Nevada Rancher Hilarity: The Tragic Death of Y'All Qaeda's Tarp Man - Page 39 - Politics and Economics

Also amused that on that reddit page, Nielsio has to threaten everyone it's no longer OK to promote their Patreon page. I forgot all the long-con scammy nature of the ACist movement too, ldo it's just infested with people internet busking their Kickstarters and Patreons for someone to pay them to make YooToob videos about the dangers of federal reserve and the socialist origins of the Santa Claus myth.

01-05-2016 , 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by iron81

I stopped hating Nielsio well before I stopped posting because his posting improved. I'm more curious what happened to Borodog and other AC posting. The few radical libertarians that are still around like Tomdemaine and PVN don't post in a recognizable manner any more. I assume that had to do with the broader trend of liberarianism being less cool on the internet.

whatever dude, YOUR less cool on the internet

01-05-2016 , 06:27 PM

#953

2/325Falcon

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The cynicism UToob is gone.

01-05-2016 , 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DVaut1

Hold up, Cyrus versus BluffTHIS! was the best political forum battle ever. I still think deep down in his heart, pvn thinks BluffTHIS! is a gimmick account of mine.

there's no doubt about it.

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FWIW I'm pretty sure Cyrus came back as countless gimmicks over the years but what the **** happened to BluffTHIS!? I assume he's still here somewhere, well concealed as always.

Well, here you are, ain't ya?

Cyrus only came back like 5 or 6 times, all in rapid succession, and then he finally went away.

We need a fallen soldiers thread obv.

01-05-2016 , 06:33 PM

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I just had a wander through the old ACist threads in search of the bit where I got Borodog to admit that ACism would only work in a world where everyone spontaneously decided to respect the principles of nonaggression. I didn't find that, but I did find some other amusing stuff. Wanna take a trip down memory lane, tomdemaine?

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The idea that people should own land is also a conclusion that has been worked backwards to. The rationales used in support of this ("I used it first, therefore it's mine") are completely unconvincing to me. To me the idea that most land ought to be for communal use makes sense as a matter of principle. The problem is practical - we end up with a tragedy of the commons. That's the reason I support private ownership of property - the consequences, not the principles.

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No the principle is humans have the right to appropriate things from nature for their exclusive use and those things then become their property. You may disagree with that principle (and therefore reach different conclusions) but as Vhawk says I don't believe you and even if you somehow do you're in quite a small minority which of course doesn't make me right and you wrong.

Your past self is accusing your present self of lying about your beliefs, you should really have a word with that guy.

01-05-2016 , 06:34 PM

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DVaut1

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Originally Posted by pvn

Cyrus only came back like 5 or 6 times, all in rapid succession, and then he finally went away.

Cyrus consistently gave it away because he was the only poster that changed the title on posts he was responding to. Even after he moved onto gimmicks like Mickey Brauch. What a bizarre tic. I don't think he ever stopped doing it either so combined with his writing style and consistent trolling of BluffTHIS, you could insta-spot him, which BluffTHIS would pounce on to demand the moderators enforce his permaban.

The only reason I know he went away for good is that no one does that **** anymore.

01-05-2016 , 06:42 PM

#957

tomdemaine

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

I've had a few. He's a good guy. Naive, but a good guy.

01-05-2016 , 07:04 PM

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ctyri owned that thread pretty hard. Also notable for ACist brains trust heavyweight Borodog apparently being literally unable to grasp the idea that it might be possible to use resources like land without making them privately owned. If anyone who wasn't around then wants to see the **** we had to put up with, starting here and reading down (about the last 10 posts of the thread) is a pretty good microcosm.

01-05-2016 , 07:19 PM

#959

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Originally Posted by tomdemaine

I've had a few. He's a good guy. Naive, but a good guy.

Old tomdemaine was a libertarian with empathy for people not exactly like himself - an inherently unstable situation.

