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@jmoser9
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Husband, Father, Professor of History, Ham Actor, Builder of Cocktails, Wargamer, Dungeon Master, Star Wars Geek, F3 JarJar, Ex-libertarian, still pro-liberty
Ashland, OH
Joined April 2010
Watching Matt Walsh make a perfectly reasonable post about the dangers of raw milk, then having his brain-dead followers jump all over him for it, is just what I needed to make my day complete.
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@BriannaWu This is the woman who thinks that once the Jews are eliminated the Palestinians will set up a liberal democracy.
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Can you imagine the America First Committee in 1941 circulating an image of bombed London with the words "Let England Burn"?
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I always understood libertarians to be interested in maximizing liberty and reducing the size and scope of the federal government. Why are so many of them focused on drag queens?.
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@jiminyjobbers55 @ne0liberal The right-wing "he defended her honor" faction, and the left-wing "jokes are violence" faction.
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@BeijingPalmer My grandma was an outwardly devout Catholic her whole life. I once asked her about Heaven, and she answered, βWhen youβre dead, youβre dead.β.
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Taiwan was an independent kingdom until 1683, when it was conquered by China. Japan conquered it in 1895, and ruled it until 1945. It became a man independent country again in 1949. No, itβs not βpart of China.β
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@JNGross @prchovanec Obesity rates were low because more than 40% of adults smoked cigarettes. Autism wasn't being diagnosed, and depression wasn't being talked about.
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The only people upset about @ChaseForLiberty getting the LP nomination are MAGA types, nearly all of whom were going to vote for Trump in any case.
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@SwannMarcus89 I can't help but noticing that they haven't said a word about how Putin's invasion has affected the reproductive rights of women in Ukraine.
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It pains me to say, considering that most of my political views are essentially libertarian, that whenever I see the word βlibertarianβ on Twitter I just know Iβm going to see an awful take on something.
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@DirtRoadPickup This week I voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in my life.
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@SwannMarcus89 Isn't it kind of racist or something to assume that the only reason someone would travel to Southeast Asia is to be a "sex tourist"?.
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It's so funny to me that historians' explanations for the Great Depression continue to be based on the Democratic Party's 1932 talking points, whereas the economics profession moved away from that interpretation decades ago.
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@USConst_Amend_I My takeaway is that everybody hates people's freedom to do what they don't approve of.
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Stop saying βweβre a republic, not a democracy.β A republic is any regime without a king; a democracy is any regime with popular elections. Weβre both.
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@Pwilldc @prchovanec What was so great about that period? The looming specter of nuclear annihilation? Stagflation? Disco?.
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@LondonYank @NateSilver538 Yes, indeed, but when someone is consistently wrong in their predictions, at some point they should stop making them.
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You know what's great about America? You can go into any major bookstore, or online, and have access to a whole series of books that are allegedly "banned."
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@MoodyBlueshirt @chris_jwala @Noahpinion I think the point is that if there is an incentive for the state to manipulate people into that decision (i.e., to save money), it will inevitably do so.
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@mattyglesias Everything I like is infrastructure; everything I don't like has its origins in slavery.
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@WalshFreedom In 1952 a lady told Adlai Stevenson that all βthinking peopleβ supported him for president. He responded, βThank you, Madam, but unfortunately I need a majority.β.
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@praxben @JoshEakle Produce a source. While it was a form of collectivism, it was always regarded as a right-wing phenomenon.
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@JustinWolfers Trump promises more spending, further income tax reductions, high tariffs, and mass deportations. Itβs hard to imagine how any of that would lead to better economic outcomes.
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@redouad @OurWorldInData When COVID is running wild in a country that's more than 80% fully vaxxed, I have to think there's a serious lack of natural immunity from prior infections.
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@tawnniee @NickyFrank30 When you're calling for a national ban on immigration, you're not allowing the rest of us to self-govern.
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This is a great point. For centuries history WAS political, diplomatic, and military. It's only in the last 50 years that it has come to mean something else--something that students aren't interested in.
@DavidHeadPhd I hadn't realized that "Boomer Dad History" was a name associated with the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Caesar, Sallust, Plutarch, Eusebius, Anna Comnena, Francis Parkman, Henry Adams. .
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Twitter was better when his piece of fecal matter's account was suspended.
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I wish someone would throw a can of tomato soup on this.
