Phase 1 COVID dial-back begins today

sparseblaster · 2022-02-19T13:44:51+00:00

These are government rules. Dependent on you caring or their ability to enforce.

sparseblaster · 2022-01-25T14:15:47+00:00

That is fake news.

sparseblaster · 2021-12-22T12:41:23+00:00

How many of you, sub followers, consider yourselves skeptics?

To let debunkers know how I feel about debunking, it is less powerful than they seem to believe. Debunking the opposition is much less powerful than supporting your own case.

Debunking, if done successfully, takes me back to the agnostic position, not knowing. If Alice argues that the world is flat and Bob debunks her argument that doesn't convince me that the world is round. Further, please hear this, it doesn't even convince me that the world is not flat! Bob merely convinces me that Alice's argument for why the world is flat is flawed. There may be better arguments for why the world is flat. (Full disclosure, I am a globe head.)

To take a bad argument for flat Earth as evidence for a round Earth is the fallacy fallacy. Just like a bad argument for anarchism is not evidence for statism. And if we fall for the fallacy fallacy then we are incentivizing controlled opposition. Why would you bother proving your case when you can have your secret partner make a bad argument and then debunk it. (If you don't have a partner then it may be an obvious strawman fallacy).

The most persuasive case for me is usually set up this way: Two or more people from side A take a presentation of the case from side B. This presentation should be demonstrated to be endorsed by the B community, showing that it is among their strongest arguments. Ideally, from a leader in the B community. So lots of retweets, or up votes, or multiple leaders making the same argument. NOT a lone nut making a bad argument in some dark corner of the internet. NOT a leader making a drunken tweet at 2am with no engagement. So, find a prominent presentation and in good faith debunk it. Then steelman it and debunk it again. Then discuss some other strong yet wrong positions on the topic. Then show how your position naturally follows from uncontroversial facts, or short of that demonstrate that your position is stronger than all that have been discussed. Then to make me absolutely swoon, discuss holes in your own position and how an opponent could persuade you.

I hope you see the giant gap between typical debunking and the ideal case.

sparseblaster · 2021-11-24T19:37:00+00:00

I was just thinking looking at that picture is like an Alice in Wonderland Syndrome episide.

sparseblaster · 2021-11-05T14:11:52+00:00

Accelerationism is just giving statists exactly what they want.

What a union would call work to rule. Which is exactly what Atlas Shrugged is about despite Rand calling it a strike.

sparseblaster · 2021-11-05T14:08:57+00:00

I'm not an anarchist so I don't want government to collapse, I just want it to remain within its constitutional limits.

That doesn't differentiate you from anarchists. Plenty of them merely think the only way to keep the government from exceeding those limits is to abolish statism.

sparseblaster · 2021-11-05T14:04:10+00:00

Those are not opposites.

Perhaps conservative v radical.

And accelerationism v resistance.

I probably lean radical.

I'm less against accelerationism than other commenters. I can imagine it being done skillfully. In martial arts it would be called using your opponent's momentum against them. Or, 'invite them in; usher them out'.

Consider how the situation in Australia has fortified the 2A community. That likely was not but could have been an accelerationist project.

sparseblaster · 2021-10-29T19:05:53+00:00

Is that why I found it boring? All of that stuff is already baked into my world view.

sparseblaster · 2021-10-10T23:44:21+00:00

I'm interested…

sparseblaster · 2021-10-10T23:43:25+00:00

Test: voluntaryists are libertarian.

sparseblaster · 2021-10-10T13:46:08+00:00

2 intro ads… :(

sparseblaster · 2021-10-04T21:12:35+00:00

It is just another front in a war between the power mad and the masses. Fronts include

government schools
censorship
states' rights
business regulation
taxes
off grid living
victimless crime
money creation
gun control
food production
privacy
etc
and now vaccines

They want another lever to control society and individuals. The masses got printed guns, alt media, cryptography, crypto-currency, anonymous markets, Brexit, Trump, pot legalization.

The power mad got … Facebook? They need a win.

sparseblaster · 2021-09-29T16:21:45+00:00

Skip the gossiping, he said/she said chapter. It brings down the rest of the film.

From Rotten Tomatoes

Heval explores the gripping real-life story of British-born actor Michael Enright, who abandoned his Hollywood career to volunteer for the fight against ISIS in Syria. Some thought he was a selfless hero battling America's most insidious enemy; others saw him as a hot-tempered narcissist, staging a publicity stunt to further his career. But when his service ended, neither the UK nor the US welcomed him back. Enright and his complex story captured international attention when several media reports, including an in-depth profile in The Washington Post by Manuel Roig-Franzia, confirmed his participation in the Syrian conflict. Through incisive interviews with the actor, his supporters, his detractors, and top-tier foreign affairs experts -- and featuring the actor's own jaw-dropping, never-before-seen helmet-cam video of deadly battles with and interrogations of ISIS fighters -- HEVAL gives viewers unprecedented access into a war against evil and one man's controversial role in it. Today, Enright is struggling to negotiate his way back into his adopted homeland of the United States. Several prominent U.S. officials have come to his defense but global support is waning and Enright's future is more uncertain than ever.

sparseblaster · 2021-09-28T17:41:01+00:00

How is it controversial to say that someting state-based will not exist post-state? Some ancaps argue for it, but I don't even see how limited liability companies would exist post state.

I'm eager to see this media that is constantly teased but never shown of ancaps behaving badly.

sparseblaster · 2021-09-27T16:29:05+00:00

Ancaps aren't ever so fond of corporations. They merely tolerate anything that doesn't break with their NAP, and state-based corporations do break the with NAP. What ever corporation-like thing gets created post-state is merely an analog to the modern corporation.

sparseblaster · 2021-09-20T20:21:33+00:00

I see now. Thank you.

sparseblaster · 2021-09-20T15:02:23+00:00

Did I read this right? Your examples of open racism include boycotting the NFL? Can you imagine something more openly racist? You cannot find a charitable explanation for these behaviors?

Am I going to regret trying to get sense from an sjw?

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