Your clarification? Can you empirically show that the most dangerous gangs of the Blood Nation are “politically conntected”? Furthermore, how and why does being “politicaly connected” change their behavior?
@Lam,
If you want empirical research, go live in a ghetto for all your life.
Also, please quit trying to twist around what I’m saying.
@Lam,
Ok, I see where you’re failing. When I wrote about the entrepreneurs, I obviously wasn’t referring to the mini-states that are gangs. If I was, that would have been like calling Obama an entrepreneur.
So your opinion is a fantasy?
How am I twisting what you are saying? Like it or not I’m elucidating it to show its less than appealing results.
You begin by celebrating PDAs in the ghettoes of Oakland, CA. I then reply that such “ghetto PDAs” are gangs like the cribs and the bloods, and it follows that you are celebrating them as entrepreneurs of security. You then reply that you do not mean any gangs with political connections, but when I ask what are these gangs with “political connections” and how their being “politically connected” would change their behavior, you don’t give me an actual answer. What’s wrong with this narrative?
Lam: “So your opinion is a fantasy?”
Which opinion?
Lam: “What’s wrong with this narrative?”
See my previous post.
Then give me a concrete example of what you were referring to!
Lam: “Then give me a concrete example of what you were referring to!”
No. It’s raining and I don’t feel like going out into the field to get you your empirical evidence. Maybe you could move from U Mass to Oakland for a few years.
Okay then, so there’s no objective empirical evidence to collaborate your empirical judgment about the world. Correct?
By the way, its not trolling when the moderators do it.
Lam: “Okay then, so there’s no objective empirical evidence to collaborate your empirical judgment about the world. Correct?”
I made an empirical judgement about the world?
Lam: “By the way, its not trolling when the moderators do it.”
Is that what Hayek wrote?
Indeed:
As of yet you have put forth no objective empirical evidence to collaborate your judgment.
In persona Hayekis capitis loquor.
@Lam
Moi: “What I’ve seen happen, is that in ghettos, such as areas in Oakland, California”
Since not all ghettos are the same, anything I said after ^^^^^ refers to Oakland’s ghettos.
Lam: “In persona Hayekis capitis loquor.”
J’aime les chats.
Btw, you’d probably have more productive debates if you weren’t so accusative and hostile.
And yet you have given no collaborating evidence with respect to Oakland’s ghettos. If you are right that Oakland’s ghettos have PDAs, then why can’t you point me to a single piece of evidence? Is it really that hard.
You should be giving other members of this forum, esspecially a certain member above, this advice far before me.
By the way, you should learn to corroborate all empirical judgments with objective empirical evidence. That would have made the debate far more productive. Its a simple, but critical rule when speaking about the world.
Lam: “And yet you have given no collaborating evidence with respect to Oakland’s ghettos. If you are right that Oakland’s ghettos have PDAs, then why can’t you point me to a single piece of evidence? Is it really that hard.”
I don’t know of any examples that are on the Internet to give you.
Lam: “You should be giving other members of this forum, esspecially a certain member above, this advice far before me.”
Benjamin?
Lam: “By the way, you should learn to corroborate all empirical judgments with objective empirical evidence. That would have made the debate far more productive. Its a simple, but critical rule when speaking about the world.”
If all you wanted was clarification as to what I was talking about, you didn’t have to be so spectacular about it.
Anyway, yeah, what wrote earlier wasn’t really clear. What originally meant to say is that many people in the ghetto areas of Oakland don’t trust the police for protection services and many people have formed PDAs in response. Mind you, friends “having your back (in a libertarian way)” qualifies as a PDA. It’s like having mutual bodyguards.
No, this:
And yet for reason, that was given a blind eye in your politeness lecture. Congrats, you have zero credibility when it comes to that mod banner under your name.
Lam: “And yet for reason, that was given a blind eye in your politeness lecture. Congrats, you have zero credibility when it comes to that mod banner under your name.”
Thank you for your opinion.
And your new sig isn’t baiting because…?
Aren’t I free to have that as my sig?
Issues forum anyone ? 
As free as I’m allowed to conjecture about it.
Yeah, kaju, I’ve come to agree… libertarian is the best umbrella term.