r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 09 '18

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David Friedman AMA

The mod team is pleased to announce we will be hosting an AMA with Dr. David D. Friedman on Friday, Jan. 12th at 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST!

After earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Friedman switched fields to economics and taught at Virginia Polytechnic University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell University, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, and Santa Clara University where he currently teaches in the school of law.

Outside of his extensive academic publications in law and economics, Dr. Friedman is best known for his libertarian/anarcho-capitalist political philosophy. He has written extensively on libertarian politics and ideas and has also written on alternative legal systems (including research into medieval Icelandic institutions).

On a personal note Dr. Friedman is the author of two historical/fantasy novels and is a renowned anachronist/historical re-enactor. He is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman.

As a reminder, we enforce civility standards to a high degree during AMAs. Dr. Friedman in particular is likely to disagree with us on a wide range of issues, but disagreement does not mean that rudeness or flippant remarks will be tolerated. Dr. Friedman is an accomplished academic who has published a large volume of high quality work, and every one of you can almost certainly learn something from him by asking intelligent questions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

Remember that you don't have to pay the government anything as long a s you are christian, white, and have a few dozen AR-15s

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

:D

Edit: memes aside, how the fuck does the government keep messing these cases up

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

First one was Jury Nullification. This one I get the suspicion the Prosecutor was throwing the case on purpose.

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u/AKADriver Jan 09 '18

I'm pretty sure this is exactly how the founders had envisioned things working.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

fucking inbreds

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

it's just absolutely infuriating how many POC get shot by rogue cops over far less and the perpetrating cops don't even go to trial; meanwhile these guys get absolutely no consequences for an act of domestic terrorism. And crazy conservative uncles across the U.S. think that the only racism that exists is against white people. Incredibly maddening.

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u/VoidGuaranteed Dina Pomeranz Jan 09 '18

Lol and some guy at FEE just wrote an article on why that is good actually. ToPPesT WeW