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"My only advice would be to be very aggressive and simple" I would say politeness and respect are keys to victory. Maybe you won't crush them, but, as Milton Friedman said if I remember correctly, you...
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^^^ this if they think you're an asshole, it's very likely that they won't like what you have to say
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I find that on the interwebz people don't care how nice you are. If you disagree with them you're an idiot... And probably a Republican.
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hack their computer, find out where they live, and kill their dog. Chop off the head, brand its face with "POWNED", and put it in their kid's bed. If they dont have kids i guess put it in their bed....
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^ Remember, as long as it's voluntary.
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you know my voluntaryism theory have some flaws in it. So whenever i have a moral question about the NAP i think "WWCD" -what would cartman do. here is a heated voluntary exchange between cartman and...
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Good thread idea. Posting in ‘foreign’ forums can be enjoyable, educational and productive, if you have the right approach. Here is some advice: Be polite, courteous, respectful and humble at all...
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Graham, those look like excellent rules to keep to. I think many people imagine that following such guidelines would be so restrictive that they would never make much progress and would be eaten alive...
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cab21: Bring up god. Hahahaha I think an important question to ask here is 'what is winning?' If it's the other person formally conceding and accepting your superior rhetorical skills, grammar and...
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Graham on that Zeitgeist thread project cybersyn was brought up and you replied"Thank you. I had not heard of this before. Do you consider this to be a kind of "proto-RBE" system? Are there any...
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@Groucho lol, would you like to play Global Thermonuclear War? I think we should always remember that our target audience is mainly those bystanders to the debate who are on the fence. Highly unlikely...
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AJ:Graham, those look like excellent rules to keep to. I think many people imagine that following such guidelines would be so restrictive that they would never make much progress and would be eaten...
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Faustus:I don't know if you were humouring him or not but the idea that cybersyn was ever anything close to a Venus project style RBE is a myth. I genuinely hadn't heard of Cybersyn before, so I've...
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Poster pluckedkiwi from Ars Technica's SoapBox forum seems to be doing some fine work. Is (s)he also posting here? If so, please PM me.
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Jargon: He looks to be employing the "But it's voluntary!" defense (in addition to accusing everyone who disagrees with him of being a "nutjob conspiracy wacko". his is why people think that...
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Yes I read his responses. Here is why I dislike his defense. It only goes about one unit of time back/beneath the obvious. He is shallowly applying libertarian ethics to the culmination of a long line...
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^ I still think he is educating by addressing only few issues/questions at a time. Perhaps you could do better by dumping the whole AnCap bucket on the (left oriented) statist pack at once and see how...
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I do think there is a strong "rightist" lopsidedness to many libertarian argument suites, where the positives of corporations are emphasized and the (state-enabled) negatives are passed over in...
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