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The Atlas Shrugged Themepark?

Started by Mangrove, August 16, 2011, 04:16:14 PM

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Cain

#15
August 16, 2011, 06:07:21 PM
And most of those doing the protecting wont be libertarian businessmen, but probably hired mercenaries.

Mercenaries are really trustworthy, yo.

Nephew Twiddleton

#16
August 16, 2011, 06:08:40 PM
Nigel are you saying that evil socialism and its devil taxes are inevitable?
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
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Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#17
August 16, 2011, 06:14:15 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 16, 2011, 06:07:21 PM
And most of those doing the protecting wont be libertarian businessmen, but probably hired mercenaries.

Mercenaries are really trustworthy, yo.

Dear mercenaries; please protect us and don't sell us out to your pirate friends. Thanks!

-Island full of rich Libertarians
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#18
August 16, 2011, 06:14:41 PM
Quote from: Nph. Twid. on August 16, 2011, 06:08:40 PM
Nigel are you saying that evil socialism and its devil taxes are inevitable?

Only if we want to survive.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Cain

#19
August 16, 2011, 06:17:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel on August 16, 2011, 06:14:15 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 16, 2011, 06:07:21 PM
And most of those doing the protecting wont be libertarian businessmen, but probably hired mercenaries.

Mercenaries are really trustworthy, yo.

Dear mercenaries; please protect us and don't sell us out to your pirate friends. Thanks!

-Island full of rich Libertarians

PS: it is totally within your rational self-interest not to hold us hostage.  Srsly.

Nephew Twiddleton

#20
August 16, 2011, 06:24:04 PM
This seasteading idea keeps getting better and better!
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

P3nT4gR4m

#21
August 16, 2011, 06:26:21 PM
I have a cunning plan. See, what we do is we build this giant wooden fish, and then we push it up to the gates...

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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Disco Pickle

#22
August 16, 2011, 06:38:22 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 16, 2011, 06:26:21 PM
I have a cunning plan. See, what we do is we build this giant wooden fish, and then we push it up to the gates...

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

fucking hell P3nT, this monitor is expensive and NOT MINE.
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PopeTom

#23
August 16, 2011, 06:49:49 PM
...that isn't Somalia?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

I can't wait to see how this works out.

QuoteThe idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place.

Quote...a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.
-PopeTom

I am the result of 13.75 ± 0.13 billion years of random chance. Now that I exist I see no reason to start planning and organizing everything in my life.

Random dumb luck got me here, random dumb luck will get me to where I'm going.

Hail Eris!

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#24
August 16, 2011, 07:05:09 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 16, 2011, 06:17:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel on August 16, 2011, 06:14:15 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 16, 2011, 06:07:21 PM
And most of those doing the protecting wont be libertarian businessmen, but probably hired mercenaries.

Mercenaries are really trustworthy, yo.

Dear mercenaries; please protect us and don't sell us out to your pirate friends. Thanks!

-Island full of rich Libertarians

PS: it is totally within your rational self-interest not to hold us hostage.  Srsly.

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Freeky

#25
August 16, 2011, 07:21:35 PM
THIS IS THE BEST IDEA ALL DECADE.

Adios

#26
August 16, 2011, 08:15:46 PM
I predict this will not end well.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#27
August 16, 2011, 09:18:52 PM
Hey PopeTom, check this thread for a fairly amusing discussion of this: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=29963.0;topicseen
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#28
August 16, 2011, 09:21:23 PM
Quote from: Jenkem and SPACE/TIME on August 16, 2011, 07:21:35 PM
THIS IS THE BEST IDEA ALL DECADE.

I am seriously loving this.  :lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

PopeTom

#29
August 16, 2011, 09:37:44 PM
Quote from: Nigel on August 16, 2011, 09:18:52 PM
Hey PopeTom, check this thread for a fairly amusing discussion of this: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=29963.0;topicseen

Yea I had noticed that after my initial post.

I missed it because much like advertisements for singles sites I don't see references to Ayn Rand unless I deliberately look at them.
-PopeTom

I am the result of 13.75 ± 0.13 billion years of random chance. Now that I exist I see no reason to start planning and organizing everything in my life.

Random dumb luck got me here, random dumb luck will get me to where I'm going.

Hail Eris!
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