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http://www.christophercomic.com/memory-lane/ Has anyone seen this web-comic? It's a powerful memoir about an abused childhood. Warning: could be a trigger for some people.
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I thought this was absolutely fitting to post here. Tupac Shakur discusses how similar gangs are to government violence. Fascinating when you watch this video after having seen and read a lot of FDR materials. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjOSof5TSn8&t=20m15s
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A number of thoughts and feelings are swirling at the moment after watching Peter van Uhm's 2011 TED talk in Amsterdam espousing the virtues of "the gun", calling out the express directives of the military as "the monopoly on the legitimized use of force" as directed by the "democratically...
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NOTE 1: I'm a new user. I came up empty searching the forum for this topic, but apologies if it's been covered/suggested previously. NOTE 2: Inspired by an early 2012 podcast, but I'm not sure which one. Stefan says in a poscast (and I paraphrase here) that it's nonsensical to hire a...
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Hi folks. I find the 'against me' argument... troubling. Maybe I misunderstand it, and maybe reading UPB would help me understand it better, but anyways, here goes... The way I understand it, the 'against me' argument is fundamentally applying the claim that there should be symmetry the...
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I was asked how I concluded that taxes are violent. This is what I came up with, to limited success: Taxes are a transfer of wealth. A transfer of wealth is either intention al or accidental. The existence of prospective tax law rules out accidental, making them intentional. All intentional transfers...
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Of your own free will you may morally accept fiat currency in exchange for your goods and services as you may accept any token, or lack of token. But when spending your fiat currency, you are employing violent threats from others when your 'trading partner' accepts fiat money under duress. Consider...
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A talk given at the second annual Libertopia Conference October 22, 2011 Humphrey’s Half Moon Inn San Diego, California My brother and I scrapped a lot as kids. Since he was a couple of years older and I was a brattish younger brother, I was on the receiving end of a lot of rough behavior which...
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[quote user="come2gether"] I would like to suggest Stefan and Steven Pinker interview each other. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? They might share similar opinions on various issues, and it would be an opportunity to exchange some great ideas. [/quote] I agree. This could be a very interesting...
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THE 'INCORRECT’ SIX MILLION Alexander Solzhenitsyn , Nobel Prizewinner and author of The Gulag Archipelago , in a speech in Washington in 1975 had this to say of the Soviet system which was deemed worthy of recognition as one of 'our' Allies fighting 'for Democracy' against...