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Goon Danton posted:Let's check in on our old friends at mises.org, shall we? still a big fan of their classic scrooge was actually cool, and good
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Uroboros posted:Another gem from my stepfather's Facebook. Just tell him you too support a return to 90% top tax rates, and compliment his historical acumen. It'll confuse the poo poo out of him.
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# ? Aug 30, 2016 18:14 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Just tell him you too support a return to 90% top tax rates, and compliment his historical acumen. Just post a bunch of the different tax schemes that have existed in the US, adjusted for inflation. Maybe say "There was a country that managed to work this way but it just didn't last. Can anyone guess why not?".
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# ? Aug 30, 2016 18:20 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Just tell him you too support a return to 90% top tax rates, and compliment his historical acumen. Oh I have no intention of touchy the poop, already made that mistake. Just wanted to give everyone a laugh.
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# ? Aug 30, 2016 18:46 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:still a big fan of their classic scrooge was actually cool, and good The funniest thing is that lolbertarians invariably miss the point of that story. The bad thing wasn't that he was rich but that he was a selfish, miserly prick. He was still rich in the end he just wasn't a jerk about it anymore. Really the whole moral of the story was "don't be an rear end in a top hat."
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# ? Aug 30, 2016 18:54 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:still a big fan of their classic scrooge was actually cool, and good This poo poo was in my Macroeconomic textbook last year.
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# ? Aug 30, 2016 18:55 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The funniest thing is that lolbertarians invariably miss the point of that story. The bad thing wasn't that he was rich but that he was a selfish, miserly prick. He was still rich in the end he just wasn't a jerk about it anymore. Really the whole moral of the story was "don't be an rear end in a top hat." And, more specifically, "start caring about and celebrating Christmas again, you sneering Victorian pricks!"
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# ? Aug 30, 2016 19:04 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The funniest thing is that lolbertarians invariably miss the point of that story. The bad thing wasn't that he was rich but that he was a selfish, miserly prick. He was still rich in the end he just wasn't a jerk about it anymore. Really the whole moral of the story was "don't be an rear end in a top hat." A lesson that is antithetical to libertarianism
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# ? Aug 30, 2016 19:55 |
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Crossposting from the Memes thread:
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# ? Aug 30, 2016 21:47 |
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Goon Danton, you're a treasure. At the risk of being an as hole I humbly request a megapost of libertarians intersecting with white supremacists
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# ? Aug 31, 2016 18:51 |
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AShamefulDisplay posted:Goon Danton, you're a treasure. At the risk of being an as hole I humbly request a megapost of libertarians intersecting with white supremacists This reminds me that the Libertarians Wiki is still a thing.
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# ? Aug 31, 2016 19:24 |
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AShamefulDisplay posted:Goon Danton, you're a treasure. At the risk of being an as hole I humbly request a megapost of libertarians intersecting with white supremacists That Venn Diagram is like a femtometer off of being just a circle.
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# ? Aug 31, 2016 20:42 |
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Goon Danton posted:Let's check in on our old friends at mises.org, shall we? Can someone summarize this one? I tried reading it and I got as far as "prices are arbitrary constructs that economists made up" before I went "gee, you mean like all of libertarianiasm?" and my brain promptly shut itself off.
