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I post research in criminology, institutional economics and public choice and the history of mass violence. I really like Swans, Isis and Converge (bands).

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"Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, including inside Hamas tunnels." :
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How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza

Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, including inside Hamas tunnels.

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@worst_account That thread is mostly a weird ass witch hunt
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@weatherdai No poverty 😂🤣 Suspiciously close to parody
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The New York Times has read Dan Dennett.
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If economists were the "high priests of our society", I would expect, for example, fewer trade restrictions, no agricultural subsidies and a preference of carbon pricing over pollution ceilings.
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"What we call 'the economy' is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is." -David Graeber
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See:
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Why would a left anything postion center on deregulation
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@kissphoria @ObamaEraCons Elvis was a proud member of the flourishing and devout Muslim community that existed in Tupelo, Mississippi in the 1930s.
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@Beuysaunt @JackDetsch 1/20 in two weeks is devastating. It’s not just the losses of machines and men, it has an effect on morale. Russian tank crews must be paranoid by this point. And, you would expect the stuff on the first wave to be the best, from now onwards it will be worse in quality.
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@Jackbmeyer Improve that institution.
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@fedtanyl Gay marriage is illegal in Israel, while both the Israeli intelligence services and military have blackmailed gay Palestinians into becoming collaborators in their ethnic cleansing and illegal military occupation. Begging Zionists to learn anything at all about Israel.
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Both the Israeli intelligence services and the military have blackmailed gay Palestinians into becoming collaborators, a story that is very rarely heard but was documented in at least one Israeli newspaper.
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Are you sure there’s a difference?
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If someone is said to have a “high pain tolerance” does that mean that they don’t feel pain very much or that they feel it but don’t react to it strongly ?
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After 18 years of courageous battle with an aggressive form of multiple sclerosis, my beloved sister decided today to not continue medical treatment after another flare-up. I loved you, I love you, I will always love you. If there is a next life, I will find you.
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@StatisticUrban People want to live in a G.I. Joe v. Cobra world of Good Guys and Bad Guys.
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Quantum mechanics has nothing to do with free will
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Hierarchy isn't just morally off, it's deadly.
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@morallawwithin Therapists seeing the money disappear
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Colonialism or imperialism were not the dominant factor behind Western economic growth, or Portugal and Spain would be richer than Denmark and Switzerland. Rather, technological advancement and macroeconomic expansion *allowed* much of the West to rule over the Global South.
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#SocialistSunday
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On the contrary, a substantial body of cross-cultural empirical evidence suggests markets increase social trust.
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The ideal libertarian society requires genuinely unreal levels of social trust to function, and ironically every libertarian policy is essentially manufactured in a lab to reduce social trust.
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“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.” ― Peter Boettke
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Peter van Inwagen is so cool A Christian physicalist near meteorological nihilist agent causal libertarian platonist The vibes and the tribes tell you you shouldn’t hold those positions together
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Excellent paper by Bruce Benson on the emergence of the state from "wealth-seeking individuals" who developed a comparative advantage in violence, and coalesced to jointly produce extortion.
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This person is obtaining a PhD from a leading university.
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Will people still work if there's no capitalism to make us do it? FULL VIDEO:
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The new atheist talking point that "We're all atheists about nearly all gods, I just go one god further" is one of the stupidest and most fatuous things I've had the displeasure to hear.
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People vote on what makes them feel good, not their conception of the social good
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People vote on their conceptions of the good, not narrow self-interest
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@bn_goat @Beuysaunt @JackDetsch RU troops have made essentially no progress in the North, Northeast or Donbas for the last few days. Only in South and they’re still nowhere close to Odessa. Bad morale seems indisputable: large groups of soldiers surrendering, abandoned vehicles, generals having to move forward.
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@na_intel "Russia has always been a curiously unpleasant country despite her great literature. Unfortunately, Russians today have completely lost their ability to kill tyrants." — Vladimir Nabokov
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Excellent introductory paper on the linkages between research in political economy and anarchism.
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Formal debates are dumb. You should be carefully considering arguments against your view, and crafting the best response, not trying to score zingers or saddle your opponent with so many bad arguments they don’t have time to refute it all and aren’t prepared anyways.
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this is about as cool as you can look
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Noam Chomsky’s anarchism: • no union of anarchist ends with anarchist means • benevolent social democratic state • no gun rights • casting socialist regimes as revolutionary • some kind of radical aesthetic
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Philip Goff’s Christianity: • no virgin birth • errant Bible • no penal substitution • demiurge God • no bodily resurrection • some kind of incarnation
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I don’t expect anarchists to solve every problem in the world. I do expect them to be able to solve things like “how will we coordinate production sufficiently well that peoples standard of living won’t be worse”
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My political views in 2016 vs now
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go to the elephant site @[email protected]
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My political views in 2016 vs now
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Good book I read a while ago on how relatively rich market incumbents harm growth and increase inequality through regulatory barriers such as occupational licensing, intellectual property and land-use restrictions.
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@christapeterso Israeli historian Simha Flapan notes that a number of leading Zionists explicitly stated that the Palestinian response to the UN Partition Plan was largely peaceful, despite it, here my own comment, being partial to the Zionist movement.
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The claim that the Palestinians or "the Arabs", as a group, violently reacted to the UN Partition Plan is waffle. A whole bunch of Zionist leaders clearly stated most Palestinians did not want or engage in armed conflict, and a host of nonaggression pacts were made.
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@RazzberryYams @katewillett It's funny Ms. Willett points to airline deregulation, which any economist will tell you brought down prices, as an example of... regulation not lowering prices! Aggressive economic illiteracy is real.
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@oleksiireznikov Glad you made it out of that meeting alive! 😳
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Finally reading this.
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@christapeterso He’s overall skeptical there was a Zionist massacre at Tantura in 1948, here. Little did he know, Israeli veterans would admit to it to on camera just a few years later.
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On 1948 | Benny Morris | Part II | 2018 interview

