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November 12, 2011
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Signs that we are winning...
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Opinions on liberty

When young beautiful and really smart girls are on your side, you know you are winning. Check out Token Libertarian Girl's Youtube channel

You will not regret it.

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Whilst engaging libertarian babes are always to be welcomed, I suspect we will 'win' more due to the dragon eating its own tail and vanishing up its own backside :-)


Posted by Perry de Havilland at November 12, 2011 02:41 PM

Will we win by mixing our metaphors? Or by doing things in the right order?


Posted by RW at November 12, 2011 04:41 PM
Will we win by mixing our metaphors?

No but maybe we'll win by being whiny pains in the ass?


Posted by Wild Eyed Libbo at November 12, 2011 05:16 PM

Ah, Perry... I'm just quoting you from many years ago. ;-)


Posted by Dale Amon at November 12, 2011 09:11 PM

I can well believe that :-D


Posted by Perry de Havilland at November 12, 2011 10:07 PM

Not bad, pretty much every standard argument expressed in five minutes.

But she could really do with better sound and editing!


Posted by Bruce Hoult at November 12, 2011 10:12 PM

Bruce, she looks good enough to not have to worry about that;-)


Posted by Alisa at November 13, 2011 02:08 PM

Perhaps that video resonates with her age cohort; I certainly hope so. Personally, though, I don't need to be lectured to by a 20-something, even when her arguments are correct (if un-nuanced). It grates. At 23 I knew it all, too.

I kind of like the idea of winning by mixing our metaphors, though. That I can do!


Posted by Laird at November 13, 2011 04:58 PM
Personally, though, I don't need to be lectured to by a 20-something, even when her arguments are correct

I'm thinking 20-somethings probably don't like getting lectured by you either and are far more likely to listen to an attractive person more their own age.


Posted by James Stanton at November 13, 2011 06:21 PM

Unfortunately there are lots and lots of young beautiful considered-smart-by-standard-social-criteria girls who believe in utterly nonsense.

If charm and hotness were highly correlated with holding libertarian beliefs we'd have had the political debate sewn up a long time ago...


Posted by Jay Thomas at November 14, 2011 12:51 AM

There's always room for more Rose Wilder Lanes -

"...the western world was turning toward genuine liberalism, toward releasing the individual from the grip of The State which used to be called tyranny and is now called "administrative law." The test of strength comes now, when Europe, Asia, and many Americans have turned back from freedom and the dynamic modern world to the old static order in which individuals, no longer permitted to act freely, have no responsibility, but leave both the power and the burder to their rulers."

Posted by Mose Jefferson at November 15, 2011 07:32 PM

I also am a collapse person Perry - not because I want collapse (I hate the whole idea - I desperatly want real reform), but because that is the way I see things going.

However, the collapse of statist structure does NOT mean we win - it could mean (is likely to mean) tyranny and chaos (not opposites of course - both resting on violence and the threat of it).

We will only win if, when the collapse occurs, enough people have already heard good things about libertariansm - and are willing to respect (and defend) other people's property, rather than tear each other to pieces in the name of "social justice" and other horror concepts.

And who is the average person more likely to listen to.

A middle aged, bald, security guard and (now) gate warden person - like me?

Or one of the attractive and witty young people that Dale points us to?

Yes the left also attract young attractive women.

But there was a time when we did not (apart from a few obvious exceptions).

This is a real change - and to be welcomed.


Posted by Paul Marks at November 15, 2011 07:34 PM
"When young beautiful and really smart girls..."
Yeah, right.

I feel that I have to say that really, I do not like this. It is not worthy. What you just said/showed - together with the context of presentation - is probably unnecessarily unkind.
Poking fun like that would seem to be much too much ad hominem.

(rest of comment deleted by the management because, yeah, it is ad hominem)


Posted by Pedant at November 15, 2011 09:08 PM
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