Shit Said by Every Libertarian Ever

63. "Minimum wage hurts skilled workers by pricing them out of the market"

64. "We can solve unemployment by allowing people to work for 10 cents an hour, as they surely want to do."

65. "Abortion should be decided at the state level"

66. the civil war was about states rights

often followed by: please cut off my finger and throw it in a big field. while i'm asleep, punch me in the face repeatedly until i'm unconscious. slip a burlap sack over my head and throw me in the back of a pickup. drive me to that field and leave me there until i can find the finger.

68. "Anyway, this is a boring conversation..."

still was probably better than the time she waited on pantera, tho way less profitable

when I was a lowly checkout clerk, the Abbott brothers would roll up to the supermarket in a limo, load up on party supplies and tip each of the people who helped them carry it out a hundred bucks

lmao this reminds me of the story my wife told me about when she was a waitress at a hamburger joint in Arlington. she was waiting on some guy who came in by himself and read the whole time. I guess the election came up as conversation and he condescended to her for voting for gore. when he paid his ticket, he wrote her some note with book recommendations. atlas shrugged, fountainhead. gave her his number, telling her to call him when she had read them.

he left a 25 cent tip.

― Todd Terragh - "It's the Harps" (m bison), Thursday, January 3, 2013 8:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolled so hard at this

xp

they were drunk, demanding assholes, but they were loose with the money, probably from being so drunk

they were drunk, demanding assholes

drunk people make weird demands

haha otm

hahahaha

69) "The school system would improve if the government would merely end its monopoly on education and everybody could choose the schools their kids went to. oh, of course it wouldn't be free anymore, but anybody who CARED about their kids would ante up....or send them to a trade school!"

70) america actually has the most progressive tax system in the world

71 "Back into the pocket of the taxpayer..."

72 "my dad makes more than your dad"

73. "You should read Ayn Rand"

74. "most people aren't rational enough to know what's best for them."

I once got into a big argument with a college libertarian (who was otherwise an alright guy) who was advocating that since there were a limited number of student parking spaces, the school should just auction them off to the highest bidder, because "that way whoever needs them the most will get them, because they'll be willing to pay the highest price." I said "No, that way whoever can afford to pay the most will get them." (btw this was a state school with a lot of commuters, who were (a) more likely to have less money and (b) legitimately needed the parking). The guy stared at me quizzically as though he was actually having trouble processing what I was telling him.

"i am literally a piece of human garbage throw me in the trash"

71 "Back into the pocket of the taxpayer..."

― a beef supreme (dog latin), Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:15 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh man. Phrases I hate...

75. "the tenth amendment guarantees the right to secession."

76 "Fiat currency"

77 "good money doesn't chase bad money"

78. "we need to break the culture of poverty"

78. "we need to break the culture of poverty"

argh culture of poverty. to be fair, idiot libertarians stole that from evil conservatives, right?

79. 'well they can always move somewhere else, after all, i did'

iatee?

b. marley iirc

80. "Why don't you want parents to have choices in education for their kids?"

81. "Government assistance discourages people from getting a job" -- said by a coworker ( the same one who doesn't think Project Runway is a gay show ).

think about all those poor little jobs just quivering in wait of someone to fill them, so many of them, so lost and cold

I seriously had to listen to the ranting of a racist libertarian who, surely emulating Ron Swanson, had used his managerial job in a government agency as a way to gum up the works--doing nothing, impeding the work of others, making his lazy, idiotic, black underlings repeat tasks pointlessly to prove that government can't do anything and that his department should be privatized.

I think the only reason no one at the party shut him up is that he was missing an arm & we were wondering what he had finally done to inspire someone to tear it off.

God, I can hear that guy now.

"I.R.S. told me they'll wait until next year to take the leg haw haw har."

had a polite British guy at this one function I went to recently tell me I should look into leaving the USA soon because he felt that the dollar is pretty close to crashing and the USA is going to crumble soon.

why do the loonies always pick me to talk to?

Your fetching smile and bright eyes?

Tyrion made it easy to pin an obvious crime on him by being the only one to be candid about Joffrey's sociopathic behavior. And so it feels, sometimes, with the attacks on libertarianism, where good faith efforts to improve public policy outcomes by limiting the deleterious effects of government are skewered as some diabolical ploy to loot and pillage the people through corporatism, exactly that which libertarian policy solutions try to prevent.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/05/12/the-trial-of-tyrion-lannister-and-bashin

god reason is a floating trash barge in the south bullshit ocean

they should change their name to wellactually.com

A bitcoiner in a dumb article comment thread recently asked me "Is the money in your bank account really yours?"

Makes u think

He actually said "Is the money in your credit card really yours?" and when I pointed out to him that credit card accounts don't actually have money in them, that's not what credit is, he insisted that he meant "debit card account." I will give him the benefit of the doubt on that.

it's all just government fiat, maaaan!

"i am literally a piece of human garbage throw me in the trash"

― lag∞n, Thursday, November 21, 2013 2:26 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loooooooooooooooool

He actually said "Is the money in your credit card really yours?" and when I pointed out to him that credit card accounts don't actually have money in them, that's not what credit is, he insisted that he meant "debit card account." I will give him the benefit of the doubt on that.

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:55 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember watching a friend have a debate w/ a friend who insisted credit unions would keep him in debt for the rest of his life (which he knew cuz he had a job in 'financial services'), only to have another friend come up and say he didn't believe in banks cos he didn't trust him and kept all of his money in his wallet.

just wondering how the hell the dude would manage his money if he managed to make a quality living, imagining thousands of bucks under a mattress....and thinking about how easy it would be to rob this guy and pay off my student loans.

glad u have many friends

imagine yours love it when u tell them u hope they get raped

you remembered a thing.

you'll just have to keep imagining nonsense about my friends, as i'm not in the habit of posting about them here.

except on meta threads amirite

I'm noticing a common thread between 9/11 truthers, the anti-vaccine crowd, and bitcoiners: an inability to weigh things against one another. 9/11 truthers will tell you how implausible it is that airplanes caused these buildings to collapse ("near freefall speed" etc. etc. spittle flying at you face) not realizing how much MORE implausible it is that the government would be able to pull off this kind of mass deception -- disappearing planes, secreting enough explosives into the WORLD TRADE CENTER to demolish it, etc. Anti-vaccers tell you about all the horrible risks of being vaccinated, completely incapable of comparing those risks (to the extent that they are not 100% ficitonal, like autism being caused by vaccines) to the much more real and terrible risks of outbreaks of polio etc. Bitcoiners are convinced their "fiat" money is not safe from the gubmint, so instead they favor a highly volatile, unstable, unsafe and unproven commodity as currency.