July 2011
45 posts
New Logo
I decided the old one was getting stale and thought it would be good to give it a break. Tell me what you guys think of it!
stepping-out-for-now-deactivate asked: Government: Necessary or not?
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socialistictendencies replied to your post: How many followers do you have?
I really thought you’d have more, you’re awesome.
Haha, well thank you! No, I’ve only been blogging since February and don’t get many reblogs or anything advertising my name, so not a huge platform. But I’m sure more will come with time. Just… slowly.
Anonymous asked: You should host a tinychat with your other political friends one of these days!!
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Anonymous asked: How many followers do you have?
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“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in...”
– Murray Rothbard
My Ask Box is Lonely...
Didn’t post anything today, and that’s bad! I gotta get some writing material.
For now, I could use some good asks to fill my page with and respond to :D As you can tell by this title, it’s lonely and needs company with your political questions. Sure, maybe some personal ones too, but mostly questions I can give responses to that are relevant to my blog.
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“A right, such as a right to free speech, imposes no obligation on another,...”
– Walter E. Williams
And thus the distinction between negative and positive liberties is made.
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I wonder if this blog is on anyone’s Tumblr Crushes.
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“We don’t have a First Amendment so we can talk about the weather. We have the...”
– Ron Paul (via conscious-crook)
Anonymous asked: I hope this question doesn't make you uncomfortable, but what's your zodiac sign?
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Federal Reserve Audit Proves the Central Bank is... →
Just about every one of the U.S.’ largest banks received billions of dollars in money from the FRB, withCitigroup, Inc. receiving the most funds at $2,513 billion between 2007 and 2010. Investment groups Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch rounded out the top three recipients at $2,041 and $1,949 billion respectively. Foreign companies who benefited from the FRB’s generosity included...
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First Ever Audit of the Federal Reserve!!! Oh... →
What was revealed in the audit was startling: $16,000,000,000,000.00 had been secretly given out to US banks and corporations and foreign banks everywhere from France to Scotland. From the period between December 2007 and June 2010, the Federal Reserve had secretly bailed out many of the world’s banks, corporations, and governments. The Federal Reserve likes to refer to these secret bailouts as...
Anonymous asked: What's your name?
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Why trickle down economics doesn't work.
anticapitalist:
thoseboringpolitics:
anticapitalist:
thoseboringpolitics:
anticapitalist:
Reagonomics proposes that as people get richer, they will put more into the market through consumption and job creation. However, this simply isn’t true. In fact, as people get richer, they are more likely to save their money, and thus not spend it or create jobs with it.
This graph shows the...
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Dollar Has Been Falling to the Euro →
People are blaming this on the debt ceiling negotiations failing. In reality, it hasn’t been that at all. It’s just been that our central bank’s inflationary habits have outpaced Europe’s. This is especially true considering our huge rounds of Quantitative Easing. Not to say the debt-ceiling situation won’t affect the dollar, because it will, but this is nothing new...
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Okay before I dox commiekills I will be doxing a...
ourben:
anticapitalist:
Anarchoawesome suggested the idea to me, and will be giving me names and shit.
This dox set will actually be useful.
Burying a bad deed with a good deed does not a noble deed make.
Don’t drop communismkills dox. She is a stupid person, I agree, completely. But making a person feel personally victimised is not comedy or heroism.
She is naive, she flips between...
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To Clear The Air
I consider a libertarian anyone who believes in voluntarism and elimination of the state to a huge or full extent. This means Anarcho-Syndicalists and Anarcho-Collectivists are just as libertarian as Anarcho-Capitalists, Minarchists and any other proponents of free-market capitalism. Voluntary association is the staple of libertarianism, not an economic system.
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Bernanke Says Economy Will Grow →
atomicsocialist:
kategrice:
thoseboringpolitics:
Bernanke says employment was significantly improved by the recent round of quantitative easing which injected another $600 billion dollars into the financial system, which could have added about 30,000 new jobs per month, or about 700,000 over two years.
But the Fed seems to be having it both ways in terms of growth, saying that their...
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You capitalists can have your way as long as you...
anticapitalist:
spacebaw:
anticapitalist:
You can do your capitalist thing, let me do my communal thing, and as long as we don’t pollute the shit out of the earth, we’ll get along fine.
unfortunately it seems true capitalism, no matter how decentralized, will always lead to environmental destruction
That’s what I seem to think. Any capitalists who can explain how the environment will be...
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Bernanke Says Economy Will Grow →
Bernanke says employment was significantly improved by the recent round of quantitative easing which injected another $600 billion dollars into the financial system, which could have added about 30,000 new jobs per month, or about 700,000 over two years.
But the Fed seems to be having it both ways in terms of growth, saying that their growth projections for 2011 and 2012 are half of a...
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stfuconservatives asked: The main issue I have with Rand Paul in that situation is that he appropriated the language of the pro-choice movement -- something he is vehemently against -- and tried to turn it around to make it seem like he was the REAL "pro-choice" person in this scenario. Yes, the law takes away the consumer's choice to buy shitty inefficient lightbulbs. But to equate that to a uterus...
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Lights out: GOP push to repeal light-bulb law...
stfuconservatives:
shortformblog:
2007 In a bipartisan bill supported by president George W. Bush, a bill raising the standards for energy-efficient light bulbs passes with little trouble. The bill is popular with consumers, who see buying more energy-efficient bulbs as a way to save money.
