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Maybe I’m wrong. Perhaps the cope is still going hard.
June 28, 2024 at 14:22
We always knew their candidate was Weekend at Bernie’s, but one has to admire the persistence with which they carried that husk of a human being over ...
June 28, 2024 at 14:05
Recall the last time the Trump and Biden debated. By that time Hunter Biden, the Biden crime family bagman, had stupidly left his laptop in a repair s...
June 27, 2024 at 15:43
That’s a lie. I’ve already established a reciprocal transaction is a moral basis for a claim to pretax income. But you haven’t responded to my argumen...
June 26, 2024 at 13:43
That is true. That one is the beneficiary of a transaction doesn't mean he should be. At some point one must prove he is entitled to the benefits. As ...
June 25, 2024 at 15:54
I’m not talking about moral outcomes. I’m talking about moral behavior. And intervening in another’s transactions and taking their property is immoral...
June 25, 2024 at 14:09
I suggest there is moral and immoral behavior. You suggest there needs to be moral outcomes. This seems to be the principle upon which we differ, lead...
June 25, 2024 at 13:59
It is relevant because Trump is proposing to eliminate income tax. So what did the US do before the 16th amendment? What does Monaco or UAE or Bahamas...
June 24, 2024 at 17:38
There were and are plenty terrible, immoral, and dubious legal concepts. Slave codes, for example. When morality and law contradict one has to lose ei...
June 24, 2024 at 15:53
Who pays for foreign wars? You benefit from cruise missiles dropped on wedding parties. You’re just getting together with your sensible community to b...
June 24, 2024 at 14:35
The power parents have over their children is legitimate; the power the government has of the people isn’t. One can be justified, the other cannot. Yo...
June 24, 2024 at 14:19
A slave is a person who is forced to work for and obey another. People do not freely pay it because it is a crime if they don’t. It is garnished from ...
June 24, 2024 at 14:11
What’s your counter argument, Tim? Maybe you pay taxes voluntarily. Except I wager you would never pay more or less than what they tell you to pay. Te...
June 24, 2024 at 05:05
What am I supposed to take away from those two quotes, Tim? I’ve read the book and understand the context. I already know Nozick thinks taxation is on...
June 23, 2024 at 20:05
I can’t wait!
June 22, 2024 at 18:20
I’ve laid out the argument almost exactly as it was first laid out by Robert Nozick half a century ago. “taking the earnings of n hours labor is like ...
June 22, 2024 at 15:25
Charged by a DA who campaigned on prosecuting him, tried by a judge who donates to the opposing campaign in violation of the states ethics rules, and ...
June 22, 2024 at 14:55
I have addressed my claim and put it right in front of you in the form of an argument, and here you are on public record continuing to avoid it. Here ...
June 22, 2024 at 14:43
Principled Democrats starting to feel stupid about the political prosecutions of Donald Trump. Too late. https://twitter.com/vigilantfox/status/180436...
June 22, 2024 at 14:28
Again, you are laboring for the government’s purposes. When you labor for another’s purposes, involuntarily, that’s forced labor. When they take your ...
June 22, 2024 at 14:13
Taking the earnings from a certain number of hours of labor is like taking a certain number of hours from the person. If you labor eight hours, and a ...
June 21, 2024 at 22:19
Oh, I’m engaging as much as you are, even more, except without the bad faith and vitriol. But I’ll repeat what I said earlier. Taking the earnings fro...
June 21, 2024 at 20:39
You're projecting again, Tim. I answered your questions; no response but vitriol. I made a arguments; no response but vitriol. Rather, it was you tell...
June 21, 2024 at 17:47
I think there is nothing to fear. Supposing that Intelligence is one of the least evolved and less complicated faculties of a human being, it appears ...
June 21, 2024 at 16:44
Nothing I have or do is independent and free of the government. Its scope and reach is inescapable. You you you. It isn’t I who is arguing for benefit...
June 21, 2024 at 16:25
It’s an insult to human beings to say they benefit from their forced labor and exploitation because they eat food and drive on roads.
June 21, 2024 at 04:29
Slaves benefitted from the scraps of food they were given, the hovels their masters built them, the tattered clothes they were given. I suppose they s...
June 20, 2024 at 23:25
I'm afraid purple prose doesn't make the inquiry any more clear, Tim.
June 20, 2024 at 20:11
I don't need Rolling Stone to criticize the actual content of their reporting, as I've done that already, and without any riposte or reference to pro-...
June 20, 2024 at 19:05
A comment that has nothing to do with your inquiry? Sure. What gives what? What’s with the weird punctuation? Tell me what you want to know. “I want t...
June 20, 2024 at 14:16
https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1803492491561148475?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg The earlier video they posted was the actual video. They couldn’t...
June 19, 2024 at 21:12
But you’re keenly interested in the material from the guy who can offer no evidence of his claims. There was a great little article in Rolling Stone a...
June 19, 2024 at 20:38
I am tired of people taking my money. You?
June 19, 2024 at 18:04
Many people love and depend on the state, and I wouldn't dare take it away from them.
June 19, 2024 at 17:29
It seems to me more an admission of guilt than a statement of any fact. I say this because the man in your last video tells me the reality of Trump's ...
June 19, 2024 at 17:25
For instance the MeidasTouch videos you keep sharing. The “network” originally formed as a political action committee to stop Donald Trump. The sole p...
June 19, 2024 at 14:40
Are you asking if I’d like to see government disappear?
June 19, 2024 at 14:24
No, I don’t envision.
June 19, 2024 at 13:55
You’ll just say whatever they tell you to.
June 19, 2024 at 12:26
I’ll just say it’s his arthritic spine and neuropathy in his feet.
June 19, 2024 at 00:39
“Cheap fakes”, the new phrase, straight from the Whitehouse press secretary to be repeated by the complicit media. Don’t believe your lying eyes and e...
June 18, 2024 at 23:44
I wasn’t aware neuropathy and spinal arthritis made you space out and wander off.
June 18, 2024 at 23:37
https://twitter.com/barbrastreisand/status/1802814627870363935?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg The literal Streisand Effect. I checked out the story Bab...
June 18, 2024 at 22:47
I support cutting taxes, yes. Taxes are not only theft, but forced labor. Taking the earnings from a certain number of hours of labor is like taking a...
June 18, 2024 at 19:09
It reduces the incidence of government theft. It’s not their money in the first place. Food and hospitality businesses are struggling to retain worker...
June 18, 2024 at 15:47
The bloated government and its base is scared of Trump’s idea of ending taxes on tips, likely because it will affect their own meal ticket. We can’t h...
June 17, 2024 at 19:49
What sort of matter is the money in your bank account made out of? Wealth is not a fixed pie, I’m afraid. Zero sum bias, especially when it comes to w...
June 16, 2024 at 14:54
Sorry, I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t want people to be wealthy. Do you prefer people to be poor? Do you prefer they should have just as muc...
June 16, 2024 at 14:10
Life isn’t a zero-sum game, thank god, though the fallacy has led us to such injustice in the past. So would history! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
June 16, 2024 at 02:01
Good. After all, there is nothing wrong with becoming richer and more wealthy.
June 16, 2024 at 00:28