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@ShaiDavidai Do you think it is reasonable to compare "advocacy to save lives, no matter their faith or ethnicity" to support for the Third Reich?
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>a random cat decides to chill in the basement for a while >the country enters a racist moral panic over the cat supposedly being killed and eaten
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Miss Sassy, the missing cat that sparked fear that pets in Ohio were in danger, has been found hiding in her owner's basement.
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It really bothers me just how intellectually dishonest the average person, and the average Twitter intellectual, is. Most people are not interested in being rational, but in rationalizing their existing beliefs, concede nothing and, as a bonus, demonize the other side.
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Economists love a little pun.
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@dissproportion Several reasons. For one, southern Europeans are significantly poorer than Americans. Population densities are higher and public transit is more extensive, making it easier. There are far more tourists as a percentage of locals in places like Spain and France.
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Qualia are so cool I wish they were real
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Why is Bryan Caplan’s almost entire social media engagement these days social conservative baiting around woke culture Those are trivial issues relative to open borders, zoning, educational inflation and other issues he has previously discussed at length
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@oryxspioenkop The public education system, shining as brightly as ever.
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If I may be impolite
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@VaushV I’m so glad conservatives are spending so much time on important questions like “what is a woman?”. Not global poverty, or climate change, or the opioid crisis or mass obesity. What is a woman.
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This is how you start a book. Take note, academics. (From Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind)
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Meanwhile, the National Research Council’s blue-ribbon, nonpartisan expert panel that wrote the central, methodical literature review Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review (Baffled as to what the relevance of RTC even is to personal ownership)
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I'll say it again: There is no strong evidence that personal gun ownership reduces your risk of experiencing violence. Conservatives love this idea of individual self-defense. It's why they love pairing crime news with gun news. It's also total bullshit.
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Market competition drives down prices and gov impoverishes many persons through occupational licensing, tariffs, zoning, the drug war and regulations that especially harm smaller businesses. Neighbourhood watch groups also involve no payment and gun ownership can be cheap.
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There's another for the to-read pile.
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@AaronBergman18 A meta comment: given the shameful association between intellectuals and Leninism in the 20th century, replication crises, peer-reviewed journal acceptance scandals, suppression of the lab leak hypothesis and so on, academics should at least marginally shift to trial-by-market.
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@ShaiDavidai That is one way to dodge a lot of tough questions, yes. It is also way to insulate yourself, intellectually, from both dissents and private persons the world over, which presumably have some thoughtful things to say some of the time.
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Experience does not support the existence of a persistent, core self or of agent-causal libertarian free will. If you think it does, I suspect you're not introspecting calmly enough.
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Someone needs to write something like this for the gun debate, pointing out it was not a recognizably left-wing cause in the US until 1963, that communists often opposed gun control and that the earliest forms of it clearly targeted socialists, immigrants and ethnic minorities.
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"Every nationalist version of history is distorted. It's simplistic, selective and, above all, self-serving... One definition of a nation is a people united by a hatred of their neighbours and a mistaken view of their past. " - Avi Shlaim
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Be the libertarian Republicans think Democrats are (open borders, defund the police, shrink the military, legalize drugs).
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A large fraction of the political left actually seems to think their untutored gut intuitions about complex issues, when they’re not simply wrong, in economics are more important than not risking the welfare of poor people It’s incredible to watch day in and day out
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If you don't support independent media, you'll end up with stuff like this. 🙃
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Natural law is by far the worst leading moral theory.
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Genuine question: why do people celebrate this? Was it a good feature of Nazi Germany or other totalitarian regimes? Do we want politicians to have the ability to benefit special interests? How about a bloated military enabling the state to better achieve its aggressive goals?
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"State capacity is the ability of a government to accomplish policy goals." (Wikipedia)
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I think the utter, foundational moral insanity of the Abrahamic faiths is not picked on enough. We have hundreds of millions of people defending eternal, mass torture of people for thought crime, or their mass murder, and, quite literally, genocide and ethnic cleansing by fiat.