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# ? Aug 31, 2016 20:53 |
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Buried alive posted:Can someone summarize this one? I tried reading it and I got as far as "prices are arbitrary constructs that economists made up" before I went "gee, you mean like all of libertarianiasm?" and my brain promptly shut itself off. It's the standard Austrian objection: sure, you have all these "facts" and "data," but have you considered that Humans Act? More specifically, they argue that demand curves don't exist because you can't actually see them directly, you can only extrapolate from data points (unlike, say, gravity, where oh no this analogy isn't going the way I want abort abort). Mainly, though, the argument is that human beings make individual actions according to their own situations, which can't have predictable outcomes in aggregate (unlike, say, extrapolating ensemble behavior from individual molecules, which oh no it's happening again abort abort abort). I can't stress enough how openly Austrian Economics rejects the absolute basic requirements of being a science. They dismiss ideas like "alter your theories based on evidence" and "your theories should make falsifiable predictions" out of hand. To use some philosophy-of-science jargon, it's this weird example of a research programme that has degenerated completely, but somehow still has adherents. Specifically it's the rotted-out shell of the classical economics of Locke and Smith and Mill. AShamefulDisplay posted:Goon Danton, you're a treasure. At the risk of being an as hole I humbly request a megapost of libertarians intersecting with white supremacists Thanks! As for the white supremacism, GunnerJ has the right idea. The libertarian wiki has a start on that, which people are welcome to add to. What we have is already pretty , though! paragon1 posted:That Venn Diagram is like a femtometer off of being just a circle. Remember that guy who came into this thread and talked about how he rejected libertarianism because he thought it wasn't pessimistic enough about The Blacks and their cognitive abilities? Good times.
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# ? Aug 31, 2016 21:59 |
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Goon Danton posted:Remember that guy who came into this thread and talked about how he rejected libertarianism because he thought it wasn't pessimistic enough about The Blacks and their cognitive abilities? Good times. Lmao what?
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 01:27 |
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Lmao what? If I'm remembering right, he's the one that unironically parroted the line about how if there was a black nation whites would need to subsidize it with foreign aid, so there's no sense in deporting them.
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 01:34 |
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Lmao what? Look upon his posts, and despair. Six hours, four posts, and somehow the ban was still overdue.
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 02:18 |
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If you're talking about that LuftWaffle guy, his beef with Libertarianism was that black people would be left alive.
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 02:20 |
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Goon Danton posted:Let's check in on our old friends at mises.org, shall we? Praxeology is one of my favorite dumb fringe econ things. HUMAN ACTION therefore reject empiric evidence in favor of being able to draw whatever conclusions are most convenient for you.
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 03:41 |
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The best racism was Saint Jrods brief fling with time preferences.
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 06:01 |
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I think it was the juxtaposition of "libertarianism is individualist and racism is collectivist so libertarianism can't be racist" with "racial profiling is cool, and good, and strong, and my friend."
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 06:05 |
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Goon Danton posted:Look upon his posts, and despair. Gahh, gently caress that guy
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 06:28 |
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Gahh, gently caress that guy 14 year old account, how does one not get banned well before now with those kind of views?
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 19:22 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:still a big fan of their classic scrooge was actually cool, and good Well yeah, of course he w...oh, Ebenezer Scrooge. Of course, never mind.
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 22:04 |
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I'm getting caught up on the USPol thread, and found this. Remember that thing about Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson dropping thirty grand on "internet web memes?"Uroboros posted:14 year old account, how does one not get banned well before now with those kind of views? Simple, just say one word per year.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 01:08 |
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paragon1 posted:That Venn Diagram is like a femtometer off of being just a circle.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 01:26 |
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Ugh..the alt-right. "We're not Nazis. They only hated Jews and gays. We hate way more people than that."
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 01:28 |
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I can't keep up with this stupid angry white boy crap anymore.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 01:29 |
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Goon Danton posted:I'm getting caught up on the USPol thread, and found this. Remember that thing about Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson dropping thirty grand on "internet web memes?" nice
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 02:41 |
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That Kerbal avatar guy is so taken aback and outraged, it's almost like he wants justice for how he was treated in the social sphere. But will he fight for it?
