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YF19pilot posted:Half of my family is from Ohio. I spent 4 years there. I now live about half-way around the world from there. I'm pretty sure I'm going to stay on this island. And yet, I feel, I am not far away enough. I live in Pennsylvania. I actively avoid going to either Ohio or New Jersey for any reason at all, ever. I'll drive around them if I have to. I had a job interview in Cleveland. In retrospect I'm glad I didn't get it.
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jrodefeld posted:Hi y'all, I don't know why but this is the funniest thing jrodefeld has ever posted anywhere. I think it's the folksy y'all. 
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Aug 27, 2016 21:47
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Caros posted:I don't know why but this is the funniest thing jrodefeld has ever posted anywhere. I think it's the folksy y'all. Wait, is he coming back? He will be able to chat with his robot!
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Aug 27, 2016 22:07
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WrenP-Complete posted:Wait, is he coming back? He will be able to chat with his robot! Nah he's permabanned, Caros follows him off site due to a tragic addiction.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:10
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paragon1 posted:Nah he's permabanned, Caros follows him off site due to a tragic addiction. Ohhh. Thank you for your service, Caros.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:18
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paragon1 posted:Nah he's permabanned, Caros follows him off site due to a tragic addiction. Yes yes, highway overpass. I know.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:25
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Caros posted:I don't know why but this is the funniest thing jrodefeld has ever posted anywhere. I think it's the folksy y'all. Is that from here in the past or elsewhere recently?
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Aug 28, 2016 00:06
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Who What Now posted:Is that from here in the past or elsewhere recently? It's from an email Caros got as the admin of a message board he set up as a honeypot for jrode.
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Aug 28, 2016 00:16
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GunnerJ posted:It's from an email Caros got as the admin of a message board he set up as a honeypot for jrode. Is this for real?
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Aug 28, 2016 03:06
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Is this for real? I want it to be true. Therefore according to praxeology, it is.
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Aug 28, 2016 04:17
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VitalSigns posted:I want it to be true. Yep, watertight logic if you ask me. Which you didn't, but that's what I would say if you had. (But you didn't.) please be true 
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Aug 28, 2016 05:00
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We've been burned once before by Caros' lies. I can't trust him again. Not yet, not while that wound of betrayal is still raw.
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Aug 28, 2016 05:05
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WrenP-Complete posted:Ohhh. Thank you for your service, Caros. And thank you for not charging Caros out the nose for each hit of jrodbot
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Aug 28, 2016 05:09
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QuarkJets posted:And thank you for not charging Caros out the nose for each hit of jrodbot The beauty of the free market!
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Aug 28, 2016 05:28
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QuarkJets posted:And thank you for not charging Caros out the nose for each hit of jrodbot I am wise to your ways, filthy statist. Embrace freedom and let our glorious entrepreneur charge whatever the market can bear!
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Aug 28, 2016 05:29
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QuarkJets posted:And thank you for not charging Caros out the nose for each hit of jrodbot I thought it goes in the nose. Drugs are so confusing.
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Aug 28, 2016 05:56
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I have a chance to discuss things with Maxime Bernier, Canadian conservative, and self identified libertarian. Do you guys have any special insight into Canadian libertarianism?
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GunnerJ posted:It's from an email Caros got as the admin of a message board he set up as a honeypot for jrode. Don't give him any ideas.
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Drewjitsu posted:I have a chance to discuss things with Maxime Bernier, Canadian conservative, and self identified libertarian. When you talk to him say "I have some questions for you!" and pull out a notebook with "QUESTIONS FOR CANADIAN LIBERTARIANS" written on the cover in magic marker. Then look at the cover, say "poo poo" and pull out a second notebook titled "QUESTIONS FOR TORY DILLHOLES"
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Drewjitsu posted:I have a chance to discuss things with Maxime Bernier, Canadian conservative, and self identified libertarian. Bernier is really light weight as far as libertarian's go. If you were to find a self identified libertarian who every other libertarian goes "That isn't a real libertarian" (as if they don't already do this for everyone) you'd be hard pressed to find a better example in Canadian politics than Bernier. On the libertarian axis he falls into the minarchist variety. He believes there is a place for government, but he also thinks it should be a hell of a lot smaller than it is. If anything I'd say he's basically just a Reagan republican when it comes to all matters economic, and a modern liberal as far as social/foreign policy issues. There isn't much opportunity for comedy from him, but as a Canadian I actually feel he is a banal sort of evil. He is the sort of guy who wants to get rid of universal healthcare the same way the nutters do, but rather than trying to convince everyone outright he wants to just grind it into paste over the course of half a century by slowly 'getting the government out of our healthcare' etc. Now if you want laughs you actually want to look into the Canadian libertarian party. Their leader Tim Moen is a fascinatingly bizarre An-Cap who used to blog (and get laughed at by me) under the name "The Fort Mac Philosopher". And yes it was as pretentious as it sounds. his national claim to fame was getting into (losing) a public argument with Neil Young over how lovely the Alberta Oil Sands are for the environment. Since then he (as the leader of the party) has gone on to draw 2.97% of the vote in a by-election, followed by 1.09% in 2015. For reference, with that last showing he just narrowly edged out former MP (and massive racist) Jim Pankiw in both vote count and percentage! Truly