tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80852282407795403842024-03-12T16:47:18.992-07:00The Jim Jesus BlogIf I say what this blog is about I'll just shift gears again. It's about stuff. Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-55985655835761342572014-12-07T12:09:00.000-08:002014-12-07T12:09:32.804-08:00What's been eating my time?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
2 things:<br /><br />1. I'm running a now-successful IndieGoGo campaign to create a Cards Against Humanity expansion with libertarian jokes called Libertarians Against Humanity. If you want more information, play online for free, or to order real world decks, then go to <a href="http://libertariansagainsthumanity.com/">http://libertariansagainsthumanity.com</a><br /><br />2. This blog will be going away at the beginning of next year and coming back on another platform. I absolutly <i><b>hate</b></i> Blogger. So I will be moving to private hosting and using WordPress. So until this happens this blog will be on hiatus. I'm going to be super busy fulfilling card orders and migrating all these blog posts to the new server. </div>
Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-37425261801993538932014-10-11T16:17:00.003-07:002014-10-11T16:17:45.798-07:00More Tribalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Jim Jesus wouldn't be Jim Jesus if he didn't talk about tribalism and Jim Jesus hasn't talked much about it directly as of late.<br />
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One of the things tribalist antistatists do is automatically assume that I am not an antistatist because I critique fellow antistatists. If you talk negatively of antistatists you can't possibly be one because you're not supporting every assclown that preaches it. There's lots of antistatists talking the good talk and walking the good walk for it and the related issues I don't feel like I should devote much time doing it. I do it, but I have a bigger objective.<br />
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When I look at the other ideologies and see them defending atrocities and atrocious people because they're on the same team, it makes my stomach turn. It turns people on the outside off to whatever message you're bringing. When a communist defends North Korea or Stalin, no good comes of it. When a Democrat defends a war in Syria, no good comes of it. When a libertarian defends a destructive cult or tax loophole scams, no good comes of it.<br />
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There's a division of labor not just in the market for labor, but for the market of ideas and I see a huge hole in that market for internal criticism. I'm here to specialize in that. My goal is to encourage my fellow antistatists to stop the nonsense that only harms their own cause. There's really great antistatists whom I think do a fantastic job and there's some I think do a terrible job. If no one is going to tell them they're doing it wrong, they'll just keep doing it wrong.<br />
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Just because I agree with you ideologically doesn't mean I'm going to defend you when you do something wrong.<br /><br />So who are these wonderful antistatists that never fuck up? There are none. We're all humans and even I say things I look back on with disgust. My only wish was someone there to jab me when I do. However there are some I think do a great job.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.freedomfeens.com/" target="_blank">FreedomFeens</a><br /><a href="http://badquaker.com/" target="_blank">The Bad Quaker</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/lengthyounarther" target="_blank">lengthyounarther</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/InternetLibertyShow" target="_blank">Josh Cardosi</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxTD0AjUXRIMYpGqUYk6h2A" target="_blank">IvanTheHeathen</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/praxgirl" target="_blank">PraxGirl</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty" target="_blank">LearnLiberty</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottMcK9" target="_blank">Scotty M</a> (He does do stuff with RockingMrE, but what else I've seen is great)<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/xaxie1" target="_blank">BadMouseProductions</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/shanedk" target="_blank">Shane Killian</a><br /><br /><br />If you know of more I'd love to update the list but these are just a few I can think of from the top of my head.<br /><br /></div>
Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-16232079147200677672014-08-31T16:12:00.000-07:002014-08-31T16:12:48.634-07:00Deleted BuzzFeed Article Titled: "The Bizarre Online Cult Of Stefan Molyneux"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;">Like all cult personalities, Stefan Molyneux cuts a superficially charismatic figure. Tall, bald and smiley-faced, the increasingly popular 47 year old Canadian runs FreeDomain Radio, the world’s most popular philosophy podcast. He’s interviewed people like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcI6HWreSI" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Noam Chomsky</a>; he gives public talks about economics, and he’s even been fortunate enough to have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xq_ZYB8rew" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Joe Rogan helplessly nod in agreement with him for 3 hours during a nauseatingly fawning encounter</a>. A self proclaimed libertarian anarchist, those who stumble across Molynuex will more than likely be greeted by videos in which he argues (poorly) for free-market solutions to the worlds woes: that everything, including law, justice and security, can be provided by an unregulated market system.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Fine. It’s just his point of view, and, agree or disagree with him, Molyneux’s online bloviating about a political system that’s never going to become a reality is at first seemingly innocuous. His followers are free to click, watch, agree, and tip their fedora in solidarity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Behind this Youtube philosopher, however, is a growing cult of personality in which devout followers adhere to alarmingly absolutist (and widely discredited) teachings.</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">If, for some reason, Molyneux’s videos have spoken to you in a profound sense, and if you’re willing to donate 50 or more dollars a month to FreeDomain Radio, you can become one of its ‘Community’ members. These members are, for the most part, people who have fully committed to Molyneux’s teachings on ethics, philosophy and family. It is to these followers that Molyneux discusses and often endorses the appalling practice of ‘Defooing’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">‘Defooing’ – a term coined by Molyneux – is the practice of cutting any and all ties with ‘corrupting influences’ in one’s life. These corruptions can range from an immoral acquaintance to an abusive parent or spouse. In theory, defooing would be fine if Molyneux were merely advocating leaving abusive or unhealthy relationships; however it seems as far as Molyneux is concerned, virtually all friends and parents are corrupt and worthy of cutting ties with. <a href="http://freedomain.blogspot.ie/2005/04/are-people-just-stupid.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In a 2005 essay in which he discussed his philosophy, he scathingly wrote</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Numerous people have cut ties with their friends and families as a result of Molyneux’s teachings on relationships and family. Parents have been never spoken to again. Friends have been lost. Jobs have been quit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">‘Defooing’ and practices similar are widely discredited by psychologists. Molyneux’s wife – a psychologist – was even <a href="http://www.molyneuxrevealed.com/2011/05/christinas-professional-misconduct-is.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">accused of professional misconduct for advocating it to callers to the show</a>. In fact, such is the damage people feel that Molyneux and his wife have done: there are three websites dedicated to warning people about the dangers of joining their online community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“You’ll watch videos related to the topics that you’re interested in, whether its atheism, or whatever, and gradually he sort of bleeds in stuff about relationships and psychology” says Alex, a young woman who cut ties with her family at the behest of Molyneux. Although she has since reunited with her family, Molyneux’s teachings greatly damaged her life, causing her to drop out of her college major, quit her job, and cut all ties with her loved ones. “I was committed. I was a true believer”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Finding herself increasingly interested in Molyneux’ teachings, Alex became involved with the FDR community, eventually becoming a member of Molyneux’s inner-circle, a select group of ‘Philopher Kings’ who are in direct contact with the libertarian luminary. She and the others in this small group were even at times invited to Molyneux’s house.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“I was listening to the podcasts non-stop…I would listen to 6 or 7 a day. [After she eventually left the FDR community] What I learned about later was this concept of’ information overload’ that happens in cults. Once you’ve absorbed a certain amount of information, you lose your critical faculties…so, you have these podcasts that are like, one, two, three hours long, and once you’ve absorbed all of these different tangents, he hits you with stuff that’s really, really radical. But, by that point, you’ve sort of been depleted of your resources to think about these things critically. That’s where the real shift starts to happen.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">At least consistent in applying their philosophy to themselves, both Molyneux and his wife have cut all ties with their respective families. His wife, who he often references on his show, had a relationship with her family until she met Molyneux and he <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">convinced her that her childhood had not been happy at all</i>. Alex’s experience was almost identical to that of Holy Molys first victim – Molyneux encouraging her to sever ties with her family and friends in the name of his absolutist conception of morality. “I listened to the podcast about confronting your family, and the different ways that you felt that they’d made mistakes when raising you. Very quickly I went towards the podcasts that were like, ‘Well, this is how they’re going to respond, and this is why, and this conversation is actually futile.’ And I went really quickly from that to defooing. I left my home in the middle of the night, moved in with my boyfriend, and just stopped responding to my parents. They were thinking of filing a missing persons report at the time.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Once a successful young woman with a boyfriend, a job, and a college course, Alex soon found herself poor, alone, and miserable. “I had two conversations with Stef, one was about childhood, and the other was about how frightened I was to defoo. I didn’t really have a contingency plan.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Two years after defooing, Alex still found herself living her life in search of the approval of the FDR cult. “I broke it off with my boyfriend. I had been getting the feeling that, Stef thought our relationship wasn’t healthy. It’s a very common thing that happens. And so, I broke it off, and was ready to become more deeply involved in the group, but here I was again, no job, no money, nothing. I was kind of in a state of catatonic depression for a while.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In conjunction with deliberately isolating new members of his community – a practice that is commonly accepted as being <a href="http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/question_what-is-mind-control.