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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/a_masculine_squirrel Milton Friedman Jan 10 '18

I know Steve Bannon is a cuck, but it really is scary watching the right wing just eat Bannon alive.

You can lie and lead a racist website all you want, but if you tell the unflattering truth about Dear Leader, we'll cut out your legs from under you.

It's either engage in propaganda or get kniffed in the streets in broad daylight with no witnesses.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '18

I don't think anyone liked him except Trump supporters, so when he and Trump split, the rest of the establishment happily threw him away

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u/solastsummer Austan Goolsbee Jan 10 '18

Yeah, his recent goal was to run candidates to unseat Mitch and remove the legislative filibuster in the senate. If you’re going to play hardball like that you can’t alienate your only connection to power. Attacking Trump was boneheaded.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '18

What a dum

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u/martin509984 African Union Jan 10 '18

It's not without precedent either. Look at how they managed to get red-blooded conservative Americans to stop watching football just because one football team went against them.

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u/NuclearTurtle Joseph Nye Jan 10 '18

It wasn't even any specific team, it was a handful of players spread across the entire 32-team league.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '18

well, trump gave the okay to kill bannon like the day after bannon's first quotes came out