Rebellion in Libertarianland

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Ancalagon, Aug 27, 2022.

  1. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    it is decent practice for the real life versions of him one might be unfortunate enough to encounter
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  2. Jenee

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    Just once I’d like you to address a question about what you actually post rather than dismissing it as some attempt to trap you into .. I don’t know, actually thinking.
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  3. Tererune

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    do you know what would happen if a ganglionic node tried to think like a real brain? Especially with those fucked up associations. His nervous system has enough trouble with Joe Rogan, and that would be like dumping a modern graphic intensive video game on a 284 processor. You would not even make it to the rendering collapse.
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  4. Uncle Albert

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    No. You're not. You're both being disingenuous little doucheflaps.

    Say there are zero examples. What's your point? That it can't work? I don't accept that. ANYTHING can work in a small enough society of like-minded individuals who are accountable to each other, and thay includes your diseased collectivist schemes.

    That not enough people want it? Maybe. Imposing your will on others is definitely in fashion, so rejecting that becomes the go-to "unenlightened" perspective.
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  5. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    You're thinking of the anarchy your little Antifa fucknuts think they want while they're still surviving on the good graces of polite society.
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  6. MikeH92467

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    You’re so cute when your head’s about to explode!:aww:
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  7. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    You should get into opera you project so much.
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  8. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Out of raw emotion.
    And it's why you'll die unhappy.
    Philosophy's goal is to construct a framework to maximize happiness.
    You're miserable, and are always going to be miserable.
    You philosophized badly.
    Your existence was folly.
  9. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    Jeez. What’s Tio Alberto’s problem?
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  10. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Oh, and...

    It's not a UA post without hitting the misogyny button at least once.
    It's like how Michael Bay has to blow shit up, and 80's Danny Elfman had to have that whimsical string section and the ghost-girl choir.
  11. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Because my momma didn't raise no quitter. To bad we aren't all so lucky.


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  12. Uncle Albert

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    OK, Anita. :rolleyes:
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  13. matthunter

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    I heard her bread game was good. But she obviously left you to your Dad.
  14. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    It most certainly is an attempt by some people here to play games and set up a trap so that later on they can claim some sort of victory over me and point and laugh. I’ve been here long enough to know that. They they play the, “little ol’ me” routine.
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  15. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    It's always paranoia and victimhood with you lot. :rolleyes:
    If you were better at your critical thinking, it wouldn't matter if everyone was out to "trap" you, you'd win anyway.
    But when you were pointed towards critical thinking resources, you pulled a :lalala:.
    So you get everything you goddamned deserve.
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  16. matthunter

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    Fuck me.

    If we had to put that much effort into being able to claim victory over you and laugh, it wouldn't be fucking worth it.

    The whole thing with you is that it's like taking on Dayton - the knocking over an anthill feeling when the ants are already off their little ant faces on sugar and have zero ability to bite back.

    The sad thing is unlike Dayton you do have half a brain and could be doing a lot more with it.
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  17. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    After all, it's the fourth largest country in North America by size (after Denmark) and second largest by population (after the US).
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  18. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Remind us again, which US cities has Antifa destroyed?
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  19. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Also, in terms of societies that have actually attempted libertarianism, look no farther than the "Free Town Project" in Grafton, New Hampshire. Spoiler alert: the town was so dysfunctional, that it soon became overran with bears.
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  20. Ten Lubak

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  21. Ten Lubak

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    Why are they 'my' little antifa fucknuts?

    You didn't answer the question - are you expecting a libertarian society to be completely safe and secure across the board? If not, why are you holding that up as a standard when you're discussing Mexico?
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  22. Uncle Albert

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    Maybe you don't count massive property damage as "destruction" when you sympathize with the shitbags and no city was literally removed from the map, but it you are interpretating some facetious statement to mean "total destruction with nothing left standing," well congratulations on your cleverly pedantic little troll. Gold star for you, buddy.
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  23. Uncle Albert

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    I expect protecting individual rights to be the priority, and that includes punishing people who initiate violence against person and property, yes.
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  24. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    umm?
    what massive property damage?

    the only thing I can think of associable with antifa would be the Floyd riots that started after that white supremacist set fire to the Pep Boys AutoZone...

    even then, it really wasn't an antifa demo in the first place, so giving them top billing/credit would be a stretch.
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  25. Uncle Albert

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    Is this where we play the "the others weren't REAL antifa. They lacked membership cards and never showed up at the meetings" game?

    If so, you may fuck yourself. :brood:

    Kenosha and Seattle alone are more than enought to qualify as massive property destruction, and they are FAR from the only ones.
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  26. Diacanu

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    Hey, @Ancalagon, remember when Seattle burnt down, and you got buried in rubble, and died?
    That was a sad day for the board.
    Were you as sad as us?
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  27. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    Umm, neither of those are antifa protests to begin with... "real" or not isn't in the equation (although I don't think there's really that sort of 'cred' involved either). SUre, antifascists show up to support BLM and other anti racist groups, but that'd be because they tend to be against racism...

    at least I presume not both... you need to be more specific in regards to Seattle. In at least one of the incidents there though, it's quite clearly cop violence that ignited things, given the 12 THOUSAND complaints against them.
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  28. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    I'm just going by the commonly understood definitions of these words. Damage, even massive damage, does not necessarily equal destruction. Destruction is when there is so much damage that the object itself no longer exists. You can break all the windows on a building, but the building is not destroyed. Similarly, you can demolish several buildings in a city, and while those particular buildings are destroyed, the city itself is not destroyed. (note: I'm not saying this happened in cities like Portland and Seattle, as far as I'm aware the extent of property damage was relatively minor things in comparison).

    When you claim that "X City" was destroyed by Antifa, what other way is there to interpret that than literally (i.e., the city itself has been destroyed)? You could have said that there were massive amounts of property damage in "X City" (and that would be equally untrue), but instead you chose not to.
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  29. Diacanu

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    He's going to call using proper definitions and basic logic "playing little word games".
    :rolleyes:
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  30. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    @Uncle Albert, I would love to see some more examples of the massive property damage in Seattle. All I've been able to find is vandalism of an Amazon Go store, damage to and burglary of a Starbucks, vandalism of a courthouse, a few dozen broken windows, and other various burglaries. Of the thousands of businesses in downtown Seattle, about two dozen businesses reported physical damages totaling less than $400,000.

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...own-seattle-arrests-made-for-property-damage/
    https://komonews.com/news/local/sea...erty-damages-in-wake-of-george-floyd-protests
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