• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 个月前

    Whoever posted that doesn’t understand libertarians.

    If there were no government regulations, they would have nothing to complain about and their lives would be ruined.

    • Mallory@lemm.ee
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      3 个月前

      I would say that whoever posted that understands libertarians perfectly, and maybe libertarians don’t understand themselves and libertarianism

    • RoosterBoy@lemm.ee
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      3 个月前

      Every Internet post about any political party is almost always about the wild caricatures people have in their head, because actually talking about politics IRL is a taboo because everyone is too damn scared and/or jaded to do anything but spout extreme bullshit online under an anonymous persona. All liberals are child-murduring blue-haired SJWs, all conservatives are rednecks bent on bringing back slavery and committing trans genocide, and all libertarians are secretly nazis or children who don’t get how the world works. The Internet says so.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 个月前

      If there were no government regulations, they would have nothing to complain about

      I promise you that if you put a libertarian into a place without government regulation, they will still insist that there is a secret government regulation responsible for their lives being shit.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        3 个月前

        Sadly, I think you’re probably right. I used to tell them to go to Rwanda if they wanted to live in a tax-free utopia, but Rwanda has taxation now what with it having a more or less functional government now.

      • iopq@lemmy.world
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        3 个月前

        You seem to confuse us with leftists. No, it’s not the patriarchy/white people keeping you down. We’re the first to tell you that you are responsible for your own success

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          3 个月前

          Keep on assuming we just don’t understand, despite libertarians spewing their shit all over the Internet for decades at this point.

            • frezik@midwest.social
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              3 个月前

              If you’ve been spewing your shit all over the Internet for decades and people still think that, then either:

              • Your outreach efforts don’t work
              • You actually are, because that’s how you behave in practice no matter what you babble about when proselytizing
              • iopq@lemmy.world
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                3 个月前

                People still think bisexuals are gays in denial. People still think there are two genders. It’s hard to escape binary thinking

        • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
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          3 个月前

          they will still insist that there is a secret government regulation responsible for their lives being shit.

          We’re the first to tell you that you are responsible for your own success

          The problem is being the last to admit that you are responsible for all your own fuckups.

          • iopq@lemmy.world
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            3 个月前

            To claim credit for your successes you need to also admit fault for your failures, it goes both ways

            • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
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              3 个月前

              I’m dying right now. You must be going through life with horse-blinders on or something.

              • iopq@lemmy.world
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                3 个月前

                What’s your point? Libertarians are all about taking personal responsibility

                • frezik@midwest.social
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                  3 个月前

                  Ron Paul can’t even take responsibility for racist newsletters.

                  Edit: will you respond with “he didn’t have time to edit them” (undermining the personal responsibility point), or “Ron Paul isn’t libertarian” (No True Libertarian). I await with baited breath.

                • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
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                  3 个月前

                  Dou you have a source on that? My experience with libertarians is “I do what I want, and if I cause problems for you, fuck you” not “I’m personally responsible for my actions and the effects they have on my surroundings”.

                  Also, you blindly missing the point, and then dodging it instead of admitting you missed the crux of the issue was just chef’s kiss perfect.