libertarianism is exploding in population in Canada. Frankly my favorite example of how loving stupid these people are is their policy regarding the CRTC: quote:The Libertarian Party of Canada realizes that government regulatory agencies often do far more harm than good. These regulatory agencies ultimately hurt consumers by increasing costs and curbing competition. As such, the Libertarian Party of Canada would: People who aren't Canadians might not know this, but Canada has effectively three wireless providers: Bell, Telus and Rogers. Those three are essentially engaging in cartel behavior to fix prices nationwide, which should surprise literally no one. In Saskatchewan for example, where we still have a Crown Corp called Sasktel that provides cell service our prices are literally half of the prices of major urban centers in eastern Canada, because we have a government entity that forces them to compete. Every meaningfully successful improvement in the Canadian wireless system in the last decade has come on the back of the CRTC saying: "No, you can't loving do that." To eliminate the CRTC is loving crazy. I mean it shows a fundamental lack of understanding about science, because without a regulatory agency this technology simply wouldn't loving work since radiowave spectrum is a thing and absent regulation the networks would loving collapse. But even ignoring that its just baffling to think that you'd somehow see more competition if the three major powers who are barely being held at loving bay were no longer subject to even the most basic scrutiny. ... I should stop ranting. I know I got off topic but christ Canadian libertarians are stupid. I once rented a bachelor apartment to the Libertarian Party chairman for saskatchewan after his wife left him. Fucker could barely pay his rent and ended up setting his stove on fire at one point. Captains of industry these people are not. Caros fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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Caros posted:... I should stop ranting. I know I got off topic but christ Canadian libertarians are stupid. I once rented a bachelor apartment to the Libertarian Party chairman for saskatchewan after his wife left him. Fucker could barely pay his rent and ended up setting his stove on fire at one point. Captains of industry these people are not. I need to know more about this story, and others, about this paragon of praexology.
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:I'm glad Reagan ded Of I had a time machine I wouldn't go kill Hitler, I'd kill Reagan.
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Caros posted:Bernier is really light weight as far as libertarian's go. If you were to find a self identified libertarian who every other libertarian goes "That isn't a real libertarian" (as if they don't already do this for everyone) you'd be hard pressed to find a better example in Canadian politics than Bernier. I'm only on page 109 of this thread, but u had to ask, and thanks Caros. Libertarians are absolute scum. Maxime's latest thing is that he wants to get rid of Canada post. But yeah, Canadian libertarianism is really stupid and thankfully it hasn't taken that much hold here in Canada. I've met Tim, I had no idea he was actually one of those nutbag an-caps. Lastly, I just want to thank everyone who contributed to this thread, as it's really helpful to have a resource like this for combating libertarians and their arguments. Not that Canada is a tremendous hotbed of political activity, but having the tools to slam the occasional libertarian poo poo head that wanders into political events is awesome. I would agree with Caros, most if not all of the libertarian people I've met are some flavour of minarchest. So, most of the stuff that's been talked about in the first 100 pages doesn't really apply to those who believe in some sort of state presence. Don't ever stop, Caros. You're doing the lord's work.
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Who What Now posted:Of I had a time machine I wouldn't go kill Hitler, I'd kill Reagan. I don't know if you mean this facetiously or not, but I would say the same thing with a straight face. In my opinion, Reagan and Thatcher (as a close second) have done more in the modern era to destroy the gains made in the post-war period, disenfranchise the average person and hand over all the power to oligarchy. At the same time, they have turned everyone against responsible government even though it is the only reasonable protection against the abuses of capitalism.
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Caros posted:I thought it goes in the nose. Drugs are so confusing. From what I've seen come out of TCC, anything from weed to gray market Soviet-era research chemicals are best enjoyed rammed up one's anus.
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JustJeff88 posted:I don't know if you mean this facetiously or not, but I would say the same thing with a straight face. Why would I joke about the best way to save America?
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Besides, it's not like you can just go all Wolfenstein and kill Hitler. Fascist security is way tighter
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Who What Now posted:Why would I joke about the best way to save America? I didn't think that you were and I obviously am of like mind, but I was hedging my bets lest you were taking the piss.
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Stinky_Pete posted:Besides, it's not like you can just go all Wolfenstein and kill Hitler. Fascist security is way tighter Well I think it's supposed to be baby Hitler.
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Aug 28, 2016 23:29
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Caros posted:Well I think it's supposed to be baby Hitler. If we did that with Reagan tho we wouldn't get the third best Ramones song
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Aug 28, 2016 23:56
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:If we did that with Reagan tho we wouldn't get the third best Ramones song We all have to make sacrifices to live in a better world.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:We all have to make sacrifices to live in a better world. Nooooo
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I don't know any Ramones songs so it's not even a sacrifice for me.
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Who What Now posted:I don't know any Ramones songs so it's not even a sacrifice for me. This is a physical impossibility
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I have very, very bad tastes in music.
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the ramones are bad and their music is bad
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"Have the Rolling Stones killed." "But sir, those are the-" "DO AS I SAY!"
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theshim posted:the ramones are bad and their music is bad wow, look at this guy, who's wrong as gently caress
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without the ramones you probably would not have the clash and i think depriving the world of london calling is hosed up
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