I work with a lady and as best I can tell, she is a libertarian

[Horse with no Name]

We were talking about same-sex marriage and she said "I don't care who or what people marry. I am in love with my washing machine and I would marry it if I could. It would be the most productive partner I ever had".
:rofl:

[undeterred]

1. Libertarians = Republicans who smoke dope

These people are hard to figure.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Yeah, she is for legalizing the herb too

but she detests illegal immigration and taxes.
She calls herself a republican, but I told her I thought she was more libertarian.

[devilgrrl]

5. Libertarians = Republicans on CRACK!

What an insult to pot smokers.

[undeterred]

8. The snowblowers won't like it either!

:rofl:

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. Boston Legal had an episode on that last week

Objectophilia!

:D

[angstlessk]

10. damn..I refuse to watch on teevee cause I get the season at netflix

besides my local stations don't come in very well on cable...a conspiracy I am sure!!

[Taverner]

4. I consider myself a Libertarian Leaning Democrat

Which means I think we should cut government programs like the war in Iraq, the military except for defense, corporate handouts, etc...

I also think we as individuals should be given the freedom of personal responsibility. Same sex marriages = good, war on drugs = bad.

I also consider myself an Anarchist Sympathizer though...

[undeterred]

7. Makes my back hurt trying to figure that.

:hi:

[Taverner]

13. This should explain it: I'd rather see a guilty man go free than the innocent punished

[Skidmore]

9. What you said, except for that bit about

being sympathetic to anarchists.

[Taverner]

12. Anarchism is a very misunderstood philosophy

Its more than just "end government"

But, like Marxism it is flawed.

But there is a lot of good stuff to be gleaned from it.

[razors edge]

11. Republicans call you

a liberal with a gun. I know, thats just about as funny as the conservative on dope bit.

But I'm with you, a little anarchy is good now and then, it livens up the place.

[Taverner]

15. And what's funny is I consider myself a real conservative

Republicans say "let's get rid of welfare! throw the lazy bums out!"

And I say "yeah! right on! let's start with McDonnell-Douglas, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and all the other contractors! Then let's stop welfare for big industry, especially the logging industry."

Welfare programs, even at their height, were never the cash handouts that corporate welfare is. Welfare programs for families cost a pittance.

[razors edge]

17. You got that right.

A young electrician who works at my plant still has his Bush/Chaney sticker on his old run down truck, when I ask him why he says it's "because I'm a conservative".

After a short discussion of all the great things * has done he admits that Bill did a better job all around.

The richest guy I know has not worked in fifteen years, he is the largest private land owner on lake Erie, he has made $750,000.00 in corn subsidies alone in the last 10 years, and almost that in soy. And every time I see him he has something bad to say about liberal welfare programs bleeding him dry.

I would love to smack these people some day. Maybe when anarchy reins supreme, I'll get my chance.

[Taverner]

19. And as much as I like the idea of ethanol as a stepping-stone alternative fuel...

The subsidies for Corn are going to be outrageous.

[razors edge]

20. This guy is getting

paid to not grow, as I understand it. Toledo is the jumping off point for Midwest grain, major rail hub and shipping port.

I think they want to make sure the guys out west have a place to ship their product, without the local, large land owners flooding the market before they can make it to the silos.

This would leave the rail cars no place to unload and drop the price of grain, and we can't have cheep food and a level playing field. Not when the tax payer can pay a rich dude to sit on his duff and allow the guys out west to work, and then we can pay more for the goods as well.

[Taverner]

21. You see, that's where I think we need capitalism

Let the farmers compete to sell their grain...

[razors edge]

22. That would help

to lower the costs of ethanol if we go that route.

[Taverner]

27. Aye - true that

And I'm not giving up on Switchgrass-based ethanol either

[Odin2005]

16. You are a left-libertarian, as am I. The Libertarians with a capital L are right-libertarians.

Left-libertarians: altruistic individualists
Right-Libertarians: egoistic individualists

[Taverner]

18. Yes, I like roads, police, fire, education, health care

The true cost of these is a pittance.

What I don't want is a professional military. I think we need to eliminate the active military, and just have a National Guard to defend our borders. Maybe some small contingent of Marines to guard embassies. That's it.

[Selatius]

24. I generally support free market socialism.

By that, I mean the government should make it a policy to encourage democratic participation in the workplace by setting up a public banking mechanism with locally controlled branches, chartered for the specific purpose of educating workers about co-ops by providing financial assistance to those who wish to start worker co-ops of all kinds. In time, the co-op sector will grow to encompass millions, millions who actually have a voice in the workplace and are organized.

It gives a real choice to workers. If they don't want to sell their labor to a shareholder or business owner, then they can sell their labor directly to customers by cutting out the middle man.

I consider this approach something more at home with a moderate left-libertarianism. I realize the thought of millions of organized workers is frightening to advocates of more traditional business models, but they're frankly going to have to accept that fear or outgrow it.

[Odin2005]

28. I'm a Market socialist as well. I like your approach! n/t.

[Taverner]

29. That's pretty much left-libertarianism or left-anarchism in a nutshell

At least the economic side

[redqueen]

6. Ahahahaha...

Now that's funny!

The stinky lining is I bet she won't vote for the only hope of defeating such nonsense "legislation". Grr!

[rucky]

14. I can't think of a single reason why it's wrong to marry a washer.

except for maybe the dryer would get jealous.

[pinto]

23. Not to mention the Maytag repairman...

:D

[rucky]

25. I think we just created a new genre of porn. n/t

[annabanana]

26. (not so new)

;-)

[madokie]

30. ROFLMAO

I needed that laugh albeit a nervous one because I might of kinda screwed up last night

[Romulox]

31. Lots of confusion here on DU: "Libertarianism" may refer to ECONOMIC and/or SOCIAL libertarianism.

Social libertarianism used to be a core plank of the Democratic party (prior to Bill Clinton's escalation of the War on Drugs, e.g.)

These days, many Democrats are now economic Libertarians (e.g. DLC "free traders") but social authoritarians (via support for the war on drugs, warrantless wiretapping, etc.)