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Who here considers himself libertarian?
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20I do30.00%6I don't40.00%8Ron Paul 2012!15.00%3banananomics15.00%3The poll is expired.
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I do. Small "l".
I'm not a raging ideologue but I tend more to libertarianism than socialism."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain -
same as wezil. But we're doomed, globally, I think. There just isn't a market for this.Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.Comment
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Ron Paul probably isn't a good reference either. Believe it or not, not everyone here is American."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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I don't consider myself a libertarian. But I do lean in that direction.Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - RahComment
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Every libertarian I have known is an overweight neckbeard who wants to bang underaged chicks and not pay taxes.Comment
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I'm not a libertarian, but my thinking is influenced a lot by them and I like to hear what they have to say on any given topic.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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overweight - no
neckbeard - no, clean shaven
wants to bang - yes, always yes
underage chicks - possibly, define "underage"
not pay taxes - whenever and wherever possible - yes"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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indeed, who doesn't want to bang chicks and not pay taxes?"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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Libertarian, except:
Pro-life
Pro-environmental regulation
Interventionist foreign policyComment
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I'm stridently pro-death myself and think the environment should be done away with as soon as possible. I'm tired of that nuisance."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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Correct, I am not. But almost. I can list 3 issues off the top of my head in which I oppose them and a dozen or so that I agree.Comment
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I think DanS'ing needs to be renamed Eco'ing.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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Seriously though, I have known four people who identified themselves as staunch libertarians and three of them were deranged in some manner.
Of the four, one was a survivalist gun nut who wanted to live off the grid on 2 acres of weed-chocked land and actually wanted me to join him in his endeavor. The second guy was a complete nerd who had a unhealthy fascination with transhumanism and desired to be an immortal cyborg. I don't think I'll ever forget the anime posters were plastered all over his cubicle. Another guy was ex-military and a conspiracy theorist who believed in the NWO and UN black helicopters spiel. He happened to sit a few cubicles away from the transhumanist guy. The fourth was an undergrad econ professor. While he did look like a stereotypical libertarian (overweight, neckbeard, giant glasses), he wasn't ****ed in the head and knew his Austrian Economics.
Libertarianism is not without merits, it just so happens that most of the people identify themselves as libertarians are insane.Comment
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