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Neil from Northern Virginia here

armycowboy said:
I'm originally from the Norfolk area, but I lived in Stafford from 2014-18, after I retired from the Army. Glad to be out of that area, honestly.
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rte 610 garrisonville sure has changed in the last 25 years
 
armycowboy said:
We owned a bar on that road for about a year. It was basically a parking lot when I left in 2018.
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my parents moved there from California in 1977

there was a 7-11, a KFC, and a car wash on the road....and houses were reasonable

35 years later....it is unrecognizable

last i was there it was 3 lanes each way...not one

a mall sat at the 95 interchange....car dealerships, etc

both my parents passed a few years ago....and we sold the house

what they had bought for 226k sold for 559k and we really didnt hold out for the most money

just crazy growth in area....now from what i am told, people are commuting from Fredericksburg using the trains

that area from Springfield all the way down the I95 corridor is just hellish on the commuters now
 
gdgyva said:
my parents moved there from California in 1977

there was a 7-11, a KFC, and a car wash on the road....and houses were reasonable

35 years later....it is unrecognizable

last i was there it was 3 lanes each way...not one

a mall sat at the 95 interchange....car dealerships, etc

both my parents passed a few years ago....and we sold the house

what they had bought for 226k sold for 559k and we really didnt hold out for the most money

just crazy growth in area....now from what i am told, people are commuting from Fredericksburg using the trains

that area from Springfield all the way down the I95 corridor is just hellish on the commuters now
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I had a good friend in college who was from Stafford and I remember visiting his family's house there in the mid 80s. It's really changed incredibly.
 
neil said:
Hi everyone, I live in the Northern Virginia area.

I work in the IT field in the healthcare industry, and have degrees in computer science and electrical engineering.

My interests include cryptocurrencies, the concept of a post-scarcity society (transitioning via implementation of technology - automation & robotics), and UBI (actually being dividend based).

My political positions are generally libertarian (centrist, for those who self-identify as libertarians). I'm not a fan of the Leftist/socialist ideology (hence my avatar), and I consider anarcho-capitalism to be an oxymoron.

I am not religious.
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Welcome aboard, sir! Glad to have you here.
 
neil said:
Hi everyone, I live in the Northern Virginia area.

I work in the IT field in the healthcare industry, and have degrees in computer science and electrical engineering.

My interests include cryptocurrencies, the concept of a post-scarcity society (transitioning via implementation of technology - automation & robotics), and UBI (actually being dividend based).

My political positions are generally libertarian (centrist, for those who self-identify as libertarians). I'm not a fan of the Leftist/socialist ideology (hence my avatar), and I consider anarcho-capitalism to be an oxymoron.

I am not religious.
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We're pretty much polar opposites....
However I welcome you to the forum just the same.
 
neil said:
Hi everyone, I live in the Northern Virginia area.

I work in the IT field in the healthcare industry, and have degrees in computer science and electrical engineering.

My interests include cryptocurrencies, the concept of a post-scarcity society (transitioning via implementation of technology - automation & robotics), and UBI (actually being dividend based).

My political positions are generally libertarian (centrist, for those who self-identify as libertarians). I'm not a fan of the Leftist/socialist ideology (hence my avatar), and I consider anarcho-capitalism to be an oxymoron.

I am not religious.
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Yo
 
armycowboy said:
It got dumped to a section of the forum you don't have the credentials to access, yet.
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Seriously? What's that all about? Why would such a thing be done? That's a disrespectful & antagonistic thing to do to forum members given that it broke no forum rules.
 
neil said:
Seriously? What's that all about? Why would such a thing be done? That's a disrespectful & antagonistic thing to do to forum members given that it broke no forum rules.
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You should probably address this to a mod.
 
armycowboy said:
You should probably address this to a mod.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd rather speak with the mod who made the decision; the only notification I got doesn't disclose who that was. I'll probably use the "contact us" form to ask for an explanation, if I decide I want to continue to bother with this forum.
 
neil said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd rather speak with the mod who made the decision; the only notification I got doesn't disclose who that was. I'll probably use the "contact us" form to ask for an explanation, if I decide I want to continue to bother with this forum.
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Yes, do this. Use the Contact Us link.

Now I must ask that you do not discuss any Moderator Actions in this thread. Thank you for your cooperation.
 
When is a red truck not a truck? Never, yet somehow national socialism isn't socialism. This can happen with Orwellian newspeak.
 
What purpose does it serve to win a debate? I'm basically referring to where there's an audience that votes. It doesn't seem to prove anything other than that more people in the audience are on your side, or that you're able to persuade people to your side.

If I were to debate that 2+2=5, and I persuade most of the audience to agree with me, that doesn't make 2+2=5 anymore true that it already is (i.e., false, not true at all).
 
Here are my positions on some issues:

I support a free market, not a centrally planned command and control economy.

I believe that people should be free to live where they want to live, and shouldn't have to live where they don't want to live.

I believe that I should be free to buy or sell as many or as few sodas full of sugar in restaurants as I please.

I am opposed to minimum & maximum wages.

Income and wealth inequality are not problems that need to be solved.

At conception, there is a new living organism, and it is the same species as its mother and father.

I believe a person should not be judged by the color of their skin.

I do not believe that whites/Europeans are the superior race/ethnicity.

I do not believe that people with black or brown skin are inferior races/ethnicities.

I oppose private central banks that are owned by crony capitalists.

I am not religious.

I oppose any state religion, including having the state require that anyone be a member of some religion.

I believe in freedom of speech.

I believe in freedom of the press.

