11-21-2013, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Robbie
It doesn't matter how many times you tell hypnotized Republicans or Democrats that their parties are corrupt.
They will just continue to support their "team".
Pathetic.
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Pathetic is a political party that can only muster 1% of the vote after 40 years.
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Here are a bunch of people who truly, honestly believe in their worldview - a worldview that shares some key elements with my own - discovering for the first time that they are in fact merely a proxy army for people who don't take them or their worldview seriously at all.
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To those of us outside the movement, the fact that libertarians are a proxy army has always been painfully obvious. The key piece of evidence was always the set of issues that libertarians chose to emphasize.
Most Americans share the belief that civil liberties are good, war is to be avoided, and high taxes are bad. But the fact that our country's libertarian movement spent so much time fighting high taxes and so little time fighting the encroaching authoritarianism of conservative presidential administrations was a clear sign that some priorities were seriously out of place.
Should we really be more afraid of turning into Sweden than turning into Singapore? The contrast between libertarians' continual jeremiads against taxes and their muted, intermittent criticism of things like warrantless wiretaps, executive detention, and torture was a huge tip-off that the movement was really just some kind of intellectual front for America's right wing.
The thing is, the soldiers in this proxy army don't seem to realize that they are a proxy army. They appeared, and appear, to truly believe in their synthetic ideology; they seemed deeply convinced of the Rand/Nozick idea that taxes and environmental regulation represented a more dire threat to human freedom than the authoritarianism that had been the bane of earlier freedom advocates since Enlightenment.
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50 Reasons Libertarians Are Crazy
"the following are the positions of some prominent and not so prominent libertarians going back to the 1970's and before ... oh yes virginia, they are batshit crazy"
? legalize blackmail... nice picture of you and jack's wife
? legalize heroin, meth, & glue sniffing... let anyone sell this crap as long as there is a buyer
? sell off the national parks... fuck the commons let's set up the mc donalds's
? abolish laws against dog & cock fighting... just animate property killing each other
? privatize the air you breath, the ground you walk on, the air you breath... and you better pay your monthly bill on time
? abolish all licensing: ie if you want to be a doctor or lawyer run over to kinko's and have some business cards made up --- laissez faire suckers
? allow for privatized segregation & discrimination (no jews, n*ggers, catholics, sp*cs, women, people over 50, gays, children allowed)
? legalize insider trading... great way to establish confidence in the financial sector
? abolish animal cruelty laws... ditto animal fighting
? patent the dna of all life forms including humans... we own you baby
? legalize child labor... if it can walk & talk it can work
? declare smoking a celebration of capitalism... just ask ayn rand
? abolish the americans with disabilities act... it's not my fucking fault you can't walk or talk
? legalize child selling... isn't a rich baby always better off than a poor one ?
? privatize and sell off the arctic & antarctic... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, and set up the mc donald's
? abolish unions... collective bargaining, huh
? replace state & federal prison guards with walmart like security... can you spell T-R-A-Y-V-O-N
? legalize voluntary slavery... it's already called you boss
? abolish animal cruelty laws... rich women in stilleto's stepping on little mice for the hell of it, now that's cool
? believe FDR & EISENHOWER were communists... yep
? declare selfishness the ultimate virtue... and start a lucrative movement doing so
? re-introduce debtors prisons... waterboards anyone ?
? allow individuals to own nuclear weapons or whatever armaments they want... kaboooooooooom
? abolish the anti-trust laws... now that really increases competition
? sell off the rivers, lakes, & oceans of the world
? make the poor, sick, & disabled depend on charity instead of the resources of the state... DIE BABY DIE
? clone slaves out of your own dna... it beats working
? replace the federal reserve with a pc and a chair... brilliant
? let the insurance companies take over the judicial system... my mistake they already have
? privatize outer space... let's all play space zombie
? denounce the idea of a "social contract"... hurray for me and FUCK YOU !!!
? establish exchanges for the buying & selling of human body parts (by paying living people & the families of the dead)
? incentives for voluntary euthanasia of the old & poor --- (let granny sign her life away so the insurance company won't have to pay as much for medical or long term care)
? abolish mandatory emergency room care... socialist ronald reagan signed this into law 1986
? legalize extortion... well if you're going to legalize blackmail you might as well do this too
? abolish/limit medical malpractice suits... you take your chances it could have been worse
? consider the non-payment of bills as cause for arrest and the use of lethal force... god damn right
? abolish public schools... yeah they produce stupid people like bill gates & warren buffett
? establish private armies in place of the US armed forces... ain't blackwater groovy
? re-introduce 18th century style workhouses... we should have killed off all the poor two centuries ago
? abolish usury laws... and voting while we're at it
? claim that societies and even families don't exist --- only individuals... a hard sell at christmas time
? end compulsary education... stuck on stupid it's the libertarian way
? pre-emptive killing of as much as 40% of islamic peoples... and make the rest objectivists
? allow the disemination of snuff movies & kiddie porn... you don't have to watch it you dirty statist
? let companies sue & imprison whistle blowers... how libertarian of you
? legalize prostitution & decriminalize pimping... step right up and get your own little cuppie doll
? abolish social security & medicare... let grandma die, boy was she a bitch
? take the remaining native american lands and sell them off for pennies on the dollar... it's not our fault they didn't understand the intricacies of markets
* send mercenaries to seize nationalized businesses... profit before non-interventionism
* advocate government and private torture in the right situation... that'll teach 'em
* scream bloody murder when governments collect data yet defend corporations that collect, hold, and sell more data than any government has ever collected... WELCOME TO LIBERTARIAN HELL
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