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a trait of cults</a> - Molyneux also releases videos in which he discusses ‘the facts’ about popular or historical figures. The subjects of his scholarly ‘Truth About’s range from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-W5fGCAzOk" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Abe Lincoln</a> to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPJbdXvuEMY" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chelsea Manning</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">These videos without fail advocate a free-market approach. In his critique of Lincoln, Molyneux argues that the American civil war – and indeed the problem of slavery – could have been solved if the southern states had been allowed to secede. Apparently, the north could have simply purchased all the captive laborers , and then promptly set them free. It didn’t seem to occur to him that the Confederacy may not have wanted to sell their sources of unlimited free labour, and that slavery remaining legal in the seceded south might still have been potentially problematic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Unrelenting in his quest for poor taste, on the 28th of May – the day Maya Angelou died – Molyneux posted on his Facebook asking if he could be directed to any source materials regarding the authors life. Two days later, ‘<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1XTPve_PiI" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Truth about Maya Angelou</a>’ was uploaded to YouTube; the only harsh truth revealed being the lack of research that goes into Molyneuxian exposés.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In his critiques, Molyneux almost without fail brings up traumatic events from the individual in questions childhood. He then uses these juvenile misadventures to explain what he regards as his subjects foibles. In making the childhoods of public figures he is criticizing central to their flaws, Molyneux is underhandedly reinforcing his other teachings about parenting and relationships. Everyone is flawed because of a bad childhood, and what is needed for the moral progress of the species is a year zero approach in which followers of Holy Moly cut all ties with past corruptions in their lives and begin anew.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">As well as reinforcing his widely discredited views on relationships and family, these videos serve a very important function for the cult of Molyneux: in his demystifying and criticizing heroes of history and lore, he’s also tacitly adducing his own prestige to his followers. The philosopher king is slowly but surely discrediting people commonly accepted as moral heroes, all the while portraying himself as an ethical, economic and relationship guru.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Adding more problems, in his role as a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tl7RUpDfiE" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dating guru</a>, the right-wing Renaissance man is an unapologetic misogynist in his attitude toward women. The cognitive dissonance required in order to take Molyneux seriously as a social critic and philosopher became particularly obvious when he turned his sights on woman-hating mass murderer Elliot Rodger.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Unsurprisingly, in revealing ‘the truth’ about Elliot Rodger, Molyneux pointed the finger at two of his usual targets: women and socialists. The latter because they have normalized the notion that it’s okay to redistribute wealth with the use of force, and the former because someone – presumably some gold digging slut – must have gotten the idea into young Elliot’s head that wealth can be traded for beautiful girls. When Rodger realized that this wasn’t so, he snapped.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">For a philosopher king, Holy Moly doesn’t seem to realize that the kind of rhetoric he espouses on his channel both validates and encourages people with views similar to Rodger’s. Addressing a caller in a video titled <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXshfD3s6g" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The Matriarchal Lineage of Corruption’</a>, Molyneux went on a particularly vitriolic rant, in which he blamed women for the presence of evil in the world, saying</span></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">“Women who choose the arseholes will fucking end this race. They will fucking end this human race if we don’t start holding them a-fucking-countable…They’re the gatekeepers. Look, women who choose aresholes guarantee child abuse. Women who chose arseholes guarantee criminality, sociopathy, politicians; all the cold hearted jerks who run the world came out of the vaginas of women who married arseholes. And, I don’t know how to make the world a better place without holding women accountable for choosing these arseholes. Your Dad was an arsehole because your mother chose him. Because it works on so many women. If ‘arsehole’ wasn’t a great reproductive strategy, it would have been gone long ago. Women keep that black bastard flame alive. They cup their hands around it, they protect it with their bodies. They keep the evil of the species going by continually choosing these guys. If being an arsehole didn’t get women there would be no arseholes left. If women chose nice guys over arseholes we would have a glorious and peaceful world in one generation. Women determine the personality traits of the men because women choose who to have sex with, and who to have children with, and who to expose those children to. I get that you’re angry at your Dad, and you have every reason to be angry at your Dad. Your Dad is who he is fundamentally because your Mother was willing to fuck him and have you; willing and eager to fuck the monster. Stop fucking monsters: we get a great world. Keep fucking monsters: we get catastrophes. We get war. We get nuclear weapons. We get national debts. We get incarcerations and prison guards and all the other florid arseholes who rule the world. Women worship at the feet of the devil and wonder why the world is evil. And then, you know what they say? “We’re victims!..Poor us!”. And some women are absolutely…but dear god in heaven…men will become whatever women want them to become, because women are the gatekeepers…So, I think that if you accept that women are central to the cycle of evil in the world, then you will be able to see how it really reproduces. Evil is of matriarchal lineage – in the present. I’m not talking about Mongol hoards and rapes and blah, blah blah. Evil passes through the Mother. It’s Jewish. It’s a Matriarch.”</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Although Molyneux’s teachings (and in particular his attitude towards women) are increasingly insane with every podcast, Alex is optimistic that eventually, people will discover the kind of person he really is, “Stef has become demonstrably more unhinged, and I can only see the trend worsening until anyone with a reputation to uphold won’t want to be associated. As far as the new young one’s he’s continually drawing in, hopefully more and more criticism will accumulate that exposes the insanity through this whole thing, so it can’t be buried like it was when I first became involved”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">And so followers of Molyneuxian morality must ask themselves: if Elliot Rodger had heard about ‘The Matriarchal Lineage of Corruption’, do you think he would have been encouraged or discouraged to commit his crimes? What’s the difference between the rhetoric above, and the kind Rodger wrote in his manifesto?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">This kind misogynistic rhetoric isn’t an isolated incident either, a recent <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stefan.molyneux/posts/10152843942826679" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook post</a> of Holy Moly’s saying</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Apparently, a young woman’s sexual appeal is designed to ( how he knows definitively what a woman’s sexual appeal is for has never been disclosed) attract a quality man: a nice guy (!?) – like Stefan Molyneux, and presumably, people who follow his philosophy and ethical teachings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Feral, fedora wearing, fringe-right wing idiots with delusions of grandeur, who think that feigning friendship with a female entitles them access to up their skirt: <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nice%20guy" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Nice Guys’</a> have to a great extent become the laughing stock of cyberspace. This stereotype, though often funny, actually serves to defer attention from the casual violent sexism that is so ubiquitous among followers of Molyneux and those like him. Worryingly, many loyal viewers of the world’s largest and most popular philosophy podcast hold a sincere and deep seated belief that women are at fault for the wrongs of the world because they’ve been granted the right of choosing who they do and do not have sex with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">When Elliot Rodger committed his horrendous crimes, many concluded that misogyny had a major role to play. Even more people dismissed these claims, and said that resentment and hatred of women was not a cultural issue. What’s alarming about the cult of Molyneux, is that very few of his fans – if any at all – seem willing to challenge his psychotic position that evil could be eradicated from the world if women would just get their shit together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Like most cult personalities – and, in a weird mix of tragedy and irony – Holy Moly also seems to be a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqngrsDHU6Y" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pretty severe narcissist.</a> In another podcast, which has since been removed, Holy Moly said</span></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">“It’s not up to me whether this show succeeds or fails. I don’t have the option of failing. Because, the kind of communicator who can translate complex philosophical ideas into emotionally actionable to-do lists for people is so rare that they come along every couple of hundred years if humanity is lucky. I don’t have the choice to fail. I don’t have the option to fail. Not because I want to be front and centre in the moral progress of the species, but because the moral progress of the species is absolutely essential, and I have a child. Failure is not an option, which means I have to do whatever it takes to make this show succeed. I have to be as honest and provoke as much discontent and disagreement with people, sometimes as is absolutely necessary. This is not my horse to ride. This is not my career to pursue. This is what is necessary for the world. This is what is necessary so that children don’t get hit, and half of penis skin doesn’t get slashed off from babies. This is what is necessary so that good people achieve their goals and bad people get fucked. This show is really about bad people getting fucked, and good people getting successful, right? In the same way that my cancer treatment was about cancer cells getting fucked, and the good cells not….And the reason I’m telling you this, is not so you understand my show and my motivation, you know? It’s the Bob Marley thing. In one of his songs he says ‘I am playing for mankind’. I am playing for mankind. One love. I am speaking for mankind, I am speaking for the future. I have to be as good at what I’m doing to save lives.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“He [Molyneux] records absolutely everything. Even when hes just out of the grocery store. One of the other members told me he said he does it because ‘wouldn’t it be amazing if you could hear Socrates having a conversation with his barber’. Sometimes you’re aware you’re being recorded, sometimes you’re not. It adds a whole “walking on eggshells” vibe to everything.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Usually, when a prophet’s teachings are dedicated to saving lives and minimizing harm, they don’t have <a href="http://www.molyneuxrevealed.com/2012/06/suicide-caused-by-stefan-molyneux-and.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">families blaming them for the suicide of their child</a>. It’s also usually pretty easy to distinguish their ramblings from those of a psychotic killer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">And so, increasingly, followers of the teachings of Holy Moly are abandoning their friends and family. They’re being taught that their parents were abusive to them. They’re being taught to blame women for the presence of evil in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Aggressive, belittling, and constantly psychologising those who question him, ironically, those who abandon their family at the behest of Molyneux have guaranteed themselves the abusive parental figure he’s so manipulatively convinced them they’re fleeing from.</span></div>
