The 24 types of Libertarian

[Chulanowa]

[spin]

1. K&R (n/t)

[piedmont]

2. Dang that's good. nt

[dorkulon]

3. I recognize them all. nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

38. Vote for the most ridiculous one HERE!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[AnArmyVeteran]

4. Libertarianism is a CULT...

[Narkos]

5. LOVE IT!!! n/t

[agent46]

6. Hilarious!

We should privitize the police! People who can't afford to pay the cops won't have anything worth stealing, anyway.

[krabigirl]

7. I like the left-wing one. :)

[notesdev]

12. Gosh that is sooooo familiar

[Ex Lurker]

13. me too. I am one, sort of

I'd be happy with the government staying out of personal decisions, anyway. Unregulated business, not so much.

[krabigirl]

31. Yep...pretty much where i am.

[DBoon]

37. difference between an anarchist and a libertarian

anarchists want to abolish the government because it oppresses the working class

libertarians want to abolish the government because it restrains and taxes the wealthy

[Number23]

62. That one and "Atlas" just have such a familiar ring to them...

[Touchdown]

8. Love Atlas up 3 panels!

Remember the circle Jerk "Going Galt" lasted for 2 weeks in 2009?

[MrScorpio]

9. I confess... Briefly Tempting is me

You can shoot me now.

[devilgrrl]

10. K&R

[nemo137]

11. Love it.

[DonCoquixote]

14. get this to the greatest now

especially as there are some leftist falling for Libertarians.

[Lasher]

15. This is so good!

And so true.

[HughBeaumont]

16. K & R!!

Most libertarians I've encountered fall under four categories:

Denial-icans, Whiteys, Islands and Apostles. In that order.

All of them falling for the same hilarious Reaganite fairy-tale bullshit.

[Stumbler]

41. Same here

My aging mother, a Denial-ican, is about to remarry to a man who fits into all four categories.. Every time we talk about him I shake my head in shame as he's neither rich nor powerful, but claims to be both while demonizing anyone unlike him... classic libertarian

[Kweli4Real]

54. I don't have so much a problem with ...

The rich and powerful having libertarian views, it's consistent with their interests. But the it drives me nuts to hear folks that HOPE TO BE rich and powerful spout that libertarian crap.

[tilsammans]

17. So funny, and so true! n/t

[sendero]

18. Libertarians..

... the most delusional douchebags on the planet, now in 24 flavors!

[Blue_Tires]

19. ttt

Half of those types I see around Va. Beach daily or read in the paper...

[nxylas]

20. Of course, it's possible to be more that one of these types

Heck, I'm pretty sure I've met people who are all 24 (or maybe 23...the left-wing one being the exception).

[liberation]

39. Yup, I know some people who are in the high teens of those types

They are all share a really interesting quality: they are the type of people you are friends with via obligation or pity, and yet they go through life thinking they are doing you a favor.

I have been a bit over two decades on this earth. But I am getting the distinct impression that comic strip describes in one degree or another a significant chunk (if not the majority) of our population. I don't know if that is a new or old development, but it is frightening to me at least.

[Obamanaut]

21. ! nt

[blondeatlast]

22. But they all roll into one convenient package--selfish greedheads. Great 'toon, thanks! nt

[AlbertCat]

55. But they all roll into one convenient package--selfish greedheads.

Or... people who don't, can't, or can't be bothered to think things through to the end of the sentence.

[DirkGently]

23. Excellent. "Briefly tempting" kind of fails as critique, though.

Can't see where that guy's got anything wrong.

[Chulanowa]

45. Think of him this way

Back when I was a kid, these folks would come through the neighborhood, rounding up children to take to an ice cream party (this was in a section of the nation that had yet to succumb to the fear that people are out to eat your kids). And of course our parents would let us go and we'd be all excited about it because hey ice cream!

And it was the crazy snake-shaker Baptists who would make us sit through an hour of telling us about hell. THEN we get the ice cream. That "Non-dairy frozen treat" stuff, or as I later came to call it, Soviet Sherbert.

Yeah, they offer ice cream... but they're still going to sell you their crazy first

[reggie the dog]

51. me neither

[athenasatanjesus]

24. What about the delusional centrists?

The people that try to pass off libertarianism as the center of the political spectrum,many in the media are trying to pull this off right now.

[blondeatlast]

25. k

[kenfrequed]

26. amusing!

I have met most of these people in some form or another at some time or another in my life.

[Soylent Brice]

27. hilarious.

K&R

[LiberalLovinLug]

28. I don't get the "left-wing" version

Its funny and I don't want to rain on the parade, but I've never heard of a left wing libertarian. Most lefties, myself included, want a government. A democratic government, ideally with publicly financed elections. A government that regulates things like Wall Street, Food, children's toys etc...helps build schools, roads, universal medicare etc..Because it makes sense to pool our resources to progress in the world.

