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I like that lady. Made perfect sense.

And Enco if you are not cool with selling humans, selling hard drugs and firearms to 6 year olds, selling atomic bombs to terrorists etc…then you are good with at least a modicum of regulation, of state interference with freedom to sell shit and freedom to buy shit.

It is Jake. Jake on the make.

Caputuring? No. How do you make that connection? Where is the free exchange? Pharaoh’s slaves? Unless purchased, no. Not sure Toltecs had a sun god. Slave’s hearts? That is a religious ritual. Let me stop cuz analyzing these is just silly. Too red to be herrings.

Slavery in USA was quintessential free market…[Read more]

I am not surprised Cuban loves Ayn. He initially supported Trump. His acuity in business is no assurance of good general intelligence.

Enco, what am i chopped liver gone bad? Skirt, skip, dodge that ye may never dislodge your mythology.

Slavery is not a false premise. It is what happened when the government was not regulating businesses and the market was free. And if anything it used to support free market slavery by protecting ownership of chattel as in Fugitive Slave Act.…[Read more]

Enco, thank you for at least attempting to answer. Even so you have skirted the issue.

Free market capitalism was all the fuck over slavery. It was good business. That is what happened when the market was FREE!
You don’t like the idea of slavery. Nor do the figured you’ve cited. Who gives a flying fuck if you like or dislike slavery. You have to…[Read more]

Ideoenco: You asked whether anybody asks questions about who gets apartments. I illustrated that YES in certain cases it happens. I have gone to parties in section 8 housing in Hartford. Perfectly well maintained and orderly too…

And i am not surprised you dodged the issue i presented that challenges your ideology. Just like you did in the…[Read more]

IDEOENCO speaks: Would anybody ask such questions about who gets apartments or plumbing or McDonald’s Hamburgers? Do any such commodities or services have a board to make decisions on who gets what and when?

Apartments? Ever hear of section 8? Of rent control?

I can well imagine your defense of slavery. Commodities. Free market.

If not, why n…[Read more]

Enco, do not attempt to think. You will hurt yourself.

Is that you, the Thinker? Or are you more akin to the statue as a form frozen as an ideologue and incapable of reason.

Davis, don’t make fun of US laissez faire. The government has in fact taken the initiative with a great many forced sterilizations of the poor and unfortunate. Oh and experiments with syphilis. Oh and then there was a feeble effort to stop post civil war slavery. So we are right there with progressive action.

Preference?

Reference?

Well it fulfills a prophecy. That much is obvious. It is up to you to inform us.

It is wild and disturbing how much milder the winters have gotten in my state of Connecticut. No more snowshoes gives me da blues.

Robert that is good stuff. Growing your own shit requires more know-how than one might expect. It is super rewarding too and nice to know what you are eating and its mostly better than what ya can find at a market. Problem is your state may not be seaworthy.

Fleece the police. Increase without surcease. I hate you meeces to pieces. Rip Van winkle had to tinkle so he woke and spoke. His harridan wife had caused too much strife so he slept again until he was one hundred and ten.

When at one hundred ten he woke again he had no friend. They had died. He missed the ride. So he slept the eternal sleep. If…[Read more]

Science is what we have to peer deeply into the natural world. Everything else is dreck. Scientism is not a fallacy. That is purdy F’in obvious. Humans conduct science therefore it will be flawed but its nature is to correct.

On the other hand there is a deeper question relating to science-whether we and it can ever know ultimate reality. Is…[Read more]

Scientism is a fallacy because it states that if we don’t know whether something exists, it definitely doesn’t. That’s a fallacy. Says Simon and Simon says.

No clue where you got that idea Simon. The cosmos is the mystery of all mysteries and it is filled with the unknown. Hell we even have scientists who suggest that dark energy and dark matte…[Read more]

Simon says: in this special case, any kind of documentary evidence is inadmissable to most people. Therefore, evidence is almost impossible to come by.

That is simply untrue. The evidence is evaluated and rejected. Deniers or disbelievers are not putting hands to ears or eyes. They are not buying what the good place proponents are selling.

And…[Read more]

While a Black prez (at least half of him and perhaps the good half) does signal progress it might not be the most germane assesment. It would have been unthinkable not so long ago to have highest office occupied by a noncauc and even a non wasp was a big deal.

The bigger criteria is really how lives are impacted. Housing discrimination. job…[Read more]