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Why You Should Quit Politics (by Kaleb Matson) Article here: http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/matson-k1.1.1.html
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Well done Alex Jones. I read the first page of this thread before watching the video, and I was expecting a lot worse. I thought he did really well there and the buzz that followed his appearance (#1 on US Twitter trends) will bring him and the issues he raised a lot more attention. That far outweighs any "damage" done to the reputation of
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Molyneux is an excellent communicator of libertarian ideas; there can be little doubt about that, with great videos like this and this . I check in at the FDR forums occasionally to see what's going on there. It used to be more academic and focussed on philosophy and law and anarchy theories and so on, but discussion has shifted towards mainly threads
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Lol Wheylous. I appreciate your contributions too. Sadly all lists must come to an end! To me you are (or were) like Robin to JJ's Batman ( thanks Jargon !). I sense your best posts are still to come - and they won't be on this forum. By the way, I nominate that What do you look like? thread as the funniest on the forum (shame some of the pics
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Seems to be fixed now.
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Wheylous, I can't login to your forum. It says my username is not recognised.
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One of my fondest memories is of Liberty Student offering a Mises Store gift voucher to the first two posters who wrote a decent critique of a post by Clayton. I won one, and no one else wrote a critique, so Clayton got the other one! My favorite time on the forum was back when the deontologists and consequentialists were going at it. I was learning
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QC, I think what you're really asking is who is part of the ruling class and who is not. It is the ruling class that Rothbard is referring to when he says "gang of thieves". Block's paper addresses that and it is not a simple thing at all. Public school teachers and public park attendants are clearly not part of the ruling class..
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Here is an older similar thread which got some good answers: Is growth a necessity in capitalist economies? If it comes up in a debate, first thing to ask is how they're defining growth. If they're claiming that growth is somehow a necessity under capitalism, the burden of proof is on them to say why. And empirical evidence is of no use to them
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Walter Block has provided a detailed answer to this question. See Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government . Particularly the parts about the hypothetical 'libertarian Nuremberg trials'.