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  1. pnk$krtcrÿnästÿ

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    Also, fuck Neil Peart. I said it.
     
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  3. Rabid

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    This is the world libertarians want. Not privatization. Just don’t make regulations to help correct for distortions caused by your prior regulation, that isn’t being effective, when you can just relax/remove the prior regulation.
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  4. Redav

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    Move away from global capitalism instead of trying to prop it up in general. If not you're going to have to regulate it into oblivion to make it even marginally livable
     
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  5. Fran Tarkenton

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    posting neocons from the cato institute at least is better than the charade of pretending to not be a republican
     
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  6. Bruce Wayne

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    O&G is the most heavily subsidized industry on the planet. It would cease to exist without the government to leach from
     
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  7. pnk$krtcrÿnästÿ

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  8. Rabid

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    If you think the Cato Institute people are neocons then you don’t know what a neocon is.

    Here is an article from 2011 about unmasking neoconservativiam. https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/catosletterv9n3.pdf

    Here is a piece from last year about building a modern military: https://www.cato.org/white-paper/building-modern-military-force-meets-geopolitical-realities

    The ideas espoused, “The report prioritizes ending the forever wars, terminating needless military spending, rethinking the fundamentals of strategic deterrence, and focusing the entire defense establishment on innovation and adaptation” are not the hallmarks of neoconservativism.

    Here is an excerpt from another report from 2016 recommending budget cuts, “The United States could reduce Pentagon spending by over a trillion dollars in the next decade—spending $5.2 trillion rather than the currently planned $6.3 trillion— by adopting strategy of military restraint.”

    Cato is firmly in the smaller military, do less abroad camp.
     
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  10. Fran Tarkenton

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    No I said that Scott Lincicome is. Cato has a wide array of far right clowns.
     
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    If you called him a neoliberal I would agree. But not a neocon, no. His area of expertise is trade and he is a fervent free trade advocate. To my knowledge he doesn’t talk much about defense/military intervention so it would be hard to pin him down as a neoconservative.
     
  12. Rabid

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    I too endorse the removal of subsidies.
     
  13. VaxRule

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    He moved away from that later on. He recognized that massive problem of wealth inequality and started calling himself a “bleeding heart libertarian”. He also said it was very obvious that Rand Paul “hates women and brown people.”
     
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  14. VaxRule

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    Also, the only way I could imagine biofuels helping combat climate change would be by maybe being able to be produced locally and reducing the carbon footprint associated with the transport of crude? I don’t know. I’m trying to find some logic there.
     
  15. BudKilmer

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    :laugh: you know you are a shit eating moron right? I mean, you have to know this, correct?
     
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  16. pnk$krtcrÿnästÿ

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    I'd bet being a libertarian in Canada is a little more approachable political alignment for people who give a shit about people. Because even if your ideology blatantly disregards or devalues collective well-being, at least there's the cultural expectation that society ought to operate selflessly.

    Still, "bleeding heart" though he may purport, I still can't bring myself to believe any libertarian legitimately gives a single authentic fuck about their fellow person.

    And even though I have them all on vinyl, I can't make it through a Rush album after Moving Pictures.
     
  17. NCHusker

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    Humans became the most dominant life form we know of through our ability to cooperate in large numbers.

    Let's stop doing that and pretend we're all just individuals
     
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  18. VaxRule

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    This is what gets me. I possess a not insubstantial amount of knowledge about how to keep myself and other people alive, but I still recognize how absolutely fucked I would be without the guardrails of society that allow me to function. My continued existence is inexorably tied to living in a society with a strict set of rules about acceptable behavior and accountability. That’s government - and it’s good that we have it. I’m worried that one party’s absolute obeisance to the dipshittiest of dipshits that don’t recognize that fact is making it harder for people to continue to exist.
     
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    I’m pretty confident I have yet to see an original or intelligent post from you. It’s pretty much just low bar shit posting without originality. I tend to ignore shitty posters such as yourself. Good day.
     
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    had no idea we had so many proud libertarians as recent as 6 years ago.
     
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  22. Lyrtch

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    the OP having its content both removed and permanently deleted so it can't be recovered is *chefs kiss* on brand
     
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  23. seanofthedead86

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    The best post in this thread was on page 1.
     
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  25. NDJOECA

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    Is this thread old enough to fuck? People are asking.
     
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  26. BudKilmer

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    what the fuck Shawn

    also lmao at Stagger Lee on page 1-2
     
  27. BudKilmer

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    :laugh:
     
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  28. Shawn Hunter

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    A lot has changed since then
     
  29. Fran Tarkenton

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    someone said he/she was smug about consuming Pat Buchanan
     
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  30. wes tegg

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    Simply reading the first paragraph of the Bull Moose Party Wikipedia page could’ve prevented that post.
     
  31. Lyrtch

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    re-read the first three pages

    like half a dozen hall of fame posts in retrospect my godness. if you got a like on those 3 pages today you might be victorious.
     
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  32. Shawn Hunter

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    :dubioustrump:

    "The new party was known for taking advanced positions on progressive reforms and attracting leading national reformers. The party was also ideologically deeply connected with America's indigenous radical-liberal tradition."
     
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  33. Truman

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    These recent edits made me laugh.

    Sry corch
     
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  34. Lyrtch

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    someone is Nelson . incredible
     
  35. Corch

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    It happens, they werent too bad thankfully.

    Proud of my growth since that time.
     
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  36. wes tegg

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    That’s the point. How could you possibly call the Libertarian Party the “GOAT party” and the Bull Moose Party the “GOAT party?” They’re essentially opposite platforms.
     
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  37. Truman

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    Teddy created the party out of smite, and enabled Woodrow Wilson, a top ten woat POTUS to win.


    Hopefully Donald pulls a Teddy this cycle.
     
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    both sides equally good
     
  39. Shawn Hunter

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    I SAID A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN
     
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  40. Truman

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    You should be. Everyone has bad takes. Growth is good!
     
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  41. NDJOECA

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    The bull moose party platform was to take on big business.
     
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  43. Truman

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    But considering I don’t know what they were and the thread we’re in - I can only assume it semantics about age of consent.
     
  44. laxjoe

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    :laugh: what a fucking loser this guy was
     
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  45. NDJOECA

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    Confession: I was once a libertarian. I think the very beginning of my transition away from that ideology was after reading “Atlas Shrugged”

    I really just could not convince myself that book wasn’t garbage, it’s so fucking bad.
     
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  46. BayouMafia

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    I used to think I was a libertarian, but in reality I had just turned away from my conservative upbringing but couldn’t yet admit to myself that I was a liberal, and I was also ignorant enough to think that libertarian was in the middle of those two
     
  47. BudKilmer

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    I used to think I was “socially liberal, and fiscally conservative.”

    then I stopped being a gigantic fucking dumbass and realized those 2 statements aren’t congruent and I needed to fuck my own face for ever thinking it


    I applaud anyone who grows and advances in empathy for man and votes as such.


    Signed,

    someone who had a “W The President” sticker on his truck. :facepalm:
     
  48. Truman

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    Libertarianism appeals to a lot of young men. Rhetorically and intuitively it makes a lot of sense. Then as you educate yourself on issues you realize it’s just astrology for dudes.
     
  49. laxjoe

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    I used to be a libertarian. I still am. But I used to be, too.

    none of this is true. I just felt like borrowing from one of my favorite Mitch Hedberg lines
     
  50. Bo Pelinis

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    This exactly
     
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