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 18:06 |
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guys http://www.strike-the-root.com/ http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/scarmig/scarmig1.html i found a thing How I Said No to the Automatic Social Security Number posted:This is the story of how I successfully refused to accept a Social Security Number for my child.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 20:48 |
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lol Jesus Christ the paranoia here.quote:My wife pointed out that we deliberately left the checkbox blank and that we did not want our child assigned a Social Security Number. The hospital admin blinked. That funny look came across her eyes. You know the one; that purple confusion that occurs when someone who is accustomed to people doing what she says suddenly slams into a brick wall of opposition? That was she. Clearly, this is a domineering bully facing her first defiance, not someone completely flabbergasted by this correction to what's normally a legitimate oversight suddenly becoming some kind of issue. quote:'Mr. Allen? I understand you refused the Social Security Number for your child?' Clearly, this person is some menacing MIB who's willing to send a SWAT team his way for mouthing off, not a harried administrators doing her due diligence with an annoying moron. quote:Obviously many people I talk to are shocked that my daughter does not have an SSN. Inevitably the conversation comes around to taxes. 'But how do you claim her as a dependant on your taxes?' they ask. HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST I SELL MY BABY TO THE $TATE FOR A FEW HUNDO BUCKS and yet not getting this paltry sum is "the saddest part" uh ok???
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:20 |
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lol i know right, i'll probably look through that site some more when i get bored with, well, everything else.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:31 |
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GunnerJ posted:lol Jesus Christ the paranoia here. I found that whole thing grating. It's clear he's built his identity around a narrative where he's at war every waking moment. As a result, every interaction he has—even with his own relatives, for gently caress's sake—is tinged with hostility. He fancies himself a principled and noble knight struggling against a mighty dragon, when he's actually just an rear end in a top hat. It's probably a self-reinforcing cycle as this point: other people are certainly going to respond, defensively, to his rear end in a top hat vibes, and he'll just take this as confirmation that they're the Enemy.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:34 |
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So, when he's saying she's "out of social security" for as long as possible, what does he think he's saving her from? Does he think government goons will come to take her piggy bank if she has a social security card? Does he think employers will be willing to hire someone with no SSN, or does he expect her to go into migrant agricultural work? Okay, now that I think about it he probably thinks she can just say "I do not consent to tax joinder toot toot" and not pay anything. I love that he talks about all the laws he printed out in the hopes of a big showdown with the government agent who hangs out in the hospital, and then it turns out that nobody gave a poo poo about his principled stand once they found out he was being stupid on purpose instead of by accident. It's like watching a dog bark at cars as they drive by. Keep chasing off those Toyotas, man, show them who's boss.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:19 |
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He seems to think that if you don't have an SSN you don't get money taken out of your paycheck for Social Security, or possibly that you don't have to pay any income tax whatsoever and uh I am not sure that is how it works at all! eta: About employers, he believes the benefit he has provided his daughter is the chance to "be self-employed and never pay income tax" for the low, low price of not being able to get a diver's license or health insurance in her own name. GunnerJ fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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GunnerJ posted:He seems to think that if you don't have an SSN you don't get money taken out of your paycheck for Social Security, or possibly that you don't have to pay any income tax whatsoever and uh I am not sure that it how it works at all! Well, she won't ever get a paycheck without a SSN anyway, so gently caress it!
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:38 |
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Yeah, even if you run your own business, you're still obligated to pay the self-employment tax, which is social security and medicare taxes at double the rate, since you have make up for the employer's contribution as well. Though considering that essay contained the words "She may have to learn to drive without a driver's license." I'm not certain he cares super hard about his daughter obeying the law anyway.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:40 |
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I picture her getting into a rebellious phase where she explains Society 101 and doesn't want to be breaking the law just for driving to a friend's house. Somehow I can't imagine him being cool with her demonstration of personal autonomy. Of course, growing up with such a Freedom Knight will probably teach her plenty about never gainsaying him, if she even manages not to be completely brainwashed by the rear end in a top hat.
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This article got linked by strike-the-root:How dare the law stop me from loving a 12-year-old posted:It's no fix just to lower the "age of consent." Some girls are mature at 12 or 13, some not until 18. No one-size-fits-all age will do. The whole idea of statutory rape needs to be scrapped. A girl who is not physically mature will not wish to have sex, so will not consent; if a man then forces himself on her, rape will have occurred without question. If on the other hand she is mature and does want it, no third party should interfere. Why do so many libertarians want to gently caress kids?
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