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Could God Issue a "Drive Out the Canaanites" Command Today? #Apologetics
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More and more convinced the "philosophy is a waste of time" viewpoint is essentially correct Yes, all of it
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More evidence regulation tends to harm smaller firms, here in terms of both market entry and growth.
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Research repeatedly shows regulation, on average, harms smaller firms substantially more than larger ones: 45-60% more, comparing the smallest and largest companies. Environmental and tax compliance regulations are especially bad, as is the cost to manufacturers.
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I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of the terms "capitalism" and "socialism" until we can figure out what's going on
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Project Liberal decided to move on from apologia for the American government incinerating civilians and calling for additional war crimes against the Chinese, is now *checks notes*... ridiculing the working class as undeserving of private property?
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Milton Friedman did not support the Pinochet dictatorship. Stop saying this.
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@katewillett Careful, the Koch brothers also believe Paris is the capital of France. I would start denying that too.
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The power levels of this picture are not easily measurable
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Taking a break from criminology and finishing this. It’s brilliant. “Economic planning, Lavoie contends, is an unworkable and ultimately reactionary policy that must be rejected by the Left” in favour of a “radical free-market” economy, to better cut poverty and militarism.
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C4SS is lit.
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@jonewsomhive This one is higher quality, I've been told.
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You can wish the central purpose of the state *should* be anything at all, but it hardly follows it will or is likely to, in fact, do that, given intrinsic political incentives like those to lessen the freedom of foreigners, most people, given they can not vote.
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Micah Erfan
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Liberalism is the idea that the central purpose of the state should be to maximize individual freedom, and that society thrives when it tolerates difference, is open to change, and treats all people as equals.
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Utilitarians: hold on, this might make sense.
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New York Post
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Man with facial disfigurement asked to leave restaurant for ‘scaring customers’: ‘I hadn’t even sat down’
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If you have a problem with firms making profits off of the backs of working families you should dismantle the entire US government which historically, presently and predictably shifts wealth towards larger firms and away from labour lol
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President Biden
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I’m a capitalist. I have no problem with companies making reasonable profits. But not on the backs of seniors and working families.
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As of 1891, a disproportionate share of detected leprosy cases were in Brazil. As of 2016, a disproportionate share of leprosy cases are still in Brazil. Leprosy, like the bubonic plague, is one disease that people have largely forgotten but has not been eradicated.
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One of my strongest moral intuitions is that political authority (as Huemer defines it) does not exist. There may be some good consequentialist justification for government over anarchy, but content-independent authority is a crazy moral property to affix to any group.
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@weatherdai @LinkofSunshine I would think that the communist position would be to oppose an imperialist war by a capitalist power dominated by an oligarchic elite, but Marxist-Leninists and other people in the statist far-left go into strange places with campism.
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unironically doing the meme™️
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The legendary socialist economist Abba Lerner opposed minimum wage laws and price controls, defended consumer sovereignty, further strengthened the theoretical case for free trade and highly respected the price system.
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Clever, underdiscussed point by Coase: since sales taxes penalize market transactions, they marginally shift exchange relations to internal, non-market organization inside the firm, both, probably, creating some firms in toto and increasing the average size of firms.
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Tax policy as a force of market concentration.
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281 thousand people liked a tweet expressing the thought people should be elected because they were shot. Whether or not you think that democracy is superior to all possible forms of government and to anarchy, you must admit there are some reasons to be skeptical of it.
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GOATed series.
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Reject statist, euphemistic language. Bombings are bombings, killings are killings and assassinations are assassinations, not merely "targeted strikes" or "missions" that "take out" (to dinner?) or "neutralize" (with a tranquilizer?) enemies.
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New large Dutch study confirms the most common finding in the criminology literature: imprisonment likely significantly increases the criminality of the punished person. In Holland, it is also 3x more expensive than community service.
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The price of retribution: evidence from the willingness to pay for short-term prison sentences...

