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I gotta do this thing IRL and it would be supremely funny if I went as a libertarian.

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Just be as much of a contrarian as possible really. Devise elaborate, implausible imaginary situations to explain why any human interaction is a violation of your rights. Do strawman misunderstanding of socialism.

The thirsty in the desert metaphor is one they use a lot, or the "you have two cows." You're thirsty in the desert, a capitalist offers you water for 3 days of work, but the socialist says you have to wait your turn to drink no matter how much work you do.

Libertarianism is the ideology of 13 year old white kids who grow up comfortable and bored, so just channel that.

  1. You could drone on endlessly about Episode 3 of The Last of Us S01 and how it is libertarian cinematic nirvana until the character is revealed to be gay.
  2. Gun cleaning
  3. Doomsday prepping
  4. Trapping
  5. Making protein rich food that lasts forever but makes you produce the worst smelling farts ever.
  6. Libertarian bootstraps
[–] Rom@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Blame all of society's problems on switching away from the gold standard

[–] huf@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

having a language used by others forced on you violates the NAP, so i'd just speak in tongues like a good little individualist

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

get real close to getting a fundamental understanding with the flaws of capitalism once in a while and then come to a wildly dumb conclusion. that and explain why any kind of state intervention to anything is somehow a bad idea; make it clear that you think you should be able to sell heroin to eight year olds

oh yeah and explain why crypto currency is totally a thing everyone will be using on a regular basis in 10 years

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

I initially had age of consent on here, but that's not something you want to do as a bit because most people won't run across online libertarians and know of their obsession with that topic libertarian-alert

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

imagine your mom telling you to go to sleep is the greatest violence you ever experienced and go from there to "nobody should interfere with my decisions ever".

[–] someone@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Declare that all public infrastructure and services are communist. All of it. Roads, streetlights, highways, water treatment plants, weather forecasting, militaries, public schools, everything that an individual doesn't need to pay out-of-pocket for at the time of use.

[–] filtoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

A thorough understanding of the Dewey Decimal System is a must

/s

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

wearing a black/yellow pin, always mentioning crypto, 'sovereignty ending at the individual', 'only market solutions', 'privatization needs to continue', towns governed by companies, 'doughnut shaped real estate means no road access for the tenant living inside', 'the bishops in the Vatican can peacefully elect a pope in a private conclave so we can elect a leader informally as well', 'selling illegal services from international waters to force the government to loosen up their laws'

edit: maybe private armies for the rich as well? to 'protect' the new corporate fiefdoms

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

You are the only person in the world. Anything that interferes with anything you want to do, or think you may get to do in the future, is anathema. You must always insert your sense of empathy into the top of whatever social hierarchical structure exists.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

After we destroy the state (somehow):

Corporations will take up the job of building and maintaining roads so their employees and goods can travel on them.

Private security companies will take on public safety and crime investigation at a competitive rate.

Poisonous food won't get produced because it would cut into profits so we won't need regulations

Everyone has a gun and that fact alone means we can defend our stateless society without any central authority. This will not lead to warring factions of corporations fighting to become the new state shut up.

Every interaction you have with someone will have to involve an actual contract whether digital or physical. If you break the terms of a contract it falls under breaking the NAP and the private security company that investigates can determine if the nap was broken.

If you break the nap you become a slave or get executed fyi

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You have clearly spent a lot of time suffering around libertarians.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even worse, when i was like 20 it was the first anti war anti cop ideology i encountered so i figured i was one

[–] Des@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

no lie i was just going on a screed about libertarianism to my partner this morning and stumbled upon this post

your comment is my hole it was made for me.

Make sure that every single one of your beliefs has an equal and opposite counterbelief that you also believe in

[–] MoonElf@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

only refer to paper money as 'fiat'

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

What's an age of consent between two consenting people?

Regulations are sin.

States rights about everything. National standards are authoritiarian commie fascism.

What law? It's the Natural order.

Worship Ayn Ryand.

Taxation is theft.

If you can't afford private everything that's your own personal bad choices and you should be left to rot in a Mad Max thunderdome hellscape outside of the successful indivual enclaves.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Freedom of Speech, Praise Trump, Talk about Tech Bro things, Rockets, About something called the "Woke Virus", be against taxes, talk about Milei, less goverment, bitcoin