In a spirit of malicious sarcasm directed against the hordes of uninformed people who expect other human beings to do all the hard work and take all the flak for fleshing out arguments the evidence for which is easily available on the net, while these queen bees simply troll sites throwing around words like “conspiracy”, “smear”…here’s what.
From now on, I’ll save myself endless debates with the terminally uninformed.
Yes, you are right.
1. Peter Boettke is the central figure in the Austrian revival.
2. Von Mises did not exist, or if he did, was a legendary, shadowy figure of secondary importance. Ditto for Murray Rothbard.
3. Lew Rockwell is populated by conspiracists and fools who had nothing to say about the housing bubble, financial crisis, or any other matter and simply plagiarized what they did from sterling papers like The Wall Street Journal.
4. LRC is filled with racists. That’s why it spends its time and effort arguing against bombing non-European people. The WSJ either remains silent about or urges the bombing of non-European people on a regular basis. But it never says hurtful things about them, at least, not in public. Ergo, it’s not racist or statist….at least, not in any way that would matter in New York City. They also employ non-Europeans, hence they cannot be racist, even if they urge/accept the extended bombing of non-European people. Racism does not include the killing of non-Europeans. It only extends to hurting their feelings..sometimes.
5. The Koch family has never, ever funded lobbyists. Their businesses are conducted with scrupulous integrity and they have never entered a courtroom to litigate any matter. It is an infamous lie that they have ever been contacted by any member of any intelligence agency ever at any moment of their lives. Any evidence to the contrary is a conspiracy theory. See website of Koch family.
6. Ditto for the Wall Street Journal. Any evidence to the contrary is a conspiracy theory.
7. Capitalism is the system where big businesses grant themselves rights and privileges individuals cannot claim. This is for the welfare of society. Capitalists always seek the welfare of society because the self-interest of a part is the same as the self-interest of the whole. This is called the hidden hand. The hidden hand is not to be confused with the iron fist. Which also hides. Hidden hands never use the levers of governments on their behalf. This follows because capitalists are often libertarians. (When they are not socialists). Libertarians by definition believe in liberty. Hence they cannot be statists. QED. Note: Alan Greenspan and Matt Ridley are not statists because they call themselves libertarian. That makes them libertarians. QED.
8. No mainstream journalist has ever ripped off bloggers and activists. Ever. Elite journals are by definition better than bloggers. Hence they could never rip off bloggers. QED. Any evidence to the contrary is a smear.
Have you considered that your valuable time has been successfully wasted by your antagonists? Let them stew, you’ve thoroughly and exhaustively countered their illogical “counter-arguments”…time to move on
Probably right..but I have to come up with more links to stop this revisionism. I promised I would.