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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Here's a vacation ad for the Libertarian Paradise:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/06/somalia-libertarian-parad_n_197763.html

Enjoy Exclamation

dporter · Joined: 26 Apr 2009

I want one of these

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/17-02/mf_seasteading

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

I think I can remember two or three threads exactly like this in the past. In fact, ya-ta, I think you actually posted something exactly like this during the Ron Paul burnup.

Ya-ta, read Reason Magazine, or their blog, and not the huffington post if you want to learn about classical liberalism. Just like I won't get my opinions about Obama from the tea baggers. Hacks, all.

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

This is an ad. A comic ad. It's even labelled as such. What makes it funny is the core of truth in it, especially since it includes that hairy cowboy type saying something like: We don't want the gov't to do anything for us. This is the same reason Colbert is so funny.

And satire has always been a legitimate form of political commentary: see Aristophanes.

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

I wonder if a non-conforming gay hippie would enjoy it there... Drum circles and free condoms on the campus of the local uni.

Axl Rose · Joined: 16 Feb 2006

Honest to freaking god, the riffraff on this board defies commentary. Seriously, are you edumacated in the least bit, Yataboy?

Libertarian paradise = SOMALIA??

What is so controversial and difficult to understand and ambiguous about libertarianism? Some people - conservatives - support laissez-faire (or as close to laissez-faire as reasonably possible). We do too. Some people - conservatives - support the use of state power to stop same sex marriages, drug-use and abortions. We don't. We are economic conservatives who are social liberals.

Sound like Somalia to you?

idiots

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

Wow, man!
I never heard it put quite that way.
Though I may fit in the riffraff, or less academically inclined group,
Two Thumbs Up!

soviet_man · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Location: Seoul

A bit of history.

First you have a traditional African country ... with a fabulous coastline, great cuisine, rich spices and a pretty, strategic, location.

Then British, Italian, Portuguese and French imperialists came ... pillaged, raped and disrupted indigenous life there and dragged next door neighbor Ethiopia into the mess.

Suffice to say the native Somalis were none too pleased with this and finally turned to Soviet help to put things back in order. There were early attempts to implement socialism in Somalia in the 1960s and 1970s. Modest gains were made. There were periods of relative stability in the country.

However capitalism had already taken deep root and a culture of rising competition between tribes, clans, the haves and have nots caused many new political formations to emerge ... to the point of armed resistance and ultimately a full-scale civil war.

So here we are in 2009. The Somalis today are still paying the heavy price for the actions of European colonialists of 3 and 4 generations ago. Capitalism was never a solution for Somalia then and offers no prospect now.

If anything, I would argue that free markets are pushing Somalis toward radical islam as a solution to economic inequality.

It is clear - the only period of stability was the socialist period of the 1960s-1970s and one that must be returned to.