The debt is proof of our wealth

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  1. bringiton

    bringiton Well-Known Member

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    Readers are of course aware that is just you makin' $#!+ up again.
    You are aware that it does not.
     
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    I didn't make up your celebration of the imperialist Churchill. Please be honest before you go into your 'he's evil' ranting
     
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    What do you even incorrectly imagine you think you might be talking about? A house is not land, as you know very well, so you are just blathering incoherently.

    Ideally I would expect to make just compensation to the community of those I wished to exclude from the land, and in return receive the secure tenure I would require to undertake fixed improvements like building a house.

    See how simple and obvious everything is when you value liberty, justice and truth instead of privilege, injustice and lies?
     
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    :lol: Speaking of honest, if you were one of the stupidest and most dishonest people on earth, you would claim that celebrating the genius and contributions of Isaac Newton implied celebration and support of millennial Christianity, because Newton wrote great tomes on the Book of Revelation. Similarly, perhaps the stupidest and most dishonest person on earth might claim that admiring Aristotle's monumental contributions to logic, biology, etc. implied endorsement of his erroneous views on the mechanics of falling bodies. But you aren't that stupid and dishonest, are you? I'm almost sure you're not.
     
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    You're blubbering. That you celebrated a great imperialist, despite your morality rant over land, is something for you to work out. It will need you to radically change your opinions. Sorry.
     
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    so when they sell their land they are buying their liberty??
     
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    so who stole my land and gave it to me??
     
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    Government. All legally recognized private landownership titles originate in forcible dispossession of people's liberty rights by government.
     
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    Would you call imperialism 'evil'?
     
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    They don't have any land or liberty to sell, and can't buy their liberty back. They can only pay landowners for permission to exercise it.
     
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    How about people effectively forced into slavery due to imperialism?
     
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    govt stole my land and gave it to me?? So who was the guy I had to pay off to get title to my property?? Can you tell me where I go to get land govt is giving away??
     
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    Evil is deliberate abrogation of another's rights with intent to inflict injustice. Imperialism is usually like that, but sometimes intends to secure rights, or relieve injustice. Consider the British Raj in India, which abolished the caste system, the practice of widow-burning, etc.
     
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    Or liberated from it due to imperialism...?
     
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    This amused me! A pretend Georgist who says "sometimes imperialism is bad".
     
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    Guess I was wrong...
     
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    Mate, your support for imperialism makes you irrelevant. Sorry and all that!
     
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    So only now do we learn that you support the Indian tradition of burning widows alive on their husbands' funeral pyres. Gratifying to know you have embraced evil so thoroughly!
     
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    Good point! A plastic Georgist celebrating an imperialist land grab? Wrong is all we can say
     
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    Speaking of irrelevant, were you under a mistaken impression that your absurd and disingenuous fabrications about what I have plainly written could be relevant to anything?
     
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    You dare to refer to India when you celebrate a man known for worsening a famine that killed thousands of Indians? Gosh!
     
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    Right. But you indisputably DID make up the notion that celebrating a great man's achievements means supporting everything he ever said or did. Next you'll be claiming I am admirer of the Gallipoli landing.
    You cannot even conceive of honesty as much greater than yours as mine is.
     
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    You celebrated a Great Imperialist. It is completely alien to anyone that really focuses on land. You are either vacuous of comment or vacuous of land relevant analysis.
     
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    So you reiterate your support for the practice of burning widows alive, which killed many more Indians than any famine. Good to know you have embraced evil so consistently.
     
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    What on earth are you rambling about? You don't even know what I'm referring to do you? Pathetic
     
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