2011 For some reason, Republicans (particularly Joe Barton) have turned down the law, which will take...
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“Rape is bad. No one’s denying that, but that doesn’t mean you should be allowed...”
– Michele Bachmann, 2009 speech at a battered women’s shelter in Winterport, ME. (via actualmichelebachmannquotes)
Some brown person.
(via brittanibotulism)
The first thing I thought of after reading the first sentence was Mr. Mackey from South Park saying “Uh, rape is bad, mkay?” And...
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My View on Opposing Parties, Schools of Thought,...
I am of the view that respect for all other political, and economic, ideologies and groups of thought is one of the highest and utmost important traits to have in a social setting. I am always a witness of the fact that we have degraded our communicative abilities to debating by not defending our arguments, but misrepresenting and viciously attacking opposing viewpoints and proponents thereof....
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letterstomycountry replied to your post: Alright, so the corporations should have been reduced in size and power before the injection of credit from banks because people didn’t have the purchasing power right? So it would have been a natural market reduction of big businesses powers. So from this we know the corporations are in bed with the fed, so we have a corporate plutocracy, they are...
ibbetson asked: Alright, so the corporations should have been reduced in size and power before the injection of credit from banks because people didn't have the purchasing power right? So it would have been a natural market reduction of big businesses powers. So from this we know the corporations are in bed with the fed, so we have a corporate plutocracy, they are obviously benefiting each other, but now how...
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Bachmann Pledges to Ban Pornography →
There’s not really so much to say about this. I’m at a lack of words, to be frank. The blatant unconstitutionality of this is really quite insane, and banning pornography is really only going to create another black market for this type of thing.
I Think I'm Going to Make Recordings of My Posts
Just audio files that are readings of the longer ones, such as this semi-mammoth of a post on the 2008 Financial Crisis. Not many people really have the time to sit down and read these things. Let alone even want to. So if anyone’s interested in any of that, I’ll hopefully be posting these soon.
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Why the 2008 Financial Crisis Was A Result of...
When having a dialectical conversation, and more often than not a debate, with people, we tend to offer up in discussion what has and has not worked. Well, a big arguing point for those who wish to regulate is the 2008 Financial Crisis. At which point I go on with a huge explanation that is quite the pain to type out quickly in a discussion while still being a) grammatically understandable and b)...
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In Response to lyszandor
He submitted the following:
I thought I would throw out, again, as regards the recent minimum wage discussion, that whether or not Austrian predictions will occur depends on how closely Austrian theoretical assumptions actually hold. One of those theoretical assumptions is perfect competition: if people don’t think they’re being paid properly, they can go somewhere that will. But in reality, in...
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Submitted By Lyszandor
I thought I would throw out, again, as regards the recent minimum wage discussion, that whether or not Austrian predictions will occur depends on how closely Austrian theoretical assumptions actually hold. One of those theoretical assumptions is perfect competition: if people don’t think they’re being paid properly, they can go somewhere that will. But in reality, in at least some cases, the...
An Excellent Libertarian Blogger
For any of my followers not already following him:
http://asuperfluousman.tumblr.com/
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“To hear Ron Paul, a highly paid government official, say that the government is...”
– I never thought I’d say this in my fucking life, but Nancy Pelosi has a point. (via amazingatheist)
No she absolutely does not. May I remind you that Ron Paul is one of the only congressmen to ever decline his Congressional pension. He has also proposed to decrease Congressional pay. Pelosi would...
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kategrice:
progressivelyminded:
kategrice:
Friedman believes if we removed the minimum wage this would allow businesses to be able to hire more poor, thus decreasing the unemployment rate, and these employees could increase skills to rise to a higher paying job, and the businesses could sell more products because they would be cheaper from decreased labor costs. Wouldn’t this be the making...
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I'm going to fix the economy in one post. Prepare...
naturally-frakking-intelligent:
atomicsocialist:
naturally-frakking-intelligent:
atomicsocialist:
thebluesader:
naturally-frakking-intelligent:
Question 1:
What do you do when you’re in debt?
Answer:
Stop spending.
Question 2:
How do you get consumers to start spending?
Answer:
Slash taxes
Question 3:
Will this really work?
Answer:
No, because it’s an oversimplification of...
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Ron Paul Has Simple Solution for Debt Ceiling →
Representative Ron Paul has hit upon a remarkably creative way to deal with the impasse over the debt ceiling: have the Federal Reserve Board destroy the $1.6 trillion in government bonds it now holds. While at first blush this idea may seem crazy, on more careful thought it is actually a very reasonable way to deal with the crisis. Furthermore, it provides a way to have lasting savings to the...
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Qaddafi to "Take Revenge on West" →
Addressing the West, Qaddafi said Libyans might take revenge.
“These people (the Libyans) are able to one day take this battle … to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which would become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes,” he said.
“We can decide to treat you in a similar way,” he said of the Europeans. “If we decide...
logicallypositive:
Basically my minarchist argument for defense is as follows. It needs some more refining but this is it in a nutshell.
For-profit mercenaries as the sole means of a nations defense does not work. This is because for one reason, I do not believe it reasonable to profitize and incentivise through monetary means the business of killing. Two, profits will not motivate a soldier,...
