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Fist 666 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 On 11/30/2019 at 12:59 PM, Mercer said: Found the original: I see enough cars that have BLUE LIVES MATTER bumper stickers next to DON'T TREAD ON ME / MOLON LABE stickers to know that there is a significant part of the American population that needs this explained to them. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted December 1, 2019 Author Share Posted December 1, 2019 3 minutes ago, Fist 666 said: I see enough cars that have BLUE LIVES MATTER bumper stickers next to DON'T TREAD ON ME / MOLON LABE stickers to know that there is a significant part of the American population that needs this explained to them. First meme in the thread: On 9/3/2018 at 3:25 PM, Mercer said: Start this bad boy off with some boot licking good memes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hua Guofang Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 34 minutes ago, Mercer said: I don’t think ideology is the fundamental driver of our proclivity to war. Whilst it is a problem, removing it won’t fix things. I wish it really was that simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 25 minutes ago, Hua Guofang said: I don’t think ideology is the fundamental driver of our proclivity to war. Whilst it is a problem, removing it won’t fix things. I wish it really was that simple. It is outside of dictatorships/monarchies, ideology is the mechanism in which wars (of aggression) are sold to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action https://mises.org/library/human-action-war A little context: Quote Only the liberals of the nineteenth century grasped the truth that, as Mises put it, "what can safeguard durable peace is not simply government by the people, but government by the people under unlimited laissez faire. In their eyes free trade, both in domestic affairs and in international relations, was the necessary prerequisite of the preservation of peace." Historians, by ignoring this fact, erroneously concluded that the cause of modern total war was aggressive nationalism. Mises supplied the corrective: "aggressive nationalism is the necessary derivative of the policies of interventionism and national planning. While laissez faire eliminates the causes of international conflict, government interference with business and socialism create conflicts for which no peaceful solution can be found." In a world of laissez faire, the movement of goods, capital, and people would bring about an equalization of prices, interest rates, and wage rates around the world. In such a world, "No individual is interested in the expansion of the size of his nation's territory," reasoned Mises, "as he cannot derive any gain from such an aggrandizement. Conquest does not pay and war becomes obsolete." But if foreign states prevent capitalists from investing abroad to gain access to cheaper raw materials and labor or consumers buying cheaper foreign products, then these benefits can only be obtained through conquest. "It is illusory to assume that the advanced nations will acquiesce in such a state of affairs," wrote Mises, "They will resort to the only method which gives them access to badly needed raw materials; they will resort to conquest. War is the alternative to freedom of foreign investment as realized by the international capital markets." But, investing and lending in foreign markets cannot be realized unless foreign governments are committed to laissez faire. Private property must be respected and plans to expropriate the capitalist must be surrendered. "It was such expropriations," Mises claimed, "that destroyed the international capital markets" and thereby paved the way for war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Mercer said: It is outside of dictatorships/monarchies, ideology is the mechanism in which wars (of aggression) are sold to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action https://mises.org/library/human-action-war A little context: Sure, but monarchies and autocracies make up the bulk of human history and thus, the bulk of human conflict. Therefore, getting rid of ideology wouldn't get rid of war, it's just another element/vehicle of what truly plagues us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hua Guofang Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Joe - No malarkey Warren - 1/1024th malarkey Harris - Stop that malarkey or go to jail Bloomberg - no malarkey over 16 ounces Sanders - seize the means of malarkey Buttigieg - white malarkey Yang - 1000 malarkeys for everyone Williamson - The real malarkey was inside us all along 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 I gotta admire this old pervert, he's like an artist with this shit. Nobody else could pull off a nonconsensual public finger suck as smooth as old Biden. If he wasn't a politician he'd probably have had his ass kicked a time or two by now over his bullshit, or ended up on a list. It's like with him, he times wild moves so perfectly during public events the needle doesn't scratch off the record. It's like watching a DJ perform, the music never stops playing with him so to speak, end everyone keeps dancing like "WTF just happened?" oh well, better play it off lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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