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    This was in my local paper this morning, and it seems like a really good idea. If you're too much of a slacker to read a link, basically as many libertarians as they can get move to the same state so that they can have enough clout to really influence things on the state level.
    How brilliant is that? They get what they want, the rest of us don't have to deal with them, and anyone else who wants the same sort of thing for their own agenda can find a different state and try it themselves. Best of all, it will provide a sort of living laboratory with which people can test political ideas - if all the libertarians move to Wyoming and Wyoming suddenly starts doing a lot better, maybe they have something after all (although of course no political scientist worth his salt will accept empirical studies at face value because that would be too easy, but it would still be interesting to see)
    And have any Apolytoners signed up? I can think of a couple who could fit right in.
    "Although I may disagree with what you say, I will defend to the death your right to hear me tell you how wrong you are."

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    A Giant Squid sighting!

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    • #3
      I've only been here...two months now
      "Although I may disagree with what you say, I will defend to the death your right to hear me tell you how wrong you are."

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      • #4
        Your registration date implies otherwise

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        • #5
          I meant been back...okay, enough about this, anyone interested in the libertarians? Well, *I* thought it was intriguing.
          "Although I may disagree with what you say, I will defend to the death your right to hear me tell you how wrong you are."

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          • #6
            Hey Squid! How's college in New England going?
            "I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer

            "I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - Slowwhand

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            • #7
              Gee, I'd be so happy if I lived someplace, and a bunch of freaks all moved there to take over.

              Go buy an island and leave normal people alone!
              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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              • #8
                Why don't all the Socialists and Commies come to Minnesota and declare our independence from the US.

                Now Entering The People's Democratic Republic of Minnesota.

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                • #9
                  You leave Minnesota alone!

                  Or I'll bring the hordes of Wisconsin up to trample you!
                  Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

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                  • #10
                    Come move to Utah. It would be nice to have poly friends here
                    Eventis is the only refuge of the spammer. Join us now.
                    Long live teh paranoia smiley!

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                    • #11
                      Hasn't this already been done?

                      Isn't the state called "Alaska" or something?
                      "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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                      • #12
                        bloody good idea if you ask me!
                        eimi men anthropos pollon logon, mikras de sophias

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                          Gee, I'd be so happy if I lived someplace, and a bunch of freaks all moved there to take over.
                          Oh wait, I do live in one, Florida. And I'm one of the freaks.
                          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                          • #14
                            I think its a good idea (see link in sig)! A veritable shangri-la!!! ...wyoming....
                            "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
                            "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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                            • #15
                              Wyomnig's too pretty a place to allow libertarians to turn it into one giant strip mine. Take over New Jersey.
                              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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