obvious question: What has Ron P. said about the economy that is wrong? And if the answer involves an intellectual critique on how best to centrally plan the economy, then obviously there will be disagreement. Of course if any number of people want to simply focus on a badge/status, then that’s not an intellectual debate - it’s an emotional, political opinion.
All that matters is that Giles does not agree with RP. After all, Giles is teh Mastuhz!!!1oneeleven.
He has said that fiat money is “made out of thin air”. This is a common fallacy. Fiat money is made out of the value of existing money. Were it made out of “thin air” then it would be money made by magic instead of money made by the criminal fraud of counterfeiting. Central bankers are criminals; they are not magicians.
It’s called “a figure of speech”.
They are also not counterfeiting.
Fine. They are enforcing a monopoly with force.
Now, let’s count the mistakes by mr10001nights.
I don’t think there’s enough time in each of our lifetimes to do that.
I don’t know why you guys are even paying attention to this guy, when there’s a video of his that has substance I’ve found that he is essentially just reading from the anarchist faq. If you’ve read the anarchist faq, you’ve heard every argument he’ll ever use. His “critique” of Rothbard was him taking somebody else’e critique and splicing it up, just search the first phrase he says “Murray Rothbard thundered against the state…” regardless of views on IP, if I’ve used something, I usually give the original writer all the credit.
Similarly, I’m guessing that this review comes from somebody else.
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And here I thought the central bankers had surpassed the alchemists of old and instead of trying to make gold out of nickel or iron, they leaped to the new alchemy advancement of making it simply out of thick, I mean, thin air. [:P]
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“He has said that fiat money is “made out of thin air”. This is a common fallacy.” - surely you jest or have had to convince some other people for some time, as it is a “common fallacy” that money is not simply made out of air.[:P]
all in good fun!
Then here’s the condensed version:
Warning: those with high-blood pressure are at greatest risk.
Lol. Someone is making fun of him about his DVD and selling it at a profit.
How dare you mock the MacGyver of our contemporary time? He has debunked, once and for all, the myth of the Federal Reserve and the Capitalist Economy! All it took was a dvd, piece of paper, marker, and a calculator (without capital, not even MacGyver can overcome the hurdle of arbitrary pricing [:P]).
And he admits that he didn’t pay himself for all the work he did!!! HE’S EXPLOITING HIMSELF!!! Lol.
ZOMG SELF-IMPOSED SLAVERY! Oh wait false alarm. If it’s not wage slavery then it doesn’t count [:P]
Yes they are. Oh wait. If I get caught printing dollars, I’ll tell the gov’t that according to you wise scineram, printing dollars is not counterfeiting.
Because, I take it, we are all equal before the law eh ?
Wow, that guy actually removed my comments.
He’s wielding the power that the Google corporation has given him to silence dissent. Without his corporate privilege, he’s nothing.
Check out this comment on mr1001nights’ video:
juliaisafilmbuff123: Ron Paul is a capitalist drone. Think about it. The corporate internet promotes him like there’s no tomorrow. If Paul’s ideas really were so harmful to corporations (since Paul has said something like, “Corporatism isn’t capitalism”) don’t you think they would censor his videos the way they do vids of Chomsky’s lectures? Think about it.
The decentralized organization of the Ron Paul movement (corporate internet) results in Julia invoking the ad hoc and strawman fallacy. Think about it.