Oddbean

I really DGAF if he will pardon Ross, fine, great, wonderful. All I can think of is the few times I met Lyn and how broken she is. For that woman to see her son free is worth having the Orangeman for 4 more years. Better than Biden and Kennedy has no fuckin chance and Trump is likely to win anyway. Why the fuck can't Libertarians take a fuckin W and just be happy? What should be done now is a full court press to add Snowden and Assange to this list while it is doable. Instead Libertarians will triple down on Kennedy who stand far more against Libertarian values than Trump. Last I don't vote, so don't try to sway my opinion as though it matters to outcome. I am just smart enough to know, "Politics is the art of the possible" and the probable. nostr:note1w8ej940l5fjy3mmz6la9jrglf56g32havcenmnc2jnhy4xpf42esj7hl6d

I think it comes down to the fact that he probably won't, in most people's opinion. He'll have no real reason to do so if he gets elected. He's also got a really bad habit of picking really bad sycophants or just downright evil deepstare goons.

Dude literally did everything he said he would do that he had the power to do with unilateral action. He's also the only one saying he will that can win. As I said NO ONE turns a L into a W faster than political libertarians.

When someone says "I don't vote" then the remainder of their complaint is without merit. You may not feel your vote matters - but it does - on a local level. And so does your ability to influence others to vote. You CAN change the results of a local election, and local results can change regional results. And regional results can change national results. But if your cynicism results in apathy, then we all lose...

Begone ass clown your spells have no magic here. You just said a woman presented with two potential rapists has no right to complain if she doesn't choose one. Go get fucked, in your ass, with a cheese grater, old box style one.

I did debate the issue, I explained it with an analogy and you are either to stupid or willfully ignorant to comprehend it. Take your pick. Your argument is old and stupid I have literally murdered it hundreds of times in 16 years of podcasting. I owe you not one fucking thing, certainly not doing it again for your fuckin amusement. I wrote this 10 years ago you want an argument go read it. But we both know you won't because you don't want to understand the reality here, only to be able to spit out a catch phrase. What's next "support Ukraine" or "freedom isn't free".

Wow - *really* struck a nerve didn't I? 😃 So--the issue at hand is whether you (as a single individual) can influence and ultimately change the results of a LOCAL election. Serious question...do you believe this is possible?

Already read your article (yes, seriously)...and it focuses almost exclusively on national elections, and really doesn't address local elections-- So I'll ask again: Do you believe that you (as a single individual) can influence and ultimately change the results of a local election? Hint: saying "I don't have time to respond" is a cop out..if you'd like to have a discussion I'm open to debate. If you're not interested in hearing another opinion, that's fine as well...

Clearly you're not interested in debate, as you're unwilling to answer the question. And perhaps if you read your own article you'd see the word "local" does not appear in your missive--and I'm not interested in the comments of others--I'm interested in what YOUR response to the question posed would be. And seriously, do you honestly feel insults and rudeness help make that case that you've got a valid point to make?

"Helping you live a better life" Perhaps you might want to reflect on your tagline, and ask yourself if behaving the way you have in this exchange has helped anyone... It certainly isn't representative of the altruistic image it seems you're trying to promote for yourself...quite to the contrary, in fact.

I'm down with adding Assange, but if Snowden really cared about civil liberties, his first and second move would not have been taking completely unrelated secrets to the 2 countries with literally no concept of freedom or human rights. Keep rockn, I will likely vote for my first major party, national candidate this year. I appreciate your advice amd wisdom over the years, though we maintain some minor disagreements.

Nominating a candidate for the party in exchange for the release of one prisoner feels like a loosing proposition to me if that’s all libertarians would be getting. I don’t think an organization could do that. If we are in a negotiation you never take the first offer. More policy objectives please. As long as we are playing hypotheticals, how about a VP pick, the ending of a few executive orders, and the adoption of some core libertarian tenets in the Republican Party platform (Debt reduction, policy on Bitcoin, reduction of subsidies across all industries, etc) not claiming libertarians get them all, but selling the whole party for one thing, that effects one person, feels cheap. With as fractured as the libertarian party is it would likely end it. If the libertarian party is going to end as a result of a nomination, that nomination should come with some guarantees that shift the direction of one of the other parties platforms atleast. The LP is too purest for any of this to happen though. https://media.tenor.com/x7zee5KVdf4AAAAC/libertarian-libertarians.gif