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<b>Last Update September 6, 2014</b><br /><br />When I was little I used to love going to Las Vegas with my parents. They had arcades, cool shows, and lots of cool things to do as a kid. The one thing that really caught my eye was the forbidden casino floor. Not because I was interested in the act of gambling, but just the sounds of clacking coins against a steel money bowl. The people walking around with plastic buckets full of quarters and dollar coins was just so appealing. We stopped going as a family in my teens and never returned until after I was out on my own.<br />
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Imagine my disappointment when I returned to find that a part of my youth, the clacking of coins and the huge arcades, were all but a memory. Electronic beeps and chimes have replaced the clacks and the people walking with huge buckets have been replaced by bland boring tickets with bar-codes. It kept me from appreciating that little world even from the sidelines. Now living here, as I roamed the casino floors and resort grounds as a nifty little way to burn some excess calories in the cool A/C and away from the blistering desert sun of Vegas I have found a piece of my childhood in the small dark corners of the adult Disneyland.<br />
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To this day I avoid gambling like the plague, but for some reason I can't help myself tossing in a few quarters when I come across the rare animal of the coin-op slot machine. Not to win money and not to lose, but just to capture the mixed feelings of happiness and sadness of a golden time.<br />
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Now I'm building a list and I'm sharing it with you if that is something that you'd be interested in. This list will grow as I find more or if more people inform me on where to find them, so keep checking back if you want in on this as well.<br />
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Located on the southeast corner of the Circus Circus property, is a little dingy, ratty, hell hole where you can get a Subway 5 dollar footlong for $10. It smells like a chain smoker's house who don't believe in opening a window, ever. Pool tables, a bar, and some beer pong tables it's hard to tell if this wanted to be a casino or a dive bar. Either way there's a small collection of quarter machines next to the brilliantly placed quarter operated gumball bar. Not exactly my pick of the litter, but there's some magic here.<br />
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While we're here, might as well go inside the better half and check out the area for dollar coin-op slot machines. They advertise it's high pay out rates which is a bonus too.<br />
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It's not cold here and you know she wants it. The D located on the Freemont Experience Downtown Vegas is a neat little spot. You can come here, have a drink, get a room, or eat at the restaurant and pay in BitCoin. However because of the state's gambling laws, you can only gamble with US currency. They have a BitCoin ATM so you can just cash in and out to gamble. Take the escalator one flight up and you are whisked away toe "Vintage Vegas" where they have an embarrassment of riches in coin op machines and a Blarney stone to kiss for good luck. Not just slots, by the way. They also have coin-op video poker and even a Sigma Derby.<br />
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-77523876805409194332014-08-18T20:57:00.003-07:002014-08-18T20:57:43.207-07:00Stefan Molyneux: Do as I say, not as I do<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So the great opposition of intelectual property and the state and summoned the state to enforce his intellectual property as a means to bludgeon criticism.<br />
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His defenders don't know what to do to defend him but try to make the erroneous claim that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 signed into law by Bill Clinton isn't a government law but a YouTube End User Licence Agreement. Not even run of the mill Stefbots, even Larken Rose tried to make this stupid claim. </div>
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-4327508574383134072014-07-06T18:31:00.001-07:002014-07-06T18:31:38.526-07:00We Have The Right To Fight LeRoux<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In <a href="http://voluntaryvirtuesnetwork.com/?p=533" target="_blank">an article on Voluntary Virtues</a>, Christopher LeRoux defends the position that Christopher Cantwell made advocating the murder of police officers in line with the N.A.P.. Mike Shanklin attempted to do the same and it ended embarrassingly.<br />
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So here, I will use the same line of reasoning I will show why it would be justified under their view on the Law of Non-Aggression Principle (LONA.)<br /></div>
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<i>The law of non-aggression [LONA] is absolute, axiomatic, a priori, eternal and universal: No one may ever lawfully initiate aggression, coercion, or fraud under any circumstances. Yet while the LONA criminalizes all initiation of violence, it sanctions proportional defense. Thus it would not be lawful to shoot someone who merely steps across the front yard of your house but only to issue a warning. But if a trespasser refuses to desist, a greater amount of force becomes appropriate, and even deadly force could become necessary. Likewise, if your house is robbed while you are out, it is lawful to seek proportional restitution. If the criminal resists, deadly force could become appropriate.</i></blockquote>
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This seems well and good so far. Let's continue.<br />
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<i> In our present, barbaric society, some people claim to be exempt from the LONA because they work for a fictional entity called the “state” or “government.” Every moment of our lives, we groan under the domination of these violent criminals. The extortion they call taxation and their billions of dictations oppress our existence day and night. Their aggression, coercion, and fraud are unceasing, unrepentant, and enforced with any amount of violence they deem necessary to maintain total control. However, all individuals are equal under the law of non-aggression, the only social law.</i></blockquote>
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OK so the non-aggression principle is not using force or fraud and using the appropriate proportional response to prevent or stop the aggression and the state are aggressors because of their actions of taxation, police actions, war..etc. because no one is exempt from LONA. OK, Got it.<br /><br />He goes on to explain in mind-numbing detail every possible scenario of interacting with a police and preventing him from aggression him and the only thing that gets established is that no matter what you do the state will always up their aggression against you no matter what. It concludes that such a conflict is unwinnable and not very smart. No, shit. So what's the solution?<br />
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<i>If it is impractical to warn them to cease and desist or to wait for an armed attack against a fixed position, is it moral to “take the offensive” in a defensive struggle? Can we lawfully target and kill a “police officer” at home in his stolen bed for instance? Yes, it is lawful if it is necessary to reduce or abolish the crimes being committed against us. We have no duty to submit to our slavery. We may target “police” or any other “government” employee, even in their stolen homes, in the middle of the night, if we believe it will reduce the crimes being committed against us. Does this justify going on a random killing spree of “state” employees? No, proportional defense against aggressors not in the immediate act of aggressing is clearly only justified as part of an effort for restitution or overall tactic and-or strategy to reduce overall initiation of violence. Our goal must be freedom and peace, not revenge.</i></blockquote>
<br />Because you can't stop the aggressor, it's well within the N.A.P. to kill the cops while they sleep if we feel that it will stop the aggression. He goes on to say that now is not the time for such action because it's a fringe view and most people will not be receptive to these actions. Which roughly translates to "I'm a big fucking pussy."<br />
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You see, the reason he makes this clear that he doesn't advocate doing this even though it's justifiable in his stupid interpretation of the N.A.P. is because he's too much of a wuss to get questioned by law enforcement about his blog post and too chickenshit to do it himself when people say he should walk the walk.<br /><br />So here I will make the case that Mr. LeRoux is making to prevent him causing me further harm.<br /><br />Mr. LeRoux uses fossil fuels. He uses them directly via electricity generation and/or automotive transit which causes pollution and CO2 emission. He breathes out CO2. CO2 is a greenhouse gas (surely there will be DROs/PDAs that will accept this as true no matter how much you don't think it's the case.) Pollution from fossil fuels does contribute to many ill effects on health and the environment. He is also using public roadways which causes wear to the roads and demands more tax dollars to repair, maintain, and police. I could ask Mr. LeRoux to stop breathing and driving, but surely he will resist and continue to harm me and others. I could threaten him with a gun to stop but surely he will not have any of that either. He and his libertarian friends may also assist him in overbearing me with firepower. So I guess it's justifiable to shoot him in his sleep while he's pumping out CO2 from his snoring face and heating his house with fossil fuels to prevent me and the rest of the people to stop having to deal with this mess he's making of the air. It's not a good idea, not because most people aren't aware of it and need to be educated but because IT'S ASININE, IMMORAL, AND DANGEROUS.<br /><br />Seriously if you really think killing cops is a justifiable action then please try so the cops will kill you and I don't have to keep saying why it's a stupid idea. They can look at your rotting corpse and come up with non-violent solutions to shrinking or eliminating the state. Also don't be a pussy about it either. If you're going to hold up heroes like Christopher Cantwell does to Justin Bourque and Paul Ciancia, then lead by example so we don't have to listen to you making asses of libertarians anymore.<br /><br />
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People who often decry 'planned obsolescence' as some sort of objection to markets are not the brightest bulbs in the firehouse. So I have to clarify everything upfront or I will get the shit storm of people "disagreeing" with me when we actually agree.<br />
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When I use the term "planned obsolescence" I'm talking about one type specifically. That is that manufacturers deliberately limit the lifespan of a good for the explicit purpose of getting more repeat business. I'm not talking about the other forms.<br />
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So what sorts of 'planned obsolescence' are real? Let's say you're a technology manufacturer, and you find that your customers like to upgrade on average every 2 years to the latest product. So you design your product with parts that can wear out in about 5. You do this for legitimate reasons. Why waste time, energy, and money on resources that will give a phone a 100 year lifespan have to be recycled into something else or thrown out in 2-5 years? A lot can change technology-wise in 100 years, even in 10 years. Imagine how much of a fool you would have been to buy a pager in 1997 that costs 300 dollars more because it will last a lifetime when no one uses them 10 years later. Who knows what the future will be in cell phones in 10 years from now or 10 years after that. How would you feel if you bought an iPhone 1, G1, or a Blackberry at 4 times the cost so it would last 90 years. You would have already had it recycled. (BTW, if you're not recycling your phone, you're an asshole and you're also breaking the law. Your cellphone provider will tell you so.) This is perceived obsolescence. The technology will be phased out even if the hardware is up to the task so manufacturers cut costs for you so you're not overpaying for something you won't even use. I see this as beneficial for all parties involved. This is not what we will be debating.<br />
