Shit Said by Every Libertarian Ever

36. "You don't understand economics."

I read the thread title as 'Shit Said by Every Librarian Ever' and thought it was all going to be like "Shhh!"

31. "It's not a race issue its a class issue, and besides..."

― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, January 3, 2013 1:10 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shit said by every college libertarian/anarchist/communist/SDS member...

Libertarian unless the speaker knows/uses the word 'intersectionality'.

"Why should I have to pay for [X]?"

^^^uh, 37.

like clockwork the socialist philosophy major of my facebook feed posts a link to a WSWS review of brother ali's album and highlights this part

“'And if we say it how it really is/We know our lily skin still gives us privilege' raps Ali early in the album (“Letter to my Countrymen,” featuring West). This flies in the face of the depiction of American society presented elsewhere on the album, which strongly suggests that all sections of the working population and the poor are suffering. What privilege does 'lily skin' offer the millions of white workers losing their jobs and houses and seeing their conditions of life relentlessly attacked?"

i should remove bookmark before this becomes a thread of my least favorite people

Libertarianism is just white boys and their geishas trying to assert that the rules for everyone else *don't apply to them*, which I guess is a neurotic, guilty mirroring of their unearned societal privilege in [insert year here}. If anyone in my immediate circle/field of vision starts in with libspeak, I nip it in the bud by asking them when they plan to grow a neckbeard.

How come they don't quote Milton Friedman more? I'd like to learn something ....

Glad we don't really have libertarians over here in Yurp.

they don't quote milton friedman more because although he was very much a libertarian, he believed in a very active role for monetary policy (ie the federal reserve) and today's ron paul fans want none of that. ben bernanke is satan, hyperinflation is always around the corner, put all your money in gold and bitcoins etc. etc.

38. I don't usually agree with Alex Jones, but the timing of this Aurora/Sikh temple/Newtown/wherever mass shooting is kind of suspicious.

Glad we don't really have libertarians over here in Yurp.

not really true, btw. this guy used to visit the comic shop i worked for in the 1980s - he really was a massive Steve Ditko fan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Tame

39.) Climate change is a natural, cyclical process that has nothing to do with human activities.

Glad we don't really have libertarians over here in Yurp.

not really true, btw. this guy used to visit the comic shop i worked for in the 1980s - he really was a massive Steve Ditko fan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Tame

― Ward Fowler,

Not saying they don't exist, but they're not particularly vocal as a group. I've only come across people who hold these views IRL on my travels (invariably Americans).

40) "Check out this Peart fill coming up!"

"scratch a liberal, find an authoritarian"

From the Brit end:

"Oh yeah, because Labour are going to do wonders for the economy"
"The problem is, no one likes trade unions"

"Welfare is just like the government putting a gun to my head and demanding I give it to that homeless person over there."

Actual argument made to me by the University Libertarians.

I'm just going to pretend that you never clarified this if that's okay

Loving this thread on so many levels

"the republic..."

#40 = wishful thinking

45) I was at NTB last night getting a tire fixed and there was a guy sitting next to me in the waiting room who was loudly grumbling about the fiscal cliff deal and how it meant that the US was "turning into China".

uh

46. "A=A"

47. mentioning Europe as an example of the HELL ON EARTH that America may slip into

My stepdad did this alot at xmas. I almost asked him "So all the countries you go to on vacation and have a wonderful time in?" but didn't.

48. Republicans are just as bad as Democrats
*votes Republican*

49. "market forces would have ended slavery"

wow, never heard that one.

they really like saying that to black people if my anecdotal evidence is anything to go by

50. finds some fault w/ a Scandinavian country (historically Sweden, but nowadays Norway) and uses this fact to argue that said Scandinavian country is on the brink of collapse or will inevitably collapse at some future date b/c Scandinavia isn't so keen on laissez-faire economics/has loose morals.

51. points to Ireland and Latvia as examples that "austerity works dammit!" wr2 recovering from the financial crisis, but finds fault w/ Iceland (which told their banks to suck it).

corollary to 50 is to say, sure social democracy works in scandinavia, but it won't work in the US because we are a "low trust society" (hint hint hint)

Next time you meet a libertarian, ask them why they aren't railing about cars, which are polluting THEIR air.

mentioning Europe as an example of the HELL ON EARTH that America may slip into

I know a couple people who refer to California in the same manner, it's the worst place in the world.

they don't quote milton friedman more because although he was very much a libertarian, he believed in a very active role for monetary policy (ie the federal reserve) and today's ron paul fans want none of that. ben bernanke is satan, hyperinflation is always around the corner, put all your money in gold and bitcoins etc. etc.

also, Milton Friedman had impeccable academic credentials (regardless of what one thinks of his political views, or the political implications of his economic work) whereas gold buggery is to economics what intelligent design is to biology.

nah there are plenty of batshit economists w/ impeccable academic credentials

52. "Here's something else you can sink your teeth into. Related. I honestly do this, and have been doing this for years. You know that silly fist bump thing? When my co-workers or friends try that with me I extend my full hand for a traditional handshake. I tell them sorry, but I don't do that 'Obama thing.'"

50. finds some fault w/ a Scandinavian country (historically Sweden, but nowadays Norway) and uses this fact to argue that said Scandinavian country is on the brink of collapse or will inevitably collapse at some future date b/c Scandinavia isn't so keen on laissez-faire economics/has loose morals.

― 롤이 엿 번역 시간을 낭비 (Eisbaer), Thursday, January 3, 2013 2:17 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i got a few of these on fb during the healthcare reform years.

53. 'the best thing you can do for poor ppl is to shop at wal-mart, because wal-mart creates jobs for the poor.'

54. 'the new deal actually made the great depression worse.'

"the problems of capitalism are solved by more capitalism"

55. "America has it's problems, but it's still the best country in the world"
- this isn't strictly libertarian but it's certainly a standard element of American propaganda that is kept up with the counter-examples of European hell-holes and places in the world where people are bombed daily (by us)

If anyone in my immediate circle/field of vision starts in with libspeak, I nip it in the bud by asking them when they plan to grow a neckbeard.

haha I love how everybody has their own pet conception of what libertarians look like

they all have long hair

56. "*insert any government policy you don't like here* is just like slavery!"

I hate hate HATE this.

i have yet to meet a libertarian who either came from a background of privilege or isn't privileged at the moment. Both of those conditions, in their worlds, are the result of their own personal awesomeness.

correction: DIDN'T come from a background of privilege

57) guns are cool

http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/370/015551_23.jpg

guns, you'll be a woman... soon.