libertarians vs republicans

schaudenfreude

If Von Ormy is a libertarian experiment with democracy, it’s one that hasn’t turned out as expected.

I would say it turned out exactly as one would expect

I love the repetition of this phrase in the article:
“We were blessed with this unique opportunity to experiment with democracy”

Sounds great on paper, but it just doesn't work in reality.

this is a good thread/era of ilx politics threads imo

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/08/date-nate-wont

You have to visit the site in the post. You HAVE to.

Looks like he took down the original site and put up something to try to capitalize on the new traffic he was getting.

I feel like these libertarian guys are somewhat quieter than they were. Rebranding as 'classical liberals', or sucked up by the alt-right and jumped on the conservative identity politics train where all the action is?

reason magazine still exists

I saw the thread title and hoped it was proposing a caged death match.

caged death matches are a very libertarian type of entertainment

All the Ron Paul libertarians are Republicans again

yeah that sounds right. trump kind of gave em enough to jump on--gestures toward "isolationism," the "deconstruction of the administrative state" via vast incompetence, etc

Changing my vote