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DeSwiss

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15. K&R

Reply to big_dog (Original post)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 03:05 AM

Nov 2013

"All around one the True Believers trudge by, mouths grim, brows furrowed, ulcers and worse eating at their innards. This desperate company of oddfellows (Thoreau) live in what psychologists call 'cognitive dissonance.' Because their reality-maps are, one and all, too small to cover the vast, eerie, amusing world in which we live, they are perpetually frustrated: the world does not live up to their fixed beliefs. They are all convinced that there is something radically wrong with the universe itself, or with the rest of humanity, and they never suspect that the real trouble is in their own rigid and robotic nervous systems." ~Robert Anton Wilson

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Nevada Libertarian Head: ‘I Have Conceded Defeat: We Are Infested With Idiots’ [View all] big_dog Nov 2013 OP

Well, yes. Turbineguy Nov 2013 #1

DUH Iliyah Nov 2013 #2

how can the state be invested with idiots if they had the good sense to not elect this turd? olddad56 Nov 2013 #3

so does this mean he's changing his party or just going underground? big_dog Nov 2013 #5

Must be like herding cats. MyshkinCommaPrince Nov 2013 #4

I'm picturing that right now: christx30 Nov 2013 #10

From that great libertarian Hermie the Elf, riqster Nov 2013 #25

"Individualists, unite!" n/t madeline_con Nov 2013 #17

Lolz :) /nt workinclasszero Nov 2013 #19

Thread winner! JNelson6563 Nov 2013 #21

"are mostly useless" CanonRay Nov 2013 #6

LP made a deal with the devil years ago... Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #7

Yes the LP and the thug party made a deal with the devil (teatailiban,Limpballs, koch bros etc) workinclasszero Nov 2013 #20

Don't forget that their ideology mainly appeals to sophomoric gumps who usually grow out of it. FSogol Nov 2013 #8

The late Iain Banks defined libertarianism as Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2013 #30

Don't like taxes, enjoy smoking pot and kinky sex (possibly paid for), claim to be "colorblind..." hunter Nov 2013 #9

LOL! can't stop laughing... n/t madeline_con Nov 2013 #18

Well, their ethos is to be fucking lazy and not give a fuck about anyone ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2013 #11

IS that the Whaaaambulance that I hear? blackspade Nov 2013 #12

Idiots? SoapBox Nov 2013 #13

Y'all built a religion around being selfish JoeyT Nov 2013 #14

K&R DeSwiss Nov 2013 #15

Only knuckleheads would want to be libertarians. You get what you preach. nt valerief Nov 2013 #16

The problem with libertarians... Dopers_Greed Nov 2013 #22

excellent point big_dog Nov 2013 #24

On a now-defunct message board, Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2013 #31

Unfortunately PATRICK Nov 2013 #23

While supposedly encouraging people to think for themselves, they enforce a rigid doctrine and 24601 Nov 2013 #26

Could it have possibly been due to infection by the bacillus Randii Wolf Frankula Nov 2013 #27

A party built on selfishness? What could possibly go wrong? alfredo Nov 2013 #28

Unfortunately, some of them sign up and post here. MADem Nov 2013 #29

The Problem with the Libertarians is that they're not... HoosierCowboy Nov 2013 #32

I think this is what is called "burning all your bridges." politicat Nov 2013 #33