Recent content by Paulitician

3C3O3O3L. I need to catch up on tons of podcasts, probably like 30... my last post ever here. goodbye rpforums

Yeah, it's very easy. I'm an illegal and voted for Ron Paul in 2008. JK, everything I just said I made up.

"Loans" hahaha, fucking awesome.

*Channeling Orwell's 1984...*

ehhh... shut up Pat.

lots of nays there, lots of corresponding thumbs down

To make a quip related to this thread (though not directly addressing it): there is no freedom in compulsory schooling.

No, because most people have no clue where the majority of tax money goes, and they probably think it's already serving decent function. Also, I would think the media and the state would find a way to spin it. Personally though, I support that kind of direct action. I think in one day that will...

This "purity test" is a piece of crap. OP, I'm not too sure of the motives myself (I can picture leftists/liberals saying this is the GOP's way of becoming more extremist/exclusivist right--and there might be some truth to that), but I think it's far-fetched to think this is directed toward...

I have faith in neither...

It's been a long time since I posted on here, but this topic caught my interest. Have Austrians lost the calculation debate? Depends on what you think the debate is all about. To me, it's about the failure of central economic planning. So I think they've clearly won it and beaten its dead...

Soak the rich! /s

Yes, I basically hold the panarchist position to a T, although even under panarchy I'd still prefer to freely associate with more libertarian persons than not. On the family, I think that saying the family unit is either communistic, or socialistic, or capitalistic etc. is to make an...

This is true but then one has to ask if property rights should truly be upheld. There are anarchist who don't believe so at all, and other anarchists who'd disagree on some points with (anarcho-)capitalist property rights theory, though still believe some property rights should be upheld...

Yeah, that's why I said anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism cannot possibly coexist, because one is based on the private property, and the other is based on the abolition/rejection of private property. Of course, there could be communes, but not communism as a system. As a result, ancoms...