What if one day we did what might be called a website bomb? Basically on one day everyone targets a left or right website like the neo-con Townhall.com (which I used to read everyday in my neo-con days) and launches an avalanche of comments.
I think it would be really fun, and a libertarian wouldn't be outnumbered and look like the lone kook. Instead he'd have a chorus of people backing him up and coming at it from another angle. Make that 30 angles.
I threw the idea out at DailyPaul and they seem to support it so far. Any thoughts on when/where/how? I'm thinking Townhall.com in one week on Sunday, Jan. 2. We'll decide on specific articles to target (in case not many people join in) and then we can just free-for-all the rest. Sound good?
Here are the top conservative websites
Actually, i think it would be great if we sent teams of two or three individuals to each site, each week, to link articles and books, ask questions and refer others here.
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Don't harrass sites like that. Would you like it if people did that here? What is important is that our ideas are respected, which means that we as people should be respected. If you start spamming websites you're giving the ideas a bad name.
Partaking in a normal way in any discussion forums is the way to go.
Another point: your time is better spent talking to people who are new to the ideas and aren't yet heavily invested in a different one.
Doing site bombs is what people on sites like 4chan do. Over a course of a week a planned bomb with a strategy to take down or lock any forum. Look it up somewhere, I know EncyclopediaDramatica had a page on it a while back.
I have a life to attend to... why do we need to take part in this pansy way of rebellion?
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Nielsio: Don't harrass sites like that. Would you like it if people did that here? What is important is that our ideas are respected, which means that we as people should be respected. If you start spamming websites you're giving the ideas a bad name. Partaking in a normal way in any discussion forums is the way to go. Another point: your time is better spent talking to people who are new to the ideas and aren't yet heavily invested in a different one.
OK, I see your point. Nevermind then. Although I would like to say that tactically, I think that sometimes time can be better spent on people who are invested in a different one. This is because those people like politics and like to spread ideas. Most apathetic people that I got to vote for Ron Paul were just kind of dead ends. They still just get info from me and though they agree they don't persue it or spread it. But my crazy neo-con friends are now crazy libertarians looking for any edge in spreading the messege, like I tried here.
Nielsio:Don't harrass sites like that. Would you like it if people did that here? What is important is that our ideas are respected, which means that we as people should be respected. If you start spamming websites you're giving the ideas a bad name. Partaking in a normal way in any discussion forums is the way to go.
My thoughts exactly.
It's like what PETA does in real life and no one takes them seriously, even though they make some decent points. But it's the method that's key. Think of how you became a libertarian. I doubt it was ignited by an aggravator. I think you must first find common ground and build from there. Invasion of ideas is still a form of coercion, and that's exactly what we're supposed to be fighting.
Isaac "Izzy" Marmolejo: I have a life to attend to... why do we need to take part in this pansy way of rebellion?
If you have a life to attend to, then why are you on this forum? And whether you like it or not we have a war going on, and if you'd like to cower behind your family, then don't step in front of those that are willing to fight your battle. You, sir, have been counter-trolled.
are you saying people on here have no life? i don't get your comeback...anyway, protesting over the Internet is absurd... im pretty sure it is more cowardly to protest over the Internet than in person, but that is my opinion, i guess we are all entitled to our own opinions...
Anarcho-libertarian: If you have a life to attend to, then why are you on this forum? And whether you like it or not we have a war going on, and if you'd like to cower behind your family, then don't step in front of those that are willing to fight your battle. You, sir, have been counter-trolled.
Recommend you work on your logic and the sudden leaps to conclusions. If you're not careful, you're just going to piss people off and give them an excuse to fortify their own beliefs. The same goes to your rhetoric - to criticize and disparage is a poor strategy. Better to unite and lead than to divide and rule.
It is much better to spread the word in small groups of two to four people in a civil manner. Demonstrate to others that we present a very peaceful, thoughtful position and are no nutjobs. It is true that (austro-)libertarianism needs publicity, but we need good publicity. A website bomb would be just harmful to ourselfs but a peaceful discussion can win a few hearts. My road to libertarianism started like that: I discussed education politics on a party's forum with one libertarian. We both stood calm, I researched his position, et voilá, I turned libertarian. I do not believe this could have happened if he was agressive, smug or part of a website bomb. Sure, those things get people's attention but in a bad way.
Anarcho-libertarian:If you have a life to attend to, then why are you on this forum? And whether you like it or not we have a war going on, and if you'd like to cower behind your family, then don't step in front of those that are willing to fight your battle. You, sir, have been counter-trolled.
1. There is no war going on, and certainly not here. LvMI provides educational material and opportunities for learning.
2. Please do not reference other poster's family. It's unnecessary. Personalizing posts is unacceptable.
liberty student: Anarcho-libertarian:If you have a life to attend to, then why are you on this forum? And whether you like it or not we have a war going on, and if you'd like to cower behind your family, then don't step in front of those that are willing to fight your battle. You, sir, have been counter-trolled. 1. There is no war going on, and certainly not here. LvMI provides educational material and opportunities for learning. 2. Please do not reference other poster's family. It's unnecessary. Personalizing posts is unacceptable.
I understand. Everyone seems to have missed where I said "You, sir, have been counter-trolled." That specific post wasn't meant to be taken seriously. It was a "logical" response to what I thought was an inflammatory (AKA troll) comment - calling my idea pansy and inferring that I have no life if I make a few comments on a Townhall website. Hence, my "logic" of saying that if that is true then anyone who makes comments on Mises must also have no life. And the war I was referring to was the war going on in the arena of ideas.
Don't troll, counter troll or try to be sarcastic about violence. What gets posted here reflects on LvMI. Try to remember that please.