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Fri May 22 02:55:46 UTC 2015 <Hasimir> cazalla, we don't have a formal position on firearms, but we generally favour individual freedom
Thu May 21 04:48:33 UTC 2015 <decimation> http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/05/nicholas_vincen.html < "The myth, even as early as the 12th century, that the English are freeborn people--it's a load of nonsense; they come from Troy; they are the exiles from ancient Troy defeated by the Greeks: they go off and they found this kingdom of England from which they eventually get a king called Arthur. But they are a freedom-loving people. They live under liberty and freedom. Of
Thu May 21 02:22:38 UTC 2015 <decimation> why don't we have someone here from egypt derping about arab freedom
Wed May 20 14:27:27 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 19-05-2015 19:21:04; decimation: mircea seems to credit the german geography for why 'nordic freedom' 'seems to work'. but I suggest it is the people themselves - having been beaten by the romans for centuries, and then forced by the church to mate outside their immediate family, they developed a concept of 'kinship' beyond L2 cousins
Tue May 19 19:21:04 UTC 2015 <decimation> mircea seems to credit the german geography for why 'nordic freedom' 'seems to work'. but I suggest it is the people themselves - having been beaten by the romans for centuries, and then forced by the church to mate outside their immediate family, they developed a concept of 'kinship' beyond L2 cousins
Tue May 19 19:14:40 UTC 2015 <decimation> if the magic to living the 'nordic freedom' dream is 50% tax plus redistribution, why doesn't that seem to work in somalia? are they too stupid to understand the concept?
Tue May 19 10:50:53 UTC 2015 <williamdunne> It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.
Tue May 19 07:57:59 UTC 2015 <williamdunne> If that is freedom, so is gangrape
Tue May 19 07:57:29 UTC 2015 <williamdunne> In that case with voting there is -1 freedom
Tue May 19 07:57:18 UTC 2015 <justJanne> Without voting, there is 0 freedom
Tue May 19 07:57:07 UTC 2015 <justJanne> Voting makes it 50% freedom, as at least 50% of the people gets their choice.
Tue May 19 07:57:02 UTC 2015 <williamdunne> Voting arguably reduces freedom
Tue May 19 07:56:51 UTC 2015 <justJanne> But without voting there is 0 freedom.
Tue May 19 07:56:38 UTC 2015 <williamdunne> Voting ain't freedom
Tue May 19 07:56:01 UTC 2015 <justJanne> Freedom is when you'd get to vote on it.
Tue May 19 07:55:48 UTC 2015 <trinque> this is freedom
Tue May 19 06:28:51 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 19-05-2015 00:58:49; justJanne: And the personal freedom in the Nordic model is larger than in the US.
Tue May 19 03:13:36 UTC 2015 <decimation> ^ more nordic freedom
Tue May 19 01:10:38 UTC 2015 <justJanne> In a few years, the US will have reached the level of freedom that somalia has.
Tue May 19 00:59:05 UTC 2015 <justJanne> Yes, somalia has more personal freedom, but again, try living there.