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I'm only partway through but I can't get over the fact that Mises Caucus sounds like dirty talk from Jar Jar Binks.

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I was a little disappointed in the aside that (paraphrasing) "well have the kids complained about opposite sex trans youth with them" implying it's only overly concerned conservative parents are concerned. Can we just assume if adults are too nervous to stand up and say what they think that's against the trans orthodoxy why would we think children are brave enough to do so and would? Didn't we just have an awesome episode about high schoolers getting cancelled? Male genitalia in the girls locker room is a hill I'm willing to die on for my kid.

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Jimmy Concepts sounds like a mob hitman who got really into existentialism and/or postmodernism.

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I hate being this guy, but it's the second ep you guys have talked about Keynes. His name is pronounced KAYNZ. not keynz. KAAAAAYNZ.

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You guys totally have an Episode 15. It's titled "Blocked and Reported: Everyone Is Getting Fired All At Once, Except For Us", and there are copies of it floating around on the internet, for example at https://www.bababam.com/katie-herzog-and-jesse-singal-blocked-and-reported/202006111000-everyone-getting-fired-all-once-except-us

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If you guys are looking for material I’d be interested to hear Jesse talk about the recent findings on the non-chemical nature of depression and what that means. Maybe it’s more a topic for a callin as it’s not culture war-y enough though tbh I think the use of SSRIs is a big culture war issue at this point. Link to the Story https://t.co/mqXuKvbveD . Just a thought anyway

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Karlyn Borysenko is the reason I'm against psychologists with a PhD referring to themselves as "Doctor."

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I love this! For anyone who likes to hate Karlyn, there's a parody account on twitter called @karlynsbrainstem I highly recommend it!

I'm a knitter and a former supporter of the Mises Cauc so I've known about this clown bitch for quite awhile! I was creeped out when the notification for this episode dropped in my inbox because her name has been flooding my mentions lately

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My dad’s fourth wife’s father once sent me a book about how heaven was organized as a corporation. Very specific details about various departments. This is all to say every person has a weird theology in their head that they reverse engineered to justify their view of the world. But you’re supposed to wait until you’re senile before you write a three hundred page explanation of it that no one wants to read. Although bonus points for making all of our world a deliberate choice. Ultra libertarian cosmology.

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I’m a free-stater who moved to Manchester last year. Having lived in a couple big cities in the last decade I can say southern New Hampshire is not super liberal, however, the sea coast region is. A typical bar in Manchester is full of pool-shooting sluts, guys with ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ shirts spelled in a gun font, and normal gay couples who don’t follow the news at all. The music is from the 90s and so is the fashion. Trump nearly won here (within city limits) in 2020. It certainly has its charms.

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Have any Twitter users checked on Katie? Has she become Our Lady Of The Fucked Up Mentions?

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Don't know what a beachhead head is... Some of you haven't spent 8 hours just *setting up* a 40K battle and it shows.

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Why do I feel like 30 years ago Karlyn would've been screaming at people on the subway and that would be the extent of her influence? Modern media is like a mental illness/personality disorder transmission vector.

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The explanation of Austrian economics seemed half-baked to me, and I don't think Katie transmitted how ill-considered these guys are by most everyone else in economics -- even hardcore libertarians such as Bryan Caplan are not that much into them (https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm). "People respond to incentives" is accepted by pretty much every serious economist I know of -- and, far from necessarily resulting in radical libertarianism, can be the basis for suggesting that government should align incentives in certain ways to improve both private and social outcomes (the whole "nudge" vibe of behavioral economists such as Richard Thaler).

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Katie totally called this one: Karlyn is going NUTS on twitter.

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I am a Mainer currently in Illinois with Masshole Roots in Palmer and Lowell, as well as southern NH. NH is nice but sweet little towns like Hudson and Palmer are CRAZY expensive now from the Incomers taking over.

Now, I highly recommend A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling. It’s about a libertarian takeover of a small NH town (Grafton I believe- free state project related I think) and all that goes wrong, including bear attacks. Enjoy.

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