If I see a pile of poop on the sidewalk, I don't jump in it and roll about, I step round or over it and keep right on to where I'm going.
Poop's just poop. Even when it comes out of a libertarian's mouth.
What's next? 'How to explain things to the KKK'?
Steve
--- Tayssir John Gabbour <tayssir.john at googlemail.com> wrote:
> "How To Explain Things to Libertarians"
> Chris Clarke February 23rd, 2007
> <http://pandagon.net/2007/02/23/how-to-explain-things-to-libertarians/>
>
> Eventually, it happens to all of us. You'll be talking to someone,
> online or in person, who seems completely normal. Then all of a
> sudden, out of nowhere, the person will say something really weird,
> like "You can't fix a problem like underpaid public school teachers by
> just throwing money at them!" or "Why do they need tax-funded traffic
> lights at this corner? All the cross-traffic's already stopped, which
> shows the Free Market works!" or "Hitler was a Communist! They called
> themselves the 'National Socialists' for a reason!"
>
> You, my friend, have just made the unpleasant discovery that you've
> been talking to a Libertarian.
>
> [...]
>
>
> Tayssir
>
> --
> (Incidentally, the first known use of the political term "libertarian"
> was in 1857 by a French anarcho-communist. In 1955, right-wingers in
> the US co-opted the term, in response to the Progressive movement
> co-opting "liberal." This fact tends to pacify right-wing libertarians
> when they start grumbling that liberalism means something else.)
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