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COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006




Lol

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Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



at least everything that happened is consistent with their ideology. they must be pretty pleased

Obsidius
Nov 18, 2009

If you ever drop your
keys into a river of molten
lava, let 'em go, because
man, they're gone.
They want to live freedom before they die, the lack of water just helps them to the latter part.

Mister Fister
May 17, 2008

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
KILL-GORE


I love the smell of dead Palestinians in the morning.
You know, one time we had Gaza bombed for 26 days
(and counting!)

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

pretty much every part of this can be blamed on the chilean government. this isnt really the fault of libertarianism as much as some foolishness in trying to establish a free society in the socialist wasteland that spawned maggotmaster

yeah dicking around with water rights against a bunch of corrupt secondhander south americans will gently caress your galts gulch operation. how does any of this disprove free market economics?

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

THS posted:

pretty much every part of this can be blamed on the chilean government. this isnt really the fault of libertarianism as much as some foolishness in trying to establish a free society in the socialist wasteland that spawned maggotmaster

yeah dicking around with water rights against a bunch of corrupt secondhander south americans will gently caress your galts gulch operation. how does any of this disprove free market economics?

I'm sorry that you don't know what zoning laws are

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
infrastructure is just leftwing government spending who needs it

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

evilpicard posted:

I'm sorry that you don't know what zoning laws are

im sorry that you think people cant figure out how to build different buildings in different places without a bureaucrat telling them how

big duck equals goose
Nov 7, 2006

by XyloJW
Wendy McElroy (a native of that part of North America known as "Canada", for those who mistake the phrase "continental United States" to mean "United State continent") is as decent, gentle, and warm human being as one is likely to find in either of the American continents. She is not the false stereotype of a Randite but a generous, kind person who would be one of the first to likely *volunteer* to help her neighbors in a time of trouble. She is not stupid, she is not a clay pigeon for con artists, she is not spiteful or mean. Her patriotism is like Robert Heinlein's, to the whole of the planet, not just a piece of land within a government's dotted line on a map. She and her husband trusted people they knew who themselves trusted people they knew in turn -- that level of people turned out to be not worthy of that trust, who cheated those who trusted them, creating a domino effect which fell upon them. She is not violent, she is not cruel -- what she is is an honest radical who is trying to intellectually create an alternative way for human beings to deal with one another, a way with reason, a way without coercion, a way without violence, a way without one person or group of people trying to run the lives of others of different religions, sexes, ages, or amounts of melanin in their skin, by "the content of their character," as the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. put it. Her decency and concern for her brother and sister human beings is far greater than many self-described "Christians" who would convert by the sword, or steal from the honest well-off who have earned their wealth through the sweat of their brows and the use of their minds. She has no patience with those who would use the power of government to rig the marketplace to become rich by stealing wealth through the strokes of pens.

For her honesty here she has been subjected to hateful trolling, holier-than-thou pronouncements by those who serve in armies which invade lands on the other side of the *planet*, in a nation which ideals today are the very opposite of those who founded it, and by those who misinterpret the teaching of the Man who is the basis of their own religion.

The lot of you should be ashamed of yourselves. *Have* you no shame? Have you no *decency*? She and her husband are victim of what would be considered a crime under any ethical standard on this Earth, and all you do is point and laugh. The lot of you collectively appear by your own words to have done less for the human race than she has.

She and her husband are my friends and I honor them and commiserate with them as I would any victim of fraud.

Big Duck Equals Goose

P.S Her husband and I tag teamed her one time and it was very cool.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
"When you 'sold' us the property, when you printed out a photo from your phone that read 'Wendy's tree,' did you know you could not legally sell us the lot you were offering?" He said, "That is correct." - See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35591/Wendy-McElroy-The-Fate-of-Galts-Gulch-Chile/#sthash.2errzQHm.dpuf

lol it appended that poo poo automatically

also she wrights bad with her labrinthine obfuscations beyond ken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
wait that's all thats on that page
this is crap for retards there's no details this is loving stupid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

SniperWoreConverse posted:

wait that's all thats on that page
this is crap for retards there's no details this is loving stupid

words

“My god, this IS Galt’s Gulch,” I said breathlessly. It was exactly as I had imagined it in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

THS posted:

pretty much every part of this can be blamed on the chilean government. this isnt really the fault of libertarianism as much as some foolishness in trying to establish a free society in the socialist wasteland that spawned maggotmaster

yeah dicking around with water rights against a bunch of corrupt secondhander south americans will gently caress your galts gulch operation. how does any of this disprove free market economics?

Troll spotted. Water is property too, pal, you gotta pay for it. Paying for property is the foundation of libertarianism. What, you think water is free? Disgusting. You're lucky technology and the Chilean government hasn't advanced to the point where we can start buying and selling air.

