Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands

[Razgovory]

You gotta hand it to the socialists. At least socialist paradises lasted for decades; unlike these fleeting projects.

Alas, when you can't rob the masses, it makes it much harder.

Of course they can rob the masses.  What else would be the point?  Billionaires want government out of their lives for the same reason wolves want shepherds out of their lives.

[MadImmortalMan]

The teeming masses that live on windswept rusty oil rigs, yes.

[Razgovory]

China Mieville weighed in on this back on 2007: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3328/

Reminds me of L. Ron Hubbard's Sea Org.

[Razgovory]

The teeming masses that live on windswept rusty oil rigs, yes.

I didn't say they were clear thinkers.  Hell, they are trying to build islands to live on.  Presumably they still want to do business on the mainland.

[MadImmortalMan]

Criticism of Freedom Ship kooks by Mieville is like watching a cage match between two retards. It doesn't matter who wins, you just watch to see which one shits himself first.

[Razgovory]

Criticism of Freedom Ship kooks by Mieville is like watching a cage match between two retards. It doesn't matter who wins, you just watch to see which one shits himself first.

I checked, the ship still hasn't begun construction.  I doubt it ever will.  Still 50,000 libertarians dying at once when the boat capsizes due to ignoring regulations would have been a treat.

[MadImmortalMan]

 

True.

[Eddie Teach]

Sounds like the country in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which lived off a factory that canned fish.

[Siege]

I wish we could build colony starships and send people to colonize the galaxy.
Can you imaging all the weirdo colonies that would appear across space?
In a 1000 years, they would be billion people planets.
It could be like the Honorverse, or Hammer Slammers.

Mormon alliance against the Star Kingdom of New Otawa.

[Eddie Teach]

I suspect creating islands in the middle of the ocean is a tad more feasible than interstellar travel.

[HisMajestyBOB]

I suspect creating islands in the middle of the ocean is a tad more feasible than interstellar travel.

Both are more feasible than creating an libertarian paradise.

[Ideologue]

Criticism of Freedom Ship kooks by Mieville is like watching a cage match between two retards. It doesn't matter who wins, you just watch to see which one shits himself first.

But this is a hell of a line:

For some libertarians, "liberty" is more negotiable than "aryan."

[OttoVonBismarck]

I really, really want to see one of these happen, just to see how rapidly they devolve into anarchy and then totalitarianism.

Or, as implied above, disintegrate and fall into the ocean.

Me and some friends have slowly been building up men and weapons to establish a small conservative island nation through a different method.

[Ideologue]

I really, really want to see one of these happen, just to see how rapidly they devolve into anarchy and then totalitarianism.

Or, as implied above, disintegrate and fall into the ocean.

Me and some friends have slowly been building up men and weapons to establish a small conservative island nation through a different method.

Target: Bahrain.

Advantages: it's unlikely you'd govern it any worse; oil wealth; as a Protestant nation, ToT does not apply.

[Razgovory]

I really, really want to see one of these happen, just to see how rapidly they devolve into anarchy and then totalitarianism.

Or, as implied above, disintegrate and fall into the ocean.

Me and some friends have slowly been building up men and weapons to establish a small conservative island nation through a different method.

Up to your old tricks again, eh?  You old dog.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Dog