(August 4, 2011 at 3:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:libertarianism is a political philosophy,
Not over here. That's what I'm trying to get you to understand. The prime proponents of it are the Koch brothers who are a couple of rich motherfuckers who want to gut the government's regulatory capacity so they can rape, pillage and slaughter their way across the landscape even more.
The Koch brothers being libertarians is debatable, perhaps conservative libertarians at best, but they have given more dollars to the tea party and the GOP than the Libertarian party - Also, the Libertarian party are an organisation comprised of various libertarians with varying philosophies around the individualist spectrum.
Call them libertarians if you like, I don't agree with everyone who shares the same general position on the politician spectrum - What I dislike about the Koch brothers the most is their lack of concern for the rights of others to their bodies and properties as well as their wanting less regulation while keeping the limited liabilities, tax breaks and subsidies that they currently receive - Having no regulations would work as long as all parties are fully liable and receive no funding or special privileges - having all three simultaneously is I fully agree going to be a nightmare where people are consistently fucked over, forced to give corporate welfare, where competition is crippled by disproportionate subsidies and tax breaks which hurts consumers and cripples market functions - this is what they want and it is specifically why they are backing the tea party, not the Libertarians, they would only get one of the four aspects from a libertarian, with the tea baggers they get everything they want, that's why I class them as neocons and due to their support for the tea baggers I would classify the Koch brothers likewise.
Quote:Yeah, they couch it in terms of "liberty" to make it appealing to the dolts but Bill Maher considers himself a "libertarian" because he wants pot legalized.
No, he isn't. He's called himself that about a decade ago, he's pretty clearly not one anymore, it would like supporting a corporate police state but calling yourself socialist if you support public education...
Quote:The word as you are trying to use it has no meaning in the states.
I disagree, it's not the self-described libertarians who by-and-large are misusing the term, it is people who continually conflate the libertarian political philosophy with republicans and nazis as if they are the same thing, like yourself.
Quote:That is easier than you think. They are the ones working while the tea bagging shitheads are protesting.
Tea Bagging Shithead:

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