Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Dec 7, 2009, 3:41 am
The other day, an interesting question was posed to me by a commenter in Broadsnark’s blog who was asking how Anarchist principles (i.e. Mutual Aid and Direct Action) can help him in his current...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Dec 3, 2009, 11:46 pm
Image by mrjorgen via Flickr “He who has the gold, makes the rules.” I just read this article about how Canada is not only destroying its own environment and the health of its citizens b...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Dec 3, 2009, 12:09 am
Who would have thunk it eh? Once again, actual empirical research points out that humans are primarily co-operative rather than competitive and the hard primitivism assumptions of Hobbes (and favourit...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Dec 2, 2009, 3:18 am
Broadsnark recently posted an interesting piece into how she became an Anarchist which is the kind of thing that I always find interesting to read, both from a political perspective but also from a re...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Nov 25, 2009, 7:40 am
Recently there has been a bit of a stir over the latest Mr. Deity: “Mr. Deity and the Woman”, in which Mr. Deity meets his latest creation, the rib-woman Eve.  After being posted to RichardDawkin...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Nov 21, 2009, 3:53 pm
It appears to be more important to rail against a preconceived notion of a concept rather than engage the idea itself.  What do you think this ad is saying about those children in the image?  Why ar...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Nov 16, 2009, 7:31 am
We’re used to Hollywood portraying Atheists as cynical and bitter personalities who only need the slightest push to see the light as part of their redemption (or alternatively serve as a handy c...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Nov 16, 2009, 2:58 am
Image by protokol via Flickr I was reading what happened to a holocaust denier on Friday and while I couldn’t avoid getting a bit of schadenfreude out of it, it did create a feeling of discomfo...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Nov 13, 2009, 4:25 am
So I get home from work yesterday and get on Reddit… . . Yes, this really happened to me yesterday exactly as you see it. Other fun facts I got the VPN yesterday in an attempt to allow myse...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Nov 10, 2009, 9:02 am
Image by Bearman2007 via Flickr …Sort of. In response to my internet drama post about banning me from his blog and my thoughts about it and his past actions he’s come out to clarify his p...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Nov 10, 2009, 2:31 am
Image Unrelated via Wikipedia From a reddit discussion I ended up discovering a post from Kevin Carson who expresses amazingly well the reason why I keep getting annoyed when discussing with properta...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Nov 7, 2009, 4:40 pm
One and a half month ago I went to my girlfriend’s village for a visit to her mother. A trip to the nearby forest alerted us to the existence of an insane amount of Mushrooms. These are the pict...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Nov 6, 2009, 10:24 am
I often come across statements like the following: “Prove x” or “Prove not x” – most often in the form “Prove God exists” or “Prove God doesn’t ex...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Nov 3, 2009, 9:07 am
... asserted standalone. I won’t go into details on why those “first principles” are flawed at the moment (soon though). The point is to explain ... 8217;s far from obvious to me a...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Nov 2, 2009, 12:44 pm
And for your daily dose of internet drama… I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a while and finally now, after the Barefoot Bum re-re-re-…-re-opened his blog I’ve finally ...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 30, 2009, 10:16 am
Image unrelated by 27147 via Flickr Every time I argue with Stateless (or minarchist) Propertarians of various degrees of vulgarity, I keep seeing a few types of reaction over and over. Not only are ...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 27, 2009, 7:28 am
Image via Wikipedia The latest and hopefully the final nail has been driven in that old-time favorite myth against all forms of communal ownership, the Tragedy of the Commons. Elinor Ostrom has just ...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 26, 2009, 7:13 am
I posted a while back explaining why the AnCap dismissals of Block’s support for sexual harassment where misguided and inconsistent with their own principles and why the question was not really ...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 25, 2009, 9:32 am
I’ve been discussing with Right-”Libertarians” lately quite a bit, especially after the Division by Zer0 was linked from a related social network as well as in Reddit. Unfortunately ...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Oct 19, 2009, 7:02 pm
Swedish political right extremist party Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden Democrats) have managed to give rise to more controversy more than gaining power among the voters. Their leader, Jimmie Åkesson, pu...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Oct 17, 2009, 1:39 pm
I had a lecture the other week when one of my teachers came to talk about his fieldwork he conducted on West Java, studying the (religious) meaning of fasting. Java’s biggest religion is Islam, ...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 16, 2009, 2:51 pm
... slightly, it was the student percentage that took a big jump. It seems that most of the Social Anarchists are or have mostly been still in education which can point us to two possibilities which...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 14, 2009, 10:45 am
Interesting IM convo today purelonewolf: man fuck..nice nah – I call it man flu, but its really shit – ill as hell me: ah ok then perhaps you do have the man flu. The chauvinist swine...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 13, 2009, 4:00 am
Image by GavinBell via Flickr In recent posts I’ve been arguing a lot with various strands of Free Market Anarchists on the benefits of using such a free market approach and on trusting in them...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 12, 2009, 7:57 am
