"The Myth of the Libertarian Internet"

has anyone seen this?

Relevant as well

Sigh. So complex…

what I’m wondering is how the private market is supposed to be so good at allocating resources in general but supposedly fails so epically in allocating resources for science.

They’re not getting the point.

(the comments on Klein’s blog entry are especially illuminating)

Perfectly useless article is perfectly useless

Libertarians are getting their asses kicked on a bunch of fronts this year

Libertarians are getting their asses kicked on a bunch of fronts this year

lol

also, are you serious?

As a Social Democrat, I don’t see where you guys are succeeding lol

The Libertarian movement has been growing a lot over the past few years. Also, define success, and how do you think that libertarians are being owned?

Sure, there is a rise in Paulbot Libertarians, but once he’s out I suspect they’ll go back to being Republicans or Infowar followers. I see OWS type of thinking rising, but even they dislike libertarians.

Numerous Libertarian Asskickings

  1. Successful Military Intervention in Libya

  2. The Government Didn’t Invent Internet Myth Debunked

  3. Ron Paul Failing In The General Election

  4. Audit the Fed Bill Won’t Be Passed

  5. General Motors Hugely Successful After Bailouts

  6. No Hyperinflation As Libertarians Predicted

  7. Universal Health Care Successful In Countries That Use It

etc.

I define success in this case as getting a big number of people to start a successful revolution of the entire system. So far nothing much has changed even if the packed Ron Paul stadiums might make people think otherwise.

Vote for obama then, i need government to tell me to not smoke weed and prostitute myself please. hurr durr

Whats wrong with being a paulbot? Sound money, less wars, save money so bad right?

socialized X (be it medicine or housing) sounds good untill you realize u have no mo money in your pocket, and the economy is burning in flames (hence the debt crises, and economic downturns everywhere).

I don’t need to vote for Obama to know that the USA won’t be accepting the Libertarian mindset anytime in the future.

GIMME MY BEER AND TV AND U CAN TAKE MY LIBERTY AWAY

@TheFinest

How much research have you done on the libertarian POV concerning these subjects?

“I suspect they’ll go back to being Republicans or Infowar followers.”

Some yes, many others no… Also f*** info wars.

In order:

  1. Oh no, the U.S intervened somewhere, what will we do?

  2. I don’t know who exactly was propagating that but they obviously hadn’t done their homework libertarian or no. With this said universities had been linking up computers for a while and there’s no reason why that couldn’t have been done without the government.

  3. He did better than most could hope for since he’s supporting a viewpoint that’s supposed to be supported by less than 2 percent of the public and are totally arcane within the realm of public discourse

  4. So? It passed the house with a great majority and all that is besides the point, the fact that it was even taken seriously is a huge step forward for libertarians.

  5. Okay.

  6. Not all of them predicted that, although I can kind of agree with you there, people were freaking out about something which simply was not going to happen, or at least not soon.

  7. Lol.

You have a very odd definition of “Ass kicking”, almost as odd as what it seems as though your definition of “social democrat” is.

Well then you’re right, both occupy and libertarianism have been pretty abysmal failures. I think that both OWS and libertarianism are on the rise, the difference is that OWS is so disorganized and without any sort of central message besides “wealth inequality bad and happening” that it can’t take off, it’s practically dead in the water beyond increasing the popularity of its central message, which wouldn’t be half as popular if it weren’t coinciding with high unemployment.