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Really, Being Liberal?!?
"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."
Lao Tzu

October 27, 2013, 08:33:53 PM #4547 Last Edit: October 27, 2013, 09:31:41 PM by tnu
QuoteAruba, Qatar, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Switzerland, ... the list goes on

just gets better. This guy is listing these countries as examples of governmetns that stayed small and never overstepped their boundries.

Quote from: tnu on October 27, 2013, 08:33:53 PM
just gets better. This guy is listing these countries as examples of governmetns that stayed small and never overstepped their boundries.

As opposed to? (context please)

Quote from: tnu on October 27, 2013, 08:33:53 PM
just gets better. This guy is listing these countries as examples of governmetns that stayed small and never overstepped their boundries.
Maybe ask him to support these claims? The claim that their governments didn't go apeshit is an extraordinary claim.  That means it requires extraordinary evidence, last I checked.  All he's done is throw out bald assertions.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

Quote from: surhotchaperchlorome on October 28, 2013, 01:37:19 AM
Maybe ask him to support these claims? The claim that their governments didn't go apeshit is an extraordinary claim.  That means it requires extraordinary evidence, last I checked.  All he's done is throw out bald assertions.

Yeah, that was kinda what I was asking. Apeshit compared to what? WHO made these claims?


Quote from: nilecroc on October 28, 2013, 10:40:37 AM

The statists spewing this crap have never tried to actually run a business, I take it.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

Quote from: surhotchaperchlorome on October 28, 2013, 10:50:15 AM
The statists spewing this crap have never tried to actually run a business, I take it.
My grandma like it.


Quote from: surhotchaperchlorome on October 28, 2013, 10:50:15 AM
The statists spewing this crap have never tried to actually run a business, I take it.

Or learned anything at all about economics.

Quote from: tnu on October 27, 2013, 08:33:53 PM
just gets better. This guy is listing these countries as examples of governmetns that stayed small and never overstepped their boundries.


Qatar's government is not one I'd describe as one that never overstepped itself; same for Kuwait.
Meh

Quote from: MrBogosity on October 28, 2013, 12:22:17 PM
They've been trying to get that passed in several states over the last 10 years or so. They haven't had any luck so far.
It passed in Oregon.

My mom just texted me a picture saying Libertarianism: The belief that you owe no debt to a society that sustains you.
Which is another way of saying you're everyone else's slave.

Quote from: nilecroc on October 28, 2013, 04:30:56 PM
My mom just texted me a picture saying Libertarianism: The belief that you owe no debt to a society that sustains you.
Which is another way of saying you're everyone else's slave.
There is no "society" only individuals.

Speaking of epic fails:  "It was kind of like how a fire department would work under the Libertarians." (preceeded by a pic of firefighters from that infamous incident letting a house burn down) via #4 on this list:  http://www.cracked.com/article_16633_the-6-most-horrifying-ways-anyone-ever-got-rich.html
They know that that pic was of GOVERNMENT fire fighters, right?
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537