Quoth Francois Tremblay Saying that inequality of capacities must lead to inequality of wages would only make sense if all work was the same, in which case the person with lower capacities should be ...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 12, 2009, 1:34 am
FFS! Why are the propertarians so hell-bent in appropriating all the concepts of socialists for their own ends? Libertarianism was twisted to mean Capitalist Minarchism. Anarchism has been pulled over...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 8, 2009, 3:05 am
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Hits and Mises - About this series Image via Wikipedia Have I got a treat for you this time! I just found a Mises article presenting am idea on how to bring ...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 4, 2009, 9:32 am
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Hits and Mises - About this series Image via Wikipedia In today’s Hits & Mises episode I’m going to tackle George Reisman’s attempt to refu...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 2, 2009, 4:02 am
Image via Wikipedia Just thought I’d throw this out there since this idea, that the only way to have libertarianism is to have a free market economy, keeps popping up from people coming from th...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Oct 1, 2009, 10:49 am
Quoth Michael Greer There’s a boobytrap hidden inside the scientific method. The fact that you can get some fraction of nature to behave in a certain way under arbitrary conditions in the artificia...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Sep 30, 2009, 11:41 am
Just a quick article from me today. Swedish newspaper Metro had a small article in the Gothenburg version this morning about how the Swedish organization JO (Justitieombudsmannen), which is a politica...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 30, 2009, 11:11 am
Quoth Twisty Men suffer, O how they suffer, at the hands of subhuman conniving bitches who seek world domination through insane women-are-human propaganda and the misguided attempt to claim their own...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 30, 2009, 7:48 am
Image via Wikipedia It seems that the Walter Block quote on sexual harassment I posted a while back has been rediscovered by various libertarians online and  lots of criticism, analysis and defenses...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 29, 2009, 8:04 am
Image by jimmedia via Flickr I’ve written in the past on what the obvious trend for freethinker’s political orientation is but the more I talk and interact with libertarians online, the m...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 29, 2009, 3:45 am
Image by daftgirly via Flickr William Gillis writes an interesting post about the differences between Capitalist and Communistic ownership rights and gives a different perspective of how market theor...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 28, 2009, 7:42 am
Quoth Kevin Carson The time-honored “free market” recipe, among the ruling classes, goes like this: 1) rob the producing classes of their traditional property rights in the land, and turn...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 28, 2009, 5:02 am
Image via Wikipedia I was sent via email an interesting article by computerworld looking into the gap between management’s impression of IT professionals and what is actually happening. What st...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 27, 2009, 7:35 am
One of my latest attempts to figure out the Anarchist circles in my current place of residence, as an expat without a good grasp of the language, was to visit the anti-capitalist demonstration that ha...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 26, 2009, 4:05 am
Quoth Lucy Gillam The first is that true gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly eq...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 25, 2009, 5:56 am
Quoth davex0rz If someone criticizes capitalism and is rich, they’re accused of being “hypocritical” in some way, “limousine socialists,” elitists, etc. If someone crit...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 24, 2009, 5:10 am
Quoth Emma Goldman Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, pres...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 23, 2009, 8:08 am
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 19, 2009, 3:33 pm
... a women-dominated hobby/job, in that case any attempt to restrict entrance to men can rightly be seen as discrimination against males. In closing, things are not simply black and white on the is...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 18, 2009, 8:50 am
Quoth D-Pub Unfortunately when you behead a corporation, the head slithers away and attaches onto another group of workers. Insightful? Funny? Informative? Interesting? Other similar posts you migh...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 18, 2009, 3:33 am
Image by Getty Images via Daylife It surprises me sometimes of how many faces male sexism can take. One usually expects it to be in the clear form of misogyny, which would make it easy to point out a...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 16, 2009, 7:37 am
Image via Wikipedia One things that crops up over and over when someone on the libertarian right notices the outright hostility of anarchists when he appropriates the “Anarchist” label fo...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 15, 2009, 6:35 am
I’ve been having a lengthy discussion with an Anarchist on Facebook which was triggered by my criticism of a link he made on one of Molyneux’s videos. The argument has been mainly around t...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Sep 11, 2009, 2:23 pm
Aristotle was one of the first philosophers to really try and tackle the field of causality. In Metaphysics, Aristotle proposes four different causes. These are the causa materialis, the material caus...
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Db0 posted an article on A Division by Zer0 - Sep 11, 2009, 6:58 am
Quoth a colleague: If you start taking responsibility away from people they become more irresponsible This is a very important insight that those in power seem to miss, especially when they assume t...
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Db0 posted an article on The Antichristian Phenomenon - Sep 9, 2009, 4:09 am
As I am studying the Greek philosophers right now, there is one interesting question regarding Plato. I may just be rambling and be way off, but I thought it might be worthwhile writing it down nevert...
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