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You can certainly have a capitalist autocracy -- all it takes is a coup. That pretty much describes France under Napoleon III. But it's not clear you can have a communist democracy. Hayek explained why not in The Road to Serfdom. Czechoslovakia voted communists into power after WWII and they...

Even if we can't agree on what kind of society we want to live in, we should at least agree on what kind we don't want to live in. Who the heck ever benefited from living in the kind of society you get if you hand power over a country to people who say they're going to abolish property, seize...

I'm pretty sure John Locke wasn't the first property owner. Why do you keep pushing this narrative where the British invented property rights? Property is one of the items on Dr. Brown's famous list of "human universals" -- features found in every society anthropologists have checked for them...

You're an atheist. Why are you uncritically accepting theist propaganda? In the first place, why on earth would natural property rights require a god? In the second place, how could a god go about bestowing a right on someone if she didn't already have it? "God said you shouldn't steal...

Exactly. I got it from one of Richard Leakey's books; he said he got it from Jane Goodall.

Stuff and nonsense. If they thought it was equal they'd have no reason to go to the trouble of exchanging. It's an exchange between two people who each value what they're given more than what they're giving up. It only works because valuation is subjective, valuer-relative. There's no...

No. Gah! E.O. Wilson was right -- it's long past time we took ethics away from the philosophers and gave it to the biologists. Of course property rights are natural, i.e., not artificial, i.e., not man-made. This follows immediately from the observation that our property rights are...

Older. Much much older. Chimpanzees have property rights.

Here's a proof of your result...

You aren't blundering, it is a cute result, and here's a quantification...

Based on Don's terrible answer, here's an explicit formula:

It's not necessary to be all red -- just having red hair is sufficient.

That cuts both ways. From the absence of evidence, I conclude you are unaware of any evidence indicating Turning Point are actual fascists. For "actual fascists" to mean anything objective it would have to mean embracing Mussolini's ideology and policies -- hence my examples upthread of...

What I wrote: What Poli snipped it down to. If he paid attention to context he might not misunderstand so thoroughly. I did nothing of the sort and you don't have any intellectually honest reason to think I did -- you're trumping up a false damaging accusation with malice and reckless...

Me too. Likewise saying "I ain't no Commie"; likewise downing a screwdriver. Doesn't make it a good idea to tell kids to. Hey, if we're going to do it, might as well do it with truth in advertising. My proposal for a new improved Pledge: "I ain't loyal to Britain, Mexico, the Confederacy...