Journal of Experimental Criminology - The objective of this study is to estimate the price of retribution. Based on administrative data on all sentences in the Netherlands in 2012 and recidivism...

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2 years
I know arguments against open borders are homogeneously horrendous but I was not expecting "wolf packs tend to avoid each other therefore immigration restrictions"
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Will Fite
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2 years
Open Border Libertarians are not only against nature they’re also too stupid to realize they’re tools being used by the radical left
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It's interesting we use euphemisms for imprisonment like "sentences", being "in custody" or being "institutionalized", but not a straightforward, factual description of what it is: caging. The first wall of psychological self-protection is often language.
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There’s a meme in much of society that being moderate is almost inherently good. It’s not, the extreme anti-slavery people were correct. Advocating liberal democracy was once considered insanity, never mind extreme. Society is made up of apes, can easily be extremely wrong.
@benryanwriter
Benjamin Ryan
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Jamie Reed @JamieWhistle drifted away from the anarchist movement. She recalled a former fellow anarchist becoming an extremist. "Extremism in all of its forms is a pathway to hell. I realized that extremism and the left do not have to be the same thing," she said at @Genspect .
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Murray Rothbard on how since government ownership of property is illegitimate and so are subsidies to crony companies, the workers are rightful owners of state and majority state-financed property by having occupied it and mixed their labour with it.
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Four books to elevate your anti-capitalism intellectually.
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I believe all the following: 1) A lot of social science and philosophy are terrible 2) Basic microeconomic theory is unusually not terrible 3) Economists should listen more to historians, criminologists, sociologists and philosophers
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@sentientist It follows from assortative mating that partners are more alike than random people across *some* traits, not all. They are significantly less likely to both have a beard than two random people, for example.
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Reading this in the train but shaking my head so they know I'm not in organized crime
@BevansAdvocate
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@BevansAdvocate
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Thinking about the time I saw this at a friend's house
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Research repeatedly shows regulation, on average, harms smaller firms substantially more than larger ones: 45-60% more, comparing the smallest and largest companies. Environmental and tax compliance regulations are especially bad, as is the cost to manufacturers.
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Non-cognitivism and subjectivism really do be having a competition for the worst view in metaethics.
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Anarcho-capitalists too confidently hold that truly free markets will replicate corporate capitalism. Historically, state intervention, suspiciously, increased roughly parallel to the erosion of small-scale and local production and path dependance is not very rare in economics.
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Excellent piece by Kevin Carson on a left-libertarian view of the history of capitalism and on the current economy. Should be "required" reading.
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The Iron Fist Behind The Invisible Hand

Kevin Carson The Iron Fist Behind The Invisible Hand Corporate Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege 2001 Originally published as a pamphlet...

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Also, dematerialization. Phones require less metal than bulky cameras and partially replace other items such as alarm clocks, handheld consoles and paper-based calendars. Land is sparred mining. Innovation and economic growth are not inherently at odds with the environment.
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Scott Lincicome
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Creative destruction: "Smartphones Wipe Out Decades of Camera Industry Growth"
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Jacobin sounding functionally indistinguishable from neo-Confederates. The Red Army imposed a Stalinist dictatorship on Bulgaria, followed by 35 years of a single dictator at the helm.
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Jacobin
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Bulgarian authorities have begun dismantling the capital city’s main memorial to the Red Army. Celebrated as a move to bury the Communist past, the obsession with symbolic score-settling in fact reflects an inability to talk about this history seriously.
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Intellectual property rights quite likely have negative effects on both static and dynamic efficiency, the latter impacts could result in a Laffer curve-like relationship where returns are maximized towards the middle of the total range of possible stringency.
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