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woah

Yuuuppppp

Hellebyuck just got paiddddd. $6.167 x 6.

A full season for me is 70+ games. Most goalies don't play a full season...

Get Pominville out of there and I can live. He just sticks out to me like a sore thumb.

This is why it's important to never have heroes.

My father is 6'6" and has weighed around 190 most of his life. He's way stronger than me but because he's so tall he doesn't look like much. Don't gotta look strong to be strong when you're tall.

His time in ICU and his recovery did give him less time to prepare for the season.

Can't do it anymore. They made it a rule after Biron wore 00.

Guhle

Hm, I think I'll start.

What's to stop people from using one jersey and just passing it around so all their friends can get the discount? The honor system?

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

So silly. Just wear the #15 jersey. If spending the money on jerseys that could immediately go out of date is such a crisis then just do what I do: don't buy jerseys until the player is retired from hockey.

His new contract starts this year, so that's kind of a big deal. I hope he's seeing it as something he needs to live up to. #9 is probably a nice thing to attach to that.

I had to look it up. Now I understand why I wouldn't really know it. Before my time.

I don't even know who wore 15 besides Eichel.

Screw it, I like it.

This is the problem though. You're assuming that Libertarianism comes with an increase in choice. It doesn't. You simply have different choices than you had before, presented in a different set of boxes and restrictions. You're not any more free to make those choices because those choices don't happen in a vacuum. You might just as well go from having more money but less choice, to plenty of choices and no money. Libertarianism doesn't guarantee that you will benefit as an individual in such a manner as to have greater freedom.

I think the problem is that a lot of Ayn Rand styled Libertarians try to present themselves as not. But, when stressed, would revert to that model. Who was it, Gary Johnson? That guy is the kind of guy that my left-libertarian friends hitched their wagon to until it turned out he was actually trash.

The first bolded is a somewhat nebulous question that I think shifts depending on circumstances. It's why I don't like trying to fit my political beliefs into a box. I went ahead and filled out that survey and lo and behold: Even though I'm basically in the same place on the chart as LTS, I strongly resist identifying as Libertarian. Whereas LTS identifies as Libertarian, but I wonder whether examinations like these have had influence? Regarding the second bolded, I question any reference to "increased quality of life" when it's coupled with "industrial nation". I think there are plenty of societies that don't require being subjected to wage labor structures, land ownership, and everything else that comes with "industry" and "progress".

That's the problem with these tests. They allow people to come out and try to square things like being "socially liberal but economically conservative". Which is basically impossible.

My definition of a Libertarian (based on my experience with them) is someone who thinks the best way to solve bad government is to destroy it rather than participate in and fix it. It's the "Rage quit" of politics and completely fails to account for how inevitable/essential government is, especially in a capitalist economy. A Libertarian thinks that unregulated capitalism will somehow work for them and not against. Every Libertarian small business owner thinks they did everything themselves with no outside help even though that is NEVER true. Libertarians think everything they do and achieve happens in a vacuum. Unless we're completely dismantling capitalism there's no point in "being" Libertarian. Bring some Libertarian ideas to government. I like that. I would probably get on board with a number of Libertarian-ish reforms. In-re my comment about Soviet Communism, what did the leaders do versus what they said they were going to do? They promised a workers revolution and then used it to make themselves rich by controlling industry. Libertarian politicians (they are inevitable just like government) would promise that you as the labor would have more money to do whatever you liked with it, but the truth is they would be making themselves rich at your expense. You would be free to be poor and stupid. Liberty!

You're not a Libertarian bud. You're just a liberal who wants a better ROI for his tax dollars.