Commentary thread for "You might be a libertarian if�"

[Juvenal]

Ya know, I could post our commentary thread, too, but I think it might be better to snark at the peanut gallery from the main stage ... where they can't snark back ... bwahahha.

[Darth Xena]

I wasn't going to post anything on the points we made. Particularly since it isn't a debate.

[Juvenal]

I wasn't going to post anything on the points we made. Particularly since it isn't a debate.

No worries, and feel free to argue your points here, too. I only posted for the auto-subscribe, and to maintain my evuhl rep.

[Darth Xena]

Nah, no intent to, and I don't think we are arguing, just discussing :) There is a reason why I welcomed the one on one with you, I didn't want to argue the points with the general population (that sounded very prison-ey).

[rogue06]

She's not a libertarian. You are. I would hope you would find it odd that some professed libertarian, who was just talking about self-ownership rights in the actual thread this is about, would praise monarchism.

I thought that Truthseeker was an Anarchist

[Darth Xena]

The umbrella of libertarian includes anarchists. I used the lower case for a reason. Though more recently anarchists have taken to calling themselves voluntarists and the like to differentiate from the minarchists.

If TS doesn't consider himself a libertarian, only my wording would change. Anarchists are familiar with libertarians, and it would be rather odd for a professed libertarian to be arguing for monarchy (though I am sure you can find some, nothing surprises me any more). But as this is the "commentary" thread for an ongoing discussion, it was pretty apparent from the actual discussion that no way would I be advocating monarchy.

I am all about spam like anyone else. But an attempt to engage even remotely on the topic that something is a commentary thread on, one would think that the person would actually bother to read the actual discussion.

But that's just me. I have the silly idea that if you are at a debate say, and are going to ask one of the participants a question, you probably should listen to the debate.

[rogue06]

The umbrella of libertarian includes anarchists. I used the lower case for a reason.

That's the first I heard that. I've always seen them as distinct groups

[Darth Xena]

Perhaps it is just the anarchists I know…. I could be very wrong. But I know some pretty well known American anarchists and they all call themselves libertarians, but many dislike Libertarians… well not personally. A good anarchist friend once he figured out what was going on with me said "PLEASE tell me you didn't just join the Libertarian Party."

Murray Rothbard was an anarchist who is the foundation for many libertarian arguments.

But I could be wrong and have just been being a bit witchy. Entirely possible. Massive UTI. When I don't feel well, I can be short and crabby.

[Darth Xena]

Just an FYI, if you listen to alt media at all, a lot of the voices that are described as "libertarian" are actually anarchists. Tom Woods for example. And at any Libertarian Party event, about 30% of the people there are actually anarchist. I was a bit surprised by that. One of the Board member of the LPCO here in Colorado is an anarchist. We have some very interesting discussions.

[Darth Xena]

I re-read my earlier post today….. way witchy. Sorry. Should have waited ten minutes before posting.

[One Bad Pig]

I thought that Truthseeker was an Anarchist

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXqjrgMS5l4

[Truthseeker]

She's not a libertarian. You are. I would hope you would find it odd that some professed libertarian, who was just talking about self-ownership rights in the actual thread this is about, would praise monarchism.

That puzzles me. I thought maybe Teal, after reading "Thank you," fell into a Chicken little swivet and sent you a PM complaining that the thank you might mislead many folks into thinking that Teal was a libertarian. That was not my intention. Merely thanking her for saying that you were unfair to me.



TMI = ? UTI = ?

[Truthseeker]

Very bad. No LibPar for you.

I'm not sure I understand what is going on. I used the doh smiley to indicate that I see that I was mistaken as to what you intended to say. Not monarchy, but minarchy. Oh, yeah, the TWeb speller checker did change "minarchy" to monarchy in my reply whooh, I had to go back and correct it to monarchy TWICE whoh, whooh. TWeb ought to be fixed so that it's anarchistic.

Only way to make sense of your loony comment, but it was admittedly a wild guess to try make sense.

I still want to dump this subthread. But if you keep on continuing it, I may respond (more likely not).

[Darth Xena]

That puzzles me. I thought maybe Teal, after reading "Thank you," fell into a Chicken little swivet and sent you a PM complaining that the thank you might mislead many folks into thinking that Teal was a libertarian. That was not my intention. Merely thanking her for saying that you were unfair to me.

Umm no. No one thinks Teal is a libertarian. My original comment was not unfair. The way I expressed it later was not appropriate in tone, conceded. Actually make that very not appropriate in tone, I was crabby and witchy. Or are you saying you didn't know I was a libertarian?

TMI = ? UTI = ?

TMI= Too Much Information
UTI= Urinary Tract Infection

Now that is really TMI

[Darth Xena]

TWeb ought to be fixed so that it's anarchistic.

If I were still here, I would ask, since minarchy is not an unusual term in political discussions.

BTW, I don't think anarchy is totally insane the way everyone here seems to. It is a perfectly legitimate view. Some of my best friends are currently anarchists. The capitalist kind, not the leftist kind.