tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post6623412570485528682..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Turning Lemons Into Sour Grapesbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-44485161288380879072017-01-08T15:15:51.961-08:002017-01-08T15:15:51.961-08:00Mises wasn't a libertarian.Mises wasn't a libertarian.Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-59251204385174449072017-01-08T15:14:42.727-08:002017-01-08T15:14:42.727-08:00Nick Gillespie left out the most important and onl...Nick Gillespie left out the most important and only reason that Johnson got more votes in 2016 than previously. The reason is that the media believed that Johnson would take votes away from Trump, so they started promoting him in a big way. What the media didn't realize at first is that Johnson had already swung sharply to the left since his last campaign, and when polls came out indicating that Johnson was taking votes from Hillary, the media coverage turned 180 degrees to hostile. By that time it was too late, Johnson had already picked up some votes from Hillary that the media had intended for him to take from Trump.Matt@Occidentalism.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395220402283030311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-45002354199147486212017-01-08T11:47:09.662-08:002017-01-08T11:47:09.662-08:00Maybe it was the misguided notion that the State w...Maybe it was the misguided notion that the State was the acceptance or "assumed" protector of human liberty or rights by many of classical liberals that clouded the natural IMO at least bridge to anarchy with a focus of natural law that Rothbard brought forth. I mean Rothbard even pick and chose different philosophical greats and pointed their weak and strong points. Thus his marriage of liberty and economics. Unfortunately the State has been such a deceiver and signs many people's pay checks, even those who are liberty-minded. Hard to have true liberty when so many are economically tied to the State directly or indirectly. And my bet their are those apologists for the State who are very well funded who purposely distort and confuse common folk's perception of liberty and economics to the State's perverted version which serves the elite's Dominion over our lives in one way or another. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09731498839869076790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-45204786979437244592017-01-08T05:41:30.205-08:002017-01-08T05:41:30.205-08:00I didn't realize that Mises ever held the titl...I didn't realize that Mises ever held the title of "libertarian"; which of course would have to have been true in order for him to be stripped of same.<br /><br />I have read different views on this, most coming down on the side of describing him as a classical liberal in the best sense of the phrase.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-85465085699286891192017-01-08T04:05:01.336-08:002017-01-08T04:05:01.336-08:00Now MISES can't even be considered a libertari...Now MISES can't even be considered a libertarian? Unless you define all libertarians as anarchists (which would be ridiculous when talking about a Party) I fail to see how Mises wouldn't qualify. Unless it's his foreign policy views, which I'll admit you don't hear much about. But John Hospers had some nutty interventionist ideas in his later years but I never heard he was stripped of the title "libertarian."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-6380525863182056862017-01-07T14:12:30.278-08:002017-01-07T14:12:30.278-08:00Reasonoid's like Gillespie are nothing but Koc...Reasonoid's like Gillespie are nothing but Koch funded sock puppets and leather jacket wearing, Commiefornia style metro-sexual poseurs. I remember seeing Gillespie and Matt Welch on Judge Napolitano's old Fox News show a few years back. The Judge asked them to define libertarianism for his audience and neither one of the blockheads gave a coherent answer. They mumbled and sputtered and spouted empty headed platitudes about tolerance and fiscal restraint. Nothing about the Non Aggression Principle or the inherent immorality of the modern state.<br /><br />These Kochtarians have the philosophical depth of a chamber of commerce lobbyist.Dyspeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16577705200928864154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-89628309174355746862017-01-07T12:29:24.248-08:002017-01-07T12:29:24.248-08:00Should have chosen John McAfee, of the available c...Should have chosen John McAfee, of the available choices. He's out there "dispeling this fiction" about Russian interference, and has real personality and charm. Like Trump he is able to generate headlines all by himself. Gary's only headline was the Aleppo thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-35607271244213503312017-01-07T10:25:32.193-08:002017-01-07T10:25:32.193-08:00There's something to be said of an LP ticket t...There's something to be said of an LP ticket that appears to be more closely aligned with establishment forces than the GOP ticket.<br /><br />The LP needs to ask itself: Would there have been a Libertarians for Trump movement if the LP was libertarian?<br /><br />Not that I think they care. 3.3% is something to be proud of in an anti-establishment cycle (after forty years in existence), after all.Black Flaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264200450145227142noreply@blogger.com