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The argument I will be debating is that companies, with malicious intent, rig devices and goods to die out so you'll come back. First of all it fails on purely logical grounds. Let's say you're Company X and you make a widget designed to fail in 2 years and there's no real reason to do so besides increasing sales. This would mean that if Company Y made a widget without this time-bomb, they would gain market share because they could advertise that their product lasts longer at the same price. Take a light bulb. You have a choice between 2 light bulbs with identical light outputs but one lasts 1 year because of an intentional design flaw, and the other lasts 2 or more years. Word gets around that Company X's light bulb doesn't last as long as Company Y's and X will lose market share.<br />
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On the other side of the coin you will have consumer advocacy groups like Consumer Reports that will announce the faulty products and recommend Y over X and market share is lost. The other problem is those fucking geeks. The lifehackers, the reverse engineers, and the other geeks who like to see how things work will identify faults and publicly expose them. If they find something that seems deliberate, lawyers will find these consumers who were defrauded and file a class action against Company X. Company X now will use the extra money it gained fighting a legal battle and paying restitution. Not a smart move.<br />
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Ah ha, Jim! Didn't you see the Pyramids of Waste/Light Bulb Conspiracy?! There was a cartel who limited the span of light bulbs! Haven't you heard of the Centennial Light Bulb?! It's been on for over 100 years! Debunk that!</blockquote>
Oh, I will. First let's talk about the Centennial Light Bulb because it's not related to the cartel or planned obsolescence. I made a video about that and I suggest you watch it and then we'll talk about Phoebus.<br />
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The Phoebus Cartel was an interesting topic, but it's often over simplified for ideological reasons. The cartel didn't have a hold of every light bulb market. There were Nordic companies who did make longer lasting lamps but they did not sell over the shorter lifespan bulbs. Why was this? Because the longer lifespan bulbs used more electricity and put off more heat than light than the shorter lifespan bulbs. People found it more advantageous to buy bulbs more often, pay less for electricity, and get more light. It's also why we transitioned to tungsten bulbs not long after with an even lower life span than the Phoebus cartel's regulations. Tungsten lamps burned cooler and brighter.<br />
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I made the point in the above video and I think I should stress this point here. If you think that companies intentionally retard products for repeat business, how do you explain light bulb manufacturers introduction of CFL lamps which have almost 10x the life span? All the while they were developing and refining the LED lamps to last even longer. Why didn't the light bulb companies lobby the government to ban CFLs on environmental grounds to protect their planned obsolescence model of incandescents? "Those CFLs will get mercury into our water and farms!"<br />
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Now this is not to say it's possible or even that this can exist. There are cases where you have a walled garden system where you'd need to buy their refills for their products but they are typically on the fringe or for hobbies. Tamagotchi Pets come to mind, but even those had to cave to reusable models after backlash.<br />
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Anyways, love to hear what you guys think. For now I have to go to the store and replace these apples that are overripe because of Mother Nature's planned obsolescence. Curses! </div>
Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-38242325768905740802014-03-06T17:07:00.002-08:002014-03-06T17:38:13.420-08:00I'M SO POOR, GIVE ME MONEY SO I CAN PARTY WITH DEAR LEADER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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OMG, LIFE IS SO BAD FOR ME RIGHT NOW, PLEASE GIVE ME MONEY SO I CAN GO SEE MY FAVORITE CULT OF PERSONALITY. I KNOW I SHOULD BE HOME WITH MY KIDS AND TRYING TO GAIN JOB SKILLS AND MOVE UP IN THE WORLD. I MEAN I'M 38 AND I ONLY JUST STARTED WORKING AT MCDONALDS A YEAR AGO BECAUSE I WAS TOO BUSY FUCKING AROUND ON THE INTERNET. I KNOW I GOT A HUGE WATER BILL BUT THAT'S ALL PART OF THE BOURGEOIS SYSTEM KEEPING ME DOWN AND AWAY FROM HANGING OUT WITH DEAR LEADER. I AM A VICTIM SO GIVE ME MONEY PLEASE GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEYS.<br />
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-36257701447699185312014-02-28T06:44:00.002-08:002014-02-28T06:44:26.317-08:00The Events in Ukraine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The majority of my readers are from the US and Ukrainian readers come in a close second. I would like people chime in on their thoughts on what's going on in (the) Ukraine in the comments below, but especially Ukrainians.<br /><br />Be safe, guys. </div>
Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-34384800357934126152014-02-03T09:32:00.002-08:002014-02-03T09:33:31.320-08:00Posting Policy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Anyone who is active in "Fans of V-Radio" will be blocked and their comments will be deleted from any medium I have control of. It's not hypocrisy in the slightest, on the contrary. I'm holding them up to their own standards of free speech. As long as you support a guy who false DMCA's and false flags down videos that disagree with him or expose his nonsense, you will be subject to the same treatment. I will not stoop to their level and try to censor their content on other mediums I don't control (i.e. YouTube, Blogger...etc) because I'm not a total shitbag. <br />
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I've had this ban just on VTV for quite some time, but I'm only extending it out on people who support his shenanigans. Sorry, if you support censorship you get censored here. That's the beauty of censorship; you don't get to chose what gets censored. </div>
Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-25189738813251545092013-12-19T23:53:00.003-08:002014-01-01T21:50:17.059-08:00VTV Files a Bogus DMCA against my YouTube Poop of Him [SENT COUNTER CLAIM] [VTV RESPONDS]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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People like James Kush, the Anon2AllOfUs people, MarioBrotha..etc. have a problem revealing their identity and never pursued Neil on his bogus DMCA stunts. It seems like he sees himself as bullet proof when it comes to this and decided to go after me. Like <a href="http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/forum/5563/merola-thinks-im-james-kush-and-fails-hard-at-law/">I did with Peter Joseph</a>, I have no problem volunteering my information to these jokers and their frivolous legal shenaniganry.<br />
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Neil Kiernan sent a false DMCA on my YouTubePoop of him. For those who don't know what YouTube poops are, take this example. This is a YouTubePoop I made of a YouTube user CardinalVirtues (who's new channel is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/UnseenPerfidy/videos">UnseenPerfidy</a>. Good stuff, go sub.) His videos are heavily researched, often political videos. He's an atheist, skeptic, fiscal conservative democrat and he liked the video I made. </div>
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Let's say good ol' Rob took offence instead. He does own the copyright to most of the content I used in the video. Could he, if he wanted to, file a DMCA over it and take it down? The answer is no. <br />
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DMCA and the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 accounts for "fair use" pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.<br />
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Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:<br />
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Courts typically focus on whether the use is “transformative.” That is, whether it adds new expression or meaning to the original, or whether it merely copies from the original.<br />
<b>2. The nature of the copyrighted work</b><br />
Using material from primarily factual works is more likely to be fair than using purely fictional works.<br />
<b>3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole</b><br />
Borrowing small bits of material from an original work is more likely to be considered fair use than borrowing large portions. However, even a small taking may weigh against fair use in some situations if it constitutes the “heart” of the work.<br />
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Uses that harm the copyright owner’s ability to profit from his or her original work are less likely to be fair uses. Courts have sometimes made an exception under this factor in cases involving parodies.</blockquote>
So under Rob's theoretical DMCA claim, he would be not able to file a takedown legally.<br />
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When filing a DMCA, you are signing a legally binding document, <u><b><i>under penalty of perjury</i></b></u>, that you understand DMCA and U.S. Copyright Law and it clearly is an infringement of your copyright. Title 17 U.S.C. Sec. 512(f)<br />
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So legally, such a defense will not hold up in court.<br />
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So what happens next? I notified VTV he had 24 hours to repeal his takedown or I will file a counterclaim. This clock ends December 20, 2013 at 14:00 PST. Within 10 days of the filing 4 things will happen:<br />
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My information will be provided to Neil.<br />
My video will be reinstated<br />
The strike against my channel will be lifted<br />
VTV's YouTube account(s) may suffer termination.<br />
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In order for the video to be removed thereafter, he would have to file a lawsuit against me and risk reimbursing my legal fees or lost monetary damages I might suffer (days lost from work, traveling...etc.) I'll also file an injuction preventing him from filing further DMCAs against myself.<br />
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Now I'm no fan of censorship. Having his channel terminated I don't like, but it's my only option to fight this blatant form of censorship against me. VTV did not like the YouTubePoop I made, which is in full compliance of U.S. copyright law and abused the legal framework to remove it. I can't stand idle while people abuse this system and so I will be following through. So I have my hands tied. Sorry VTV. You can still stop this. Stop being a bitch, and be a man. Repeal the takedown.<br />
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Here's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlQ3HxHbeac">link to the video</a> that was taken down. Once this has been resolved it will be viewable again.<br />
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UPDATE: Because I was a little drowsy from donating blood (because I'm a greedy capitalist who only cares about money and not ever helping anyone) I couldn't stay up until 2:00 PM, so I filed my counter claim at around 6:00PM when I woke up. <br />
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UPDATE: VTV responds.<br />
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-83444367784416685522013-12-16T06:31:00.001-08:002013-12-16T06:32:52.291-08:00Here's What You Have to do to Promote Communism in 21st Century America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. Avoid calling it communism or Marxism.<br />
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2. If anyone still calls it communism, ascribe positions to communism communists don't hold and say you don't subscribe to those positions.<br />
