Shit Said by Every Libertarian Ever

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.

undiagnosed bi-polarity

attn internet libertarians you should just send me all your worthless fiat currency.

I will also accept worthless Fiats

bitbugs remind me of the anti vaccination crowd, so fixated on a fear with a remote possibility of happening (autism/collapse of dollar) when their solution is much more likely to fuck them over (polio/pertussis/MMR/bitcoin exchange collpase and or theft)

though I guess that's true of a lot of human nature

― anonanon, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:05 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa

At a leaving do for another colleague, a guy in my work outed described himself as a libertarian/anarchist and said that he believed socialism to be the worst form of government in human history... this is despite the fact that a few days earlier, during a discussion of the strike on the London Underground, he had debated in support of the strikers and argued (along with me) for the historical significance and continuing importance of the trade union movement. I think he's a bit confused.

In the Evening Standard this week:

Amol Rajan, in writing about driving and libertarianism, would do well to look up what the latter means. As a philosophy, libertarianism is based on the non-aggression principle - the idea that no one has the right to force their preferences on others. How that equates with "might is right" is anyone's guess. I can't help but feel that people who feel threatened by libertarian ideas tend towards its political opposite - authoritarianism.
Frank Turner, N7

(yes, that Frank Turner...)

ugh that fuckin' guy

As a philosophy, libertarianism is based on the non-aggression principle - the idea that no one has the right to force their preferences on others. How that equates with "might is right" is anyone's guess.

funny enough the non-aggression principle does reduce to "might makes right"

If the non-aggression principle = no checks on the ability of anyone to amass power, then it definitely does wind up equating to might makes right.

one of my favorite dudes to read about the "non-aggression principle" ie nozick is full of shit logically

http://mattbruenig.com/2014/02/01/libertarian-julian-sanchez-agrees-non-aggression-is-circular/

no one has the right to force their preference for non poinsionous air and water on me

it'll work once some brave heroes just give it a chance

http://gawker.com/ayn-rands-capitalist-paradise-is-now-a-greedy-land-grab-1627574870?x

classic

X

how many times have I tried these. Dull, Dull Dull

And while we're at it the fucking Afghan Whigs.

And I'm listening to Rodan's 'Rusty' which is A plus.

Go figure