North American Libertarianism

RedEyedAbyss

I get the feeling I'd at least appreciate it more if the majority of libertarians I encountered weren't corporate shills or narcissistic Internet denizens.

Hatter

The same could be said of liberals and conservatives.

GLORIOUSLeader

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RedEyedAbyss

Actually, I'd like to understand right-libertarianism better, not have it muddled by bullshit like global warming denialism and a religious faith in laissez-faire capitalism.

Scrye2

The way I see it, since I can probably label myself as a Libertarian more than anything else, a government should be as small or least controlling as possible while still being able to provide the necessary social services, military protection, and infrastructure needed to keep the country safe, secure, and to a point, prospering. If you need to expand it in order to fit these requirements, it's okay to do so. If you don't need to, it's not.

The problem therein lies with the fact that everybody has different ideas of how safe/secure/prospering the country is at any given point, so it just becomes a clusterfuck of RUINEDFOREVER shouting and bullshit where nothing gets done, or nothing gets done without getting fucked up.

Myrmidon

I am a libertarian because I understand nothing, but I don't want the government to take away my right to piss in the water supply and shoot things for fun.

/Strawman

Tnu1138

dude what the hell? basically we take free market economics and cultural liberalism we think life liberty and property are not to be tampered with. can you actually read stuff by Locke, Rothbard, and Spooner some time?