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Name: Anonymous 2006-12-18 18:16

All the people I've seen who they say support communism live in 4 bedroom houses, buy lots of communist memorabalia at Hot Topic, and bitch about life. In communism your ass has to work for 12 hours with or without consent and you live in shitty ass houses. I get it, people only say they support communism when they get to be the ones in charge who sit on their ass doing nothing, because remember THEY'RE THE PROLETARIAT!!!!!

Name: Anonymous 2007-01-05 1:26

The whole concept of libertarianism is to make unproven assumptions, then draw logical conclusions from the assumption, then keep everyone focused on the logical conclusions, and when anyone points out that they've made an assumption they claim the assumption as reality by constantly claiming the effects prove the cause. 
This would be considered poor scientific method, but they will dogmatically refute that their interpretation is unfounded. It has a striking similarity of the origin of Marx's ideas, he interpreted history as being driven by the nebulous "bourgeois oppression", then made logical predictions of the reprecussions.  Libertarians have their own interpretation of history, but instead of the bourgeois they have the nebulous "government causes absolutely everything bad, markets never fail". 
When confronted with the Gilded Age, they remark, "Government made those workers suffer and cause the great depression", which, considering the wide variety of opinions about the gilded age and the Crash of 29', sounds much like a child saying "Because I said so".
Interpretation of history is not a legitimate basis for grounding an assumption, you need controlled, purposeful empirical data before you can claim to be a seer. But you may continue to insist that Libertarian ideas are not in any way dangerously unproven, we look all too ready for another social experiment, Communism must've cost close to a  quarter billion human lives, maybe Libertarianism can break that record.

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