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3. Barrow legitimacy from science and technology. People can disagree with your ideology but not science. So just pretend that you wanting to use science in your prescription is the same as it being scientific.<br />
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4. Everything else isn't a <b>TRUE</b> Scotsman like yours is. If there's place that has tried your idea already and failed, just say it didn't have the technology to do it yet. Because the whole world was banging rocks until you figured out your ideology so it didn't count. Nevermind that they had a successful space program or the ability to mass produce things, it can't be good enough unless it went smoothly. <br />
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5. Nevermind the details, you got pretty pictures. Why bother with explaining how it will work right this time, we'll figure it out later with science magic. Now, shut up and look at these pretty city designs.<br />
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6. Only politicians and for-profit firms are subject to corruption. Once you wear a lab coat instead of a suit and tie, you're unable to corrupt anything. Science is magical, it can do no wrong.<br />
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7. Convert idiots with cheap gimmicks and internet videos. Why try and get real scientists to support you when you can solicit the help of idiots on YouTube? Also do some Mr. Wizard tricks like showing how memory wire works and say it can do things it can't like make a self repairing car out of it.<br />
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8. If someone is attempting to debunk your ideology, just remember to define your rigid ideology in the most vaguest way possible. Sure he can show why it won't work to just remove money, so don't bother. Just say you're just a "sustainability advocacy group" and there only thing you want is to address "social concerns."</div>
Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-70922818927475907892013-12-05T19:19:00.003-08:002014-03-30T14:39:50.990-07:00Dr. Zeitgeist or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Responding to Peter Joseph's Economic Calculation Problem Lecture.<br />
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I initially had no plans to make this for 4 reasons:<br />
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1. Peter Joseph Merola, the leader (yes, he is the leader) of The Zeitgeist Movement is an incoherent, ignorant, megalomaniacal prick. He's not too shy to send me <a href="http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/forum/5563/merola-thinks-im-james-kush-and-fails-hard-at-law/">bogus legal threats</a> and he did (probably still does) think I'm James Kush because Jim is short for James and we both oppose TZM. When he's not out trying to knuckle anti-TZM websites out of existence, he's constructing an epic tower of fail at the <a href="http://i.imgur.com/EGKCXhX.jpg">word salad</a> bar.<br />
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2. TZM is a 'dead' 'movement.' Though it was hardly alive in it's heyday in 2009-2010, it was so fringe even then it made anarcho-capitalists seems like a viable political outfit. Attendance at their events like Z-Day and The Zeitgeist Media Festival since have been steadily declining after the split with TVP. The views and subscriptions to TZM's Culture in Decline series have been pretty dismal too if you discount the<a href="http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/Cultureindecline/monthly"> obvious view bot activity</a> that happened around April of this year.<br />
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3. I don't subscribe to the ECP anymore but there's a few things you must consider about the argument that stands well. While it <a href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm">doesn't show that socialism is impossible</a>, it does point out the importance of the price system, trade, and private ownership has in an economy. It's the only reason I keep that video and blog post up. Even if the conclusion is faulty, the reasoning does illustrate how money and trade works. Needless to say, the socialist responses to ECP have always been terribly bad, factually inaccurate, and logically inconsistent. It has always amused me how much mental gymnastics a collectivist can do to disprove an incorrect theory.<br />
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4. The idea that having to work in a market economy to make a living is comparable to chattel slavery is beyond the pale. I'm sorry your McBoss is a jerk, but he doesn't beat you, kill you, and rape your female family members. The wage slave argument, <a href="http://www.jimjesus.com/2013/10/on-division-of-slavery.html">as I've illustrated before</a>, is intellectually bankrupt. I take it less seriously than Marx's Labor Theory of Value or Reverend Moon's claim of divinity. When I heard him make this direct comparison, I turned the video off in disgust. He's devaluing the horrors of chattel slavery to serve his ideological position. It's disgusting when PETA does it, it's no less disgusting when Merola does it.<br />
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However curiosity got the better of me and I jumped to Part 3 of the video where he tries to address the ECP. Before that I did take some notes from what I did see of Part 1.<br />
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He talks about resource consumption and reproduction. Shows a study that said if we keep business as usual we'll overshoot this balance and start running out of resources.<br />
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Problem is it ignores the price mechanic. Supply goes down, prices go up making it more advantageous to extract in harder to extract locations, develop new methods of creating said resource, or seek and develop alternatives. The world was sure we couldn't sustain wale oil to light everyone's home until kerosene came along. Now we don't even use kerosene, we use tungsten, neon gas, and LEDs. So "business as usual" wouldn't happen because of the price mechanic because both consumers and producers would be restrained financially to do so.<br />
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"Abundance, sustainability, and efficiency are the enemies of profit" </blockquote>
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On the contrary. Take for example bluefin tuna. As the Chinese people are moving away from poverty they are developing a taste for sushi. Tuna, being one of the most popular fish used for sushi, are becoming threatened by this new demand. It's driving entrepreneurs to find sustainable fishing and farming methods to fulfill this demand including more efficient ways to feed them that would alleviate the threat on overpopulation in their eco-systems. Now tuna was pretty abundant when this all started to become noticeable and these alternatives were being explored. Entrepreneurs on a market want to create abundance to serve the demand, sustainability to preserve their business model, and efficiency to keep costs of production and price of final goods down. The only business that would be OK with holding back good from the market are those with a state-protected monopoly because if you know you can have competition you can't survive hiding back goods for higher prices. It's not just tuna, not just farming in general either, it applies across the board. If you go into any market. Let's say milk. How long do you think your business survive if you decide to only sell 300 gallons a month for 20 bucks a gallon (SPOILER: One month)<br />
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"...market capitalism is, indeed, empirically socially destabilizing" </blockquote>
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This is factually and empirically false. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455883115/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1455883115&linkCode=as2&tag=intjimjesblo-20">If you look at the data</a> from the whole world from the dawn of man to today, you will see a decline in violence. Wars are fought less frequently, less brutally, and with less deaths. There's less violent crimes. The reasons for this are a system of law, women's suffrage, cosmopolitanism, education, and (get ready for this) commerce.<br />
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So on to part 3. <br />
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Market Capitalism's structural goal is growth and maintaining rates of consumption high enough to keep people employed at any given time; employment requires a culture of real or perceived inefficiency and that essentially means the preservation of scarcity in one form or another.<br />
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...and good luck getting a market economist to admit that.</blockquote>
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Zeitgeisters want to have a huge robot army that will bash people over the head with a recyclable aluminum T-ball bat to anyone who asks for something even remotely luxurious as an iPad because there's not enough to go around. Good luck getting A Zeitgeister to admit this.<br />
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See how smarmy this is? No, that's not how a market works. It's not even possible in a market economy because of the possibility of competition that makes such a business model unsustainable without explicit state-sanction monopolization of an industry. <br />
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The RBE, RBEM, NLRBE, or whatever the new buzz word is this year for technocratic communism is not a centrally planned system because, according to Merola, it's a "Collaborative Design System" that allows for public feedback into a open source system. I hate to burst your bubble, Dear Leader, but that's not what TZM has been advocating all this time. TZM, when it was still partnered with TVP, <a href="http://www.thevenusproject.com/extras/faq">has said </a>there will be scientists and engineers from the world's nations and universities who will come together and construct a new state and cities and transition into a totally cybernetic system. You concurred. You concurred for long after the split. Only now you want to change it because you don't like the term "central planning." If you didn't have a problem with that term, you would have never bothered working in the CDS in your movement.<br />
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This all sounds fine and dandy when you're going to be implementing software to run an encyclopedia or operating systems for geeks who know what's going on, but not for running an economy. When you talk about having a system that allocates literally all of the world's resources, this becomes a target for sociopaths. If a line in Wikipedia about JFK going to the moon and getting punched by Buzz Aldrin is on Wikipedia for a day, a few people chuckle and it gets fixed. No harm done. If this happens for something like all the world's conflict metals, everyone is fucked for a long time. Sure you could have people monitoring the system and try and correct, but if you get an attack by a group like LulzSec... God, I don't even want to think about it.<br />
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Look, open source is great. I love it. I use Linux off and on. I prefer to use free community maintained software as much as the next nerd. To think that just making something open source makes it better and near-perfect is not even remotely accurate. Take the open source Second Life viewer. It's a total piece of shit, all of them. They all run like crap on virtually every computer I've ever used it on. Sure you can point to something like BitCoin which if hacked or exploited, the system can just revert the money back to the rightful owner by a software fix which wouldn't be possible if you just ordered the destruction of a good amount of the world's lithium.<br />
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Either way, it's not exactly horizontal planning system as we'll see later on. If the computer network (though decentralized in structure) comprises of a centralized AI system that decides what can be made and what may not be made. </div>
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...like Wikipedia without the moody administrators.</blockquote>
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Or like TZM's moody global coordinators and moderators too? Didn't think so.<br />
