What is Dim Sum?
-Jon
And watch the ad homs fly…
sigh
There’s no strawman. To ‘enforce’ political borders is to use violence against peaceful people.
It would be nice if you stuck to the subject at hand, which is, Do Hoppe and Paul advocate the violation of the NAP ?
Yes, freedom sounds like a good idea, but in the real flesh and and blood world freedom barely exists, so perhaps freedom is not really that good, or is not ‘practical’, or something ? What an amazing philosophy pragmatism is, no ?
Which is why - even as Ayn Rand admits - they will eventually lose. And you will lose with them.
I would advise everyone here not to let people like Libby and other counter-revolutionaries drag the Anarchist movement down. Ostracizing them is best, but I would not be sad to see them executed, to be honest.
And so the best thing to do is become exactly like one’s “opponents”? Yea, that’s the ticket!
Because Japanese everything > Chinese things.
Boy are you arrogant. I simply used a line from your post because it was convenient. I’m not expecting a logical answer from you anyway.
No you don’t. My post was bona-fide, you did realize that and replied accordingly. But feel free to ‘support’ Mr. Irenicus…
Usually the Chinese version of brunch, basically. A little more peasant though…
The most wonderful thing you can do for brunch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum
I had spring rolls, bbq pork buns, rice noodle rolls with pork, siu mai, Har Gau and potstickers! Yummy! The typical menu is 3 or 4 times larger than this.
Ha, and you call Ron Paul a racist!
NO!
The best tactic is to make angry YouTube videos! Carry on!
It’d overwhelm you anyway.
-Jon
You’ve been needling him about Hoppe across at least 2 threads. If its not outright trolling, it is still rather rude.
Ok, this all brings me to the question for everyone…
As a libertarian, how can one make the “most” difference in influencing society in any fashion to move away from collectivist ways of thinking? The act of writing and discussing these ideas is a start..no doubt.
But can anyone share any other ideas on this subject… Sure, I can vote for the libertarian candidate Bob Barr. But didn’t Barr (who often seems like a libertarian imposter to me), say that he wants to restore everyone’s faith in the government? I want to see the government abolished…not work to raise it to some higher level of “goodness.”
To everyone knocking Ron Paul:
I agree that his immigration position isn’t well thoguht out in terms of libertarianism, but I think Paul has done a great service in terms of spreading the idea of liberty. Before Paul’s campaign I didn’t care anything about politics. Now I still don’t, but for completely different reasons as before. For me he served as a bridge to anarchy, and I have seen other posters on this web site post similar things about him. Had you come to me this time last year and said anything about anarchy, I would have brushed you off and immediately considered you a radical not worth any attention. Because of Paul’s stances on issues I started looking at everything. Originally I disagreed with him about the war on drugs, then realized he was right. Because he stressed how important economics was to politics it made me interested enough to read about it here. I’ve started disagreeing with him on some issues (most notably immigration) but I think he still performs a valuable service in branching out to those who wouldn’t pay attention if you mentioned anarchy or agorism or liberty or any other of the bad words.
Abolition is only going to come by convincing a mass of people to stop looking to the government for answers, or regarding it as an authority, either economic or moral.
Great post. Library Libertarians resent Paul, and some of the people brought to anarchism by him I think because it undoes all of their theories which justify laziness and passiveness.
There are a lot of library libertarians who write for libertarian audiences, and thus, never grow the ideology. There is nothing to be gained, blogging to people who already “get it” as David Z from No Third Solution writes on his about page.
I like Ron Paul, I think he’s heroic. He’s done what so many are too lazy or intimidated to do. It might not be a perfect message, but most people aren’t ready for what he says, let alone anarchy.
And likewise, he has completely alienated young hispanics who are the most likely in the United States to support secession.
This is a cost-benefit thing now. The cost of alienating the most rapidly growing market that already possesses some relationship to your product seems rather large for the benefit of gaining a few skinny-armed teenagers who, no offense, merely act as caricatures of the paleo-conservative movement of gold-bugs and tin-foil hat wearing constitution worshipers.
Source?
And are you aware of Reconquista?
Yeah, in my response to your post that you ignored.
I’m of the opinion that indigenous people do deserve their lands back and that they should re-take it from the government.