caix wrote:

Skronk wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:Yes, it is. It really is.

You actually think Libertarianism is the same as anarchism? That is retarded, pure and simple.

Libertarians are Minarchists, at the very least, or Anarcho-Capitalists at the very extreme (which is not compatible with true anarchism).

That sounds really, really gay.

Shit, I keep picking on you. I don't mean to.

You know I'm gay for you.

Connor wrote:The same in that they're both stupid ideas espoused by 1. people who cannot think outside of ideological abstracts, 2. crooks 3. people who aren't thinking hard enough 4. people that imagine themselves to be 100% self-sustaining pseudo-agrarians 5. badasses like yourself.

This commentary was completely worth it. Thank you. Come back when your head is out of your ass.

caix wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Caix, I was curious as to what political end of the spectrum your beard leans towards. I see it as kind of a middle of the road republican beard, not monstrously right wing but not anywhere near a liberal either. Much too neatly manicured for that. Maybe on some social issues it leans left a little, like it's obviously pro gay marriage but it doesn't seem like the type of beard that's too welcoming of illegal immigrants either....how off am I here?

Are you kidding me? I've been needing to comb it all day. I tell you what, though. I'm going to have my stylist trim it for me, because it's just too unruly and I seriously can't use scissors with a mirror.

You really should start using my stylist, when I see you it's like 'Who is dressing this man?'

Marsupialized wrote:

caix wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Caix, I was curious as to what political end of the spectrum your beard leans towards. I see it as kind of a middle of the road republican beard, not monstrously right wing but not anywhere near a liberal either. Much too neatly manicured for that. Maybe on some social issues it leans left a little, like it's obviously pro gay marriage but it doesn't seem like the type of beard that's too welcoming of illegal immigrants either....how off am I here?

Are you kidding me? I've been needing to comb it all day. I tell you what, though. I'm going to have my stylist trim it for me, because it's just too unruly and I seriously can't use scissors with a mirror.

You really should start using my stylist, when I see you it's like 'Who is dressing this man?'

Funny. I think the same thing about you. But I end it with, "Because when I see him, I'm wondering what else he can do with his six dollars."

caix wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

caix wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Caix, I was curious as to what political end of the spectrum your beard leans towards. I see it as kind of a middle of the road republican beard, not monstrously right wing but not anywhere near a liberal either. Much too neatly manicured for that. Maybe on some social issues it leans left a little, like it's obviously pro gay marriage but it doesn't seem like the type of beard that's too welcoming of illegal immigrants either....how off am I here?

Are you kidding me? I've been needing to comb it all day. I tell you what, though. I'm going to have my stylist trim it for me, because it's just too unruly and I seriously can't use scissors with a mirror.

You really should start using my stylist, when I see you it's like 'Who is dressing this man?'

Funny. I think the same thing about you. But I end it with, "Because when I see him, I'm wondering what else he can do with his six dollars."

Hey, I have to skimp on the luxuries as I have donated three quarters of my last 10 paychecks to the Ron Paul campaign.
He'll stop giving those worthless poor people handouts, make them work for rich people!

Colonel Panic wrote:Again, when did that huge deficit really get started? Around about 1981 or so.

Two points...the President isn't a king. He can't wake up one day and change the economy. Even economic policy and intervention is, atleast in theory, controlled more by congress. Second, there was a dollar crash in 1979-80, as a result of the Fed's inflationary policy of the 70's brought on by Nixon ending the Bretton Woods agreement. In 1981, Volker raised interest rates (ie lowered the money supply) to heed off a more severe recession, but the size of government expanded, hence deficit spending. Simply pointing at a political party and saying the world went wrong while they held the presidency is a little simple, no? Reagan was a total failure but he was playing within a corrupt monetary system. Ignoring that point is folly.

caix wrote:I'm wondering what else he can do with his six dollars.

I'm thinking 5 for 5 at Arby's, with a buck left over for a soda-pop.

As beards go, I have always secretly wanted a Marx or a Bakunin, but never thought I could pull it off.

Perhaps some day, when I feeling up to it I'll try for a Castro (the undistilled audacity of a beard like that! A man can dream...)

nfurnier wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:Again, when did that huge deficit really get started? Around about 1981 or so.

Two points...the President isn't a king. He can't wake up one day and change the economy. Even economic policy and intervention is, atleast in theory, controlled more by congress. Second, there was a dollar crash in 1979-80, as a result of the Fed's inflationary policy of the 70's brought on by Nixon ending the Bretton Woods agreement. In 1981, Volker raised interest rates (ie lowered the money supply) to heed off a more severe recession, but the size of government expanded, hence deficit spending. Simply pointing at a political party and saying the world went wrong while they held the presidency is a little simple, no? Reagan was a total failure but he was playing within a corrupt monetary system. Ignoring that point is folly.

I was referring specifically to the national debt which Reagan incurred with his unbridled military escalation and shameless corporate welfare. Not to even mention the culture of economic denial fostered by his rhetoric ("Vote for me and you too can be an Upper Management fat cat, regardless of your actual socioeconomic standing"). A national culture of extreme fiscal irresponsibility.

Colonel Panic wrote:As beards go, I have always secretly wanted a Marx or a Bakunin, but never thought I could pull it off.

Perhaps some day, when I feeling up to it I'll try for a Castro (the undistilled audacity of a beard like that! A man can dream...)

Panic, if there's anyone who would look good with a beard it's you.

You'd have to start wearing black turtlenecks exclusively, you know that, right?

And tweed jackets with the suede elbow patches?

No, thanks. I'll stick to my modest working-class goatee.