- 23 Mar 2009 12:27
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All I hear from libertarians is how their economic ideas are supreme, no matter what the social consequences of them might be, and anyone who disagrees is an evil statist/socialist/fascist/whatthefuckever.
Allegedly you guys are for freedom as well as extreme capitalism; but you hardly display it. There is very little in this subforum about civil rights, police brutality, or other such things associated with the freedom of the individual from the state - its all about bloody taxes, as if the taxation of the small businessman was the greatest injustice ever.
You've established the upper middle class as the 'good guys' burdened by government that just exists to prop up those above you and below you in society, and you label and hector anybody who you perceive as an obstacle to the reduction of taxes for your social class. To pursue this you are willing to give up practically every facet of individualism and freedom which you claim to uphold; you create cults of personality around people like Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, and Ron Paul, you enforce an intellectual orthodoxy through yelling at people (suggesting, to me at least, that were you in real power you would not be above doing so with guns) and you show a startling tolerance to the political authoritarianism of places like Pinochet's Chile and Singapore due to their favoring of capitalism.
Are you surprised, then, that I question your commitment to human freedom? Are you surprised that nobody outside your clique really gives any credence to your ideas?
Allegedly you guys are for freedom as well as extreme capitalism; but you hardly display it. There is very little in this subforum about civil rights, police brutality, or other such things associated with the freedom of the individual from the state - its all about bloody taxes, as if the taxation of the small businessman was the greatest injustice ever.
You've established the upper middle class as the 'good guys' burdened by government that just exists to prop up those above you and below you in society, and you label and hector anybody who you perceive as an obstacle to the reduction of taxes for your social class. To pursue this you are willing to give up practically every facet of individualism and freedom which you claim to uphold; you create cults of personality around people like Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, and Ron Paul, you enforce an intellectual orthodoxy through yelling at people (suggesting, to me at least, that were you in real power you would not be above doing so with guns) and you show a startling tolerance to the political authoritarianism of places like Pinochet's Chile and Singapore due to their favoring of capitalism.
Are you surprised, then, that I question your commitment to human freedom? Are you surprised that nobody outside your clique really gives any credence to your ideas?