New Hope for Freedom

[derspiess]

So he's going Jonestown now?

Yes, I thought, "oh he's forming his own cult now".

I hope there's a reality show about this, should be hilarious watching all those librarytarians/teabaggers failing to agree on anything or give even an inch to each other, in their quest to build a rural/fairyland idyll. 

Maybe he'll go the Bioshock/Rapture route and become an authoritarian figure out of necessity?

[mongers]

So he's going Jonestown now?

Yes, I thought, "oh he's forming his own cult now".

I hope there's a reality show about this, should be hilarious watching all those librarytarians/teabaggers failing to agree on anything or give even an inch to each other, in their quest to build a rural/fairyland idyll. 

Maybe he'll go the Bioshock/Rapture route and become an authoritarian figure out of necessity?

Maybe, but it'll be hilarious either way.

Oh and I'm not condemning this section of the American right as being particularly asocial; of the distinct groups I've met who might aspire to these separatist utopias,  I think they're all pretty much of a similar, inept quality that are doomed to fail, be it this lot, the Occupiers movement, the hard left anarchists or right on liberal/socialist would-be commune dwellers. 

[Valmy]

I hope there's a reality show about this, should be hilarious watching all those librarytarians/teabaggers failing to agree on anything or give even an inch to each other, in their quest to build a rural/fairyland idyll. 

Well to be fair that is how all these utopian communities usually go.

[mongers]

I hope there's a reality show about this, should be hilarious watching all those librarytarians/teabaggers failing to agree on anything or give even an inch to each other, in their quest to build a rural/fairyland idyll. 

Well to be fair that is how all these utopian communities usually go.

Indeed, see my above post.

[Viking]

So he's going Jonestown now?

Yes, I thought, "oh he's forming his own cult now".

I hope there's a reality show about this, should be hilarious watching all those librarytarians/teabaggers failing to agree on anything or give even an inch to each other, in their quest to build a rural/fairyland idyll.

Just my version of O'Sullivan's law in action. Any idealistic organization, movement or project will be taken over by radicals.

[mongers]

So he's going Jonestown now?

Yes, I thought, "oh he's forming his own cult now".

I hope there's a reality show about this, should be hilarious watching all those librarytarians/teabaggers failing to agree on anything or give even an inch to each other, in their quest to build a rural/fairyland idyll.

Just my version of O'Sullivan's law in action. Any idealistic organization, movement or project will be taken over by radicals.

Alternatively idealist don't tend to be practical people ?

[Malthus]

I always wanted to live in a fortress under the benevolent rule of a billionaire. That's something that just whispers "freedom" to me. 

[MadImmortalMan]

This gun company only makes ARs and 1911s. I wonder how much money an operation like that would actually make.


Also, if I lived there, I'd take over by manipulating the paranoid masses to my banner. Beck would not rule it. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Glen Beck is proposing to build a new community based on freedom. Check it out: http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/01/10/take-a-tour-of-glenns-visionary-plans-for-independence/

The town will also have a working ranch where visitors can learn how to farm and work the land. .

Overkill.  There's already more than enough bullshit without it.

[derspiess]

This gun company only makes ARs and 1911s. I wonder how much money an operation like that would actually make.

The AR has become an entire universe of firearms unto itself.  Lots of money to be made there.  In the past 10-15 years many successful companies have sprung up making only AR pattern rifles or even just specific parts or accessories.  Custom 1911s are a big business as well.

But looking at their website, bleh, I'll pass.  Tacky slogans and imagery on overpriced firearms. 

Also, if I lived there, I'd take over by manipulating the paranoid masses to my banner. Beck would not rule it. 

You'd have your work cut out for you.  Kinda tough to out-Beck Beck himself.

[garbon]

I always wanted to live in a fortress under the benevolent rule of a billionaire. That's something that just whispers "freedom" to me. 

Come to New York!

[Ed Anger]

Looks nifty. Except for the Glenn Beck part.

[Josquius]

The citadel looks like a prison. I suspect leftist/sane person funding

[jimmy olsen]

Is he going to build it in a state with an Orc problem?

WTF is up with those walls?

[Tonitrus]

Is he going to build it in a state with an Orc problem?

WTF is up with those walls?

Zombies and the 47%.