LifeSizePotato
Mar 3, 2005

that's perfect because it cuts right to the heart of "in libertopia, nobody will ever be cheated because everybody is a rational actor with access to 100% of information and it would be bad for business"

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Cream_Filling posted:

Troll spotted. Water is property too, pal, you gotta pay for it. Paying for property is the foundation of libertarianism. What, you think water is free? Disgusting. You're lucky technology and the Chilean government hasn't advanced to the point where we can start buying and selling air.

im not arguing against water being property, im arguing against water being some arbitrary monopoly owned by the state

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
If Galt's Gulch Chile is a scam, it will get a bad reputation, creating a market opening for competing Galt's Gulches.

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit
That was pretty dumb of them seeing as how you can go to somewhere like Idaho, Montana or eastern Oregon and live pretty much as free as you want short of killing people.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



really sad that more libertarians didn't sacrifice themselves to the randian ideal by getting crushed in pooly made houses, poisoned by lead pipes, or get cancer from cheap chinese asbestos

Tubgirl Cosplay
Jan 10, 2011

by Ion Helmet

THS posted:

im not arguing against water being property, im arguing against water being some arbitrary monopoly owned by the state

It's not arbitrary, try calling people statists instead that always works

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



lmao if THS is unironically a libertarian

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Tubgirl Cosplay posted:

It's not arbitrary, try calling people statists instead that always works

everything is arbitrary but the overhead on a failed state like chile is pretty high

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois

Business Gorillas posted:

lmao if THS is unironically a libertarian
lmao if you unironically suspect THS is a libertarian

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit

Business Gorillas posted:

lmao if THS is unironically a libertarian

well his email address is pennjul@hotmail.com

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

shut the gently caress up sabel dont blow my cover

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



THS posted:

shut the gently caress up sabel dont blow my cover

i'm sorry you must be new to the gibbis but we don't take trolling lightly around here

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

THS posted:

shut the gently caress up sabel dont blow my cover

cram it, pinko. we're taking you down to the station.

Solid Poopsnake
Mar 27, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Nap Ghost
I am actually unironically interested in THS's unironic opinion about property rights, ironic or otherwise.

E: Wait I confused myself are the properties or the rights to them ironic now gently caress gently caress gently caress oh im getting it evereywhere

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

THS posted:

pretty much every part of this can be blamed on the chilean government. this isnt really the fault of libertarianism as much as some foolishness in trying to establish a free society in the socialist wasteland that spawned maggotmaster

yeah dicking around with water rights against a bunch of corrupt secondhander south americans will gently caress your galts gulch operation. how does any of this disprove free market economics?

dicking around with water rights because you're corrupt is pretty libertarian

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Solid Poopsnake posted:

I am actually unironically interested in THS's unironic opinion about property rights, ironic or otherwise.

E: Wait I confused myself are the properties or the rights to them ironic now gently caress gently caress gently caress oh im getting it evereywhere

lol get a load of this guy who can't understand interweaving levels of irony

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

evilpicard posted:

words

“My god, this IS Galt’s Gulch,” I said breathlessly. It was exactly as I had imagined it in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged.

yeah but how did it all break down I want to know how this dude got muscled out of his own moronic enterprise

are there any mega rich 1% libertarians? My guess is no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Robo Reagan posted:

dicking around with water rights because you're corrupt is pretty libertarian

ok. setting a market price for water rights based on supply and demand. how is that less fair than price fixing by a state that enforces the value of water with guns

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

THS a libertarian???? bad doggy!

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

my libertarians beliefs are purer than purestrain gold

Solid Poopsnake
Mar 27, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Nap Ghost

Business Gorillas posted:

lol get a load of this guy who can't understand interweaving levels of irony

call 911

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



SniperWoreConverse posted:

yeah but how did it all break down I want to know how this dude got muscled out of his own moronic enterprise

are there any mega rich 1% libertarians? My guess is no.

lmao why would the 1% be libertarians? they either inherited their wealth or they're in on the scam

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
yeah, 1%ers know it's way more profitable to just gently caress with the system we've got now

Fansy
Feb 26, 2013

I GAVE LOWTAX COOKIE MONEY TO CHANGE YOUR STUPID AVATAR GO FUCK YOURSELF DUDE
Grimey Drawer

THS posted:

the chilean government.

socialist wasteland

Perhaps learn some history.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile#Milton_Friedman


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek#Hayek.27s_views_on_Pinochet.27s_Chile

whatis
Jun 6, 2012
:gas:

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet

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moron izzard
Nov 17, 2006

Grimey Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m--19yy7S_A

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