FTL Discussion 2018 Week 3

Free Talk Live
Sunday 01/14/2018 to
Saturday 01/20/2018

Free Talk Live
Free Talk Live 2018-01-14
Jan 14, 2018 at 22:25 · 2:01:15
Madoblastoo joins us to discuss life as a Twitch video game streamer. :: Copyrighted Music on Streaming :: Twitch Shuts Down Madoblastoo Over DMCA :: Guns and Pot :: Cannabis and Addiction :: Carl Drega :: Savings vs Investment :: Libertarian Migration to NH :: Judicial Dynasty :: Economics in One Lesson :: HOSTS - Ian, Jonny Ray
web: freetalklive.com
link: https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2018-01-14

Free Talk Live
Free Talk Live 2018-01-15
Jan 15, 2018 at 22:28 · 2:00:35
Teacher Assigns Students to Come Up With Good Reasons for Slavery :: Free Stater State Rep Turns Against Liberty, Publicly Attacks Libertarians :: Moving Parties :: Voluntary vs Coercive Solutions to Poverty :: People Who Leave Libertarianism :: False Libertarians :: Salt Lamp Sarah :: HOSTS - Ian, Melanie
web: freetalklive.com
link: https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2018-01-15

Free Talk Live
Free Talk Live 2018-01-16
Jan 16, 2018 at 22:21 · 2:01:06
Cryptocurrency Bloodbath :: New California Declares Independence :: New California Critique :: Declaration of Independence :: State Status Quo :: Catalonia Secession :: Rich People Buying Property :: Property Tax :: Chinese Miners Moving to Switzerland :: HOSTS - Ian, Johnson, Will
web: freetalklive.com
link: https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2018-01-16

Free Talk Live
Free Talk Live 2018-01-17
Jan 17, 2018 at 22:21 · 2:01:06
Vermont Cannabis Legalization :: Tennessee Cannabis Prices :: DUI Checkpoints :: Hookah Lounge :: Kokesh Bail Paid? :: New California Secession :: Decentralization or Not? :: Psychedelics and Terminal Illness :: HOSTS - Ian, Will
web: freetalklive.com
link: https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2018-01-17

Free Talk Live
Free Talk Live 2018-01-18
Jan 18, 2018 at 19:00 · 2:00:34
Senate passes NSA spying bill :: Did a Vermont town become South Canada? :: Section 702 reauthorization :: Brief history of USA PATRIOT Act :: Tether cryptocurrency :: Health professionals to be allowed to discriminate on religious grounds :: Hoarders :: Trump’s 1 year review :: American foreign policy :: Heather loves the military :: HOSTS - Darryl, Chris, Heather
web: freetalklive.com
link: https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2018-01-18

The return of Heather! Glad she didn’t leave.

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Free Talk Live
Free Talk Live 2018-01-19
Jan 19, 2018 at 22:27 · 2:01:20
Government Shutdown Looming? :: Adam Kokesh Arrest Update :: DACA :: Previous Govt Shutdowns :: State Internet Sales Tax Supreme Court Case :: Think Penguin to Stop Shipping to Internet Sales States? :: Shipping Strategies Impossible :: Luring Businesses with Tax Breaks :: Shipping Middleman :: Internet Video Feeds :: HOSTS - Ian, Darryl, Chris W.
web: freetalklive.com
link: https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2018-01-19

Would have been an improvement. Less Heather, more Melanie.

Free Talk Live
Free Talk Live 2018-01-20
Jan 20, 2018 at 23:20 · 2:09:32
Government Shutdown! :: Definition of Taxpayer :: Republicans and Democrats :: Military Fearmongering :: Corporations :: Government Backpay :: Government Jobs :: World War I :: :: Libertarian Socialist? :: Immigration :: Government Schools :: Trump and Manson :: Ricky and Sarah :: Edgington Post with Martin Weiss :: HOSTS - Ian, Chris R.
web: freetalklive.com
link: https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2018-01-20

I disagree…FTL is often in danger of becoming an echo chamber with no dissenting voices heard… And Melanie has the most echo in that chamber.

Fine. Less of an echo chamber. That doesn’t mean my AMP money has to support a show where a bimbo is invited spew statist views as a cohost. Dissenting views are typically presented by callers, and those arguing bounds and implications of libertarian principles, not cohosts arguing that statism is good.

The caller/host dynamic is very unbalanced.
Very often, the caller is cut off from making what may be a very solid point just because it makes a host uncomfortable and really challenges the host’s stance.
I totally understand that the hosts have to keep the show moving forward and there is an overall agenda tilted towards “more freedom”, but I also feel that the hosts offer very little more than bitching about how things are.
It’s very rare when real solutions are discussed.
For the freedom movement to succeed, we need to reach out to and, at least, try to understand the “average person”…
Ya know, the one who believes that destroying our country is a terrible idea.

You’re talking about different problems. Heather doesn’t bring “real solutions” to the table.

Perhaps, but she most closely represents the average American who needs help understanding true freedom.
But, more often than not, she gets shouted down, insulted and belittled.
What a lot of “freedom lovers” don’t understand if that treating a fellow human like that is very off-putting and only prolongs conflicts between ideals.

Who shouts her down and insults her? She should be belittled. She doesn’t belong on the show as a cohost. The reason she gets treated the way she does is because of her anti-liberty views in that seat. It’s simply inexcusable that she’s in that position in the first place.

Where is Heather on the Nolan Chart? From her comments on FTL she seems to be down in the Authoritarian quadrant. What libertarian/liberty views does she hold? Its not apparent from her participation on FTL.

I’m sure that I could go through the archives and find a few examples for you, but I doubt it would somehow be good enough for you.You seem extremely biased on this topic and, therefore, unable to be persuaded with even the best evidence.

I have no idea, any chart that tries to categorize people is always flawed.
Humans are much more complicated than that.

Of course, I cannot not speak for her, but from my own personal observations, she does indeed agree with most of libertarian positions… But… She disagrees with how most libertarians want to implement their ideas.
Waving around principles like they are magic wands is not how normal humans help each other