Indiana Moderate

Moderate libertarian, Teacher (MS Science, HS Biology, HS CTE Health Occupations), Mom. Gen X-er.

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@Ezra4Liberty Look at that. Moderate libertarian. Who would have expected that?

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro Sometimes I do stuff besides Twitter ;)

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro I'm shocked you're dismissing evidence. You seemed so pro-science before lol

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro Dude. You're changing what the articles say and then saying the articles agree with you. You acted like I invented the idea that many primitive cultures were capitalist. How many sources do you need before you admit that was insane?

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@JohnRad15 There are places in Alaska where you can live off the land for free. There are also communes and tribes and other intentional communities you can join. https://t.co/Yr6I0Ftkx1

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro You asked for sources. I gave you sources. Have you changed your mind now?

Yes, I'm an actual person :)

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro True. I posted the first 7 links that came up when I googled "pre-contact indigenous forms of capitalism"

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro No it's not. You said nobody thinks primitive cultures had property rights and traded freely and/or thinks there were primitive capitalists. These sources prove you're wrong.

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@JohnRad15 What do you want to be free to do that you're not free to do?

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@JohnRad15 Yes, but I don't understand the distinction. You're a free person in a free economy. If you want to live tribally or primitively, what's keeping you from doing that?

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro I posted a few links under your other comment, but I'll post a few more here. It's easily Googleable.

https://t.co/KQAu2S9KWy

and

https://t.co/HIi3riSA3t

and

https://t.co/g36KAqKNiL

and

https://t.co/BsdXvW8yLJ

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro Absolutely! Again, you're the one acting like I made something up. Here are just the first few hits on Google.

https://t.co/ywOsGKdXcW

and

https://t.co/a8LkmCqlP3

and

https://t.co/JomcaJB6W1

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro The pre-contact indigenous people in the Americas with with property rights and voluntary exchange, yes.

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@JohnRad15 Dude! You literally just said "...no we are not better off in capitalism. We're worse off,..."

I don't think you really believe that because otherwise, you'd join some commune somewhere living off the land as opposed to tweeting about living off the land ;)

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@JohnRad15 ?? You just said you didn't think you'd be better off hunting and foraging and called me stupid for suggesting otherwise. And now you're saying you are worse off in capitalism. If you say you're worse off in capitalism, aren't you saying you're better off hunting and foraging???

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@JohnRad15 If you didn't mean you'd be better off hunting and gathering than in capitalism, I don't think that was clear from your posts. That's not a strawman or stupidity.

But if you're better off in capitalism, then why do you oppose capitalism?

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@JohnRad15 This all looks like you're pretending you'd be better off hunting and foraging as opposed to trading your labor for money. That's not a strawman.

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@JohnRad15 You want to generalize your experience to justify your political ideology, but if anyone else does that, you call it sampling bias.

There are a lot of good ways to help struggling families. Authoritarian collectivism isn't one of them.

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro You're projecting your own rhetorical corners. ;)

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro I said that pre-contact indigenous tribes that had property rights and voluntarily exchanged goods and services were capitalist, even if they were primitive capitalist.

The rest is you arguing with your imagination.

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@JasonBerger1 @msetechnologist @MeltingSnowBro I know what profit is. But when you're talking about civilizations that traded and didn't profit, I'm wondering what you think that looked like lol.