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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:20:02 GMT
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:11:41 GMT, "Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:

Libertopia as a name was chosen specifically to drive home the point that it is
not a utopia.

"Libertopia" comes across (to me) as a name specifically chosen to
drive home the point that it _is_ utopia.

You did a fairly bad job if the above was what you were trying to
convey with the name. Would have been better to avoid any mention of
-topia at all, IMHO.

Jasper



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  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
(...) Please use our term. It's our meme, not yours, and using some other word means you are talking about some other thing, which we don't have to defend since it's your idea rather than ours. Libertopia as a name was chosen specifically to drive (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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