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_Probably_ just a typo, imo. Then again, I've never found two libertarians who could agree on what being libertarian actually means, so maybe not.
by barsonme 9y ago
_Probably_ just a typo, imo.
Then again, I've never found two libertarians who could agree on what being libertarian actually means, so maybe not.
- astrodust 9y agoDoesn't libertarian mean whatever the hell you want it to be because libertarian?
- ryandrake 9y agoFor quite a while recently, Libertarian meant "Embarrassed Republican Who Doesn't Want To Admit He Votes Republican Every Election Even Though He Swears He Doesn't Like Either Candidate"
- cylinder 9y ago"Trust me, I'm an intellectual! I'm not like that awful Sarah Palin."
- pyroinferno 9y agoTo that, they're right. The Libertarian's man, Ron Paul, refused to endorse MCcain or Obama because "because there were no real differences between them, and because neither of them, if elected, would seek to make the fundamental changes in governance that were necessary". He then went on to tell his fellow Libertarians to vote 3rd party "rather than contribute to the “charade” that the two-party election system had become".
- barsonme 9y agoI believe it does have the general premise of very limited government, though.
- matt-attack 9y agoI believe it's more about defending the rights of minorities. Don't forget that the individual is the ultimate minority group.
- barsonme 9y agoSee, this is what I mean when even libertarians can't agree what libertarianism means ;)
- vacri 9y agoLimited government, except for the massive expansion of the court system, so that everything can be decided post-facto in the courts rather than beforehand with regulations.
- vacri 9y agoLibertarianism is, at its core, an ethos where skilled people with in-demand skills get to keep all their stuff and pretend that their wealth has nothing to do with other people's inputs. If you want to keep all your stuff, libertarianism is for you. If you want to make it sound like you're being noble when you're actually being selfish, libertarianism is for you. How many libertarians are poor? How many are minorities? How many are women? The libertarian deck is pretty obviously stacked - it's all about maintaining property rights with zero responsibility; for example, somehow 'taxes' are 'violence', but 'enforcing property rights through the courts and the exact same sheriff that would recover taxes' is 'not violence'. Pick on any libertarian thread and the cloth unravels pretty fast. The biggest trick the libertarians have pulled, in my opinion, is convincing people that they're the only ones interested in civil rights.
- jessaustin 9y agoHow's that Drug War working out for you? Are you glad that lots of black men are in prison, just like Nixon intended?
- vacri 9y agoPerhaps you should re-read the last sentence in my comment.
- jessaustin 9y agoOh sure if I re-read it about 829 more times while CNN plays in the background, I might care about that. Hypnotizing! Libertarians aren't angels (except perhaps in a relative sense, when considering any POTUS other than Carter elected in my lifetime), but they never get 3% of the vote, for one office. Yet they're some sort of crazy powerful bogeyman that every progressive of correct thought must constantly fear and agitate against on threads that originally had nothing to do with that. Besides didn't you get the memo? Instead of caring about Libertarians, now you're supposed to care about a much smaller and stupider group of statue enthusiasts! They're going to destroy the nation with their passion for old statues! In the meantime please ignore the wars and brutality that the two wings of the mainstream party keep doing...
- coldtea 9y agoThat's "whetevergoesarian".