Everyone's a critic. I suspect you secretly loved every word and you're only lashing out in resentment because you wish you had written them all.

Some ideas require thorough analysis and reflection. Not every insight is Tweetable.

Nah. You fail to connect the dots in your head to show that your claims are accurate relative to the LP platform that I offered for reasonable consideration. Yours is a silly argument to pursue when so much actual, observable, preventable racism is obvious in our culture.

There's other good stuff in there too. Note that I'm not promoting the LP platform as practical public policy, but rather suggesting it's a better aggregate of libertarian thought than "what we think some libertarians think." Rather than hanging vaguely-defensible labels on them, I prefer to spend my efforts combat…

Could be. Can you cite actual examples from the platfomr to support your claim?

I agree that racists are bad and not worth debating. Those few self-identified libertarians who are racists should be condemned the way we condemn jihadist extremists rather than condemn all Muslims. You are incorrect that nobody in the LP is willing to say they're unwelcome as members, and if you are an active…

Interesting choice of vocabulary.

It's not a debate. It's a conversation.

I offer a tl;dr at the end. Scroll down, lazy.

Your well-intentioned premises here are flawed by the phrases "libertarians as a rule" (there aren't any), and "true libertarians" (there's no purity test). I return to my observation that anybody can claim anything is "libertarian," the same way anybody can claim anything is liberal or conservative, while the range…

Note that I do not suggest "no true libertarian" would whatever. I clearly say "anybody can claim anything is libertarian." I simply suggest the LP platform as a clearinghouse of sorts for what has, over the past few decades, been established as a consistent repository of these ideas.

I don't see such naiveté in the LP platform. It's a highly idealistic philosophy, yes, but not inherently selfish. It seems to recognize the need for people to help each other, but is skeptical about government being the most effective, least wasteful way to accomplish it. I am not inclined to defend the merits of…

When I see "libertarian" used as a pejorative I direct the user to the Libertarian Party platform, which almost always contradicts the attempted insult. Anybody can claim anything is "libertarian," but whether or not you're a member of the LP you can point to their platform as a reputable collection of…

This business owner has put her cash register into the hands of human nature.

I can't decide to what extent decent relationship behavior is being parodied or promoted here. But it's a pretty good sociopolitically enlightened jam.

If you grade 'em, don't date 'em.

So now we can all relax about T-swizzle's cat.

She is an ethereal elven princess who is far beyond our petty likes and dislikes.

The sequel could be set twenty years later and be called How I Met the Sociopath who is My Father Barney.

No, you do not understand the very clear and simple words I have placed on your screen. If we accept your premise that anything modifying our appearance is prohibited for DL photos , then the modifications that I list should be prohibited in the photos because they all would alter appearances more substantially than…