I believe that people ought to be free to believe in any deities they want to, and what happens to them after they die.

I believe in the right to peaceably assemble & that this does not mean that people have the right to riot, loot, commit arson, or engage in any other form of violence.

I am opposed to repealing the 2nd Amendment.

I believe people ought to be presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law by their peers.

The state should not be involved in marriage or even mention the word marriage.

The state cannot compel you to bake someone else a cake, but once you set up shop, put up signs on the shop like "bakery", "we make custom cakes", and "open for business", then you have committed yourself, to baking a cake, to anyone who comes into your shop and asks for one; that is not the state compelling you to bake them a cake, that's you doing that yourself.

I am opposed to using walls and armed guards to keep people from escaping the country.

I believe that climate change is real (personally I think it sounds redundant), CO2 is a greenhouse gas, humans produce CO2, and that it's possible that it could be causing global warming, but that doesn't automatically mean there's cause for alarm; CO2 is plant food; the global warming effect due to CO2 released by human efforts might have a positive effect by making the environment less hostile to life; water vapor is a much more dominant greenhouse gas in terms of volume as well as impact; global warming might be the due to leaving an ice age. Whatever the case may be, I am opposed to carbon taxes and believe that the free market can and will fix any problem if there actually is one that needs to be solved, because politicians aren't trained to solve problem; all they can do is put guns to people's heads (that's not science, that's just coercion).

I am opposed to any titles of nobility.
 
neil said:
Here are my positions on some issues:

I support a free market, not a centrally planned command and control economy.

I believe that people should be free to live where they want to live, and shouldn't have to live where they don't want to live.

I believe that I should be free to buy or sell as many or as few sodas full of sugar in restaurants as I please.

I am opposed to minimum & maximum wages.

Income and wealth inequality are not problems that need to be solved.

At conception, there is a new living organism, and it is the same species as its mother and father.

I believe a person should not be judged by the color of their skin.

I do not believe that whites/Europeans are the superior race/ethnicity.

I do not believe that people with black or brown skin are inferior races/ethnicities.

I oppose private central banks that are owned by crony capitalists.

I am not religious.

I oppose any state religion, including having the state require that anyone be a member of some religion.

I believe in freedom of speech.

I believe in freedom of the press.

I believe that people ought to be free to believe in any deities they want to, and what happens to them after they die.

I believe in the right to peaceably assemble & that this does not mean that people have the right to riot, loot, commit arson, or engage in any other form of violence.

I am opposed to repealing the 2nd Amendment.

I believe people ought to be presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law by their peers.

The state should not be involved in marriage or even mention the word marriage.

The state cannot compel you to bake someone else a cake, but once you set up shop, put up signs on the shop like "bakery", "we make custom cakes", and "open for business", then you have committed yourself, to baking a cake, to anyone who comes into your shop and asks for one; that is not the state compelling you to bake them a cake, that's you doing that yourself.

I am opposed to using walls and armed guards to keep people from escaping the country.

I believe that climate change is real (personally I think it sounds redundant), CO2 is a greenhouse gas, humans produce CO2, and that it's possible that it could be causing global warming, but that doesn't automatically mean there's cause for alarm; CO2 is plant food; the global warming effect due to CO2 released by human efforts might have a positive effect by making the environment less hostile to life; water vapor is a much more dominant greenhouse gas in terms of volume as well as impact; global warming might be the due to leaving an ice age. Whatever the case may be, I am opposed to carbon taxes and believe that the free market can and will fix any problem if there actually is one that needs to be solved, because politicians aren't trained to solve problem; all they can do is put guns to people's heads (that's not science, that's just coercion).

I am opposed to any titles of nobility.
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"Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), democracy, secularism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and a market economy."

Liberalism - Wikipedia

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Grand Mal said:
"Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), democracy, secularism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and a market economy."

Liberalism - Wikipedia

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So are you saying that as a liberal you are in total agreement with me?
 
One thing I don't think I clearly spell out is that I'm basically in the "pro-life" camp when it comes to unborn children's rights. I have a question, though, regarding the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade ruling from about half a century ago (because I'm not a lawyer or legal expert): does anyone happen to know if the ruling specifically states that it is legal to exterminate the life of the unborn child, or is it only specifying that a pregnant woman can terminate a pregnancy prior to giving birth? Terminating the life of the unborn child and terminating a pregnancy are 2 different things (and with abortion procedures, it involves doing both), but as far as I can tell, Roe v. Wade is not specific about this one way or another. The reason I'm asking is because by addressing this question, the result could be something that satisfies or resolves issues for both camps (pro-life & pro-abortion); if abortion procedures involved doing only one and not the other (terminating the pregnancy without exterminating the life of the unborn child), pregnancy terminations before birth could be legal (I'm not sure if anyone would want to assert that it ought to be illegal), only the extermination of the life of the unborn child would not need to be legal or necessary. In other words, to terminate a pregnancy, just remove the fetus without ripping it apart in the abortion procedure.
 
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neil said:
So are you saying that as a liberal you are in total agreement with me?
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No, I'm saying that as a libertarian you're actually a liberal.
 
neil said:
Oh. So that means that as a liberal you're actually a libertarian; right?
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No, as a libertarian you're actually a liberal.
My interactions with Americans here have shown me that many Americans who hold solid liberal values refer to themselves as libertarians because lots of far-left baggage has been hung on the word 'liberal' in the US. Liberalism is actually a pretty centrist ideology.
Which is fair enough, come to think, considering that the word 'libertarian' has some far-right connotations for me.
 
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