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  1. bintananth

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    Hiding it from the tax collector is the main libertarian goal. Remember that Americans tend to be quite loathe to paying taxes and that the US Constitution explicitly grants Congress the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises ..." Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 if you're...
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    Considering that you're a libertarian who thinks that taxes are theft ... Your argument doesn't carry much weight with me.
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    Crypto is basically a quasi-legal Ponzi scheme that's gonna be shut down when the authorities get around to saying "nope, that's not legal tender". Crypto is not legal tender and the taxman tends to refuse and take dim view of it when it comes to tax time. EDIT: "Render unto Caesar the things...
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    The conquistadors weren't stupid. They were vastly outnumbered but also had native friends who were extremely upset with and irritated by the powers that be.
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    Land's End, Cornwall to John o' Groats, Scotland is only 874mi by car and you need to board a ferry to go further. St. Louis, Missouri to Elizabeth City, North Carolina is only 957mi by car. London to Moscow ain't shit to an American because stuff like Paris to Brussels and back can be an "I'm...
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    I didn't really think it was an argument in the first place. "You're WRONG!" with a whole bunch dick waving is where you're going. With that we might as well just pull them and a tape measure out to compare sizes and save time.
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    Europeans weren't better at everything. They were better at keeping and distributing records of what they did so their kids and grandkids didn't have to do it all from scratch once again.
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    A desire for widespread literacy is something Christianity gave the world. The Latin and Greek alphabets are also very simple and easy to understand when compared to abjads like Arabic or Hebrew and logograms like Chinese and Egyptian.
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    Conspiracy theories get wierd. As for white superiority? The only thing skin tone should tell you about someone is what type of climate they're most comfortable in. A pasty-white blue-eyed blonde from Scandinavia will likely be miserable in the Sahara desert (sunburn at the drop of a hat) while...
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    I might have said -85 because I misheard it as "What's 15 minus 100?" by someone who asked the question out of the blue while I was thinking about something other than answering a random math question. I'm actually good at math and figured out that for any prime number a, (((a^2)-1)/2)=b and...
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    Unrestricted jus soli is practically universal in North and South America. It's also very rare outside of the Americas. Pakistan is the only Asian or European country with unrestricted jus soli.
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    Having an illegal mom doesn't matter. If either you or one of your parents was born on US soil you're American and there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it unless you specifically and explicitly renounce your US citizenship.
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    The best guy for her is probably a promiscuous gay man who enjoys her company and doesn't want a guy he had sex with to be there come sunrise. Good luck with that.
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    Yes. Unfortunately they, like sarcasm, don't really translate well over a text-only medium because a lot of context is missing.
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    Um ... https://www.the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/talk-about-anything-thread.1915/post-284700
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    The "one guy, one gal" lifestyle is unusual for mammals. It's usually one male and a harem or a female who may or may not have said "yes".
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    The guys who actually have goodness - instead of faking it - tend to lose.
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    When I was in my early 20s a guy who said that he was a "nice guy" was basically telling the gal that he was pick-up artist who would not be there for breakfast. Most gals don't want that.
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    The "I need emergency services right fucking now" number varies by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers EDIT: The US has the added bonus of non-emergency publicly listed numbers for dispatch to handle situations when you do need a first responder and it's...
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    Messing up that start sequence could lead to the "kicks you" part of it breaking one or both of someone's arms and a 911 call for an ambulance. EDIT: The 12V lead-acid battery is an amazing invention. The $180 battery I bought around Feb 1 to replace a dead one is probably worth more than the...
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