Libertarians are grumpy indoor cats. They’re violently independent and want to be left alone, but their survival is also entirely dependent on the systems surrounding them, which they completely take for granted.

The grumpy indoor cat doesn’t want your attention, they just want their auto-feeder to activate like it always does. Never mind the fact that you’re the one who keeps the auto-feeder filled. They don’t care about that, they just care that the auto-feeder dispenses food.

Left wing (actual OG) Libertarianism is great. Right wing Libertarianism is basically a bunch of antisocial/intellectually lazy people who think the ideal society is one where everybody has a few acres of land with a little shack that they built themselves where they subsist on potatoes, carrots, and chicken eggs and stockpile gold and silver to trade with another libertarian twice a year.

Either incredibly selfish /self centered people, incredibly uninformed on the real world, or a combination of both.

“libertarians generally advocate for minimal government regulation, believing that businesses should operate freely and regulate themselves through voluntary exchange and competition. They argue that over-regulation can stifle innovation and economic growth.”

So in my opinion, they are dumbasses. Yeah let’s get the Nestles and Monsanto’s of the world to regulate themselves. Honestly just unserious people with no critical thinking skills in my opinion.

Left libertarianism is great and serves as an effective counterbalance to many issues. Right libertarianism is often foolish at best and rarely includes the freedom to do things like live your life as you please

The best right wing libertarians end up being left wing libertarians.

The “I can’t bring myself low enough to identify as republican anymore”. Still a conservative if not even now leaning harder to the right. They are house cats. Utterly and totally dependent upon a system that they have absolutely no appreciation or respect for.

if you know someone who calls themself a libertarian, ask them how they feel about the age of consent then immediately seize their hard drive

Anyone I’ve ever heard talking about the non-aggression principle spat red flags faster than a machine gun.

At best, they’re truly so dense and unsympathetic they don’t recognize actions that aren’t directly or intentionally causing harm do still cause harm (example, the free state project people leaving food out for black bears “because they can” without thought for their neighbors who then have to deal with more bears). At worst, it’s rape apologia (crap like statutory rape doesn’t exist because that minor “totally asked for it” and the rape didn’t cause physical damage).

I think it’s nonsense.

The “free market” is never truly free, and if there isn’t something holding the capitalist class back, they will always dominate the working class until the system just breaks. The only way for a stable society to exist is for checks and balances.

Pedophiles trick children into thinking they’re libertarians because cops are bad and weed is good

Hooray for me, and fuck you!

afaik it was originally about freedom from oppression. as with so many things, it has been hijacked by bigots and they’ve twisted it to now mean their freedom to oppress others.

Works wonderfully if you’re profit. The free markets love you and will do anything for you.

Oh, you’re a people? Have you heard of our Lord and Savior profit? If you’re not helping profit then you must be hurting it, therefore hurting the market. We don’t take kindly to the likes of you.

I can only speak for America, but here they’re all a bunch of corporate-sponsored anarchy LARPers.