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5. I always knew that Libertarians in general are full of shit.
Sun Dec 23, 2012, 04:21 AM
Dec 2012

Ron Paul and his asshole friends have successfully twisted what freedom and liberty truly mean. They say that it infringes on "individual freedom" to do things like taxing the rich higher in order to fund our safety net programs, but what about the freedom of the people who those programs are designed to help? With no safety net, working class Americans have less freedom to buy things that they want and need. And they also have no problems with what they call "freedom-based discrimination", where businesses can deny service to you for whatever stupid reason.
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But IMO that sounds pretty similar to segregation prior to the CR movement. Their stance on this disrespects the freedom of customers to frequent any business that they want.
Furthermore, where were the Libertarians when all those states enacted those voter suppression laws? Republican governors were trying to make it more inconvenient for low-income people to exercise our most basic Constitutional right. I understand you shouldn't really expect someone else to do your homework for you, but really...if Libertarians were true to their principles, then why haven't they sided with the Left on this issue where people's rights are being taken away? There hasn't been a peep from them.

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