We should have a kind of "low content" thread for copy/pasting bat[poop] [mod edit for profanity] crazy/histerical comments people make to news articles, youtube videos or responses to your own comments for the amusement of all the forum dwellers here. I think it would be funny. Something like this someone told me:
In American everything gets sold. We spend 1 out of over 3 dollars IN THE WHOLE WORLD on private on consumption. Our job in the world order is to buy everything. The global economy relies on our consumption. When we ran out of our own money they were happy, and in fact, HAD to lend us OUR OWN MONEY back to keep us buying, because there’s no other place for the world to produce, export to, and to have to all that consumption. Who benefits in this scenario? The top .01%
You could call it the "Raise Your Blood Pressure Thread". :)
Indeed, but it needs to be so over the top that it's just silly, otherwise it really would raise our blood pressures and the last thing we need is more stress hah.
I linked Hoppe's The Rationale for Total Privatization on this other board.
The thread is chock full of the kind of stuff you are looking for.
"No regulation = no property rights"
"No public property = No incentive not to do things that would be economically efficient for society as a whole"
http://rubechat.kfan.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=142628&p=2904184#p2904184
From the above forum ^^^
"We already tried to have unfettered free markets....then something happened...it was called the French Revolution."
"No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person." ~ Karl Hess
"look, property is theft, right? Therefore theft is property. Therefore this ship is mine, OK?" ~Zaphod Beeblebrox
Hahah funny stuff. I always laugh when I see that pic. Here's another one:
"Free markets would lead to cronism. Why would any greedy business man want a free and fair market place? We had a some-what free system when we first started this country. Many people died and the gov. stepped into stop business owners from killing their workers."
TANSTAAFL: I linked Hoppe's The Rationale for Total Privatization on this other board. The thread is chock full of the kind of stuff you are looking for. http://rubechat.kfan.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=142628&p=2904184#p2904184
That guy extrapolate is really frustrating.
Sounds like a race to the bottom, encourages trolling (to and from) and really doesn't further LvMIs mission.
liberty student: Sounds like a race to the bottom, encourages trolling (to and from) and really doesn't further LvMIs mission.
Shut down! I never advocated trolling, just if we ran by any silly comments we could post them for a laugh. My apologies, I didn't intend to debase LvMIs mission.
Oh get off it. I think this is a great idea. Maybe some people could refute some of the ridiculous comments along the way.
freeradicals:Shut down!
Not at all. But I would ask you to think about the consequences of starting a mocking thread here.
I posted this already to other thread but here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-5_pv8csMY One comment:
Thomas DiLorenzo is a neo-confederate racist from the Von Mises Insitute. He is angry because government makes him share the public restrooms with blacks.
Let me guess, that opinion became more widespread because of this recent trip to Capital Hill to talk about the housing crises with Ron Paul and that one senator bashed him for calling out Lincoln for what he truly was?
ran into these concerns from a 'libertarian' economics professor over why we shouldn't get rid of the FED. Couldn't believe that he was being serious:
"1) Clearing Checks 2) Auditing Banks 3) Lending funds to small banks to ensure they have funds to loan to others 4) Guarding the 40,000 tons of gold in the basement of the NY Fed 5) Buying and selling federal treasury bonds 6) Calculating the replacement figures for worn out and destroyed bills 7) Deciding which private bank will hold the bank accounts of the Federal Treasury? I mean, if you want to reform the Fed, fine. But if you;re going to eliminate it, what is the proposal for the provision of the other services performed by the Fed?
I have still not heard of one cogent argument as to how we would find enough gold and silver to match current money in circulation....nor how we would prevent endless multiplication of loaned hard currency far worse than what we experienced in the 1800s before the Fed."
I think mine beats all of yours. A while ago some guy I was arguing with on facebook literally told me: "Freedom=slavery" when justifying the state, and it got worse when he told me that the state produces wealth.
Freedom has always been the only route to progress.