I really enjoy Tim's work and am watching the backlog. The narrative he keeps pushing about the SCOTUS cake decision and that you should just "bake the cake" is wrong. The gay couple specifically targeted that baker because of his religions beliefs and the baker was willing to sell them a generic cake off the shelf, he just did not want to support their wedding message. Naturally this couple made a stink of it as was their goal and got a court case out of it. Freedom of association should be preserved and the government does not have a right to order a business to do service. If the public finds a business is discriminating, they are free to send their own message by not doing business there and causing its destruction.

Whether you agree with my conclusion or not the fact is the issue was far more complex than "just bake a cake bigot" and the fact that Tim brings this up over and over again so simply is really annoying.

I think there's a difference between 'baking the cake' and 'selling the cake'.

And that's part of what came up in that decision, if I'm not mistaken.

The bakery had no issue selling one to them

So this is going to sound *really* conspiratorial. But based on the wiki page, Quinn was deeply in favor of encryption. Jeong gave a talk in which she came out in favor of SJW media censorship ("we must silence some to give others the chance to speak").

Is it possible that the *real* motive here is ideological? The media establishment has been waging war on open exchange online; is it possible the editorial board is trying to build up a collection of people to really start going after unrestricted speech?

Not out of the realm of possiblity but I'm going to have to see some evidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6IlQ7UYeEM

@Dan V Yeah, I got nothing to show it's actually happening. Only a couple spots on what the people in question think.

ehhhhh does sound conspiracyish but not soo out there that id say its possible

tryin to collect enough cards for a mono sjw pure aggro deck

not sure i t can beat out the hybrid conservative/centre left controll deck we got runnin this season

BELIEVE IN THE HEART OF THE CARDS

so this is it huh

with infowars now gone and nobody willing to adopt an alternative platform, do we just accpet defeat and adapt the regressive mindset?

I never followed infowars, and i'm doing quite alright 😛

you will for now yes

i barely even followed their content or like ever

but the deplatforming of him across the entire internet is just mass censorship

I agree, it sets a very bad precident 😦

this is just step 1

but i don't follow alex jones, and never cared for his news cuz it seemed like lunatic conspiracies most of the time

you mean all the time

he is a joke and you know it

anyways, this is phase 1 of deplatforming people that doesnt align with their ideology

well some of it ended up being correct, if you removed the ranting madness around it 😛

im afraid of what phase 2 would be

phase 2 would prolly be removing any non-left opinion

i had a feeling that was the plan

>how much of the market needs to be covered to be considered a monopoly? i mean, no 1 government has a monopoly of the world

not the whole world, but some have just called dibs on an entire continent

okay but some dont

the problem is that they dont have what is considered legitimate ownership of the land according to homesteading principles

please define what you believe the homesteading principle is

you need to perform an act of original appropriation, like putting it to use or joining it to acquired property, or marking it as owned

you cant just plant a flag, write a constitution and pretend everyone agrees

okay, how long does something need to be unclaimed for there to be no claim?

i'm not sure, it's something we've been discussing in ancap discords

old lady, no kids, no siblings, dies. no will, who gets the house? how long before someone can move in to make a claim?

what would we be waiting for?

make sure there is no one that was family to make a claim

or a friend or something