It's not that you're here, it's that you have 35,000 apparently vapid posts. People on this board are here for a variety of reasons. I come here when I'm tired of thinking about technical issues or when the testers are having a go at a product that I'm finishing. If I can rile a few right wingers, so much the better.So this is the kind of penetrating insight the companies who hire you can expect? JFC, no wonder you can afford to spend 8 hours a day here. If you want to know why more people don't take libertarians seriously, look no further than this page.Most of that doesn't sound too bad. There are some glaring omissions like education, R&D, corporatization, Wall Street gambling and what to do with the disenfranchised (basically anything that would require a concerted effort from a large group of people) but laid out as you have it, it doesn't sound like all libertarians are nut jobs. I wonder why in practice, talking to libertarians essentially goes no further than bitching about the taxes they have to pay.Swish, another miss by the moron. My point on Marxism is directly to your point that to oppose any restriction on government makes us anarchists. Try to follow the conversation, OK, Dopey?
And here you go. Note most of the libertarians generally agreed. As for your claiming to know what we think, obviously your post here that we're anarchists belies that ridiculous claim.
What is a small government libertarian?
As to your last question, because you're a stupid bigot who believes what you want to believe. As to the earlier points:
education: Should go bottom up, not top to bottom. Meaning family, then local government, then State as last resort and the Feds have zero to do with it as the 10th amendment states
R&D: Business is so much better at it than government
corporatization: Clearly addressed. You believe in government picking market winners, not me/us. It's on you to address that. Why should government pick market winners? As for me, a company sucks? Walk across the street to their competitor. Only government can force you to do business with a company, free markets give you the power to fire anyone you want fired
Wall Street gambling: No one is forcing you to invest. So don't
and what to do with the disenfranchised: Fuck them, they "disenfrancised" themselves. No one has had their vote removed but that they are too lazy to exercise it
LOL, I always like idiots who insult people with, you're on a message board! What a loser! Dude, you're posting on what as you wrote that and read this? Gawd you are stupid.
Note you lacked the insight to actuallly respond to my answers to your points. Appraently you realized you needed some quick deflection there ...
So... I've got a few minutes and not much better to do right now...
Education: If it were local, the kids in Texas would be learning that the Earth is 6000 years old and evolution is not as valid an explanation for life as creationism.
R&D: You obviously have no clue of the roles of government vs industry. Industry expects a payout in no more than 5 years. If they can't guarantee that, they don't bother to go down that road (I know because R&D is one of my job functions). Government doesn't have that restriction. They can tackle or fund the big, open-ended research areas and then when it's sufficiently developed, hand them off to private industry to be commercialized.
Corporatization: Admittedly a big tent but what I am most critical of is the attitudes of upper management with regard to the people who work for them. Disposable, easily replaced by slaves and since they control the cash flow, guess who they choose to reward most lavishly.
Wall Street gambling: Oh, I have a choice huh? And what, put my money in a savings account where inflation will eat it alive. These fuckers have caused more damage than WWII. There's a crash coming and after it happens, I'd pay $500 on ppv to see these guys dragged from their offices and bludgeoned.
The disenfranchized: Yup, there's that libertarian inclusiveness I've come to expect.
I see, so posting on message boards is OK as long as it's within parameters defined by you. So how many posts are OK with you?
You know what libertarians think more than we do. We're totalitarians. You mean anarchists. I mean you mean ttotalitarians or is it totalitarian Marxist anarchist right wingers? We oppose wars, but we want the wars to enslave people to businesses because we want small government. The three libertarians you know told you that, though one of the libertarians was a liberal.
Wow, what an ego. I'm not the first to observe that, am I?