CovOps
Location : Ether-Sphere Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator Humor : Über Serious
| Subject: Funny: Statist Imposts Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:27 am | |
| The anti-government activist Grover Norquist has told a story from childhood, in which his father would steal bites of his ice cream cone, labelling each bite "sales tax" or "income tax."
The psychological link between a certain form of childhood deprivation and extreme libertarianism awaits serious study. |
|
RR Phantom
Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: Re: Funny: Statist Imposts Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:44 am | |
| I wonder what the extreme-statist equivalent might be? |
|
CovOps
Location : Ether-Sphere Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator Humor : Über Serious
| Subject: Re: Funny: Statist Imposts Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:48 am | |
| Dictator!
He took your whole ice cream, ate it, shot you and then liked it!
(Repeat...)
|
|
RR Phantom
Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: Re: Funny: Statist Imposts Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:56 am | |
|
Though how would that push one toward statism? I meant it in contrast to...
- Quote :
- The psychological link between a certain form of childhood deprivation and extreme libertarianism awaits serious study.
|
|
CovOps
Location : Ether-Sphere Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator Humor : Über Serious
| Subject: Re: Funny: Statist Imposts Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:03 am | |
| Dictatorship is statism...
Getting a taste for other peoples property increases the appetite... so he wants more... extreme statism--dictatorship! |
|
RR Phantom
Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: Re: Funny: Statist Imposts Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:12 am | |
| How to have cake divided equally: tell the cake-cutter that they will be last in the queue to choose a piece for themselves... |
|
CovOps
Location : Ether-Sphere Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator Humor : Über Serious
| Subject: Re: Funny: Statist Imposts Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:16 am | |
| Correct! |
|
Sponsored content
| Subject: Re: Funny: Statist Imposts | |
| |
|