Rebellion in Libertarianland

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Ancalagon, Aug 27, 2022.

  1. matthunter

    matthunter Ice Bear

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    Ah, you failed to flounce.

    This is my surprised face.
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  2. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    OK, Anita. :rolleyes:
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  3. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Wow, I'm proved so wrong.
    :lol:
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  4. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    "Disprove" what you manufacture out of whole cloth from your own 2-dimensional imaginings. :dayton:
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  5. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Oh, yeah, your implied secret genius you refuse to show others. :rolleyes:
    Put up, or shut up.
    Otherwise, you're just Federal Farmer after going through assertiveness training.
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  6. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Lol you certainly don't
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  7. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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  8. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    “America doesn’t matter. Country doesn’t matter. The ideals don’t matter. All that matters is absolute loyalty to THE PARTY.”
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  9. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    So what confused you about my post that you were unable to respond to a single point?

    Was it legislative body? Caucus? First Past the Post?

    Which concept do I need to break down… again… for you to better understand? And actually be able to respond to?

    Or as usual is the bumper sticker slogan all you got?
  10. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Disprove your fiction. Because you say so. And your decrees are binding. Get fucked. :finger:
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  11. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    It’s all your extremely limited view of governance and politics deserves.
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  12. Jenee

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    IOWs, all of it. Its not an 8 second sound bite, so he has no idea how to respond. Like you didn't expect it. Dude thinks AOC is "dumb" but can't tell us why cuz the memes don't explain it.
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  13. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    If the libertarian party is toast then I’m still not voting straight down the party line.
  14. Jenee

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    Regardless of how "it's supposed to work", Congress does not currently function that way. High school government classes do not give us the full information. Congress has evolved to focus on Party. So, you can dismissively poo poo about voting on party lines. But, if you truly want your ideals to be represented in Congress (they won't cuz they don't give a shit about the people anymore), then you vote for party.

    If you really want change, vote for people who support RepresentUS.org and other similar organizations. Because they are trying diligently to take our government back from the oligarchy.
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  15. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    If there's a "good guy" version of equating feminine traits with weakness, it should be easy to roll it out in a sentence minimum, a three sentence paragraph maximum.
    It shouldn't require a 3 screen sized calculus equation.
    It's not a huge ask.
    That you can't accomplish it says about you, not me, stop trying to flip it.
    For one, you suck at it.
    :shrug:
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  16. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    The "feminine traits" angle is entirely your invention. Both genders produce screechbags.
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  17. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Would you ever own up to being one if you were?
    Y'know like "whoops, dropped my keys in the sewer grate, butterfingers!".
    Or "jeez, how did I leave my belt in the freezer? What a knucklehead!".
    Y'know, so "wow, I'm crying about people's hair color in a thread about actual Nazis, what a screechbag!".
    :diacanu:
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  18. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Would I ever accept YOUR ruling? Not a fucking chance.
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  19. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    I care.
    :lol:
  20. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    Is that on your office stationary?
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  21. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    I wonder what treason Hilary commited in the equally bad 2016b timeline.
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  22. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    you're big on making burden of proof demands to cover up your own BS, aren't ya?

    Go look at your own posts since forever for the evidence that yeah, your go to opening is to feminize your perceived opponent is almost as certain as knight to H6 in response to a King's pawn opening.
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  23. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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  24. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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  25. Ten Lubak

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    The thing is, there is already a Libertarian Paradise directly south of the USA - Mexico

    Mexico has one of the lowest tax rates in the world, an even lower tax collection rate, a very limited government (and quite a toothless government at that), a free market with almost zero regulations, decriminalized drugs, dominance by the private sector and the government doesn't give two shits what you do so there is almost no government intrusion into one's life

    What could be the reason Libertarians aren't moving there en masse? Hmmmmm :chris:
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  26. MikeH92467

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    Maybe living in a country where they can flush their used toilet paper instead of dumping it in a separate trash can more than they like the Mexican version of freedom? :clyde:
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  27. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Because they put ice cubes in their milk in Mexico.
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  28. Uncle Albert

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    If you think a failed narco-state is some kind of libertarian utopia, your cartoon strawmen have taken over your mental organ.

    A minimal government, prioritizing individual rights is not a surrender to lawlessness and violence.
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  29. MikeH92467

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    Which is closer to a libertarian utopia; Mexico or the U.S. ?
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  30. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    :lol: :pathead:
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