Elections Libertarians - A growing movement against political control

[emefer]

A great gathering of minds and ideas right here.

lol at the haircut on the guy that got rid of licensing barbers.
What a ridiculous group of people

 

[avenue94]

lol at the haircut on the guy that got rid of licensing barbers.
What a ridiculous group of people

You should see their debates on how much a priority ferret legalization should be

 

[emefer]

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[deviake]

US libertarianism is basically "de-fang the government and let business run wild." I see a lot of US libertarianism as a reaction to a corrupt government, much of that corruption coming from private entities. It's also the fear of the government having too much power which is fair but that lens is skewed by said corruption. Limiting the power of the government too much allows private industry to run rough shod on the country. Bad for most. The US was far more libertarian in the past and we had slavery, child labor, no labor rights, indentured servitude, fire departments that wouldn't put out fires (resulting in losing whole towns at times), so forth. We've tried this experiment. Didn't work great. There's a reason why private industry is always trying to loosen regulations.

 

[skold]

More like LOLbertarians, amirite?

 

[Mack Yancy]

Very topical at the moment. From memory, the first Ancient Roman fire brigade was organised by Crassus:

When they got word of a fire his team would go and stand outside the burning building with their equipment while the captain bargained with the owner to buy it for way below market price. If the owner agreed they would put out the fire, if not they just watched it burn. If they let it burn often the fire would spread to neighbouring buildings so the captain would begin negotiations with their owners too.

Even once a building had burned down Crassus's men would often still buy it. I don't think most buildings were insured in those days so people would probably snatch at say a tenth of the building's worth before it burned (and very little or nothing for the contents).



I have heard anarchists say 'Taxes are slavery!' but if you a libertarian, who doesn't go that far, 'Taxes are robbery!' (taking with violence or the threat of violence) is more appropriate than 'Taxes are theft!'. Of course if we didn't have the military, police, trading standards etc. they would find out what real theft/robbery/slavery look like in a hurry.

 

[Whippy McGee]

Why republican? Any party in America is the "Establishment". The establishment is the system itself aka the American Democratic system. Do you hate the constitution??

It's also hilarious that we have idiots who hate the "Establishment" but have no idea what the new system should be. In the 1970s you would be considered a commie.

Back in the 1970's the Republicans supported "the machine". Today, it's the Democrats and you're all in. You're welcome.