Libertarianism always sounds good to the individual, because they think everyone else will act just like them. You say “we’re all adults, we don’t need a million rules to tell us exactly what to do. We can get by fine making decisions for ourselves”. They your one neighbor builds giant anti-aircraft guns, another…

Hell I think the Libertarians being so on the rise is because the GOP is starting to break. The party is a three way coalition: rich people who want no regulation, people hawkish on foreign policy, and religious fundamentalists (the xenophobes, misogynists, and such are distributed within those groups). But those are…

Libertarians are ridiculous. Their “let the free market decide” doctrine is a sure path to corporate domination. Ayn Rand was an idiot elitist with no ability to understand motivations outside of her own.

their roles and the limitations is explicitly laid out ahead of time.

The thing about most libertarians is that they assume that any problem that doesn’t affect them personally and directly isn’t a real problem, and that the government shouldn’t be making regulations when there’s no real problem to be solved. Taken together, these two things make stances like repealing the Civil Rights…

I’m pretty sure the Libertarian platform is “White men should be able to do whatever they want, to whomever they want, whenever they want.” Everyone else exists solely to make that mandate possible. They have no needs or autonomy, they are just props.

this entire thing came about because of the racist teaparty in 2010, this is all still a reaction to Obama being elected, and it is fucking ludicrous. Never have so many inept people been sworn into office in probably our entire history as a country (in my eyes anyway). I am sick to death of this shit.

you think that every single republican calls her a murderer?

YEEESSSSSSSSS, CHRIST, THANK YOU

Obama grew jobs, cut the deficit, halved unemployment, and increased clean energy production - all with these jackasses working against him. If she can continue that progress while the old, bitter white guys piss in the wind, that’s fine.

And who knows what kind of dirt she has and favors she’s owed from being around for such a long time and having been in the White House before.

It would be nice if they, you know, actually did the work they were elected to do at some point on behalf of the best interests of the nation eh?

God, Chaffetz is a shitbag. He’s the Shkreli of Congress.

The only good thing about this is that we’ll get four whole years of this awesomeness:

“I hope this maybe convinces some Republicans...”

I think that many on the right tend to view things as black and white (pun not intended) instead of the myriad shades of gray that the world really exists in. Like most things, feminism is not some monolith. I may not be a woman, but as I understand feminism at its heart is simply a call for respect. That can take…

I think that’s the problem with the Republican Party. They see feminism, equality, tolerance, etc as a zero sum game. Marriage equality means your marriage is less. Black lives matter means yours matters less. It is a good way to keep your party white straight and male.

“You get attention, praise, employment.”

I get it. I grew up in a solidly Republican suburb outside a heavily Democratic city, and as high school (and then college) student who was interested in politics, I had mentors who tried to steer me towards Republican causes/volunteering opportunities. The implication was pretty clear — as a woman and as a minority,…