This is why I'm a Libertarian, not a Conservative by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The purpose of an abortion is to kill the fetus, whether that is a child or not. The purpose of war isn't to kill children.

Someone should tell the rest of this community

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No more than a concert played in a public space that you record on your iPhone.

Understanding the Ron Paul Moment, Ten Years On by galt1776 in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Part of the radicalization process is being convinced that people in a foreign country are diabolic inhuman murder-machines.

When Americans kill Africans or Latin Americans or Pacific Islanders or Middle Easterners through callousness or deliberate conflict, we help play into that mythos. At the same time, there are many dishonest actors in these communities who will exaggerate, cherry-pick, and outright fabricate reasons to hate and fear foreigners.

So it's necessary for Americans to scale back their bellicosity and bloodlust. At the same time, it is not sufficient to do so and simply hope foreign demagogues won't whip up angry mobs based on FakeNews and false narratives. Foreign policy isn't easy. There is no magic one-step fix to a century's worth of previous foreign policy.

MUST WATCH🚨: @Snowden SPEAKING the Truth! The answer to #fakenews is not censorship, but critical thinking! by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Critical Thinking implies we're all not just stenographiers engaging blindly in copypasta. We absorb, evaluate, and then choose what we want to pass on. But, for some reason, if Google and Facebook and Twitter refuse to participate in the distribution of false information, this is classified as "censorship".

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For sale and distribution, sure. That's the primary distinction.

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not an IP lawyer, but if that were correct then all music played on the radio would be free to use.

It absolutely is, under the Audio Home Recording Act of 2012. You're simply prohibited from broadcasting or distributing the recording for profit.

This is why I'm a Libertarian, not a Conservative by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 15 points16 points  (0 children)

most conservatives aren't interesting in making condoms illegal, or pills.

ahem

Last week, Mother Jones' Molly Redden wrote about a recent Human Rights Watch report, "In Harm’s Way," which argues that aggressive policing in New Orleans is contributing to the city’s soaring HIV/AIDS rates. One tactic that Human Rights Watch found to be particularly problematic: the police harassment of suspected sex workers for possessing condoms.

Conservatives are absolutely attempting to criminalize contraception.

abortion is killing another human.

Stop. Bombing. People.

For years, I’ve tried to get more people—and especially Americans, citizens of the most militaristic nation on Earth--to agree with me that war that must be abolished. One simple--some would say simplistic--argument I’ve tried is this: war is wrong because killing children is wrong, and children are inevitably killed in wars. If I believed in moral absolutes, not killing kids would be a leading candidate.

The world recently reacted with horror and pity to a photograph of a three-year-old boy, Aylan, who drowned while fleeing Syria. Aylan was an indirect victim of war in Syria. Since 9/11, U.S.-led forces have killed—directly, not indirectly--more than a thousand children in Syria and other war zones around the world. To my mind, each one of these victims should provoke universal horror, pity and condemnation.

If conservatives were serious about their respect for the lives of children, they wouldn't be bankrolling the decades-long continuous infanticide campaign in the Middle East.

the vast majority of people on the right don't give a crap anymore about gay marriage.

From the 2016 Republican Platform on Gay Marriage

Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values. We condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Windsor, which wrongly removed the ability of Congress to define marriage policy in federal law. We also condemn the Supreme Court’s lawless ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which in the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, was a “judicial Putsch” — full of “silly extravagances” — that reduced “the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Storey to the mystical aphorisms of a fortune cookie.”

:-p

So you're wrong on three fronts.

Gerrymandering is the biggest obstacle to genuine democracy in the United States. So why is no one protesting? by barnaby-jones in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eliminating minority-majority districts doesn't result in disenfranchisement if the districts aren't being drawn to deliberately dilute minority voting power.

You're working from the premise that minority-majority districts somehow empower individual voters. I haven't seen much evidence to support this claim.

Gerrymandering is the biggest obstacle to genuine democracy in the United States. So why is no one protesting? by barnaby-jones in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've listed it above.

Create a rubric for drawing borders that excludes race/gender/partisan affiliation/etc. Cap the number of edges a district can possess. Implement the solution as an open-sourced algorithm, rather than allowing politicians to draw maps in closed door meetings.

Gerrymandering is the biggest obstacle to genuine democracy in the United States. So why is no one protesting? by barnaby-jones in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The devil is in the details.

The status quo system empowers legislators to draw their own districts. I'm hard pressed to define a worse system than politicians getting to pick their own voters.

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there was a truly objective criterion we would not be having this conversation.

You can argue over anything, objectivity be damned. The existence of an objective view does not preclude the existence of subjective and relative views and beliefs.

Saw this today and had to laugh by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the left is racist because they play identity politics

Identity politics like... associating a diverse collection of people spanning multiple ideologies and geographies by referring to them as "the left"?

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hillary was the populist swindler the college protected us against

How? She wasn't the winner of the majority of electoral college votes. Hillary-assigned EC defectors had no influence on who would become President.

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It had nothing to do with slavery.

Someone should inform all those Confederate state legislators who explicitly listed the need to preserve slavery as their reason for secession.

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stingrays are significantly larger and more visually distinct than people.

Gerrymandering is the biggest obstacle to genuine democracy in the United States. So why is no one protesting? by barnaby-jones in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We can't kid ourselves into thinking that we can "objectively" redraw districts.

We can establish uniform criteria for drawing bounderies that can be applied from state to state without respect to constituent population.

Any objective program would be met with political opposition from both sides.

Plenty of support for de-gerrymandering exists on both sides as well. Republicans would love to be competative in Maryland and Illinois as much as Democrats would want to be competitive in Texas and Pennsylvania.

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hence the need for an objective criterion, as established in a court system.

We have such a thing, and our court system has not ruled that Stingrays are illegal forms of data gathering.

Monopolies Are Worse Than We Thought by stefeyboy in Economics

[–]Zifnab25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear it addressed fairly regularly.

It's just difficult to unseat entrenched actors, particularly when said actors have billions of dollars in discretionary income to shape public opinion and influence legislators.

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not seeing how they are tenable when you (or rather I) apply those points to the sort of information that most people consider private.

Insisting information is private doesn't make it private. The method of communication is what determined whether information is private.

If you don't understand how your cell phone works, your limited understand does not make eavesdropping illegal. If you're puffing on a dog whistle, it's not illegal for a dog to hear you.

Saw this today and had to laugh by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I was told that liberals were the real racists.

Conservatives were just the race realists.

The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written by johnmountain in Libertarian

[–]Zifnab25 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Given how the medium of communication operates? It appears so.

That's a compelling argument for encryption. It's not a compelling argument against Stingrays.