I generally stop reading if the opening argument starts by stacking the deck:
If we take consulting, services, and support off the table as an option for high-growth revenue generation
"but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"
Good fucking grief, you Leavers are dumb. Your opponents give you the fucking links to the procedures of the EU, and all you manage to do is repeat Leave talking points. Including, I note, the Brexit and alt-right strategy of accusing your opponents of your own bad-faith arguing techniques.
Congratulations old chap, you have just failed the Reverse Turing Test: so dumb you're indistinguishable from a bot.
Really, that 'white male lead is the problem' meme started as fucking joke in progressive circles. I was there, I saw the first appearance of it, and I had to chuckle, as I just knew the screams of rage that would cause from the knuckle-dragging basement dwellers.
Since libertarianism is a mostly illogical position at best (and a fig leaf for bigotry at worst), I do not tend to waste much intellectual energy on its true believers. You want an argument? Come back when you have stopped believing in the socio-economic equivalent of the Tooth Fairy.
Which we all paid for, so who owes who, and for what exactly?
You're so close to understanding there. Yet so far away...
Oh, and could you try not to pick on the most extremist possible view of Libertarians when you stereotype us all. TYVM.
Well, unless you start weeding out the basement-dwelling sociopaths and the Randroids, I'm afraid the stereotype is well-earned, because mostly accurate. I mean, if you were to associate with people waving Hammer-and-Sickle flags while wearing Che t-shirts, would you be surprised if people assumed you were a hard-line communist?
You seem to imply, no such network would've been created, had government not done it first...
Well, since the Holy Market was busy trying to hedge everyone into Walled Gardens of BBSes (remember CompuServe?), I'd say there is no implication there at all, but plain facts. I know this does not fit your ideology, so I am quite sure you are going to move the goalposts, but you're just plain, provably, objectively, wrong
You owe your very survival to the existence of other people working together
No, I don't. I owe my existence to my parents and the rest of the family, who raised me and cared for me.
Oh the irony. How lovely to see Dunning-Kruger strike so obviously.
You're posting on a government-designed network, using a protocol designed by a scientist working at a government-sponsored institution.
You owe your very survival to the existence of other people working together to create a society where you could grow up without some strongman taking away your parents' livelihood. You went to collectively financed-schools, your property is protected by collectively financed police and soldiers.
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Ah, it appears I pissed of the Gator idiots. If only they'd fuck back off to KiA.
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Really? Reddit? One of the hotbeds of GamerGate? A step in the right direction?
Do carry on, good sir, you are hilarious.
Really? The FSF seems to get quite some.income out of their.manuals, among others.
It's completely appropriate. Speech always has and always had limits, even limits set in law. Even in the United States.
Anyone who think that free speech is something that is an unqualified absolute right is an idiot. Period.
I generally stop reading if the opening argument starts by stacking the deck:
"but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"
Oh golly. The majority of media is hostile to a lying buffoon, and you complain that Google searches return the majority opinion.
What do you want? A safe space? I thought you right-wingers were Manly Men(TM) who didn't need all that? "Fuck your feelings", wasn't that your motto?
Since he specifically did not state that those billions all came from mining, I suggest that you go back to K-12 to remedy your reading comprehension.
Good fucking grief, you Leavers are dumb. Your opponents give you the fucking links to the procedures of the EU, and all you manage to do is repeat Leave talking points. Including, I note, the Brexit and alt-right strategy of accusing your opponents of your own bad-faith arguing techniques.
Congratulations old chap, you have just failed the Reverse Turing Test: so dumb you're indistinguishable from a bot.
What do you think going private is?
There is such a thing as a convertible bond...
Yes, well, that is really nothing more than an additional compilation stage, now is it?
Congratulations, you've just reinvented the compiler.
And this gets modded informative? Jesus wept.
"You are the real racists!!!11!!". Wonderful. Two more and I have Bingo.
Funny. Every time a kerfluffle about sexism starts online it's you manbabies crying "bitches can't take a joke"
Take your projection, and stuff it up your arse, you bigoted wanker.
Really, that 'white male lead is the problem' meme started as fucking joke in progressive circles. I was there, I saw the first appearance of it, and I had to chuckle, as I just knew the screams of rage that would cause from the knuckle-dragging basement dwellers.
As you just went on to prove. Thank you.
Another reason might just be that being an arse online is in fact an unpopular stance.
'Legitimate'. 'online marketing manager'.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Not so easily as this one.
Since that seems to be about the intellectual level you guys can handle, good advice!
I didn't have to refute it. You did it yourself already. So the label fits. Including the fact that you can't see why it fits.
Since libertarianism is a mostly illogical position at best (and a fig leaf for bigotry at worst), I do not tend to waste much intellectual energy on its true believers. You want an argument? Come back when you have stopped believing in the socio-economic equivalent of the Tooth Fairy.
You're so close to understanding there. Yet so far away...
Well, unless you start weeding out the basement-dwelling sociopaths and the Randroids, I'm afraid the stereotype is well-earned, because mostly accurate. I mean, if you were to associate with people waving Hammer-and-Sickle flags while wearing Che t-shirts, would you be surprised if people assumed you were a hard-line communist?
#notallibertarians is not going to cut it, sonny.
Well, since the Holy Market was busy trying to hedge everyone into Walled Gardens of BBSes (remember CompuServe?), I'd say there is no implication there at all, but plain facts. I know this does not fit your ideology, so I am quite sure you are going to move the goalposts, but you're just plain, provably, objectively, wrong
Oh the irony. How lovely to see Dunning-Kruger strike so obviously.
Let's make one thing perfecly clear: if every GamerGate supporting 'celebrity' dropped dead tomorrow, the world would be justified in celebrating.
You're posting on a government-designed network, using a protocol designed by a scientist working at a government-sponsored institution.
You owe your very survival to the existence of other people working together to create a society where you could grow up without some strongman taking away your parents' livelihood. You went to collectively financed-schools, your property is protected by collectively financed police and soldiers.
Yeah, you're stupid.