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Price, property [sic] and money translate subjective demand preferences into semi-objective exchange values. </blockquote>
Sigh. No. Prices translate production costs too. This is important, you can't leave this out. You also just can't say, objectively, that because you don't think something has much value than you think it should for technical reasons that it's just some cultural bugaboo. Dude, you're using a Mac. Technically, it's overpriced hardware with a closed source OS. You could, technically speaking, have a much faster, more reliable PC laptop with an open source OS like any of the Linux distros. Cheaper too! But who am I to say it doesn't have more value to you than it does me? I guess I don't understand the value of being a hipster. :/<br />
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...prices embrace, very crudely, relates to resource scarcity and labor energy.</blockquote>
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No, no. No. No, no, no. No, no. No. Prices communicate resource scarcity, production costs, and value. There's more to production than just "labor energy." You have capital goods, supporting infrastructure, research and development, logistics, advertisement...etc. Prices also reflect, and this is really, really, really, really, important, perceived value. <br />
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Let's say that collectively, we all agree that a pile of iron ore, some buckets rubber sap, a barrel of crude oil, and some copper water is worth 100 utils. That means that we agree that the utility of this stuff to us is worth "100" as they are. Now let's say we whip it up into a car and we spent 200 utils doing so. Buying tools, paying people..etc. total price to build 300 utils. But a car has more utility as a car than the raw resources, and we are willing to pay 900 utils. That means they we created 600 units of utility. Now let's say we whipped up the same stuff into a shit moped that just sits there and looks ugly because the crappy eco-friendly recyclable engine sucks 200 utils. Now people will only want to pay 50 utils for it. Now we just wasted 250 utils and we're all poorer. Now without the units of utils we won't know, according to ECP, that we've created value or wasted resources.<br />
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Do you see how Merola has no idea what the fuck he's talking about now?<br />
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Now we get a scientific sounding formula:<br />
Design Efficiency > Production Efficiency > Distribution Efficiency > Recycling Efficiency = Utopia.<br />
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But no comment on it yet. ...ok.<br />
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Merola throwing this "steady state" economic idea around without understanding what it means ever since the ECP was becoming a thorn in his side. This was because Mises himself described an scenario where the ECP wouldn't apply. The Steady State Economy. Which is the bogus idea that everyone would just make the exact same economic decisions at steady and predictable times. Imagine eating the same thing, using the same technology every day, and doing the exact same thing for leisure every day for the rest of your life. That's the steady state economy. It was an absurdity that Merola picked up on without even bothering to think about.<br />
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He then goes into the needs versus wants shit. Let me be clear; there's no such thing as objective human needs. There's concepts of what humans require to stay alive and healthy both mentally and physically, but there's no "needs." People willingly commit suicide (and no, it's not mostly about money they do this.) People actively join services like the military, police force, snow crab fishing..etc which they know their lives could end. Living is a sliding scale desire. Some desire it more than others for a plethora of different reasons. Food, is a basket of goods. You can have tasteless gruel that can be mass produced, or you could have French truffles and wild Russian caviar which can not. Shelter is the same. You can have a bunk on a rotating bed or a small studio apartment or you could have a mansion made of marble. So again with all these sliding scales of desires, there will have to be subjective decisions on what to make. They have to be subjective whims because they're subjective values. Given the hundreds of trillions of different ways to manage all the resources involved in producing them into food and shelter, You'll need all the information that prices provide (more on that later) to forecast those decisions, and you'll need a measuring stick to see if you're creating value or destroying it.<br />
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The idea that capital goods are going to be consumer goods is just absurd. What will the 3D printer 'ink' come from? Another 3D printer? No, it will have to be extracted. By a 3D printer? No, by producer capital goods. There's going to be a need for a quarry to get rock and lime to make your cement, iron ore and refinery tools and machines for the metal, and oil and refineries for the plastics.<br />
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Again, Merola doesn't know what he's talking about.<br />
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He says we can get rid of waste by printing things where we need it instead of shipping it. Only you'll need to ship the "ink" to the printer. What of you have a Montana situation were like a handful people live in the whole state over a large spread? Or a situation like New York which can't sustain it's own local resources for production?<br />
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Now we get a scientific sounding formula again:<br />
Design Efficiency > Production Efficiency > Distribution Efficiency > Recycling Efficiency = Utopia.<br />
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But no comment on it yet. ...OK.<br />
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More stupid nonsense about capitalism. Your only choice is what corporations give you. Ignoring the fact there is open source options and the ability to design your own an compete. The people who know how to design phones most efficiently work for said companies. Us vs. Them nonsense. *yawn*<br />
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The military is not totally socialist nor are they efficient. They outsource most of their production and R&D to contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Beechcraft, ..etc. and they do compete for contracts. They also buy up Hummers, tanks, ships, and aircraft that are gas guzzlers at over inflated prices. Only in Merolaville is the military efficient.<br />
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Now for the Design Efficiency, there's no need for a lot of this stuff. For one, if we're going to recycle it, why do we need modular systems? Just recycle it and get a new one with the features you want? Why make it durable when the recycling process will break it down anyway? You're giving it a head start. Why would you have both totally custom 3D printed goods and standardization? Why not have trade-offs?<br />
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Now what I've said totally undermines his new NLRBEMCSDEOC ...thing. but here's where I'll make this clear:<br />
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Heterogeneous Value Assessment can not work. Why? 3 Reasons:<br />
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1. It assumes resources are resources for certain things based on what we know now and how much we have of it. Sure we can know the conductivity of something like copper back in the 50's for making telephone wire, now we use sand which isn't even conductive. Now we mostly use radio waves. Tomorrow who knows what we'll use. A resource is only a resource once we know how to use it and it's only viable once we know if it creates value rather than destroys it. While price will give you a real-time reflection of these production costs and values, the system would need new software upgrades to account for the emergent demand and the recycling of the old. Which, typically comes with development time and some bugs. <br />
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Bugs are fine and all if you're going to run a website, but to manage all of the earth's resources... I'm going to pass on that.<br />
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2. This new system does not calculate all production costs (costs not in money, but of capital goods extending generations back.) To have plastic, you must have crude oil, which needs to be extracted, refined and shipped all by various machines which is made of a host of other raw resources which were made of other machines made of various resources, which were made from other machines and so on and so on. Prices give you all of that information. <b><i>'Heterogeneous Value Assessment' makes no mention of this.</i></b><br />
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3. A network (even with various local or 'genre' nodes) still will have problems with mètis knowledge. That is (in case you forgot) knowledge that can not be communicated or understood to people not entrenched in it.<br />
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Mètis, with the premium it places on practical knowledge, experience, and stochastic reasoning, is of course not merely the now-superseded precursor of scientific knowledge. It is the mode of reasoning most appropriate to complex material and social tasks where the uncertainties are so daunting that we must trust our (experienced) intuition and feel our way. Albert Howard's description of water management in Japan offers an instructive example: "Erosion control in Japan is like a game of chess. The forest engineer, after studying his eroding valley, makes his first move, locating and building one or more check dams. He waits to see what Nature's response is. This determines the forest engineer's next move, which may be another dam or two, an increase in the former dam, or the construction of side retaining walls. Another pause for observation, the next move is made, and so on, until erosion is checkmated. The operations of natural forces, such as sedimentation and re-vegetation, are guided and used to the best advantage to keep down costs and to obtain practical results. No more is attempted than Nature has already done in the region." The engineer in Howard's account recognizes implicitly that he is dealing with "an art of one valley." Each prudent, small step, based on prior experience, yields new and not completely predictable effects that become the point of departure for the next step. Virtually any complex task involving many variables whose values and interactions cannot be accurately forecast belongs to this genre: building a house, repairing a car, perfecting a new jet engine, surgically repairing a knee, or farming a plot of land. Where the interactions involve not just the material environment but social interaction as well-building and peopling new villages or cities, organizing a revolutionary seizure of power, or collectivizing agriculture-the mind boggles at the multitude of interactions and uncertainties (as distinct from calculable risks)</blockquote>
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Merola, if you're reading this (and you probably are as you're typing up another bogus legal threat to me) learn what the fuck you're talking about before you comment on it. I don't even adhere to the ECP anymore and the whole time I could help but caress my forehead as you make some of the most eloquent but blatantly retarded statements. Sure, this will pacify your fans who are clueless about the ECP but you won't win any of the people who adhere to the ECP argument, because to them; you're just an ignorant fool who speaks before they listen.<br />
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-27638332154173424552013-10-20T17:28:00.001-07:002013-10-20T23:39:56.932-07:00On The Division of Slavery.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wage slavery is an intellectually bankrupt concept that if pinned down squirms into a whole different slithery animal. Before I explain why, let me tell you a story.<br />
