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-51069712852982025552014-06-27T22:36:00.374-04:002014-06-27T22:36:00.374-04:00Reminds me when Reason interviewed Neil Stephenson...Reminds me when Reason interviewed Neil Stephenson about a decade ago. Asked to explain the popularity among libertarians of his novel Snowcrash, in which governments had become irrelevant in a world ruled by corporations and cartels, he fairly politely suggested that the libertarians didn't see that it was a <i>dystopian</i> vision of the future.RobWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-11388079044086998232014-06-27T15:57:48.041-04:002014-06-27T15:57:48.041-04:00centripetal force is the thing holding things in o...centripetal force is the thing holding things in orbit, ie, a force toward the center of revolution.benjoyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-57861639366709462572014-06-27T14:45:57.424-04:002014-06-27T14:45:57.424-04:00Some of us self-describe as libertarian socialists...Some of us self-describe as libertarian socialists, which is basically a sort of Europeanish way of saying "Let the state handle the things the state is good at, and keep it and corporations out of people's private business." I can't be said to be a hard socialist, but I'm betting I have harder stances on what should be under direct (or at least close) government control than a lot of people even here. But calling yourself a "libertarian socialist" in the US is a great way of exploding some people's heads. :)realinterrobangnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-73710264731211427172014-06-27T12:59:03.662-04:002014-06-27T12:59:03.662-04:00I didn't realize there was such rejection!
N...I didn't realize there was such rejection!<br /><br /><br />Not surprising I guess, even though that little girl could not have been more adorable.Buddy McCuehttp://buddymccue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-2027634970547297402014-06-27T12:28:10.390-04:002014-06-27T12:28:10.390-04:00Well, yeah, but I was thinking of the highly-speci...Well, yeah, but I was thinking of the highly-specific, disturbingly popular version involving "We must destroy this now, or it might not be around far in the future!" I mean, if pure dumbshittery is the sole criterion,<br /><br /><br /><br />(in passing, he sneers at George Soros and Warren Buffet for being mere idiots savant who know how to make a lot of money without actually understanding anything about markets).<br /><br /><br />scores higher on the Economics Stupid Fuck index.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-485364256046957342014-06-27T12:28:03.579-04:002014-06-27T12:28:03.579-04:00In a more general sense, the idea that things need...In a more general sense, the idea that things need to get a whole lot worse before they get any better is an idea I've heard from liberals and conservatives alike.<br /><br /><br />Personally, I don't believe in it.Buddy McCuehttp://buddymccue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-20850922091660172222014-06-27T12:26:34.413-04:002014-06-27T12:26:34.413-04:00City people in the modern US are no more likely to...<i>City people in the modern US are no more likely to be seduced by games/tv/propaganda than rural people. </i><br /><br /><br />Some of my country cousins were <i>way</i> more up on their pop culture than I was, since they had more time at home, generally, and also got satellite cable access well before most other people I knew did.Halloween_Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-61054314706707327102014-06-27T12:26:18.313-04:002014-06-27T12:26:18.313-04:00Look at the hysterical rejection of casting Prim a...Look at the hysterical rejection of casting Prim as black (although I believe she was black in the book). People were upfront about refusing to be able to identify with and love a little girl who was black in place of the imaginary/fictional little white girl they had put in her place when they were reading the book.Aimaihttp://aimaiameye.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-81781415533131340242014-06-27T12:23:24.289-04:002014-06-27T12:23:24.289-04:00I didn't think anyone could top the innumerate...I didn't think anyone could top the innumerate causality-mangling dumbshittery of "We must slash Social Security benefits now, in order to protect them from being slashed twenty years from now."<br /><br /><br />Pretty much every wingnut who thinks that they know anything about economics:Halloween_Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-50517177509574918542014-06-27T12:22:45.127-04:002014-06-27T12:22:45.127-04:00Yep, I've heard a lot about these Fictional Li...Yep, I've heard a lot about these Fictional Liberals on the conservative talk radio, and they really are like you describe.<br /><br /><br />Such awful people.<br /><br /><br />This is one area where the false equivalency breaks down. (It probably goes without saying, but I'm talking about the idea that both sides are the same, that they can be seen as mirror images of one another.) I am a liberal. I don't have to invent a fictional Rightwinger in order to believe the things I believe. I can simply listen to the words coming out of their mouths.Buddy McCuehttp://buddymccue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-89512824743527266082014-06-27T12:13:55.516-04:002014-06-27T12:13:55.516-04:00That's a movie I'd like to see.
