Actual Facebook meme, but it confirms my biases, so upvote.
We had libertarians popular for a while in Michigan. Then they lost popularity. They usually align themselves to the right wing. In practice, they basically tried to block the government from helping the people at all. No school funding. No health care. Private ownership of all the land. No parks, protected lands or sanctuaries. No real environmental protections (so no public protection of the largest freshwater supply in the world, a precious resource), only property owners can sue for pollution, no gun regulations, no helping the poor or any social programs whatsoever, and a stronger state’s rights take on government (so the state can say no to everything too).
The good parts to me were that they didn’t support drug war policies and they don’t believe in government discrimination against any groups (but the “government” part is important there so I guess that’s not that good).
I mean, everything you described is exactly what Libertarianism is in the 21st century - placing the needs of the individual or business above the needs of society in general, which includes advocating for as little government interference as possible. It’s why this meme, despite being Facebook cringe, is apropos.
libertarianism is when no one works together appararently.
They don’t want to admit it but they are just a few steps away from anarchy.
Soo the, we got problems to big for one person alone to solve. If we let every fucker do whatever he wants we going down fast. We need inteligente population orientated to something good, organizerd trough democracy.
bUt i wANt mY GuNS AnD My moNEY.
They say driving in public rides with protection from a government that doesn’t let companies poison their air, or drink from lead pipes …
The way Libertarians claim, in the broad sense, they are literally the same as anarchists.
However, most of the time when you get into the details, they just want the government to protect them doing whatever they want and oppress others. They’re literally the same as conservatives.
I kind of get your post, but you should seriously proof read it. I don’t even know what the last sentence means
They say while driving on public roads provided by a government that doesn’t let companies poison the air or install lead pipes for drinking water
They don’t want to admit it but they are just a few steps away from anarchy.
Pretty much everyone admits it. Minarchist (pro minimal govt) flag is literally ancap with black changed to blue.
Soo the, we got problems to big for one person alone to solve. If we let every fucker do whatever he wants we going down fast. We need inteligente population orientated to something good, organizerd trough democracy.
Free Market is essentially a “continuous democratic process”. If what somebody does benefit people, he gets incentivised with profits. If people see no value in what he’s doing – he gets losses. And if in the process of " doing whatever he wants" he does any harm to others ge gets sued.
And all of this happens constantly instead of once in a couple of years, without almost any accountability from those who’re in power as it works in republic.
I disagree that the free market is democratic because hedge funds and the richest people in our society control all of the “votes” in a free market, even after taxes. This can probably be blamed on capitalism, stock markets, and money-driven lobbying.
True story about what happened when libertarian-ism went into overdrive in a New Hampshire town.
Of course, because “every organization is less effective than individual” :P
Additionally it’s “literally socialism”
They’re just republicans that smoke weed.
“I don’t want the Queen Mary,” he snapped back. “I plan to blow up the Queen Mary. I want speedboats.”
Jack Welch, CEO of GE and a cunt.