@ghostofchristo1 Everything wrong with the humanities can be discerned by reading this narrative of a painting by Cezanne at Sir John Soanes Museum. I submit, this is not why people go to see art. Nor do I believe that this approach can result in important art being created.
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@AlexKumin Let's do some math. Defense budget is about $725 billion. 10% of that is $7.25 billion. There are about 260 million adults in the United States. So it works out to $27.88 per adult for two weeks. Don't spend it all in one place!.
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TPUSA is a garbage organization, but investigating students for criticizing Red China seems like a new low for campus wokeness.
A student group at @EmersonCollege was suspended and is under investigation for handing out these stickers critical of the Chinese government. Emerson promises free speech, but those promises are now kinda "SUS" β βsuspicious.β. #FreeSpeech
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@SwannMarcus89 If you hate the Christian right, wait 'til you meet the post-Christian right!.
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@naturenurture_8 @conor64 Counter sit-ins didn't prevent thousands of people--including ambulance drivers--from getting to their destinations.
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@Komaniecki_R Having more people join clubs and civic organizations would be good for lots of reasons.
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@CitedNeed Can this person go into the university's dining hall? Or into a grocery store? Someone who can be killed from being in the vicinity of a banana has no business being out in a public protest.
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@soh_nah_nae @JamesSurowiecki People were saying that they doubled in price. That would mean up 100%.
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@whstancil @RNFlood When Mussolini spoke of corporations he meant state-controlled cartels, not limited-liability businesses.
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@AlistairQHoward @mattyglesias So Elizabeth stands convicted of the crime of βembodying.β.
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@AmericanTrump4 @NewsWire_US I think you missed "try to overturn the results so that you can stay in power.".
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The appalling racism aside, libertarians love to flatter themselves that they have some esoteric knowledge that others are incapable of grasping. In other words, theyβre gnostics. In fact, most of them understand little beyond the NAP and the basic principles of microeconomics.
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@RadioFreeTom Even if all those loans were forgiven, what would prevent us from being in the exact same situation in a few years, with a whole new generation of pleaders?.
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@SwannMarcus89 Far-left nonprofits find it much easier to fundraise when Republicans are running the government.
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@moshik_temkin First, the Supreme Court never said Social Security was unconstitutional. Second, FDR's court-packing plan failed because it didn't have the votes, even in a Congress that was overwhelmingly Democratic.
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@ethernethottie @GriffinFill What did they do to hinder the alt-right? It seems to me that they just presented a mirror-image of it.
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βYouβre pro-life? So youβre going to take care of all those unwanted kids?β is the Leftβs version of βYouβre pro-immigration? So youβre going to let all those immigrants live in your house?β.
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How do you draft a law that bans gender-reassignment surgery for children (with the approval of parents and physician), and couldn't also be used to ban circumcision?.
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@jmculling Nothing terribly mysterious here. 30 years ago wings were considered junk parts of the chicken, which is why they were so cheap and became so popular among college students. Now everyone loves them, so demand has gone through the roof.
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Here is a list of places with drag queen story hours. They are all liberal communities where most residents have no problem with them. Please explain why having the federal government ban them is the libertarian position?
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Note to self: never invite Robert Reich to Thanksgiving dinner.
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@JamesSurowiecki I've had people tell me he's a great interviewer because he doesn't interrupt his guests--he just lets them talk. To me that's the opposite of a great interviewer.
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@NateSilver538 I seriously want to know data would be required to convince a hardened anti-vaxxer. I've given up talking to them, because every time they're presented with evidence they start with the "What about this?" and "What about that?".
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@MSmelkinsonPhD And to think there are people in this country who look to China as a model for how to deal with COVID.
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@nocoincidences6 @LinkofSunshine Whenever i see the words βgut microbiomeβ I know Iβve encountered a quack.
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@leankitjon @SwannMarcus89 It was kind of funny in an absurdist sense. The horse semen thing just sounds nasty and vindictive.
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Just learned that I've been selected as this year's recipient of Ashland University's Excellence in Scholarship Award.
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@R09Katrina My grandfather smoked cigarettes and lived to 80. I guess smoking must not be dangerous, either.
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@mattyglesias The problem is that many of those who are most passionate about new laws are the most squeamish about doing what it takes to actually enforce them.
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@mattyglesias This is a huge problem with teacher-education programs in generalβthe replacement of phonics with whole-language education dealt a tremendous blow to child literacy.
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