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[quote user="Aristophanes"] [quote]Does the argument extend to, for example, someone buying a banana from Chiquita. Is that person funding terrorism by buying the banana?[/quote] Does Chiquita use the money from the sale of the banana to pay off guerilla drug cartel members?[/quote] Do the guerillas use the money that it receives from Chiquita
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Does the argument extend to, for example, someone buying a banana from Chiquita. Is that person funding terrorism by buying the banana? What about someone who buys butter from a grocery store that buys bananas from Chiquita?
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[quote user="Aristophanes"]That is like saying, "when you buy things at Best buy you are giving them money for a CD not to pay their electric bills..."[/quote] Exactly. [quote]Why do libertarians throw themselves at the feet of MNCs?[/quote] Idk. Who did that?
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Yeah, the semester is almost over and two professors have yet to finish grading our midterms. I'm amazed at how long it takes professor to grade exams nad papers.
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But they're not giving the money to the guerillas for the purpose of terrorism. They're giving it to them in exchange for the proctection. So, it's incorrect or, at least, misleading to say that they are funding terrorism.
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If I pay the neighbor to paint my house and then the neighbor uses the money that I paid him to go buy a gun which he then uses to murder someone, am I funding a murderer?
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[quote user="Aristophanes"]Everything you know is patriarchal which necessarily makes their society a perfect ideal utopia of freedom where you can fuck anyone you want and no one can get upset about it...and where you can get mad at people for being sexually attracted to others).[/quote]That's what would eventually happen in those utopian
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[quote user="gotlucky"] [quote user="Jon Irenicus"] So no, she hasn't got a point. An idiot is an idiot, no matter how attractive, sadly. [/quote] Right, but an attractive idiot is still attractive, no matter how idiotic she is. Wait, that's not true. Now I'm sad. [/quote]You just proved that attractiveness is subjective
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the Ludwig von Mises Institute , a think tank with “deep ties to the neo-Confederate movement,” ... whose main "tie to the neo-Conferate movement" is someone who is anti slavery. Not to mention that the LvMI is named after a Jew and that the director of the Mises Academy and editor Mises.org is Hispanic lol I still remember the
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[quote user="Smiling Dave"] If you found out that hyper advanced aliens used bitcoin, then would this change your view on things Dave? It would explain why their space ships always crash. [/quote]Winner!