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Thelomen_Toblakai t1_j21vog6 wrote

I read it as it seemed to be highly revered by Libertarians who often seemed quite logical and reasonable people. I was blown away by how terrible it was. Your description of the political commentary "wedged in as a toddler shoves a penny up their nose" was pretty apt. It was ill thought out childish rubbish thrown in without subtlety to a story that didn't need it. To my mind just highlighting just how ridiculous her political views were.

It is absolutely mind boggling how educated people could take such tripe seriously.

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thegooddoktorjones t1_j22tjp2 wrote

Libertarianism is logical until the moment it touches reality and has to deal with running a society full of people with different desires and needs. It is a fantasy for the comfortable. It is a fig leaf for folks who want the low taxes and no social programs of the GOP, but also want to smoke weed and not be associated with all the knuckle draggers and bible thumpers the GOP need to gain power.

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_higglety t1_j2406mb wrote

Libertarianism is logical until the moment it touches bears.

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BardicSense t1_j24zr1v wrote

You dont need laws against poking bears with sticks because it's a bad market decision to do so, so eventually the practice will die out naturally.

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gothiclg OP t1_j21x7pa wrote

I honestly couldn’t even begin to figure out why this would be some kind of libertarian standout. I also think our government could be doing less but damn not like that

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Muninwing t1_j23nsu4 wrote

Libertarianism is just Classical Liberalism plus conspiracy theories. Objectivism is just using Classical Liberalism to justify antisocial tendencies. So they pair nicely.

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GraniteGeekNH t1_j24i76t wrote

Objectivisim and Libertarianism is just "everybody who isn't similar to me is bad so I'm justified in doing bad things to them" with pseudo-science trappings.

Hence the comparisons to fascism, despite different approaches to centralized authority.

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Uffda01 t1_j25npgd wrote

well that's libertarianism in a nutshell - ill thought out rubbish

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