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IRL: renowned tartler
IRL: renowned tartler
Okay so I'm a plagiarizing jerk here; but he did it to us first!
"Here is a suggestion: [...] trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word 'libertarian.'"
— Dean Russell, "Who Is A Libertarian", 1955
(previous is basically his from 1951, with libertarian swapped in for left)
"Here is a suggestion: [...] trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word 'libertarian.'"
— Dean Russell, "Who Is A Libertarian", 1955
(previous is basically his from 1951, with libertarian swapped in for left)
August 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Okay so I'm a plagiarizing jerk here; but he did it to us first!
"Here is a suggestion: [...] trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word 'libertarian.'"
— Dean Russell, "Who Is A Libertarian", 1955
(previous is basically his from 1951, with libertarian swapped in for left)
"Here is a suggestion: [...] trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word 'libertarian.'"
— Dean Russell, "Who Is A Libertarian", 1955
(previous is basically his from 1951, with libertarian swapped in for left)
Some peculiarly propertarian liberals continue to destroy a useful and continuously used word, which removes it from our language commons.
I have some thoughts on that:
I have some thoughts on that:
August 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Some peculiarly propertarian liberals continue to destroy a useful and continuously used word, which removes it from our language commons.
I have some thoughts on that:
I have some thoughts on that:
It was Dean Russell who published the Goebbels-style template for the fraud to "trade-mark and reserve for [their] own use the good and honorable word 'libertarian.'" in 1955.
This was wrong, especially if you take his own view of such.
From his earlier essay, "The First Leftist". Like a glove.
This was wrong, especially if you take his own view of such.
From his earlier essay, "The First Leftist". Like a glove.
August 29, 2025 at 6:42 AM
It was Dean Russell who published the Goebbels-style template for the fraud to "trade-mark and reserve for [their] own use the good and honorable word 'libertarian.'" in 1955.
This was wrong, especially if you take his own view of such.
From his earlier essay, "The First Leftist". Like a glove.
This was wrong, especially if you take his own view of such.
From his earlier essay, "The First Leftist". Like a glove.
Apply for veep. See what happens 🤷♂️
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Nattily attired, he sports faux-leopard trousers, an idiomatic sportsjacket, a silkish-lined cape, and an upcycled rubber boot as a chapeau. A plethora of neckties betrays his importance.
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August 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Apply for veep. See what happens 🤷♂️
Bipartisan is a helluva drug but you, so you think, can afford it.
You're in high Cotton!
You're in high Cotton!
August 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Bipartisan is a helluva drug but you, so you think, can afford it.
You're in high Cotton!
You're in high Cotton!
"As the world silently watches live on air, ethnic cleansing unfolds disguised as famine.
This is not mere starvation but a deliberate mass execution of those who survived bombs and shrapnel. What is happening to us today is not far from the suffering of Black people, immigrants, and transgender"...
This is not mere starvation but a deliberate mass execution of those who survived bombs and shrapnel. What is happening to us today is not far from the suffering of Black people, immigrants, and transgender"...
July 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"As the world silently watches live on air, ethnic cleansing unfolds disguised as famine.
This is not mere starvation but a deliberate mass execution of those who survived bombs and shrapnel. What is happening to us today is not far from the suffering of Black people, immigrants, and transgender"...
This is not mere starvation but a deliberate mass execution of those who survived bombs and shrapnel. What is happening to us today is not far from the suffering of Black people, immigrants, and transgender"...
They would change the whole thing, from the intentionally fraudulently titled, peculiarly propertarian liberalism the party has tried to promote since before its existence, to an honest, hopeful libertarianism.
Are you sure?
And given what's left, why bother?
Are you sure?
And given what's left, why bother?
July 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
They would change the whole thing, from the intentionally fraudulently titled, peculiarly propertarian liberalism the party has tried to promote since before its existence, to an honest, hopeful libertarianism.
Are you sure?
And given what's left, why bother?
Are you sure?
And given what's left, why bother?
For rhetorical purposes.
July 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For rhetorical purposes.
They just scream and fall to pieces when that happens.
July 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
They just scream and fall to pieces when that happens.
What the problem looks like, for reference. *Looks* pretty much okay, but the area those icons are in will report the nearest nav-button instead.
June 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
What the problem looks like, for reference. *Looks* pretty much okay, but the area those icons are in will report the nearest nav-button instead.
Having the same problem, but:
June 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Having the same problem, but:
NO TIME FOR QUESTIONS !!
GET IN THE VAN !!!
GET IN THE VAN !!!
June 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
NO TIME FOR QUESTIONS !!
GET IN THE VAN !!!
GET IN THE VAN !!!
Mr. Tucker was completely libertarian, thus completely left and not at all, in the political sense, liberal.
June 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Mr. Tucker was completely libertarian, thus completely left and not at all, in the political sense, liberal.
I don't know of any other way.
May 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I don't know of any other way.
Since no one is listening:
Your publisher's store doesn't know how to take my money, so I did some looking around. Haven't tried the referral thing, not gonna, so good luck.
Your publisher's store doesn't know how to take my money, so I did some looking around. Haven't tried the referral thing, not gonna, so good luck.
February 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Since no one is listening:
Your publisher's store doesn't know how to take my money, so I did some looking around. Haven't tried the referral thing, not gonna, so good luck.
Your publisher's store doesn't know how to take my money, so I did some looking around. Haven't tried the referral thing, not gonna, so good luck.
February 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The problem being that libertarianism, meaning real libertarianism, has individualism of the kind she chose to call individuality as a core tenet. When other true libertarians consistently claim individualism, that's what they mean.
She was right to try a different word, but it didn't take.
She was right to try a different word, but it didn't take.
January 31, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The problem being that libertarianism, meaning real libertarianism, has individualism of the kind she chose to call individuality as a core tenet. When other true libertarians consistently claim individualism, that's what they mean.
She was right to try a different word, but it didn't take.
She was right to try a different word, but it didn't take.
A false definition of libertarian has been repeated to you. Leftist is ambiguous, but libertarian is far closer to whatever left you have than it is to those who deliberately decided to lie to everyone about what libertarian means; the propertarians you call libertarians.
December 31, 2024 at 8:57 PM
A false definition of libertarian has been repeated to you. Leftist is ambiguous, but libertarian is far closer to whatever left you have than it is to those who deliberately decided to lie to everyone about what libertarian means; the propertarians you call libertarians.
There because this meme was getting worn out.
December 6, 2024 at 5:20 AM
There because this meme was getting worn out.