PaperbackWriter @PaperhackWriter

A Libertarian who just wants to watch the populist world burn. Joined January 2013

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PaperbackWriter @PaperhackWriter

4 hours ago

@AnCapUnion Would you disagree with the idea that anyone or entity that is philosophically opposed to the libertarian ideal of individual liberty and actively seeks to destroy it is an enemy of a libertarian?

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4 hours ago

@AnCapUnion Then why is it so important to you to claim they're not an enemy? Why don't you just say up front, yes the Russian government is my enemy, but not an important one?

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4 hours ago

@AnCapUnion You already said all governments are your enemy. Why are you making a special exception for the Russian government?

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4 hours ago

I've never said Russia is a threat to Americans living in America. I've said quite clearly that the Russian state is an enemy of anyone who cares about individual rights and liberty, because the Russian state is ideologically opposed to the very concept and would destroy your liberty if it had the opportunity to do so. As you said, all governments are your enemy, so: the Russian government is your enemy. You're finally agreeing with what I've been saying from the beginning. As for the police: okay, would you agree that the police are your enemy even when they are not actively aggressing against you at this exact moment?

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4 hours ago

@MattWelch @Barlog_WINS Italians aren't white, come on now Matt /s

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Бианка @BiankaB12

12 hours ago

How many people truly realize that today’s “culture war” trends - the manosphere, radical feminism, left- and right-wing wokeness, gender wars, racial divides, and religious conflicts - are to a large extend, manufactured? While some may be organic and comes from a real place of frustration, there are clear signs that these movements are arguably fueled by nation-state actors and other players (including intelligence agencies) seeking to sow discord and destabilize society for a range of strategic ends. Meanwhile, social isolation - especially among the young - and excessive screen time are being weaponized to amplify the noise until people mistake it for reality.

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5 hours ago

@agraybee If it costs so little, why don't big Agri-corps pay for it voluntarily out of their own pocket?

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5 hours ago

@DerekPederson3 Crucially, as well, Finland broadly refused to participate in the Nazis crimes against humanity -- when Himmler demanded Finland turn over its Jews, Marshal Mannerheim laughed in his face.

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5 hours ago

@EliStrawmaning I'm never quite sure what to think about Snowden.

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5 hours ago

Curious, do you think American police are your enemy? You're conflating the definition of "enemy" with the definition of "threat" -- a person can be your enemy even if they are not an active threat or an immediate threat to you. That's why you lock your doors at night -- not because the threat of a burglar is imminent, but because you know a burglar is your enemy and would not invite him into your home, but seek to keep him at a distance. I could make the same point about the police: that they're not your enemy until they actively do something to you, yet, for some reason, I suspect that is not how you think of it.

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13 hours ago

@lost_nomad__ As Zhou Enlai said about the French Revolution "it's still too soon to tell."

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14 hours ago

@atlanticesque I think 'the Renaissance' should obviously be an option. It's debatable whether that was the moment, but it has to be in contention.

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14 hours ago

Can confirm. Andrew Roberts replied to me once.

Kurt Steiner @Kurt_Steiner

17 hours ago

Reminder that you can just email your favorite (living) historians and you have a good shot at getting a reply.

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14 hours ago

@Torgan616 Her name was Strawberry Fields?

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Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) @IamSean90

17 hours ago

The guy is just Anti-western, it's really that simple. Ukraine should surrender because he thinks they can't win. But the Arabs can demand unlimited do-overs for 80 years against Israel & never accept defeat, because muh resistance. It's just America/West bad folks, that simple

yeet @Awk20000

21 hours ago

Hasan reacts to John Mearsheimer's take that Ukrainians are going to lose the war and should have quit a while ago instead of sending their people to the meat grinder "Before people say, oh Mearsheimer classic tankie..he is just a believer in offensive realism, he does not think

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15 hours ago

@timstarr2001 It let Patrick Buchanan into the country, that's bad enough.

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21 hours ago

Once again proving how superior American culture is to all others. We've had police forces comprised of mixed groups of whites (and the Irish), blacks, Asians, you name it, and we've never needed to import a caste of colonial praetorian guards.

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a day ago

DID YOU KNOW? Singapore has an elite police unit called the ‘Gurkha Contingent’ that Lee Kuan Yew recruited via the British for their loyalty and competence. He often deployed them to police race riots because he trusted them to be effective and impartial enforcers of the law

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15 hours ago

@AnCapUnion Why would there be civilian resistance to a Russian invasion of the US? I thought you said the Russian state is not our enemy?

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15 hours ago

@timstarr2001 It resulted in the Irish coming here, Tim. And we're still paying the consequences.

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16 hours ago

@timstarr2001 And what a mistake it was, too.

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16 hours ago

@AnCapUnion You're admitting the Russians would need "war means" to reach the US because the "war means" of the US *government* would stop the Russian government from coming here and subjugating people to Russian despotism. Do you disagree?