I guess I can see why no one is listening to him, he doesn't make sense. I think he should be fused with the one in the last frame.

[onehandle]

30. They are an overlap with the 'Naive' Libertarian.

I encountered a few of them in 2000 working against Al Gore. They were clueless.

There are a few here that claim to have 'Libertarian leanings' and then some.

No comment.

[reggie the dog]

52. I want a social welfare state,

regulation of business, food, and drugs yet want prostitution, gambling, recreational drugs (hard and soft, heroin, cannabis, crack etc.) and suicide legalized. I am libertarian as far as individual liberties go and socialist as far as everything involved in a social welfare state is concerned.

[krabigirl]

32. I'm one..I'd like limits on govt and corporations.

I guess i am naive, so be it. Libertarianism is not about left vs right..it's where you are on the statist/individualist spectrum. I believe we need government to do many of the things you mentioned,however it can be taken way too far.

[The Green Manalishi]

35. The principle of 'left wing' libertarianism is distrust

Why should the government *OR* corporations (or armies) be trusted? People in large organizations are probably going to do more harm than good. I don't care for tha IRS, DEA, ATF *OR* Halliburton, BP or Exxon.

But I'm 'briefly tempting" except for believeing in the need for caring for the environment and regarding healthcare as something any civilization worthy of the name provides.

[Radical Activist]

42. It's the anti-authoritarian left.

It's opposition to centralized power over society in either the government or private sector. It generally describes my ideology. I wouldn't call it libertarian because libertarians only talk about limiting government power.

It has been a dominant attitude throughout American history but doesn't have a consistent label. Populist? Anarchist? Radical? Libertarian socialist?

Conservatives know that most Americans are skeptical of centralized, bureaucratic authority. That's why they want people to think that liberal=big government. Meanwhile, they ignore that corporations are the far more powerful, obtrusive force in our lives.

[AlbertCat]

56. It's opposition to centralized power over society in either the government or private sector.

You're "Naive" and
Left wing".....

So call it "libertarian", 'cause it is.

[okie]

48. Libertarian was once understood as a left wing term.

If I recall correctly, 19th century anti-capitalist anarchists (Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin) were the first to describe themselves as libertarians. It was in the mid 20th century that the right adopted the term.

[proReality]

29. "People are going hungry in this country because they're too lazy to cook."

That's one of my Libertarian neighbor's favorite statements. The "Caveat Emptor" reminded me of her.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. Aren't #8 and #18 the same person?

We have a reservation for them, don't we?

[wicket]

34. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Alcibiades]

36. The creepy libertarian

Absolutely true. For some reason, sex offenders are attracted to an ideology that says you can do anything you want.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[reggie the dog]

53. you cant do anything you want

you can do anything you want without violating the rights of another, so having sex with a kid is against libertarian ideology. just saying, i dont support laissez faire economics but I understand that libertarians dont want child sex, rape, murder, theft ect legalized.

[The Backlash Cometh]

40. Just..too.perfect.

[Robert DAH Bruce]

43. Type 25:

He who wants absolute freedom for himself only!

[emulatorloo]

44. THANKS! Rec n/t

[peace frog]

46. Denial-ican = typical teabagger

[baldguy]

47. And all of them are the same type of WRONG.

[reggie the dog]

49. I am left wing libertarian

I am against letting big business run the world, support the putting in place of a QUALITY social welfare state, yet I think the state should not prevent grown adults from using whatever illegal drug they want, that the govt should not prevent people from gambling, that the govt. should not make consensual sex of any form between adults illegal and I also think that suicide should be legal. I vote communist, socialist, radical unionist and green here in France and green and democrat in the USA.

[LanternWaste]

58. #24 it would seem.

A lot of sacred cows these days...

#24 it would seem.

[Chulanowa]

65. No, you're a liberal

"Left-wing libertarian" is sort of an oxymoron. I mean identify yourself that way as you want, but you might as well call yourself a conservative leftist, or a reformist fundamentalist or something

[Odin2005]

67. Same here!

[reggie the dog]

50. the creepy one is bullshit

I have talked to many libertarians who, as I, think that prostitution should be legalized as it would mean less risk for the actual prostitutes, and none have suggested that child prostitution should be legal.

[d_b]

57. lols the last two ftw

[TheCowsCameHome]

59. HaHa. Funny stuff.

Even hits home on here on DU now and then.

[Raster]

60. libertarian = republican that smokes marijuana

[wicket]

69. And wants their hookers

[ejbr]

61. k & r n/t

[donheld]

63. Fabulous

[GoneOffShore]

64. Incoming Libertard defenders in 3.... 2....

& rec'd

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

66. Whoa, Rand Paul sure gained a lot of weight. And went bald. -nt

[wicket]

68. This needs a