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Is it just me or is distaste for Libertarianism contradictory to discordianism?

Started by navkat, July 01, 2009, 02:01:59 PM

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Quote from: /b/earman on April 13, 2013, 08:05:52 AM
Also back to the OP question. You're butt-hurt learn to take criticism or keep crying.

I don't feel butthurt.

I'm actually a lot more *whatever* about a lot of things than comes across when I'm ranting about a some shit. I don't like governments OR corporations in the business of legislating what I do with my body, what I carry, where I live, etc but I also see wisdom in socialized functions.

I guess more than anything, I'm butthurt that people seem to have this hard-and-fast idea in their heads that use of the word "libertarian" necessarily makes me a teabagger.


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: navkat: navkat of...navkat! on April 13, 2013, 10:23:12 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on April 13, 2013, 08:05:52 AM
Also back to the OP question. You're butt-hurt learn to take criticism or keep crying.

I don't feel butthurt.

I'm actually a lot more *whatever* about a lot of things than comes across when I'm ranting about a some shit. I don't like governments OR corporations in the business of legislating what I do with my body, what I carry, where I live, etc but I also see wisdom in socialized functions.

I guess more than anything, I'm butthurt that people seem to have this hard-and-fast idea in their heads that use of the word "libertarian" necessarily makes me a teabagger.

Is that actually an unreasonable assumption?

Is it unreasonable to expect that someone who identifies as a "conservative" is against gun control, and gay marriage?

Sure, there are exceptions, but is it an unreasonable expectation?
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Pergamos

Like Nigel said, the terminology has changed.  It may be more conducive to communication if you describe yourself as an Anarchist.  Even Left-Libertarian doesn't convey what you are trying to convey since most left-Libertarians focus on civil issues first, but they still don't want any taxes.

navkat

I can't keep up. I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption but if people are going to assume, I hope they're onboard with me clarifying.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: navkat: navkat of...navkat! on April 14, 2013, 12:33:24 AM
I can't keep up. I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption but if people are going to assume, I hope they're onboard with me clarifying.

Explain away... it's just that it's getting a little like explaining that "National Socialist" doesn't necessarily mean "Nazi".
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Faust

Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on April 14, 2013, 01:22:12 AM
Quote from: navkat: navkat of...navkat! on April 14, 2013, 12:33:24 AM
I can't keep up. I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption but if people are going to assume, I hope they're onboard with me clarifying.

Explain away... it's just that it's getting a little like explaining that "National Socialist" doesn't necessarily mean "Nazi".

I was about to agree but the Golden Dawn is changing it's connotation quite quickly... I guess it's easier for a word to pick up the negative connotations then it is to lose them.
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The biggest flaw in the OP is the weird belief that a social structure means you can't be an individualist.

You are far more likely to be yourself if you can be yourself and not have to worry about starving to death or dying of staph infection.
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Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 08, 2018, 10:22:54 PMYou are far more likely to be yourself if you can be yourself and not have to worry about starving to death or dying of staph infection.
exactly this
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Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 08, 2018, 10:22:54 PM
The biggest flaw in the OP is the weird belief that a social structure means you can't be an individualist.

You are far more likely to be yourself if you can be yourself and not have to worry about starving to death or dying of staph infection.
Holy thread resurrection Batman!  I've been chewing through this thread for the past week and still didn't expect that timeline jump.

Has anyone else read this https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/
on the calcification of socioeconomic status in the US?  There's a lot in there so it's been on my mind the past few days, particularly the differences between the US and developed countries with lower intergenerational economic elasticity.  That collectivism that Nigel mentioned seems to be a big step towards not elevating the powerful at the expense of the weak.  Japan, who is substantially better than us in IGE, has that sense of community and collective support that we in the US have lost (what little we had to begin with).  Scandinavia is crushing it here, somehow having come to the conclusion that they shouldn't let people die poor, homeless, and uninsured.  That whole "bootstrap" mentality here leaves US thinking that anyone not rich is, at best, too lazy to help themselves.

There are plenty of changes we could make in this current system to improve the situation, some incremental and some significant shifts: cutting the mortgage interest deduction, taxing investment income more, increasing education funding, increasing earned income tax credits, universal healthcare, basic income, or just upping the minimum wage would all help.  The problem is that there's so much money and power going into keeping things status quo that it's hard to muster enough energy to make any headway.

I still worry that Foucault was right in his analysis of power structures, and I'm sure there's a need for Discordian injection of weirdness to shake things up, but however inherently flawed the system is there are sure to be ways we could make things a little less awful just by tweaking here and there.  Or maybe I'm just an ignorant optimist too stupid to realize that life is pain and suffering and we just have to take it.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on June 08, 2018, 11:50:54 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 08, 2018, 10:22:54 PMYou are far more likely to be yourself if you can be yourself and not have to worry about starving to death or dying of staph infection.
exactly this

Well this and the fact that they want to let corporations just run wild; what with corporations being a major producer of tyranny.

That said, they're otherwise better than the two major parties. We need a party that's like the libertarians when it comes to the behavior of individuals, but like the democrats when it comes to corporations and safety nets for poverty and disease.
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a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
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It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


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disco accordion

I only know one libertarian, and I can't stand the fucker!
He use to be a good enough chap. He was one of the better conversationalists at my work, and I really liked having smoke breaks with him.
Then gamergate happened. Now his head is filled with shit.
It is like having a smoke with Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson's incel lovechild.
The libertarian angle is a more recent mutation with him, so I just assumed that it was being fed fed to him through an alt right tube of some sort.

It is strange... Before gamergate, I always kind of felt sorry for the guy. He was very humble, and very hard on himself.
Now he is very smug and arrogant. It is good that he lost the self loathing, but it is unfortunate that he is jerk now.

LMNO


Cain

It's weird how Gamergate, of all things, sent so many people off the deep end.

I mean, sure, the calculated effort from Bannon & Co. didn't help. But still...

Con-troll

Quote from: Cain on February 12, 2019, 07:05:23 PM
It's weird how Gamergate, of all things, sent so many people off the deep end.

I mean, sure, the calculated effort from Bannon & Co. didn't help. But still...

There has to be some hypno shit in games. I always wondered why my mom didn't let me play as much as I wanted to, and still dodged that pothole only by an inch.
I get trauma from stuff most don't even notice.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: InaneFrownPosse on February 12, 2019, 08:53:27 PM
Is there a political label for someone who thinks we made a massive mistake when we stopped being hunter gatherers?

I regularly fantasise about going off to live in the woods.

It's only the knowledge that its a stupid idea that would suck in reality that stops me... and also I need to do the laundry.

All kinds of very serious and well considered ideologies as based on stupid ideas. I think this could be a real go-er.

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