libertarians vs republicans

are we playing two truths and a lie

hahahaha

and you would be the lie?

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where's don weiner? He tried to pass for a conservative

is whiney ilx dick morris?

does that make deej Breitbart?

weiner was actual libertarian! i liked him though i think i pissed him off once when i compared libertarians to scientologists.

dom as tucker carlson, supposedly still alive out there on the web but really who knows. gabbneb as mickey kaus too obv but true.

i used to think liberals and progressives were much more likely to be self-critical, skeptical of their side, heterodox and less likely to be 'fuck the other team!' sheeple than conservatives. then came facebook.

― balls

otm

how do you prove someone is a libertarian? There's always a breaking point with those self-professed libertarian types.

lex as anne coulter too obv but true also (iirc he'd welcome the comparison)

if you want to privatize roads...you might be a libertarian

roger adultery as the nuge?

before Facebook liberals did what -- read Lewis Lapham?

hi thread, not all gays have daddy issues, andrew sullivan is not one of them. that is all.

a daddy, a gay, a thread?

left-wing people talking shit about 'liberalism' is the politics equivalent of people on ilm talking about 'white people'

― iatee, Wednesday, 3 October 2012

is this disappearing POC on ILX while defusing green, socialist, commie, or anarchist critiques as their being liberals really?

in any case, OP needs a vs iatee option

http://www.theonion.com/articles/louis-lapham-went-way-over-the-line-this-time,10926/

"This asshole always seems to pick just the right Edith Wharton quote to really make my blood boil."

sorry, he is not one of the gays who do not have daddy issues. *checks watch* time for me to go xp

who is zvookster

where's that thread where ppl admit the things they are really right wing (or republican) about?

It was really fascist, I think?

yeah, found it: things you're secretly kinda fascisty about

we should do one for republican

i wonder who the most right-wing ilxor is and sometimes i wonder if it's me

Yeah, I think it was Roger Adultery who was that type, tho there always seems to one or two in the past who float around for a few months before getting banned or floating away

well you went ham on Jonah boy a couple years ago

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let's be honest - it's not super hard to be the most right-wing ilxor (i mean that participates on politics threads i'm sure we have some random ILMers who believe all kinds of shit) - we did one of those political graph threads a bit ago and posters only fell on 1/4th of the graph space.

roger a. had some serious probing questions about the hypocrisy of the media covering black-on-white crime iirc and made some very pointed statements.

Does Dandy Don Weiner still post? He struck me as at least run of the mill GOP if not a bit more right wing than that.

every so often i think about making a republican sockpuppet (i guess my admitting it here is also a concession that i'll never really do it) and writing really sincere, complicated posts defending popular right wing talking points

some ppl have theorized that this has already happened etc

left-orthodox team players are about as close to republicanism as ilx gets imo, at least in spirit.

what is a 'left-orthodox team player'?

what is a 'left-orthodox team player'?
--(The Other) J.D. (J.D.)

Sandy Koufax

big lol

out of the park

boom

OMG a basebsall joke I actually get!!!!!

every so often i think about making a republican sockpuppet (i guess my admitting it here is also a concession that i'll never really do it) and writing really sincere, complicated posts defending popular right wing talking points

― Mordy, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:06 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some ppl have theorized that this has already happened etc

― Mordy, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:07 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was gonna say! ;)

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i'd like libertarians more if they were fictional -- like, if murray rothbard were a character in a novel, he'd totally be the most bizarre and fascinating character.

I've met a handful of both and I have to say I get on a lot better with Libertarians, despite it arguably being a stupider political philosophy. Most of the former I've met tend to be younger fun-loving people whose main attraction to the ideology seems to be wanting the Govt to stop interfering with their shit. Most of the latter tend to be older, angrier and axe-grindier.

nb I'm not American, nor have I ever lived there.

I've met a handful of both and I have to say I get on a lot better with Libertarians, despite it arguably being a stupider political philosophy. Most of the former I've met tend to be younger fun-loving people whose main attraction to the ideology seems to be wanting the Govt to stop interfering with their shit. Most of the latter tend to be older, angrier and axe-grindier.

^^^^ i am American, and this is my own experience.

major exception being libertarians who are really into Ayn Rand, who i lump into the same boat as Scientologists.

we've got beautiful mountains and rivers, chap

most republicans i meet are not nearly as obnoxiously "opinions 4 u" as libertarians (nor as much as most dems tbh but then again i live in l.a., repubs keep their head low for the most part.)

let us all enjoy some freesponsibility... in space!

libertarian space colony's president is apparently Dave Chappelle in a mustache

overview here