Ask a Hoos.

a hoos has left-libertarian leanings iirc

feel like this is a new development post-DC move, i want to know the deal

also he is tweeting so much that i cant really imagine he actually is enjoying the hayek

lol @ this

I thought it was the opposite, he was a recovering libertarian

hoos are you dating a libertarian rn or what, feel like you spend a lot of time on this board sticking up for them, and now youre reading hayek in a bar (and tweeting about it?), lets talk

― max, Tuesday, September 6, 2011 11:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

there is a girl around whose interests have encouraged me to take an open mind to the likes of hayek & reason magazine. right now i'm reading "individualism and economic order" and finding myself yelling-at-the-page as often as i'm nodding in agreement. he draws a distinction between the english indivudualist tradition and the continental tradition that grew out of descartes that i think is kinda bullshit. then i come across something like this on p 20 for instance

If left free all men will often achieve more than individual reason could design or forsee.

in a way i didn't really expect he's arguing that a collaborative society full of free actors can spontaneously draw up superior solutions to the problems it faces. his insights on "emergent order" and behavior in complex systems are really interesting to me particularly as they've influenced the kinda nascent field of studying complex adaptive systems. i'm reading him less for "the road to serfdom" (which i'm not actually reading at all) and more for what he has to say about the ways complex systems behave.

a hoos has left-libertarian leanings iirc

― k3vin k., Tuesday, September 6, 2011 11:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

also this

my experience with the authoritarian wing of the far left put a bad taste in my mouth w/r/t things like """the state."""

what are you reading? 'road to serfdom'?

nah i'm deliberately avoiding that one for the time being. starting with "individualism and economic order."

there is a girl around whose interests have encouraged me to take an open mind to the likes of hayek & reason magazine.

i KNEW it

shut up lol

she's not like the last one i swear

nah dawg follow ur bliss

i remember liking what hayek i read in school but it was just his work on price/business cycle theory

yeah price theory is the interesting stuff to me, i'm workin my way there.

'spontaneous order' and shit

Hoos -

Can I get your address again?

Regards

will sending u

R u coming to Boston or what?

shh prob

we need to coordinate our trips

i KNEW it

― max, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:03 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

shut up lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:04 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

she's not like the last one i swear

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:04 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^this exchange just made my day

i know ssh but can u somehow send deets hoos? you can be the impetus for us to meet our sorry bostonian asses up

lol

your terrible ideas: i srsly just need to start auditing the meetings of libertarian clubs at liberal arts schools since those are the only girls i date anymore

i know ssh but can u somehow send deets hoos? you can be the impetus for us to meet our sorry bostonian asses up

― remy bean, Thursday, September 15, 2011 12:15 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

shld i wsebmail you or

Does this mean it's on?!

Guys he's going to be staying here (I think) so of course we gonna FAP. Duh.

yes, or FB me

dear hoos,

Hoos: The boss?

Yrs

Dmac

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/60e21e66e8dcb147f390e464b941b591/tumblr_mjoe2rWxSJ1qlpcoso1_500.jpg

hoos the boss indeed

HOOS, was it you who once described the song "Walking in Memphis" as "a love song to black people"? if so, thanks :)

dear hoos,

found this among my new housemate's pile of stuff:

http://i.imgur.com/ukGnfWu.jpg

aw

HOOS, was it you who once described the song "Walking in Memphis" as "a love song to black people"? if so, thanks :)

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, July 13, 2013 4:56 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am pretty sure i once said something like this, yes

what's up with justin raimondo? what do you think of that guy?

i don't really fuck with paleocons--alliances of convenience sure are nice to get folks in the street (hi stopwatching.us), but class analysis is pretty paramount for my willingness to take someone's thinking seriously in the long term.

and in any case, if i need somebody who gets withering on the same topics and doesn't want me to vote for ron paul, there's always max blumenthal.

yeah, interesting, thx.

pretty funny that ten years ago everyone talked about how the real drivers behind the antiwar movement were a bunch of leninist dead-enders, but the guy running antiwar.com is a buchananite

maoist dead-enders, even!

ha, yes of course

ok what's the deal with *this* person??

ex-ows'er google dev who's turned into some kind of anti-democrat 'caste warrior'??

https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/457541372573392896
https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/458042378159673344
http://ask.fm/JustineTunney/answer/112017590035
https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/458871447814176768
http://ask.fm/JustineTunney/answer/112092271379
https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/459185302150844416
https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/459194492730765312

america, man. pretty weird.

she is an endless source of entertainment to me

also trans, didn't pick that up at first. if it matters.

she was interviewed on the EmoProg Army Radio Hour, which is the best in-jokey-internet-radical-left thing happening rn imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GHTYdLk5HI

http://i.imgur.com/PKTXxTe.jpg

otm

yo hoos

you really think killing fast track at the cost of trade adjustment assistance is something to celebrate? i don't understand how this is a win for workers in any way...

plz explain

oh i didn't see that this was already being discussed on the politics thread

oh hey sorry hadn't seen this

so some broader context

TAA as it was being presented in this bill was essentially shit--this bill massively underfunded it because that's the only way it would ever have a chance in the GOP led house. TAA is great and necessary--this TAA bill was a joke, and attaching it to Fast Track was a cynical white house-driven maneuver to try to ensure TPA's passage. our leg people are confident that there will be another, better shot at TAA before the summer is out.

republicans have this pattern--not just with TAA obv but with "government services in general"--of defunding programs to the point of crippling their capabilities, then claiming that they don't work. that's what they've held with TAA for years: cut, then claim its broken. we know it works when its funded, and we shouldn't have to cut medicare to pay for it, which is part of what they were pushing on this as well.

but in short our position is there's gonna be another shot at TAA, and beating TPA was big enough to take that gamble.

hoos are you dating a libertarian rn or what, feel like you spend a lot of time on this board sticking up for them, and now youre reading hayek in a bar (and tweeting about it?), lets talk

― max, Tuesday, September 6, 2011 11:00 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

our leg people are confident that there will be another, better shot at TAA before the summer is out.

this bill is the one we're backing