Put Mari...That's a movie I'd like to see.<br /><br /><br />Put Maria La Del Barrio in the role of Katniss, and few conservatives in this country would be willing to identify with her at all.Buddy McCuehttp://buddymccue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-48155312014698040842014-06-27T11:44:40.139-04:002014-06-27T11:44:40.139-04:00"unfunded liabilities, excessive government s..."unfunded liabilities, excessive government spending are basically <br />bringing the U.S. to the brink of some kind of economic catastrophe"<br /><br /><br />Guys, guys, calm down. I know things look bad in Iraq right now, but we're still probably not going to blow <i>another</i> $2 trillion that isn't paid for.<br /><br /><br />In more general terms, you're right about the "unfunded liabilities," though: we definitely need higher income tax rates on the rich. I'll admint I'm surprised to see schmibertarians embracing that idea, but kudos anyway.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-49356778402996095932014-06-27T11:39:49.267-04:002014-06-27T11:39:49.267-04:00Right--from a conservative perspective (and an ant...Right--from a conservative perspective (and an anti federalist one) the movie seems to repeat cultural tropes that go as far back as the American Revolution and the writing of the Constitution. The idea that a capital city itself is a bad idea, that cities are hotbeds of luxury and vice, and that small family farms and independent businessmen in rural areas are/should be the backbone of society.<br /><br /><br />Of course to believe that this is what obtains hundreds of years after a founding is to assume that the hinterland isn't shaped by the urban areas and that the two aren't in dialogue with one another. Rural areas--mining towns, farms, etc are shaped by their economic interacton with cities and (in this country) subsidized by cities and non farm taxpayers. I'm not arguing that there is any way that the Hunger Games city folk can be seen as virtuous. But they aren't identical to or representative of city people in the modern US. City people in the modern US are no more likely to be seduced by games/tv/propaganda than rural people. And they aren't financially supported by Rural people and their labor although they, like rural communities themselves, do take advantage of the labor of non citizen migrant field workers and slave labor elsewhere in the world.<br /><br /><br />If The Hunger Games had been explicitly about cross border oppression--with the "rural areas" being Mexican Macquillodores factories and the Big City being obviously American and White with a capital White the Conservatives would be busting a gut. But it would have been a more accurate representation of the real world.Aimaihttp://aimaiameye.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-59145020175150257932014-06-27T11:38:18.570-04:002014-06-27T11:38:18.570-04:00Libertarians can't tell the difference between...Libertarians can't tell the difference between economic matters and cultural matters. Well, not exactly; to them, *everything* is an economic matter. All part of shoehorning a complex world into a rock-stupid oversimplified worldview.XeckyGilchristnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-38551234017091504772014-06-27T11:33:42.539-04:002014-06-27T11:33:42.539-04:00One of my favorite sites for getting my daily gnus...One of my favorite sites for getting my daily gnus!<br /><br /><br />Eh, too prolix. I want terse summaries, not a bunch of yak-yak-yak.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-21535527992563742142014-06-27T11:31:41.775-04:002014-06-27T11:31:41.775-04:00Can I get four tires for that? I need to feed the ...Can I get four tires for that? I need to feed the meter.Aimaihttp://aimaiameye.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-57438664931920108522014-06-27T11:28:06.533-04:002014-06-27T11:28:06.533-04:00he "advocates the United States government de...he "advocates the United States government default on its national debt <br />to punish the bondholders who sponsored the heavy borrowing that he <br />affirms will commit the future generations of Americans to long-term <br />'indentured servitude'."<br /><br /><br />Default on our national debt now to <i>avoid</i> dire consequences for future generations? Wow, I didn't think anyone could top the innumerate causality-mangling dumbshittery of "We must slash Social Security benefits now, in order to protect them from being slashed twenty years from now." So I guess congratulations are in order, Stansberry.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-65433250105085273052014-06-27T10:01:26.186-04:002014-06-27T10:01:26.186-04:00You'll have to wait until I'm done having ...You'll have to wait until I'm done having wild sex using my government-issued birth control.Derelictnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-60438426062659568352014-06-27T09:59:41.621-04:002014-06-27T09:59:41.621-04:00Hey, you wouldn't happen to have any groat clu...Hey, you wouldn't happen to have any groat clusters, would you?M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-20363817104561112202014-06-27T09:53:53.943-04:002014-06-27T09:53:53.943-04:00I'll bet he pronounces "realtor" as ...I'll bet he pronounces "realtor" as "realator" and "jewelry" as "jewlery."M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-7531809399255665832014-06-27T09:37:47.401-04:002014-06-27T09:37:47.401-04:00Nice catch, smut clyde. From the January 2012 inte...Nice catch, smut clyde. From the January 2012 interview:<br /><br />L: Wow… okay… More investment implications, besides getting out of the euro?<br /><br />Doug: Buy gold and silver. Don't be fooled into thinking the dollar is strong just because the euro is weaker.<br /><br />Hmm, let's see. How good was his advice back in January 2012? He was completely wrong...in every detail.<br /><br />Dollar - no change (DXY)<br />Euro - Up (EURO)<br />Gold - Down...a lot (COMEX)<br />Silver - Down...a lot (COMEX)<br /><br />People still hang on his nuts for investment advice. Idiots. Good thing we have Social Security...because his investors won't have anything left.randomworkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-85494919044870287112014-06-27T09:23:13.666-04:002014-06-27T09:23:13.666-04:00Arkan the Tiger wishes this were trueArkan the Tiger wishes this were truebillcinsdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-47597994307676822782014-06-27T09:02:09.921-04:002014-06-27T09:02:09.921-04:00Lawyers, Gnus and Money
One of my favorite sites f...<i>Lawyers, Gnus and Money</i><br><br />One of my favorite sites for getting my daily gnus!Derelictnoreply@blogger.com