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I want to give money to this, holy poo poo please make it happen. I want him to collect his billion, I want him to build this, and I want to spend the next 30 years hearing excuses as to why it failed. "The libertarianism wasn't pure enough!"
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Bash Ironfist posted:I don't even loving know what this guy believes anymore. Alien Communism? CHUD Libertarianism? He believes in making fucktons of money and getting people to pay attention to him. Libertarian is just a label that sounds nice, kind of like Liberty. Who doesn't like liberty?
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Can I make a down payment in buttcoins and Ouya pre-orders? Otherwise, not interested. 
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Good Citizen posted:Someone didn't read the Probability Broach. Or, as a comedy option: They will replace the need for manual labor by recreating A Brave New World.
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I once heard that unbridled capitalism would eventually produce something functionally equivalent to North Korea's government so I'm somewhat excited to see how long this little society lasts before imploding.
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So this island will look something like this?
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Geomancing posted:How long till the first Wal-Mart goes up? Free market, after all, and all those deluded people won't want to pay full price on anything they're used to getting cheaply. Never, obviously. It'll go up a couple miles away. In true Also I hope this goes full-libertarian, complete with no centralized taxes-- and as such, no public area/road upkeep and no standing police force. Free market reigns supreme. I wonder how long before this gets picked up by the bitcoin crowd?
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Good Citizen posted:Someone didn't read the Probability Broach. "Welcome to Bartertown", said the ape-man.
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This is beautiful and I can only wish Beck the best of luck in getting this project airborne in time for the inevitable collapse.
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I simply can't wrap my head around the fact that not only do people think Atlas Shrugged is a good book, but that it has good ideas in it that should be actualized.
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Three Olives posted:There will be no sippycups in Glennbeckistan: Our self-sustaining utopia will have as much trash as humanly possible. Reusing things and being careful about limited materials? gently caress that!
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Three Olives posted:There will be no sippycups in Glennbeckistan: Is he really telling his viewers that sippycups are hard to put together? So much that he needs to compare it to a degree?
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Zhauth posted:Our self-sustaining utopia will have as much trash as humanly possible. Reusing things and being careful about limited materials? gently caress that! You don't expect them to be able to put together 17 part sippycups without masters degrees in engineering from Ivy League schools, do you? And don't even get me started on washing them.
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I wonder if Bitcoin will become the official currency of Beckistan.
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Ursine Asylum posted:Also I hope this goes full-libertarian, complete with no centralized taxes-- and as such, no public area/road upkeep and no standing police force. Free market reigns supreme. Don't be silly, they won't need a police force because every household will own several assault rifles! Hurray for freedom!
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If it ever takes off, which I doubt it will, I can only hope it takes the course of Rapture.
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Three Olives posted:There will be no sippycups in Glennbeckistan: God what a stupid rear end in a top hat.
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It would change from Galt's Gulch to bizarre Maoist collective pretty fast if he wants to make everybody apprentice into jobs and be good at farming
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Goddamn, I keep forgetting this rear end in a top hat lives in the D/FW area. I was wondering why the Observer was covering this.Lolie posted:Somebody should tell him about this. Unfortunately for him, most of those people turned out to be Democrats, or at least the one that recently got elected to New Hampshire House of Representatives. schwenz posted:I keep hearing about these lately. NPR just did a story about another one that they wanted to build as an artificial island. You only heard about this now? There was a major, major thread about this a couple years ago. Edit: "no public area/road upkeep"? What the gently caress? I've seen those roads in Texas, they're almost non-existent gravel roads. Young Freud fucked around with this message at Jan 11, 2013 around 20:49 |
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Does anyone have a link to that conservative group that was building a castle to live in and sell guns out of? I thought I was pretty good at google but it turns out that searching for 'conservative gun castle' doesn't narrow things down very much.
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It's about time. I've been waiting for the ultra-libertarians to put up or shut up.
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Baronjutter posted:I want to give money to this, holy poo poo please make it happen. I want him to collect his billion, I want him to build this, and I want to spend the next 30 years hearing excuses as to why it failed. "The libertarianism wasn't pure enough!" This actually happened at a college that was set up in the model of Ayn Rand's philosophy. It failed really hard after about 2 years and some journalist did a damning report on exactly how the college wasted poo poo tons of money and created an failed education center by adhering to their vaunted libertarian principles.
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That Free State Project thing is a joke. Basically they assume all NH citizens are idiots waiting to be rescued by libertarian heroes and not simply mostly small town folks who only really care about their day to day lives in a beautiful state and less about redstate/bluestate politics. The FSP thinks NH will simply welcome the enlightened college aged masses from the west to preach their libertarian gospel and allow them to overthrow the local government only because of the state motto. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work out. If that isn't imperialism, what is?
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More pics of the proposed island of Glen Beck and how it will all work  
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Good Citizen posted:Someone didn't read the Probability Broach. The Probability Broach answer is probably actually that in a utopian libertarian society where men are free from the government's yoke, someone would have invented self-cleaning toilets decades ago.
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Can't wait to make a fortune reselling tainted meat and spoiled milk to these people. With no regulation, I can use my profits to drown out the negative public opinion
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Good Citizen posted:Does anyone have a link to that conservative group that was building a castle to live in and sell guns out of? I thought I was pretty good at google but it turns out that searching for 'conservative gun castle' doesn't narrow things down very much. You mean this one? http://www.iiicitadel.com/
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Bagu posted:Can't wait to make a fortune reselling tainted meat and spoiled milk to these people. With no regulation, I can use my profits to drown out the negative public opinion I'll be in the radioactive curatives business myself.  
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Isn't the fact that he wants to build this in the USA a problem, though? You can't just decide that your stupid town is a magical unregulated free market utopia. Surely it will still be under state and federal legal jurisdictions and food/environmental safety laws, financial regulations etc.? If some libertarian hero bootstraps his way to making a fortune forcing children to work in his asbestos mine, Uncle Sam is going to poke his dirty socialist nose in and mess everything up. Wowbagger2004 fucked around with this message at Jan 11, 2013 around 21:07 |
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I fully support any plan to have Glen Beck at the bottom of the ocean. Wowbagger2004 posted:Isn't the fact that he wants to build this in the USA a problem, though? It doesn't matter. This is just some bid to stay relevant so he can keep airtime and sell more books.
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I'm always curious about how guys like Beck, a mormon, reconcile pure-strain Rand libertarianism with their religious views. Do they just ignore how important atheism was in her work? Really. I'm curious. Also, Glennbeckistan already exists. Its called Utah. 
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Sounds good, do it. Awww, dammit!
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I assume this will happen?
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InterFaced posted:I'm always curious about how guys like Beck, a mormon, reconcile pure-strain Rand libertarianism with their religious views. Do they just ignore how important atheism was in her work? Really. I'm curious. Weren't some early Mormons accused of being socialists because of the nature of some of the financial institutions they established?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJkxBLgd5Hs Glenn's betting big here. How much can he con out of his audience before they find he's all talk? Or he's 100% serious and crazy and this cult compound is going to result in a lot of human misery.
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pentyne posted:This actually happened at a college that was set up in the model of Ayn Rand's philosophy. It failed really hard after about 2 years and some journalist did a damning report on exactly how the college wasted poo poo tons of money and created an failed education center by adhering to their vaunted libertarian principles. poo poo this sounds like an amazing story. You got a resource on this?
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ShadowCatboy posted:poo poo this sounds like an amazing story. You got a resource on this? Boom! http://chronicle.com/article/The-Ca...le-of-a/125452/
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Self-jerrymandering
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But this is what Beck already does? Also, color matching.
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