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Yavin4

(35,439 posts)
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 03:42 PM Mar 2019

The Libertarian view that it's free of violence where other forms of government are enforced through

the threat of violence. Their old chestnut, "Taxes are theft because if you don't pay them, men with guns show up at your house".

In a Libertarian world, those born with power and privilege rule over those without. If your skills/talents don't help the powerful, then you starve. Men with guns will line the streets. They don't have to show up at your door.

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The Libertarian view that it's free of violence where other forms of government are enforced through (Original Post) Yavin4 Mar 2019 OP
Libertarians are morons HopeAgain Mar 2019 #1
Libertarianism is a polite term for what it really is - Warlordism Thomas Hurt Mar 2019 #2
Libertarianism and factual history don't really align Bradshaw3 Mar 2019 #3

Bradshaw3

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3. Libertarianism and factual history don't really align
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 03:58 PM
Mar 2019

Thye really hate to hear this but their worldview and totalitarian belief systems like Stalinism are similar in one big way: they try to fit the square peg of their philosophy into the round hole of the real world. Never worked and never will.

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