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lumberjack_jeff

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2. Exactly this.

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2013, 02:56 PM

Sep 2013

It's "sad political history" which came to understand libertarianism as diametrically opposed to support for civil liberties.

Libertarianism has bee co-opted by people who would enslave us all to the unrestricted power of capital.

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Every "ism" has a top priority. [View all] cthulu2016 Sep 2013 OP

Feels like you're slaying a straw man. Without addressing NSA spying, drone-killing, indefinite Romulox Sep 2013 #1

Exactly this. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #2

Mine is socialism ... GeorgeGist Sep 2013 #3

Why is libertarianism this big bogeyman liberals waste time on? NoOneMan Sep 2013 #4

Because--"We have *always* been at war with Eastasia..." nt Romulox Sep 2013 #5