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FOS
20 Jun 2021 08:15 pm
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Your question makes no sense. Universal health care is a socialist policy. It is neither liberal nor conservative....
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SJConspirator
20 Jun 2021 08:14 pm
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I will go to an extreme and take the very polar opposite position from you.  ALL liberal positions REQUIRE government to implement, while all conservative positions are in opposition to organized government.   still waiting for you to explain the difference between liberal and anarchist.  ...
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SJConspirator
20 Jun 2021 08:11 pm
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So universal health care is, to you, a conservative policy? As is public funded contraception and abortions, government funded sex change operations for military personnel, and government subsidies for pregnant women and children and solar energy?  All of which require government muscle to enforce,...
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FOS
20 Jun 2021 08:01 pm
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consider the 'internet free speech' issue, for example.  I do not think it is hard to see that there is no difference between the monopoly Corporations that control social media censoring certain speech is in effect no different from the state hypothetically doing the same thing. I.e. you won't see...
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FOS
20 Jun 2021 07:46 pm
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There is no such thing as a liberal policy for government. That's the amusing thing about liberalism.  You can have a liberal policy for the church, say, meaning no government interference...but for government itself?  It becomes a contradiction. Indeed the majority of people who call themselves l...
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SJConspirator
20 Jun 2021 07:35 pm
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If that is true, how does a liberal differ from a Anarchist? I think liberalism is perfectly in accord with government as long that government has liberal policies, as Dantev pointed out.    ...
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FOS
20 Jun 2021 07:30 pm
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I guess I could say, lol, that you are walking a fine line here between the no true Scotsman fallacy and the argument from popularity fallacy.  Like no...let's not commit either fallacy. Liberalism should be defined by is philosophical priors. 'government is bad' is indeed one of those priors.   ...
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Cannonpointer
20 Jun 2021 07:30 pm
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A semantic disagreement. I will adopt your terminology. Props for knowing about Huey Long....
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Rock
20 Jun 2021 07:29 pm
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Yes. Yes he did. Thanks for agreeing.   ...
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Phoenix68.2.0
20 Jun 2021 07:27 pm
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  Oh...please....not audits, again.....what will we ever do? . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4xsDTpxrLo...
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