01-05-2016 , 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

So much of the ancient knowledge has passed into legend and song. Will the children remember the great ACist heroes of the past? Or the great SMP invasion of 2014-15?

before actually posting, i read a couple years worth of threads, although i quit reading many of them after 1 or 2 posts, and quickly learned which posters to not bother reading, as they'd be quoted and ridiculed later on.

the brucez/smp invasion threads from an outsider's perspective was quite a wild read. one can only imagine what it was like in real time. i never got to the ac threads.

it's nice of the old timers to reveal some of the legends of the past to the new accounts that are actually new members.

01-05-2016 , 07:41 PM

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Fixed your link, Chris

01-05-2016 , 08:12 PM

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While I was at it, I reread some of the 2012 election threads. That Rove/FNC meltdown was beyond amazing in real time. One thing I'd forgotten was that mid-results coming in, when the entire west coast was yet to report, TRUMP was going ape**** on Twitter about how Obama's victory was ILLEGITIMATE and a national disgrace because he was losing the popular vote and getting bailed out by the electoral college. Obama went on to win the popular vote by 5 million votes.

Also, who remembers this?

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Originally Posted by pipes

When Obama loses tomorrow, I don't want you guys to think you got unlucky. It's not a gutshot on the river. You got outplayed. I'll back tomorrow to remind you of that fact.

Ahhh. Good times.

01-05-2016 , 08:18 PM

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how could anyone forget pipes, the big shot actuary privately unskewing polls for very important people?

01-05-2016 , 08:31 PM

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Free pipes!

01-05-2016 , 08:39 PM

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Also, who remembers this?

Ahhh. Good times.

Election predictions: a review

Somehow lacking in PIPES posts.

01-05-2016 , 09:52 PM

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iron81

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In the interest of Fair and Balancedness:

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Originally Posted by [Phill]

Apparently part of the profits from his "predictions" went to the George Zimmerman defence fund who he has also strongly backed to win. Bet the other side imo.

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Wow, my prediction that the LIBYALIBYALIBYA!!!! coverage would stop after Nov. 7 sure came true. Been checking in on FOX and AM talk radio throughout the day and there's not a peep about Libya.

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01-05-2016 , 10:16 PM

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Now hang on, it was totally true that the wall-to-wall BHENGHAZIIII coverage died way down after the Nov 2012 election was over. Never said it wouldn't return for the 2016 election.

If you want some lolTrolly, I was totally predicting Jeb! to crush the primaries back in summer 2016.

01-05-2016 , 10:30 PM

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fatkid

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Ham Rove.

01-05-2016 , 10:54 PM

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They gonna cut the power. Also the food in the photo looks like it won't last long. Got some killer workout gear there though. #squidbillisha

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...-power-cut-off

01-05-2016 , 11:24 PM

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They gonna cut the power. Also the food in the photo looks like it won't last long. Got some killer workout gear there though. #squidbillisha

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...-power-cut-off

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“After they shut off the power, they’ll kill the phone service,” the government official added. “Then they’ll block all the roads so that all those guys have a long, lonely winter to think about what they’ve done.”

Snowstorms are expected in the wilderness surrounding the refuge on Tuesday, which is some 30 miles from the town of Burns. At night, temperatures are forecast to plummet to -8C (18F).

Fantastic. This is exactly what people ITT were saying should happen. The phone service thing will probably especially rustle them, as it will interfere with all their facebooking and twittering.

01-05-2016 , 11:26 PM

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fatkid

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You can't Twitter on landlines papa. Oh, maybe they have some switch for cell service extenders or something? Anyway they don't have enough Lil Smokies to make it till Monday.

01-05-2016 , 11:26 PM

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On MSNBC now--an armed rancher sitting on the ground completely covered by a blue tarp. At least that's what the station is saying is under the tarp.

01-05-2016 , 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by fatkid

They gonna cut the power. Also the food in the photo looks like it won't last long. Got some killer workout gear there though. #squidbillisha

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...-power-cut-off

They clearly don't understand the caloric needs that the human body has to sustain the kind of standoff that they are attempting. Someone needed to google TDEE before this kind of stunt.

01-05-2016 , 11:35 PM

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They gonna cut the power. Also the food in the photo looks like it won't last long.

How long do you have to hold out without food in the freezing ass-cold so you don't look like too much of a pussy to your followers?

To be fair, a couple of these guys look like they've stored up enough fat that they could make it to Spring.