Libertarian Thread #2: We Shall Never Die! |
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JJLehto
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Posted: February 01 2011 at 22:19 | |||
And remember I always read/watched anything you posted even when you put "not that any of you will even read this" next to it.
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The T
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Posted: February 01 2011 at 22:21 | |||
Player 1: "I failed to be profitable. I'll have to increase taxes on people to survive. And poor b*****ds if they don't pay they'll meet my IRS..." Player 2: "I failed to be profitable. I'll have to leave the game altogether. Oh f**k I can't even pay taxes to help save the big also-unprofitable brother. There come the IRS guys... I'm screwed...". Real competition with player 1 being private: Player 1 and 2: "look, we both know the rules of the game and we have the same chance at succeeding. Let's play and see who can convince more people with good prices and great service of buying our stuff. And if any of us fails, player 3 is ready to jump in and offer a new alternative". |
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: February 01 2011 at 22:33 | |||
...It was a joke/troll ya guys.
Though I guess I should be proud of that one. |
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Padraic
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Posted: February 01 2011 at 22:34 | |||
I knew it all along.
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: February 01 2011 at 22:35 | |||
I just posted in the SR congratulating you Be glad I didn't post a real comment. I was going to leave a Krugman article. You guys woulda beat me up... Edited by JJLehto - February 01 2011 at 22:39 |
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JJLehto
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Posted: February 01 2011 at 23:00 | |||
Why not?
When do I post anything significant anyway? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2006/mar/23/the-health-care-crisis-and-what-to-do-about-it/?page=1 |
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The T
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Posted: February 01 2011 at 23:39 | |||
Good adapted quote of the day:
"Government should provide signposts, not tell people which road to take". |
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The T
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 12:05 | |||
Happy birthday Ayn Rand, whose little book served to give Shields an identity and started me on the road to discovery, study, reading and liberating.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 13:59 | |||
Happy Birthday Ms. Rand. You may have been a cruel, self-absorbed bitch, but you certainly had a penetrating intellect and wrote some great defenses of capitalism.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: February 02 2011 at 21:37 | |||
Well no one is perfect right? Too bad she's batting a .000 with that sentence |
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 23:07 | |||
Dayum JJ is catty today.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Andy Webb
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: June 04 2010 Location: Terria Status: Offline Points: 13298 |
Posted: February 02 2011 at 23:26 | |||
You Rand-haters don't get her at all, do you. The "self-absorbtion" was the essence of her philosophy.
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 23:41 | |||
Ok, but how does that make her less of a terrible person? |
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Andy Webb
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 23:43 | |||
How is she a terrible person in the first place? She just wrote books about philosophy and attracted a rather large following. I didn't know that was a terrible thing to do. Yes, her philosophy is pretty much contradictory to everything we are taught to believe, but that doesn't mean she was terrible.
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: February 02 2011 at 23:50 | |||
Well done! |
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: February 02 2011 at 23:51 | |||
You havn't observed this thread much have you? Equality was the LAST person you should call a Rand hater |
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Andy Webb
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 23:52 | |||
You caught me
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 03 2011 at 07:58 | |||
Lol I'm the Rand hater with the username taken from her novels, who has repeatedly said that I greatly admire her. I've read every piece of non-fiction that she's written, but I don't get her. |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 03 2011 at 08:00 | |||
She has a pretty bad reputation for being a terrible person, despite the fact that she never really did anything to hurt anyone besides write things that they didn't like. |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Andy Webb
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Posted: February 03 2011 at 09:25 | |||
Exactly what I'm saying. people tend to be shortsighted when they don't like something they hear
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