authatheist

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by authatheist 12y ago
Feel like playing with laz0rz and shit? How about using your own money to arrange for that? Don't wanna? Well, good thing you can just use shitloads of money that's been forcefully taken from people!
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by authatheist 12y ago
So you're telling me that if I produce a bunch of shit-sandwiches and no one wants them, for whatever mysterious reason, then if I produce some more anyway, suddenly I'm the sole consumer of said sandwiches? How does that make sen
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by authatheist 12y ago
> production can't be saved in general someone else must borrow What's that supposed to mean?
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by authatheist 12y ago
You're not addressing my post, where I tried to highlight the silliness of your earlier claims. How does consumption "have to" match production? How do you figure "money has no value"? Now you're talking about
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by authatheist 12y ago
I know that, but the OP didn't seem to. He claimed consumption "has to" match production.
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by authatheist 12y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about. Inflation is a tax on savings, but that's alright because money has no value?! But if money actually had no value, there would be no use for it. Consumption "has to" match prod
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by authatheist 12y ago
Kickbacks from the prison-industrial complex, of course. They're bribed to ruin people's lives, but that's fine with the prosecutors themselves because they're sociopaths.
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by authatheist 12y ago
A straw-man libertarian you met? Freedom just means that no one forcefully intervenes in your life, assuming that you're not harming anyone yourself, of course. Demoracy is just mob rule. You'll find it unacceptable any time you&#
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by authatheist 12y ago
"It" what isn't about the price? If you feel like pointing out that cartels are more specifically about the profits (increased through raising the price), I'm afraid that's an irrelevant distraction. We both know ho
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by authatheist 12y ago
We keep having to tell people that having no ruleRs doesn't mean having no ruleS. If by "no system" you mean "freedom", that's fine with me. Sure, we need rules and negative consequences for breaking them, but
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by authatheist 12y ago
Somehow you failed to address my point about rulers, by the way.
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by authatheist 12y ago
How would the remaining cartel members cause harm to the defector by badmouthing him? If the guy is selling X for half the cartel price, and can point to the cartel members and tell people how they've been screwed by them, what do peop
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by authatheist 12y ago
A tiny elite can't rule over millions if the millions are opposed to being ruled at all. Today, no one sees governments as the rulers they are, but everyone considers dictatorships illegitimate. But from our point of view, what's
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by authatheist 12y ago
If a large enough percentage of people decide to disregard govts and forcefully defend themselves against their enforcers if necessary, then govts just cease to function and exist. I'm not saying we're there now, or even near a po
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by authatheist 12y ago
Rulers monitor us to cement their power over us, but in a free society without political power, with free-flowing information available to all, companies would have to be careful about what they do, lest they lose their customers, ie. their
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by authatheist 12y ago
That's beside the point, and of no comfort to the sheep that get eaten.
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by authatheist 12y ago
My "solution" is to wake people up to the fact that we should not have rulers at all. That's the only way to achieve a non-nightmarish future in the long term. People see tyranny creeping up all over the West, for example, bu
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by authatheist 12y ago
There is no "privacy protection". The organization that supposedly protects our privacy is the exact same one we need protection from. It's like a bunch of sheep trusting that wolves will protect them from getting eaten by
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by authatheist 12y ago
It's absolutely ludicrous to claim that the Rule of Law™ works when, as a random example, highway patrol officers are routinely stopping drivers for the express purpose of confiscating any money they find.
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by authatheist 12y ago
He already pointed out that voting or writing to "your" representatives doesn't work, but ypu're still calling for some sort of democratic solution. Please stop.
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by authatheist 12y ago
You know that governments tend to abuse their power over us, so you want one arm of the government to keep the other one in check? One head of the Hydra will prevent the others from biting you? The US is a prime example of how a limited gov
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by authatheist 12y ago
Of course people have. People are being tortured to death by governments this very moment. The point was the utter insanity of it all, of the same way of societal organization of rulers and subjects continuing for millenia on end. Tyranny i
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by authatheist 12y ago
By "poor leadership" did you mean "warlord rulers taking the vast majority of the aid money thrown in their general direction"?
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by authatheist 12y ago
Wouldn't that be pretty fucking insane though, to get imprisoned for opening a page that you had reason to believe the government didn't want you to see? Sentenced to life in prison for Unlawful Use of Eyesight. If you're wor
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by authatheist 12y ago
Draft-eligible men, huh? You say it like it's something men would want. "I'm eligible for being shipped overseas to kill or be killed. Yay for me." You're worried about what drones will do to warfare? Imagine you&