What a war with North Korea would look like

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDTjkTi-2o​

The lies persist. Saw this on Facebook.

http://www.davekopel.org/2A/Mags/crburger.htm

Sweden's got problems

https://youtu.be/iERLyAxddVE

Nostalga

Starving the Tax Beast by producing your own value

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWXAHCuB18

This seems pretty obvious ...   I'm not going to make my make my own table, but I might make my own meals.  Sometimes.

Dem On Soda Ban Bill: ‘Nanny State’ Is Not A Bad Thing

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/dem-childrens-soda-ban-bill-nanny-state-not-bad-thing

Success Isn't about Fancy Titles. Focus on This Instead.

https://fee.org/articles/success-isnt-about-fancy-titles-focus-on-this-instead/

Disney Doesn't Care About The Last Jedi Criticisms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCbicn-HcNs

Cruz: Trump’s immigration plan is more liberal than Obama’s DACA

Cruz: Trump’s immigration plan is more liberal than Obama’s DACA

​Dear Immigrant

This was just posted to Facebook by somebody who used to work with me on the same small team in Sandy Utah, who is obviously very liberal.  (Emphasis mine.)

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Dear Immigrant, legal and illegal:

You are welcome in my country. You may use food stamps, welfare, and any other type of government entitlement to which I have personally contributed with my income and other types of taxes while you get to your proverbial feet. Feel free to bring your extended family with you. If you happen to be Muslim, I look forward to hearing about your religious views and learning about your native national and spiritual culture.

Thank you,

Mr. Older-white-male-middle-class-liberal-agnostic-scientifically-minded-white-collar-working-bass-playing-facebook-posting-college-educated-jeep-driving-beer-drinking-Trump-disapproving-somewhat-intelligent-though-not-good-looking-size-10-shoe-wearing-citizen-voter-in-every-election-in-order-to-make-known-my-political-views-because-I-was-naturally-born-by-luck-within-the-united-states-after-all-I-may-just-as-well-have-been-born-in-a-South-American-rain-forest-though-I-would-still-expect-dignity-as-a-human-being-from-every-other-human-being-on-this-planet-not-the-shit-my-political-leaders-and-their-dumb-racist-minions-are-trying-to-pass-off-to-you-as-not-a-natural-born-political-citizen-as-though-they-deserve-more-dignity-than-you-do-all-the-while-feigning-christianity-voting-voting-voting-citizen.

Ten Things Millennials Should Know About Socialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZSq_zZ5VrQ

Why NASA Won’t Send Humans to Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv593WeDw2s

Is Capitalism Voluntary?

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In response to:  https://youtu.be/mHWAi_xCA_s?t=52s  I wrote...
Interesting comments.  The problem I see with it is that nobody is born with the ability to provide for themselves.  People can only survive by getting the cooperation of others, which means that we have to prosper in the system that we are born in.  Free markets by far have been the best system for rising people out of poverty, and socialism has been a colossal failure.  And socialism by its nature is far more coercive than the supposedly coercive capitalism.

​Let's get some definitions clear:  Capitalism is a system where the means of production is privately owned.  It should be incredibly obvious that private ownership has done much better than state ownership of the means of production.  Taking away private ownership is taking away your freedom to start your own business.  Leaving capitalism is the same as leaving a free market.  In a free market all exchanges are voluntary.  If you want something I have, and I want the money you have, then the exchange benefits us both.  However, socialism does not benefit both parties because government uses coercion to accomplish its aims. Usually this means stealing from one person, which is involuntary, and giving to another.  However, it can also mean the government dictates every part of your life, which is what happens under socialism.  So "Thought Slime" complains that he is not "free" to leave a system of free voluntary exchanges, so as to move to a system where his life is much more coerced by the state.  

Even Milton Friedman admitted that the concentration of power in private hands can be a threat to freedom.  

https://youtu.be/R_T0WF-uCWg?t=14s   However, having the state control everything is the ultimate concentration of power, and always leads to a corrupt dictatorship.  

"Thought Slime" is complaining that he is forced to work under capitalism, but we start in this world with nothing and can only survive and achieve anything of value through barter with others who have the resources we need.  If you were the sole occupant of an island, you would still have to work to survive, and you would probably do less well and not live as long as you would in a capitalist society.  But people fair far worst in socialist countries, because if you are not allowed to own the means of production then you are slave to those who control the means of production.  It is almost unfathomable that anyone would think that state ownership of the means of production is a better system. ​