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A group of survivors of a plane crash wash up on a deserted island. They all come together and assign chores for everyone to make sure they all survived until help came. John was a redneck back home, so he decided to handle fishing because he was better at it than the others. Trey was a carpenter back home, so he was in charge of building shelter because he was better at it than the others. Josephine was retired and a homemaker who spent a lot of time gardening back home, so she was in charge of farming food because she was better at it than the others. Tom was a bodybuilder and an athlete back home, so he decides to climb the trees for fruit and gather and carry miscellaneous supplies because he was better at it than the others. </blockquote>
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One day Trey gets mad that he has to work to get access to essential living supplies and decided to stop working. The other people in the village decide that Trey would no longer get the fruit of their labor and would have to get his own while the others decided how to reallocate the work load. "This is resource slavery!" said Trey "I have to work, give up the majority of my work, and if I don't I starve." The others rolled their eyes and got back to work while Trey had to go forage for all of his stuff alone. </blockquote>
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So what did we learn? Everyone in the society had a job. The labor was decided according to what they were better suited for. The reason they did this is because if everyone had to do everything for themselves, they would fail at most areas and succeed in a few. Josephine, being a retiree, would have difficulty in more laborious work, she did have a green thumb so she would had poor housing, poor access to protein, but a nice garden. The other members would have had similar problems. However, the division of labor lets everyone in the group do what they do best, better than the others alone combined, and trade for it.<br />
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Was John an evil man for expecting Trey to contribute to the group for access to his surplus of fish? Was Josephine being a greedy bitch for excepting a house in return for access to her garden? Is mother nature a brutal tyrannical instituter of slavery and structural violence? Of course not.<br />
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Now expand this out to a far larger and advanced society. People all specialize in even smaller tasks they are best at and trade. Having a neurosurgeon fish for his own crab would be silly, instead he trades his expertise in surgery for the crab fisherman's expertise indirectly though currency. In civilized society, people do what they do best for society for access to the fruit of other's labor and it makes society wealthy.<br />
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A person who claims that "the system" is evil because it promotes wage slavery, is being no different than Trey. He expects others to labor for him because of a myopic understanding his role in the division of labor. <br />
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"Ah ha! But if he doesn't work for a capitalist for a wage, then he will starve!" Not necessarily. Trey, if he was back home or on the island would still have options. He could decline to participate in this division of labor or forgo the benefits and be a jack of all trades and become self sufficient. Of course, he will not want to do this, because it's too much work for him. He would have to forgo his share of the sum total of all the fruits of the society's labor in exchange for his own "freedom from wage slavery" and expend even more labor for all of his needs. Outside of the island, he has even more choices. He could start his own company and have greater reward. He would no longer be a "slave to the punch clock" and if he has issue with putting others though that, he can form a co-op with other like minded people. This is not out of the ordinary, as there are communal groups who do this like the Twin Oaks commune. Even still, Twin Oaks would probably not allow for Trey to come in and benefit from the other people's labor and not contribute himself. Thus he would probably claim Twin Oaks are wage slave owners.<br />
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The whole concept of wage slavery is a joke. People who will tell you with a straight face that "If you don't work in capitalism, you'll starve" will back-peddle when you remind them of the bevy of social programs and charities aimed at people who are less fortunate. "It was an obvious exaggeration" one told me. If it is an exaggeration that not working in a liberalized economic system means you will die of starvation, then the whole idea of wage slavery falls flat because one can abstain from work and still survive. Not only survive, but probably have a better life than left to his own devices in the wild.<br />
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For me I chose a life of 'wage slavery' because the alternatives are dire and bleak. My master offers me wages and opportunities to grow in his plantation, become a part owner of the plantation or even leave to let me fine another plantation or even form my own plantation. You can see how silly the slavery language is if used consistently which the left will never do because it undermines their theory.</div>
Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-75529898782817230602013-10-01T21:26:00.000-07:002013-10-01T21:26:06.341-07:00Just to make things clear...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I don't know why people still claim that I am an "Austrian economist." <br />
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<li>I'm not an economist. I've never worked as an economist. I've never written any kind of economics journal entries or treatises. Just because I have an interest in economics and I talk about economics <i>does not make me an economist. </i></li>
<li>I'm not an Austrian. I haven't been an Austrian for about 2 years. I'm more of the public choice types of Chicago School of thought (i.e. Bryan Caplan, David D. Freidman..etc.) . The differences are very small, but they are exactly at the points of many of the claims made against the Austrian School that are applied to me.</li>
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-67743573702881496652013-09-13T05:32:00.002-07:002013-09-13T05:32:41.657-07:00Uncle Milty's AgitProp Blues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
AlterNet was an internet publication I used to read back when I was a liberal and it was the reason I stayed on the far left for a couple years of reading it. It's easy to be that far left when you're so woefully uninformed and AlterNet did it's job well.<br /><br />As of late, because of the large revival of libertarian thought as social conservatism is seeing it's golden years, the left has been targeting libertarians disproportionately. Self described libertarians are a vast minority, but if you read the left blogosphere you'd swear they're lible to get elected president next election cycle.<br /><br />On the 6th, AlterNet posted an article "<a href="http://www.alternet.org/visions/true-history-libertarianism-america-phony-ideology-promote-corporate-agenda?paging=off">The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda</a>" making the erroneous and outrageously stupid claim that American libertarianism has it's roots in the mid-20th century with Milton Friedman. If you think I'm exaggerating:<br /><br />
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<i>This background is important in the Milton Friedman story because Friedman is a founding father of libertarianism,</i> and because the corrupt lobbying deal he was busted playing a part in was arranged through the Foundation for Economic Education.</blockquote>
Now I can't attest to Freidman's dealings as a lobbyist, it's kind of hard looking it up (especially considering the article is totally unsourced aside from an obscure 1951 book.) The article has 2 major failings and this really does illustrate the readership of AlterNet. Milton could have very well been guilty of because a giant cockball lobbyist in the 50's, but that doesn't negate his contributions to economic theory in the 60's and onward. Even if Milton was a " business lobby shill, a propagandist who would say whatever he was paid to say" it doesn't explain away his contributions nor does it put into question the sincerity of his convictions which was verified by his family repeatedly.<br /><br />Secondly, Friedman is as much the founding father to libertarianism as Julia Child was the founding mother of French cuisine. Just because you had a popular TV show on a subject doesn't make you Thomas Jefferson of the topic. Libertarianism has been around long before the United States was ever founded. "Liberals" were not the left you see today, they more closely resembled modern day libertarians than they do Democrats. It had it's roots in the 17th Century Scottish Enlightenment with John Locke and Adam Smith. Hell, Mises was teaching economics in Vinenna, Austria in the 20's and up to the Nazi invasion of Austria and when ol' Milty was still in short pants.<br /><br />Going after Milt and Ayn Rand is a good way to get your fellow leftards a boner because they did so well talking shit on the left and had a good following behind them. It's also laughable when the left, AlterNet too, tries to make the false insinuation that *all* libertarians idolize Rand and Freidman which they do not. Not by a long shot. It's like saying everyone on the left worships Al Gore. Fucking stupid.<br />
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-83884010773495248882013-08-15T20:43:00.002-07:002013-08-15T20:43:12.740-07:009/11 Twoofer for Congress.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm probably wasting my time here, but apparently someone who contacted me a while ago is making a 'serious' bid for congress. I don't know if his bid has any traction, even within his own third party groups. Green Party candidate for Congress in 2014 in South Carolina's 1st district Larry Carter Center and I had an exchange before he ran for congress and he was talking about how 9/11 conspiracies and that corporations killed JFK were "undeniable." I never thought much of it until I saw his congressional bid Facebook page and I thought it should be public knowledge before the Greens decide to actually run this guy.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-25334922879503531952013-07-02T07:02:00.003-07:002013-07-02T18:58:12.417-07:00VTV is a Liar and Snoop Dog Smokes Weed. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Now I knew he put a blog up saying he just found a job back in January of this year and was unemployed previously but.... he deleted it.<br />
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<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130323040518/http://v-radioblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/where-is-vtv-part-1-so-recently-few.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20130323040518/http://v-radioblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/where-is-vtv-part-1-so-recently-few.html</a><br />
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Here's a link to his podcast dated January 5th, 2013 wherein he stated he just got a job.<br />
"Eviction stopped. Read update."<br />
<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/v-radio/2013/01/05/stop-my-eviction.mp3">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/v-radio/2013/01/05/stop-my-eviction.mp3</a><br />
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-33321595466246487602013-06-24T16:33:00.001-07:002013-06-24T18:49:03.867-07:00It Was Never The Zeitgeist. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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People ask me why I would disregard and ignore members of The Zeitgeist Movement and/or The Venus Project. I think the better question is, why did I ever bother in the first place?</div>
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TZM and TVP are not relevant, nor were they ever. They might of been relevant for 5 minutes in their whole existence when Zeitgeist: Addendum was released and there was an initial interest but it soon tapered off. Here I will prove, once and for all, that no one gives a rat's ass about TZM, TVP or their religious stance on the Resource Based Economy.<br />
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How does a fringe crank like Alex Jones compare to TZM/TVP? Let's just say this dude is Michael Jackson in the 80's by comparison. </div>
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When was the last time anyone cared about Tom Green? When 4Chan was raiding his internet show no one watched? The dude is a total rock star in comparison. </div>
