billswift comments on Mechanics without wrenches - Less Wrong

33 Post author: PhilGoetz 15 April 2009 08:09PM

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Comment author: billswift 16 April 2009 04:21:11PM 2 points [-]

That's the common serious libertarian term. Some of the more extreme libertarians have downgraded them even more, now refering to them as "Congressthings".

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 April 2009 04:44:52PM 1 point [-]

Illuminati University simply replaces "man" with "thing" in general, i.e., Congressthing, freshthing, postthing, policething, etc.

Comment author: Cyan 16 April 2009 08:24:28PM 0 points [-]

Oy, so distracting. (Congressional) representative, 1st year (student), mail carrier/postal worker, police officer, chair, fire fighter, business executive, council member.