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Saw a quote once that describes this pretty well: "Libertarians are like house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."
American style libertarianism is incoherent. It's just Republicans who smoke weed and sleep in on Sunday.
Even Ayn Rand saw through their bullshit, calling them "anti-capitalist" because she understood that capitalism requires a strong State.
Yup. When you think about it, if you were really libertarian you'd have an electric car and maybe stand up a wind turbine and some solar panels in your yard. That way you wouldn't be dependent on complex oil refineries and a global oil system, the majority of which is directly owned by foreign governments.
But how many libertarians actually do this? Really libertarianism is about a vague feeling of distrust in the government and it doesn't actually go any deeper than that.
Real libertarians would just be anarcho-communists since you really need some sort of community to cover the gaps in your abilities.
There's a reason ancient farming communities almost universally shared food communally. One bad harvest and you're dead.
Noooooo leave kitties out of this! They are soft and cute and deserve no connection to idiot libertarians!