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What about a website that's synonymous with woo, quackery, and pseudoscience?</div>
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I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that more people care about a 'comedian' who hasn't have a viable career in over 20 years and was responsible for one of the worst films of all time: BioDome.</div>
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So yea, next time A Zeitard tells me TZM is relevant because they were on The Young Turks (as if anyone gives a fuck,) just tell them more people today care about Tom Green and Pauly Shore. So I'll make a deal with you Zeitgeisters. The day people care more about you than Pauly Shore is the day I'll give you the time of day.<br />
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I've taken a liking to vinyl records again. They've always had a spot in my love of music, but it really wasn't until recently I got back in to buying albums on wax. (Wax is a slang term for vinyl records, for the uninitiated)<br />
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But there's a lot of myths and half truths regarding vinyl vs. CD, but mostly analog vs. digital on both sides that I think needs to be addressed.<br />
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For full disclosure, I will say when it comes to the battle between the 2 formats I'm on the side of analog/vinyl. Mostly my bias is purely based on aesthetics. When I get an album on vinyl, I like getting the whole package. The large album album artworks, the look of the vinyl record itself (colored vinyl, 180/200 gram weights, picture discs...etc.,) sometimes bonuses like additional artwork, linear notes, lyric sheets. posters, and just the feel of having something more loving than just a brittle jewel case with a puny little booklet. I do end up getting a digital copy (some times included) of the album for on the go listening. I do enjoy the more dynamic and the "warmth" of the sound, and the feeling of accomplishment of getting a great sound out of a almost obsolete format.<br />
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However, with that said, there's a lot of bunk in the debate I feel needs to be addressed.<br />
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Digital proponents have said that analog, vinyl particularly, does not sound good. It's crackly and poppy, low quality, comes with 'hiss', and very inconvenient.<br />
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Crackles and pops come when the vinyl disc is dirty or has sustained damage by mishandling. If good care and proper cleaning has been applied to the record, you an get a beautiful sound out of them, very compatible, and sometimes better than the digital copy (I'll explain why later.) I do have some old beat up records in my collection I still play, but the newer ones I have bought are nearly pristine in sound because I make sure not to play them when dirty and take good care of them. If I'm tired or just feel like I don't want to go though the motions, I'll play my digital copy instead.<br />
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Hiss is always a factor in analog. Vinyl to a less degree if the record has been well taken care of. Tape hiss on reel to reel is there and present, but technologies have eliminated that issue altogether.<br />
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As far as inconvenient, they got us there. To put on a record, I have to make sure the table is clean, the needle is clean, and the vinyl itself is also clean, having to flip it over once in the middle and/or put on disc two and repeat the process to hear the second half of the album. Many albums have 2 discs, so having to mess with it 4 times to hear the whole thing can be a bit much. Like I've said earlier, there's a bit of fun in that as well if all goes well. Opposed to CD or MP3, just plug and play. While this is great because you don't have to think about it, it can also be it's downfall. When I take the time to play a vinyl, I'm more attentive to what I'm listening to because I worked to get it that way, where as CD/MP3 there was no thought applied and thus can be turned into background ambiance with less worry. However, that can be simply overcome by having a love for the music and forcing yourself to be more attentive. Also CDs can have distorted or skipping playback if the CD is dirty or scratched, but you already knew that.<br />
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Here is where we get into dangerous waters. By combating digital fan's perceptions of analog is no big deal, combating analog fan's perceptions can be an uphill battle. Analog proponents are vicious and unforgiving. They will tear you apart an leave you for dead if you so much question their grigris. However, their positions are that digital is not up for the task as far as true quality of sound, the warmth of the sound is directly due to the "real" sound being recorded instead of 1's and 0's, digital lacks dynamic sound, and that digital is killing music though piracy.<br />
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Now this is where I get hate mail. A digital copy's quality is not any worse than an analog copy. Let me repeat that:<br />
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VINYL QUALITY ISN'T ANY BETTER THAN CD.<br />
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Analog proponents will say a sound wave being compressed into a digital format will lose fidelity. A wave form is smooth and digital makes a computer representation that is lossy. As shown, the sound wave (red line) and the digital representation (grey blocky thing) isn't the true wave form. While this is true, human ears are incapable of differentiating difference between the two. It's kind of like having a printer that can print 20 million different colors when the eye can only distinguish only 10 million. It's simply irrelevant. There has been double blind tests of this and it's pretty conclusive that no one can differentiate the two.¹<br />
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An mp3 will sound worse than a vinyl copy, even even a CD because of the format's "compression." For a lossless CD quality digital file on an average song, the file size is about 30-40 megs. Studio quality can be even bigger. An MP3 "compresses" the sound file into a 3-4 meg file. With that comes audio quality loss.<br />
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When it comes to "dynamic" sound, the analog people win out. Music, particularly in the rock based genres, have been having a "loudness war" in the studios. Major studios have been putting an emphasis on loud mastering for digital media. 3 albums that have been panned for having loud and over compressed (we're talking about audio dynamic compression now, not sound file compression like MP3s) were Metallica's Death Magnetic, Black Sabbath's 13, and the Remastered edition of The Offspring's Smash. Particularly Death Magnetic was focused on in this issue because they issued 2 versions of some tracks for the CD and one for the Guitar Hero franchise which didn't have the loud compression. When this happens, it gives a more distorted, and less realistic sound.<br />
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Now we all know that the piracy argument is bullshit and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it because it's way dumber of a fight than the analog v. digital debate. The internet has done nothing but propagate music to people who would of never heard about it before. People are still making music and making money from it even more than ever before.<br />
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No matter what, people will still take sides for irrational reasons. People will still propagate myths on both sides, and people will be unwavering in their decisions. If you like vinyl, fantastic! If you think CDs are better, great! Do what makes you happy. After all, that's why you listen to music in the first place.<br />
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-16726480734808394892013-05-22T20:02:00.000-07:002013-05-22T20:02:10.380-07:00VTV is a Liar & The Beatles Played Music. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, it's nice to see Brittney Smith come out from obscurity, I thought I might give her and "Liz" something else to collaborate on for a blog no one ever reads. My friends did enjoy reading the Scientology hit pieces against me and "Brittney's" articles are no different. </div>
Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-72925829375864479052013-04-15T17:09:00.002-07:002013-04-15T17:11:05.193-07:00Australian Chapter of The Zeitgeist Movement's Article Debunking The Venus Project.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Australian Chapter of TZM has posted an article titled "Debunking The Venus Project." Peter Joseph Merola has told them to take it down or they will lose their official chapter status. I'm posting a link to it here as well as a back up if they do end up taking it down.<br />
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PDF available here: <a href="http://www.zeitgeistaustralia.org/spirit-of-the-times-issue-8/">http://www.zeitgeistaustralia.org/spirit-of-the-times-issue-8/</a><br />
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Backup: <a href="https://mega.co.nz/#!FoRGhQpC!ctxb-gfGMByXSk1qQKYxl3BuZi0RtxaJqBfI72TaMxI">https://mega.co.nz/#!FoRGhQpC!ctxb-gfGMByXSk1qQKYxl3BuZi0RtxaJqBfI72TaMxI</a></div>
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Jim Jesushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024233335163076561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8085228240779540384.post-24297560213896175332013-04-10T07:41:00.000-07:002013-04-10T07:41:05.044-07:001 Year Later; Still on the BitCoin Fence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A year ago I was very critical of BitCoin, though I have since toned it down. The objection I initially raised what that aside from scarcity digital currency only had value in currency. The BitCoin itself (or rather the 1s and 0s existing on a magnetic drive) has no application outside of being a currency. Commodity currencies had uses outside of currency and would have a demand. Fiat monies, as bad as they are, had legal tender laws enforcing its value as a currency. I also had questions about the security of the BitCoin technology and since then I've come to see that such an endeavor would be futile.<br />
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Now that BitCoin is growing some roots and LiteCoin has started to grow as well, I'm back on the fence I originally was on at the time I initially heard of BitCoins.<br /><br />I'm no stranger to digital currency. Those who remember me from the last decade remember when I had a full time job in SecondLife which also had it's own virtual currency. Though that money is constantly inflated and mostly floats with the US dollar around 250-270 "Linden Dollars" per 1 USD. which is what it still is today. The idea of a monopoly firm controlling every aspect of the currency isn't very flattering but it's fine considering it's mostly used to purchase digital land, pixel penises, and animal avatars. Just like BitCoin, you can buy drugs, but unlike BitCoin they will only get your video game dude high.<br /><br />When people think BitCoin, they only think about SilkRoad (an anonymous site which is like an e-Bay for illicit drugs and other black market goods) which seems to get a good portion of the BitCoin economic activity. There's things like website and podcast hosting that takes these digital currencies as well as a cornucopia of other goods from electronics, books, even tobacco.<br /><br />The reason I'm not fully on board is the volatility of the market. Like it's human counterpart, it's young, dumb and full of cum (or LSD to be more literal.) In the last month we saw it rocket from $23 to $235 (which is what it trades at the time of this post.) I think this is another bubble and it will pop. I can't understand how this could be sustainable.<br /><br />I have set up 2 wallets. One for BitCoin and one for LiteCoin. I'll take them if you want to throw me a few space duckets, but for me holding my breath as a viable alternative currency I shall wait until it matures and make a final call.<br />
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If you want to donate a few:<br />BitCoin: 13Y8ZnLQDEDWFQbYmRLvm2FRHJF7s8RbxT<br />LiteCoin: LMfcVjvNJBdU4NbyLebgYjrmwvNgUCwuy1</div>
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