A post on fb: describe Libertarians

[Marthe48]

Housecats. They are convinced of their own fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand.

[cilla4progress]

1. Really good.

Not a cat person. Despite having 2. Describes them perfectly.

[MiHale]

2. Perfect!

[marble falls]

3. Republicans who want to smoke pot and consort with sexworkers legally.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. The libertarians I know are hypocrites

They rail against government interference and regulations. They complain about being forced to do things, like pay taxes, by the state.

And yet not a peep from them when draconian forced birth laws are instituted by the states everywhere. So, most libertarians want only Men to have liberty while women should be forced to poop out their babies. How libertarian is that?

[PatSeg]

5. Wow, nailed it!

[stopdiggin]

6. anarchists - without any depth of conviction, vision, or desire to work and engage .. -(nt)-

[GoneOffShore]

7. From Christopher Hitchens -

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”

[SergeStorms]

11. As conservative as Hitchens was...

I think he'd be appalled by what American "conservatives" are doing now.

On some issues Chris was lone voice in a sea of stupidity. On many other issues he was a complete and utter asshole.

I still miss him, though. 😥

[Xavier Breath]

12. I used to love when he'd appear on Maher's show.

He'd be in full atheist mode and the audience (myself included) would be eating it up. Then he'd stop on a dime and defend Shrub on some matter, and the air would just leave the studio and the audience would sit there silently. It was maddening but it made for entertaining television.

[SergeStorms]

15. When he and Richard Dawkins.....

would get together to debate some archbishop of whatever they were amazing. There's still some of them on YouTube, and from time-to-time I'll watch them again, just to hear them tear the religious nabobs to shreds.

I really do miss Hitchen's voice.

[sop]

16. That's a great quote.

[Joinfortmill]

8. Rofl

[peppertree]

9. Ha! Sounds like Basset Hounds too.

(but without any of the cuteness and sweetness)

[sop]

10. Libertarians and 14-year-old boys seem to have the same world view.

[3catwoman3]

13. Libertarians remind me of toddlers/preschoolers.

They think they know better than everyone else, they don't like the word "no," and delayed gratification is not in their skill set.

I used to tell parents at the pediatric office that toddlerhood was a rehearsal for adolescence.

[Xavier Breath]

14. My wife had a cat named Carmel

that died right before we started shacking up. After he passed she gathered up his favorite toys and asked me to bury them in the backyard for her. I didn't know much then about cats then having only ever had dogs, so figuring she was just anthropomorphizing him, I decided to join in and asked "But, wouldn't he want other cats to enjoy them?" She told me that cats are generally selfish, but he was especially so, so he would hate the idea of any other cat getting any joy from his toys. So, the fb post tracks.

[czarjak]

17. LibertarIanism

Screw anyone who isn't me. They aren't Republicans, they just vote that way. According to my BIL.