i really really really dont think that europes problems are caused by government or that government itself leads to tyranny or that it inevitably evolves into it or that its remotely fair to use the potential of a government turning fascist in the context of things like social security programmes/health care/regulations. in fact that argument is to me so completely ridiculous that i cant even take it seriously. obviously to americans its not but to me i cant even pretend that that idea is anything other than insane.

the idea that you can subtract government and then have a situation that has been purged of fascism, or somehow more likely to create a power structure that is not far far worse is also a bit nuts/

that's not an argument, that's an appeal to… herd mentality or something? come on, you can do better.

and austrian economics are at this point so utterly bankrupt, out dated and refuted that at best they are mostly quaint archaisms and at worst they are the worrying sign of an american economic culture in serious decline. a kind of ugly conservatism that the chinese probably cackle at. its fucking hick shit.

tl;dr; ad hominem?


it's a bit nuts because…

to me its fascism itself that wants to allign basic government services with tyranny and the american culture that does this just comes across as so utterly insane and irrational that i cant see it as 'another opinion' and it comes off more like the most ridiculous cultural quirk.

there are very well understood reasons for how the anti government meme arose in american culture. the historical history of this has been thoroughly examined.

at least take into consideration that this idea MIGHT not be a rationally considered one based on hard experiential data...

i still don't hear your argument so i guess i'll go play a game or something

i thought it was self explanatory. you see the cultural thing going on here?

if you think capitalism can be helped by infusing some idea into the social body 'be an entrenpeur and dont ask the state for handouts' you're just playing folk psychological bumpkin rhetoric politics and thats not interesting to me.

if you think chinas growth which isn't just better than yours its hundreds and hundreds of percent better over a few mere decades could have happened with hayekian bullshit then it's not just that you're wrong it's that if everyone in american really thinks like this you're really really screwed.

You're more thorough than I.

^^^ yeah, I wish that cunt was here a year ago when I was begging for help and ideas on how to save my vinyl to digital.

I ended up saying fuck it and just mailing it all internationally.

I think I'd like more specifics on how you'll be using the Pi transfer it all.

Please provide a step-by-step for idiots such as I.

man, that civ II is decades worth of fun

will it run in win 8(.1)???

Did it run on 7?

don't know. i'm still hanging on to xp trying to delay the inevitable.

wouldn't mind some new pc games though as games for mac are still utter shit-- usually ported and buggy and bloated. i just don't want to lose the old ones.

Could you run it through dosbox?

Why on earth would you do that? XP was probably EVERYTHING that was ever wrong with Windows, meanwhile 7 seamed to solve every problem Windows ever had in 20 years of versions. I don't like 8, but I LOVE 7. I say at least upgrade to 7, you will hardly regret it.