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The Most Libertarian Act Of Civil Disobedience
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Lately, Ive been getting tired of the same old scams coming from the same old people in the libertarian movement. Many OG libertarians Ive spoken with agree, so I thought Id compile a list of popular but parasitic libertarians. It turns out libertarians and ancaps are some of the worst capitalists ever. Despite raging against tax payer supported welfare queens there seems to be quite a lot of libertarians fighting for the ever depleting capital flowing from the chapped teat that holds the earnings of fellow libertarians.

Libertarians employ a variety of tactics to spread their message, but a tactic I must disagree with is begging for money from people in your movement for stunts that are utopian at best and ineffective or dangerous at worst.

Libertarians also have an aversion to critiquing fellow libertarians because of the small scope and influence the philosophy currently has and because many of them feel it would harm the movement. Any movement worth its salt can stand criticism of its members, and if it cant then its not worth being a part of to begin with.

Ive been distancing myself from the label libertarian for some time now because I hate echo chambers and increasingly felt being pulled into one. My news feed has slowly but surely become filled with the same slogans, the same news stories, the same solutions, the same begging, even the same fake names! Criticism is shot down with paranoid accusations of concern trolling or even of being a Fed. Yawn. Dissidence is not allowed and any half-assed attempt at activism by a celebritarian is venerated as groundbreaking. Thousands of dollars get thrown at activists who have disappeared other thousands with little explanation. Critiques of thought leaders are brushed away with the weak argument, But such and such did sooooo much for liberty in the past!!! as if it matters.

Redirecting capital to effective, peaceful, free market solutions could do wonders for human progress and I support a diversity of tactics approach to solving social problems. That doesnt mean I believe all tactics are equally effective. Its important to ask hard questions of charismatic leaders and press even harder when they evade. Living off of the charity of people in your own movement while arguing for capitalism seems oxymoronic especially when you keep ignoring market responses to your work.

I am not a part of the liberty movement though people still try to get me to add it to my work description on the Facebook. Do I promote the ideas of liberty? SureIve done several podcasts and am even a co-host on a libertarian themed radio show. But its because I want liberty for myself; I have no illusions about achieving freedom for mankind and sacrificing myself for the greater cause of liberty to the point of financial hardship. News flash: you can be an activist and have a job. And you can even be an effective full time activist. I like the idea of free markets but ultimately Im an individualist anarchist if you must label it. The religiosity of some libertarians is off-putting. They criticize nonbelievers for being brainwashed sheep as they parrot the words of their own deities who unfortunately range from the scholarly to the deranged. They also cry a lot about not having the capital of other movements as if its a mystery where its going.

Sorry, but you guys wasted it on libertarian welfare queens.

A libertarian welfare queen is a prominent libertarian who lives off the donations of other libertarians but produces content that is factually incorrect, manipulative, embarrassing, threatening, and oftentimes ineffective or counterproductive. They are the leeches who are somehow able to keep raising money despite questionable practices in their activism and whose serious ethical breaches are ignored or forgiven despite no attempt at restitution. The people named here are not the only ones in libertarianism I consider counterproductive, either.

But enough bitching, Im gonna name a few libertarian welfare queens because I am so tired of this particular problem robbing well intentioned people who have jobs of their well-earned money. Its also important to be able to laugh at the strange humans that try to lead you when youre more than capable of leading yourself. I generally like libertarians, but there are a few bad apples, and I want to let others know so they dont support jobless swindlers. Libertarian Welfare Queenism is a problem, but the solution is simple and voluntary.

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Libertarian Welfare Queens Attack the System

Rand Pauls plan to get himself elected president relies on two long-shot bets coming true.

So far, neither one seems to be going well.

Pauls first wager is that his libertarian-ish ideas will manage to attract Republicans mad about regulation and Democrats mad about government spying forming an entirely new American voting bloc. The leave-me-alone coalition, Paul calls it.

The second bet is a bet on Paul himself a wager that hes an unusually talented politician persuasive enough to build a coalition out of groups that have never viewed themselves as allies.

This week, Pauls ideas put him at the middle of a national controversy when he applied his trademark libertarian, skeptical thinking to the question of childhood vaccines. They should be largely voluntary, Paul said, as a matter of freedom. He also said he had heard of children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

At times, he has seemed uninterested in or unprepared for the basic tasks of being a national politician.

For instance, this week he shushed a female interviewer on national TV. After his vaccine comments drew angry reactions, he accused the media of misconstruing his remarks about vaccines and mental disorders.

I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related, Paul said in a statement. I did not allege causation.

Paul could not be reached for comment for this article, and e-mails seeking comment from aides at his political action committee, RANDPAC, were not returned. A spokesman for Pauls Senate office, when asked whether Paul could comment about his missteps this week, wrote back with a one-word message.

Seriously? spokesman Brian Darling wrote.

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DES MOINES Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul laid the groundwork for a possible 2016 Republican presidential bid Friday by offering a message he believes will appeal to the party's conservative base while attracting young and independent-minded Iowans fed up with a federal government over-reaching into their lives.

"I would be someone who is conservative with a little bit of libertarian-ish flavor," said Paul, 52, a member of the U.S. Senate since 2011 and son of former GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. He said he would decide his own presidential intentions sometime in March or April.

Paul held an "audit the fed" rally at a local winery that drew more than 200 supporters who cheered his call for bringing more transparency to the Federal Reserve Bank and its lending practices, easing harsh drug penalties, defeating Loretta Lynch as President Barack Obama's U.S. attorney general nominee and taking a go-slow approach to international military intervention.

The Kentucky senator said he has not been afraid to challenge the current administration by suing the president over NSA spying and he plans to lead the charge in building public pressure to allow the General Accounting Agency to do an independent audit of federal banking and lending practices that put trillions of taxpayer dollars at risk.

"I think we need some sunshine," he declared.

Paul expressed concern that Obama has tilted the separation of governmental power by using executive orders to write law and he pledged to restore balance among the competing branches and not overstep foreign policy boundaries by making U.S. military commitments without congressional approval.

"You're going to get a choice on who the nominee is for the Republican Party. You're going to have nine, 10, 15, 20 who are eager to go and want troops on the ground. They want 100,000 troops on the ground right now," Paul told the Iowa crowd.

"If there's one true thing I can tell you that I think they cannot object to that the facts clearly demonstrate - every time we have toppled a secular dictator, we've gotten chaos and we've gotten a rise in radical Islam and we've been less safe.

"I can tell you if things move forward, whether I'm in the Senate or I do run for the nomination, I can tell there will be one loud voice in our party saying think of the unintended consequences," he said, noting that he would always seriously weigh "what we're going to accomplish and whether it will work before we go to war."

Paul said Iowans appear to be evenly split on the deployment of U.S. troops in international conflicts and he sees his position as an asset among the developing 2016 GOP presidential field because he believes in a strong national defense but is not eager to be involved in foreign wars unless there is an American interest at stake.

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