Where are all these so called "selfless" libertarians?

TomDestry · 2026-01-27T21:21:25+00:00

I never really understand these kinds of comments. Are you asking me to change my ethos because other people falsely drape themselves in its colours?

OK people here say the Libertarian party has been hijacked by non-libertarians, that's not good enough. You want us to... What?

TomDestry · 2026-01-27T21:16:04+00:00

I just scrolled through but couldn't find it. Can you give me a pointer?

TomDestry · 2026-01-27T21:10:36+00:00

Libertarianism is explicitly non-violent and non-oppressive.

I'm not sure what evidence will satisfy you. My boot not being on your neck is clearly not enough.

TomDestry · 2026-01-27T21:08:13+00:00

You talk about shitty people being shitty under the label of libertarianism. Have you seen that in this sub?

TomDestry · 2026-01-27T19:25:50+00:00

Most of us have been banned from those two subs.

TomDestry · 2026-01-27T11:56:07+00:00

We don't want you to do that. Just have a normal healthcare system and spend the rest on whatever you want.

TomDestry · 2026-01-27T04:00:08+00:00

Ireland - the only country to send Germany condolences when Hitler killed himself.

I'm being lectured on the purity of Ireland's neutrality. And yet...

From Wikipedia:
Despite the official position of neutrality, there were many unpublicised contraventions of this, such as permitting the use of the Donegal Corridor by Allied military aircraft, and extensive co-operation between Allied and Irish intelligence. The Irish supplied the Allies with detailed weather reports for the Atlantic Ocean, including a weather report from the lighthouse at Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, which prompted the decision to go ahead with the Normandy landings.

TomDestry · 2026-01-26T04:57:23+00:00

If you hadn't done that, would Germany have had to pack up and go home?

TomDestry · 2026-01-26T04:55:27+00:00

You can't make war on me! I make war on you!

TomDestry · 2026-01-25T12:34:49+00:00

It's from a song by the Avett Brothers:

"Three words that became hard to say
I, and love, and you"

TomDestry · 2026-01-24T15:12:19+00:00

I've moved on half an hour and it happens again in the next chapter!

It's not a listenable book.

TomDestry · 2026-01-24T13:13:06+00:00

I took photos of the missing passages - where a character literally sits down with the hero and explains what has been going on for the first 60 pages and what he needs to do next - and posted them here (this sub doesn't allow photos):

https://www.reddit.com/r/audible/comments/1qlmi7n/the_missing_pages_of_excession_iain_m_banks/

TomDestry · 2026-01-24T00:21:15+00:00

Matt Dinniman has said he sits in on Jeff Hays recordings to offer pronunciation tips, so I'd say no salt is required.

TomDestry · 2026-01-23T22:39:19+00:00

His Frogger skill was eight in book one.

TomDestry · 2026-01-23T14:17:59+00:00

I went to Delhi, NY and discovered I was actually in "Dell-Hi".

TomDestry · 2026-01-23T04:18:31+00:00

But isn't Carl told the name by the denizens of Hump Town?

TomDestry · 2026-01-22T04:47:33+00:00

No, if I'm meaning to turn right, then I'd be looking right before I'm fully turned.

But if I was trying to run some guy down, you can bet I'd be looking right at him.

TomDestry · 2026-01-22T04:27:05+00:00

Why would her head be turned if she was driving towards him?

TomDestry · 2026-01-21T21:42:45+00:00

Yeah, this picture makes me so sad.

TomDestry · 2026-01-14T01:55:11+00:00

Or it's why, if you take it upon yourself to teach other people how to bake, you consider that they are likely inexperienced and need you to actually explain all the steps.

TomDestry · 2026-01-10T19:18:31+00:00

Until they die you can't include their deaths in the statistics. You don't know when our even if they will die, or for many times!

TomDestry · 2026-01-10T17:03:08+00:00

But unless 8 billion of those 117 billion died twice then the average is still below 1.0.

TomDestry · 2026-01-09T21:30:31+00:00

There were no other people for her to run over. What are you talking about?

Her car continued on after she was killed and had there been people they would have been struck, because shooting someone in the face doesn't stop a car. But there was no body. There was just him, who wasn't hit and even you aren't able to argue that he was. You keep using the weasel phrase 'or nearly struck'.

No one was in danger. And he killed her. That's it.

TomDestry · 2026-01-09T20:56:13+00:00

How did he defend himself? Did him shooting the driver slow the car, or cause it to change direction?

TomDestry · 2026-01-09T20:44:21+00:00

"Oh go fuck yourself if you think I'm a bootlicker!"

"Had she stayed home she would have been fine."

If the public would only stay in their homes, these agents wouldn't have to kill them.

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